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Lovell-Smith, Mr :Photographs of the Hastings area
Date: [ca 1925-1935]
By: Lovell-Smith, Hubert John, 1881-1948
Reference: PAColl-0451
Description: Photographs of Hastings and the surrounding area taken by H J Lovell-Smith. They include photographs of earthquake damage to shops in Hastings; the flooding of the Ngaruroro River; excavation of the site of the new swimming pool in Havelock North; a man and a boy sheltering from the rain outside a barbers shop; the Soldiers Memorial Hospital; Taradale Post and Telegraph Office with the library across the street; two men working on a steam locomotive; neon sign on Queen's Wharf, Auckland; wedding photograph of a couple named Harper and Ward (the groom was a minister); five men next to a crashed aeroplane on a snowy hillside; a Windsor chair made from New Zealand birch; schoolgirls leaving Hastings High School; a view across Hastings, possibly from the Clock Tower, over Railway Road and towards St Andrew's Church; two of the Cosy Buildings (possibly previously the Douglas Buildings), one when the picture theatre had the electric sign "Cosy" hanging from it and was showing the film Nurse Marjorie and the other without the sign and with the ground floor closed up; and the new Post and Telegraph Office built to replace the old one after the earthquake. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s).
Fire damaged Napier Post Office, after the 1931 earthquake
Date: 1931
From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand
Reference: 1/2-047309-G
Description: Fire damaged Napier Post Office after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
Damaged Westport Post and Telegraph Office, after the Murchison earthquake
Date: 1929
From: Buckley, Maurice W (Mrs) :Photographs and albums, including photographs of the Napier earthquake; Southern Cross aeroplane; Catalina flying boat; aerial photographs of the South Island, particularly the Southern Alps; and others
Reference: PAColl-0813-35
Description: Damaged Westport Post and Telegraph Office, after the 1929 Murchison earthquake. Shows a two storied brick building, a corner of which has broken away. A pile of rubble is in the foreground. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on print mount. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 6.3 x 10.9 cm