Places

Date: 1931

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: B-155-019

Description: Shows a group of three men seated on a plank reading the news bulletin during a break in their recovery work. In the right foreground two hot billies are slung on a stick. In the left background is a wrecked car, and further off the background scene is of devastated buildings. Title from accompanying slip of paper. Other Titles - Don McNab One of a series of paintings made by MacNab, an eighteen-year-old student at Napier Technical College, immediately after the earthquake. He worked day and night for two days, and daily thereafter, to make a pictorial record of the event (See "Dominion", 27 January 1989, page 6). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 280 x 438 mm (sight) Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1931

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: A-354-015

Description: Shows a view looking over a stretch of water at night, at the port buildings, some of which are burning. Title from accompanying slip of paper. Other Titles - Don McNab One of a series of paintings made by MacNab, an eighteen-year-old student at Napier Technical College, immediately after the earthquake. He worked day and night for two days, and daily thereafter, to make a pictorial record of the event (See "Dominion", 27 January 1989, page 6). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 420 x 680 mm (sight) Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1930

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: B-155-022

Description: Shows a fashionably dressed woman and child in the right foreground beside a new car, with the new nurses' home, of Spanish Mission style, in the background. This painting won the New Zealand Technical College art prize, where contestants were required to depict a modern building,modern car, and modern fashion. Seven nurses lost their lives when this building was destroyed in 1931. Other Titles - Don McNab Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Gouache, 268 x 330 mm (sight) Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1931

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: B-155-020

Description: Shows one remaining wall, two storeys high, of the brick hotel. There is debris in the left foreground. Title from accompanying slip of paper. Other Titles - Don McNab One of a series of paintings made by MacNab, an eighteen-year-old student at Napier Technical College, immediately after the earthquake. He worked day and night for two days, and daily thereafter, to make a pictorial record of the event (See "Dominion", 27 January 1989, page 6). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 272 x 405 mm (sight) Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 1931

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996

Reference: B-155-024

Description: Shows a large pile of debris, wood, stone and red tiles, being the remains of "the once beautiful Nurses' Home where seven nurses died and many were injured". It was "once considered one of Napier's most beautiful buildings". Title information on accompanying slip of paper. Reproduced on cards (see E-592-070 and E-592-071). Other Titles - Don McNab Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 240 x 402 mm. Transfers: A video from the same provenance, in which Donald McNab talks about painting a collection of pictures after the earthquake, is held at OHColl-0794-1..

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0023746

Description: Shows two people running from recent weather and geothermic activity in New Zealand and the Pacific, such as tsunamis, tornados, cyclones, landslides, floods and earthquakes. Refers to the end of the 5,172-year Mayan long calendar on 21 December 2012. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0019826

Description: Prime Minister John Key tells the Minister for Earthquake recovery, Gerry Brownlee, to 'fill it in before it climbs back out!' Gerry Brownlee is sweeping rubble into a deep pit. The rubble represents many of the problems that New Zealand faces like Pike River, earthquakes, the Rena, child abuse, Winston Peters, gas pipeline damage and so on. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0018971

Description: Prime Minister John Key and Minister for Energy and Resources and Earthquake Recovery Gerry Brownlee, survey a New Zealand full of disasters of one kind or another and gloat that soon it might all be theirs again. They refer to the 2011 November elections which National looks fairly sure of winning. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0019822

Description: A helicopter from Christchurch flies over New Zealand looking for somewhere to rebuild but everywhere are notices referring to fires, floods, oily beaches, volcanoes and geysers, quakes, landslides. Nowhere seems to be safe. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0018123

Description: A man wearing shorts and gumboots stands surrounded by liquefaction beside his collapsing house. He tries to phone the 'Quake helpline' for assistance and gets the response 'You have reached the quake helpline... If you're up to your knees in liquefaction... Press 1. If your house is down around your ears... Press 2. If you're looking for assistance or answers press on'. Context - The increasing frustration and misery of many Christchurch residents who are experiencing huge difficulty getting assistance after months of delays and continuing aftershocks following the Christchurch earthquakes of 4th September, 22 February and the two most recent ones on 13 June. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).