Places

Date: [ca 1920-1943]

By: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962; Deste, Eileen, 1909-1986; Hastings Public Library (N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-0365

Description: A collection of photographs including views of Nelson by F N Jones, buildings and earthquake damage in Wellington in 1943 and others from around the country including three hand-touched photographs of Napier and Hastings. The photographs of Wellington are captioned with the building the weather conditions when the photographs were taken and whether flash was used. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).

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: 1931

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

Reference: PAColl-0153-11

Description: Ruins of the Masonic Hotel, Napier, after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Verso - centre right - Masonic Hotel Napier Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1931

From: DSIR Christchurch : Photographs

By: Hurst, Arthur Bendigo, 1890-1964

Reference: PAColl-7849-01

Description: Ruins of the Masonic Hotel in Napier, after the 1931 earthquake, before the fire. Photograph taken by Arthur Bendigo Hurst. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.7 x 21.6 cm

Date: 1901-1904

By: Watt, George Thomas, 1871-1933

Reference: PA1-o-516

Description: Photographs of family and friends, and scenes in the Wellington area and Hawkes Bay, taken by George Thomas Watt People and places named are listed in the headings above. Two images show the Wellington Post Office in the daytime and night time, when decorated in celebration of the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902. The night view shows the Post Office brightly lit with decoration. In the middle of the album is a group of 6 tourist-style photographs of young Maori women. One image shows the house owned by Thomas and Matilda Watt, at 172 Hastings Street, Napier. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, spine brown taped, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 22.5 x 28.5 cm

Date: 1931

Reference: 1/2-060935-F

Description: Ruins of the Masonic Hotel, Napier, after the 1931 earthquake. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 29; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Masonic Hotel - Napier - Hawke Bay Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1931

From: Jones, D H :Photographs of Napier and Hastings after the 1931 earthquake ; and the Taramakau River

Reference: 1/2-135773-F

Description: Ruins of the Masonic Hotel, Napier, after the 1931 earthquake. Photographer unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1931

From: Pickering E, fl 1977 :Photographs of the Napier earthquake

Reference: 1/2-002948-F

Description: Ruins of the Masonic Hotel, Napier, after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Ruins of Masonic Hotel. Napier Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

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: [Circa 1930s]

By: New Zealand Railways; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-f-051

Description: Publicity photographs taken by various unidentified photographers for New Zealand Railways Department. The first sequence shows Napier before the 1931 earthquake, and after. Photographs include various buildings seriously damaged, including the hospital, the Masonic Hotel, Public Trust offices in Napier and in Hastings, the Hastings Post Office, and a view of the Napier Park Refugee Camp. Further sequences show areas of interest in New Zealand, including an early photograph of the Pink and White Terraces taken by Charles S Spencer (before the Tarawera eruption in 1886); the Government Sanatorium in Rotorua showing various therapeutic facilities and treatments including diathermy treatment, the private slipper bath, the auxiliary massage douche and the cooling room; a group of men working on carvings at the Rotorua School of Maori Arts and Crafts; members of the Rotorua Hunt Club riding out; Chateau Tongariro interior and exterior views; the Blue Baths in Rotorua; Akitio Homestead and Maunsell's Homestead (Tinui); the Hermitage and Tasman Chalet at Mount Cook (Aoraki); and the Government Accomodation House at Waitomo. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, red spine, entitled `Tours Book B2'; 36.5 x 49.5 cm