Places

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).

Date: ca 1920s-1930s

By: Hall, Beth, active 2003

Reference: PAColl-7846

Description: Tourist photographs of Dunedin, Hastings, Christchurch and Featherston, taken ca 1920s-1930s. Includes views of main streets, buildings, aerial views, parks and memorials. Quantity: 20 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1900s?]

From: New Zealand News Ltd :Photographs from the Auckland Star

Reference: PA1-q-015

Description: Album of images from various areas in the North Island. Includes images of Hawera, including streets, swimming baths, bowling greens, church buildings, the post office, hospital buildings, and public school. There are a several views inside caves, including caves and rock formations at Marakopa and Waitomo; views of coal mining at Mokau, the regatta at Ngaruawahia, cement works at Limestone Island in Whangarei Harbour, tree-felling in kauri forest. Images of Hastings include church buildings, school buildings, and other public buildings. One image shows a young man at a burial site in a cave, surrounded by a number of skulls. Photographs taken by Auckland Star photographers around the turn of the 19th-20th century. Relationship complexity - Most images are represented by original negatives donated to the Library by the Auckland Star in the 1950s Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cloth bound volume, labelled "This book must be returned to Mr H Brett's room"

Date: 1966

From: Boyle, Kenneth, 1943- :Transparencies of a holiday in New Zealand, 1966

Reference: PA12-8306

Description: Transparency slides of Ken Boyle's 1966 holiday in New Zealand with his uncle, Noel Hartley, and his uncle's friend, Lionel Includes views of NZ Scenic Tours Ltd buses in Auckland, Noel Hartley with a snowman at Mount Cook after their DC3 plane landed en route to Queenstown (174); Brian and Lionel on the beach at Napier (186); Denbie's Hotel in Rotorua (196) Note: slide 167 is identified as Wellington but it Sumner Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: 1931

Reference: PAColl-6590

Description: 25 images of the destruction of Napier and Hastings after the 1931 earthquake. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-017193 to 017242 and 018051; 1/2-031383 and 061039 Quantity: 50 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film and glass negatives

Date: 1879-1889, [ca 1910s], 1928, 1930-1942, [ca 1950s-1970s]

From: Hannah family: Collection relating to the Hannah family and R. Hannah & Co. Ltd

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955; Batchelor's Candid Studio; Don & Beatrice Peat Studio; Redfern Studios Ltd; Russell Orr Ltd; Filmograph Company (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-10468-2

Description: Contains photographs of Hannah's shops throughout New Zealand, the R. Hannah & Co. Ltd factory in Leeds Street, and company staff. Photographs were taken between 1879 and the 1970s by the Filmograph Company Wellington, F. G. Barker, Russell Orr, Batchelor’s Candid Studio, Redfern Studios, K. E. Niven Studio, Don & Beatrice Peat Studio, Jerome Studios, and other unidentified photographers. Photographs relating to Hannah's shops show building exteriors and window displays throughout New Zealand between 1928 and circa 1980s: Ashburton, Napier (showing earthquake damage in 1931), Masterton, Wellington (Cuba Street and Lambton Quay), Greymouth, and Auckland (Queen Street, Otahuhu). Other prints depict staff, customers, and shoe displays inside shops in Blenheim, Tauranga, and at 230 Heretaunga Street, Hastings. Further photographs also relate specifically to Hannah’s shops in the Hawke’s Bay, likely during the 1940s and 1950s. Eight prints depict the exterior and interior of a shop identified as “Hastings Branch”. Twelve prints relating to the opening of Hannah's 48th branch on Emerson Street, Napier, show signs announcing an opening sale, customers waiting outside, and the shop filled with staff, customers, shoes, and price signs. Other prints depict similar sales in Greymouth and Whakatane. Nine prints depict the Leeds Street factory interior and successive stages of the mechanised shoe manufacturing process, circa 1908. Prints show the factory layout, women sewing, men using different machines to assemble shoes and attach soles or heels, people packing shoes for dispatch, supervisors in white lab coats, and stacked raw materials or half-finished shoes. One print depicts the view towards Wellington Harbour over houses and commercial buildings on Cuba, Marion and Leeds streets. Several buildings are labelled: R. Hannah & Co., Aspro, People’s Palace, and C & A Odlin Timber & Hardware Co. Ltd. A 1952 copy print is an oblique projection line drawing of the Leeds Street factory. Photographs of staff include portraits of Robert Hannah (circa 1880s), William Hannah (circa 1930), S. L. Blank (1964), R. J. McAsley (1971), and Finance Director N. East (circa 1960s). Group portraits include two prints depicting workers outside the entrance to the R. Hannah Co. Ltd Cuba Street factory and first Cuba Street shop in 1879. Six other group portraits depict possibly managers in the Wellington warehouse "Conference Room" (1966), and supervisors "on occassion of retirement party" (1975). Named staff include: D. C. Brown, D. R. Watt, W. Davis, A. Dowdle, W. Muller, R. McIntyre, F. Owers, A. D. Anton, H. C. Campion, R. Parkes, H. T. Hutton, A. W. Pike, D. G. Finlayson, D. L. Travers, A. Cornish, R. J. Laffan, F. Wigney, J. F. Crump, G. T. Hedges, H. J. Lichtwark, Ray Jones, Denny Dawe, Doug Askew, Hal Crooks, Doug Luke, Ian Walker, and Rex Gardiner. Remaining prints show a Hannah’s shoes display at the 1952 Wellington Winter Show, Robert Hannah and another man with a car (1928), and a horse-drawn float displaying Hannah’s Christmas advertising in a parade at the Basin Reserve (1928). Arrangement: Chronological. Quantity: 81 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: 83 photographic prints