Places

Date: 20 Jan-5 Jun 1854, 28 Sep 1854-20 Jan 1858

From: Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd, 1872-1960: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1346-371A

Description: Describes voyage to Lyttelton, New Zealand on the `Royal Stuart' arriving Jan 1855. He describes daily activities and mentions fellow passengers. Also time spent in Wellington (including a description of the earthquake and aftermath) and Napier, voyage from Wellington to Sydney on the `Waterwitch', Apr 1855, and time spent in New South Wales, at Sydney, Wollongong, Angels - Cateract River, Campbelltown, Cordeaux Creek, Bargo, Cross Roads, and Bathhurst. The back of the volume has been used as a Cash book (receipts & disbursements) 20 Jan-5 Jun 1854, and for surveying/engineering notes and mathematical calculations Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 volume). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1966-1980

From: Andrews, Reginald Percy, 1899-1987 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6153-2

Description: Describes early life in Napier, employment, involvement with Labour Party, local politics in Wanganui where he was mayor, 1962-1974 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Sep 1997 to May 1998

By: McConnochie, Helen, 1925-

Reference: OHColl-0445

Description: Talks to eleven survivors of the 1931 Napier earthquake who were mainly teenagers at the time of the earthquake. Interviewees are Gordon Amner, Keith Dick, John Hohepa, Althaea Sheppard, Russell Spiller, Agnes Terrill, Dorothy Beddows, Christina Ennor, Leonora Martin, Kenneth Spiller and Douglas Storkey. Other - Agreement form says tapes held at Hawkes Bay Museum Archive (Alexander Turnbull Library not mentioned) Interviewer(s) - Helen McConnochie Quantity: 13 C60 cassette(s). 11 printed abstract(s). 11 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete Summary provided.

Date: 1907

By: A E Eagleton (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-GAME-1907-01

Description: A chess or draughts board, with advertising from local businesses beside it and on front and back covers. Businesses advertised include Grand Hotel Hastings, Daily telegraph Napier, A Simmonds & Co (seeds grains and garden implements, Napier), McGlashan (furniture, Hastings), New Zealand Insurance Company, W Plowman & Son (aerated waters and cordial manufacturers, Napier), E Newbigin (Burton Brewery Hastings), Murray Roberts & Company (farriers and general machinery merchants, Port Ahuriri), R Northe & Sons Ltd (wood, coal and building materials, Napier), A J Williams (chemist and optician, Napier). Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on board game.. Physical Description: Offset lithograph, on both sides of board, 340 x 530 mm (spread) Provenance: Donated by Mrs M A Nolan, in 1963.

Date: 1890-1904

By: Watkins, Rees, 1864?-1926

Reference: MS-Papers-1408

Description: Written to mother and father in Wales, first from Napier, where Rees worked for railways, and later from Ashley Clinton, Hawke's Bay, where he took up land. Gives details of farm life, clearing land, shearing. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (38 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs

Date: 1886, 1993

From: McNab, John, b 1855 : Diary and travel account

Reference: MS-Papers-6235-3

Description: Title continues:`...off for a holiday, or, Glimpses of Maoriland'. McNab recounts his journey with technical details about the transport he took, various points of interest such as lengths of tunnels, Windy Wellington, and he includes poems; he names and describes each geyser at the Pink and White Terraces, particularly notes churches visited and people he met. Relationship complexity - Photocopy of original volume at MS-Papers-6190 and microfilm at Micro-MS-0930 In Feb 1886 McNab left his home in Timaru for a tour of the North Island travelling by train, steamer, and coach from Christchurch, Wellington to Napier, Tauranga, the Pink and White Terraces, Auckland, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Masterton, back to Wellington, Lyttelton, and home to Timaru Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1870 - 1879

From: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850?-1936? :[Sketchbook; English and New Zealand scenes, with Tristan da Cunha, 1870s]

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: E-044-q-1-045

Description: A scene in Napier looking north, showing houses, roads and trees on the flat land at the foot of Bluff Hill, and a ship at sea in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour in album, page size 228 x 296 mm

Date: 1931

From: Lewis, Mr : Photographs taken after the Napier earthquake, 1931

Reference: PAColl-0153-12

Description: Building which was damaged during the Hawke's Bay earthquake of 1931. Some of the interior of the building is showing. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1839 - 1841 - 1846 - 1848

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Page, George Hyde, 1823-1908; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-003-029-a/040-a

Description: Set of looseleaf offprints originally published as a set of 12 prints in "New Zealand calendar 1974". Contents: Goldmining at the Thames [i.e. Goldmining at Thames] / J.B.C. Hoyte. - Nelson Haven, 1841 / Charles Heaphy. - The Pink Terraces, 1874 [i.e. The White Terraces, 1888 (detail)] / C.D. Barraud. - St Mark's Church, Remuera [i.e. S. Mark's, Remuera & Mt Eden, 1859] / Rev. John Kinder. - The Barracks, Napier / C.D. Barraud. - Auckland, 1848 [i.e. Auckland, New Zealand, 1848] / Lt. Gen. G.H. Page. - The Aglionby or Matukituki Valley [i.e. In the Aglionby or Matukituki Valley, looking into the Otapawa, 20th Feb. [1846]] / Sir William Fox. - In Otira Gorge, 1864 [i.e. Otira Gorge, 1864?] / Sir William Fox. - Dunedin, Otago, 1861 [i.e. Part of the town and harbour of Dunedin, Otago, N.Z. [1861?]] / W.S. Hatton. - Kahu Kahu, Hokianga River [i.e. View of the Kahu-Kahu Hokianga River [December] 1839] / Charles Heaphy. - Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860 [i.e. Mount Egmont, Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860] / Lt. Gen. C.E. Gold. - Bream Head, Whangarei / Charles Heaphy. Title from cover of calendar. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title and artist]; Recto - bottom left - Alexander Turnbull Library, / Wellington, N.Z.; Recto - bottom right - A.R. Shearer, Government Printer, / Wellington, N.Z., 1973. Quantity: 24 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 24 photolithographs, (2 sets of 12), variously sized from 157 x 238 mm, to 240 x 304 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright in the 1970s.

Date: 1954

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6530

Description: Castlepoint views include the settlement, the lighthouse, and coastal views. Hills (taipos) near Tapuhi. View of Gisborne Limestone hills near Morere, Northern Hawke's Bay. Morere Springs Scenic Reserve. Meeting house at Nuhaka. Mohaka viaduct. Lake Tutiri. Marine Parade and port, Napier. View of Countryside for the Gentle Annie. View of Wairoa and the river. Maratoto. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

Date: ca 1931

From: Lewis, Mr : Photographs taken after the Napier earthquake, 1931

Reference: PAColl-0153-02

Description: People camping by the side of the road, Napier. Most people are gathered around cars that are on the left of the image, and there is a motorcycle which is leaning against a clump of grass. People are also sitting on upturned crates. No tents can be seen. Taken by an unidentified photographer, ca 1931. Inscriptions: Verso - top right - Camping, Napier Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1930-1940]

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

Reference: PAColl-2009

Description: Photographs include damage caused by the Hawkes Bay earthquake. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-169670-F to 1/2-169681-F Quantity: 12 b&w copy negative(s). 9 photocopy/ies. Processing information: Added to ATL-Group-00791 in 2022. Previous Library reference PAColl-2009. Previous title: Donaldson, Marsha, 1945- :Photographs of Napier, Hastings and Masterton district. [ca 1930-1940].

Date: ca 1920s

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 15

By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923

Reference: PAColl-7081-65

Description: Postcard of a view across water of the buildings of the Boys' High School, Napier. Part of Tourist Series 8034. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1890-1910]

Reference: PA4-1078

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the Public gardens, Napier Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - View in Public Gardens. Napier; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1887

By: Dobson, Robert, 1852-1893

Reference: MS-Papers-2907

Description: Contract for carriage of frozen meat from Napier to England; signed by Robert Dobson on behlaf of 13 Hawkes Bay sheepfarmers; names, addresses and quantity of carcasses to be delivered listed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms

Date: 1967-1970

From: Woods, Keith, 1928-1997 :Photographs relating to dance in New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7146

Description: Views of Napier and statue of Pania of the Reef, 1970. Views of Nelson and Nelson Cathedral, 1967. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1931

From: Lewis, Mr : Photographs taken after the Napier earthquake, 1931

Reference: PAColl-0153-04

Description: Napier after the 1931 earthquake, taken from Shakespeare Road. Widespread damage to buildings can be seen, with some reduced to either shells or piles of rubble. Some of the area is hidden from view by a clump of trees which cover the left hand side of the image. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Napier from Shakespeare Rd Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1950

From: Architectural Centre (Wellington, N.Z.): Photographs

By: Natusch & Sons (Firm); Hurst, Peter, active 1950s

Reference: PAColl-0811-01-23

Description: 1 exterior view, 1 interior view, and 1 plan (now held in Drawings and Prints), of the Bisson house in Napier (architects: Natusch & Sons) which was constructed in 1950. Images taken in the 1950s by Peter Hurst. Plan drawn by Natusch & Sons in the 1950s. Source of descriptive information - Photographer identified by Justine Clark and Paul Walker in their book Looking for the local: architecture and the New Zealand modern (Wellington, N.Z. : Victoria University Press, 2000), page 101. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints and plan on tracing paper Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - 1 plan on tracing paper, with backing board at Plans-2001-089-002.

Date: 1957

By: Andersen, Aileen Mary, 1886-1976

Reference: MS-Papers-1455

Description: A story of Dr Thomas Hitchings (1816-1894) written for his granddaughter, Maxine Edgar. Account based on reminiscences and newspaper reports of life of Napier's first doctor. Describes arrival in Napier, 1856; practice of medicine; service as Native and Provincial Surgeon, and as member of Hawke's Bay Provincial Council, 1858-1867; community activity; family details. Source of title - Transcribed from item Quantity: 1 folder(s) (20 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopy)

Date: 1880s

From: Three albums of New Zealand views

Reference: PA1-o-983

Description: Views of New Zealand, comprising Mt Egmont from New Plymouth Domain, Napier, bullock team hauling wool at Cheviot, Wellington, Manawatu Gorge bridge, Manawatu Gorge, Rimutaka railway, Mount Alexander, Otira Gorge, Lyttelton breakwater, Armagh Street bridge in Christchurch, and Christchurch Cathedral. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).