Shakespeare Road

Date: 1931

From: Insurance Council of New Zealand :Photographs of people associated with Insurance Companies and Underwriters' Associations, and various related insurance activities

Reference: PA1-f-145-14-84

Description: Premises in Shakespeare Road, Napier, photographed after the 1931 Hawke's Bay Earthquake by J H Daroux. Original caption reads: "Scorched. Old buildings. Not worth reinstating." Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 108 x 165 mm mounted on album page

Date: 1931 - 1999 - 2001

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996; Percy, Kevin, active 1990s

Reference: E-592-072

Description: Shows the hotel, damaged so that one can see into each room as in a doll's-house. The ground floor is of brick with rounded window arches. Each room is papered in a different pattern. Other Titles - Don McNab One of a series of paintings made by McNab, 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 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard. Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard, 120 x 175 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Kevin and Judy Percy in 2001. 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: Between 1910 and 1913

From: Morrison, Mr :Postcards of Auckland and other areas

Reference: PA5-0085

Description: Shakespeare Road, Napier, showing three horse-drawn carriages Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 90 x 138 mm Provenance: Donated by Mr Morrison July 1958

Date: February to March 1913

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-q-003

Description: Record of a trip from Woodville to Napier and Taupo via the Napier-Taupo Road, February to March 1913. Views include Dannevirke, the upper reaches of the Manawatu River, Waipukurau Lake, Tavistock Hotel, the rail and foot bridge across the Waipawa River between Waipukurau and Waipawa, Hastings Post Office; motor and horse-drawn buses which run between Hastings and Havelock North; house under construction in Henry Street, Hastings (house named Ackworth, owned by Laurence Denton, accountant); views of Cape Kidnappers and the gannet rookery; Ed James and family at their seaside bungalow at Te Awanga; views of Napier and Ahuriri; the Taradale Road embankment over the Tutaekuri River, the Ahuriri Lagoon and mudflats; Marine Parade, Napier showing Norfolk pines, the Municipal Baths and a monument to "six brave men drowned in floods while rescuing people at Clive". Views on the Napier-Taupo Road including the Mohaka River, Tarawera Hotel in Waipunga Valley; Lake Taupo; Huka Falls; Aratiatia Rapids on the Waikato River; hot pool at the Geyser House Hotel (Wairakei) with a group of children swimming; Wairakei Geyser Valley showing geysers, and mud pools.

Date: [ca 1910 - 1919]

By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923

Reference: PAColl-10372

Description: Mounted photographic print of Shakespeare Road in Napier, in paper folder tied with silk ribbon and 'Greetings' printed on cover, by Frederick George Radcliffe, from the period 1910 to 1919. Image showing view of Shakespeare Road in Napier, with the facade of the Post Office (and Telegraph Office) and Government Buildings on the left, also featuring two horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians. The caption on the photograph states 'Shakespeare Road, Napier. F.G.R. 3591' (with the negative number opaqued). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted photographic print in folder with 'Greetings' printed on front cover and bound with silk ribbon

Date: 1855 - 1860

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Bousfield, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, 1830-1882

Reference: E-144-048

Description: A front view of a large single-storied building with three gables. The building is surrounded by a low picket fence. Hills are in the background Possibly a perspective drawing done ahead of the erection of the building. The Hawkes Bay Provincial Council Chambers were at the foot of Shakespeare Road Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - O L W B del Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pen and ink drawing , original 10.6 x 20 inches

Date: [ca 1900s]

From: Turnbull Library Pictures: Original photographic prints and postcards from the File Prints Collection

Reference: PAColl-10563-039-040

Description: Photographer, Charles Sorrell, Napier. Inscription - "[Postcard view of] Shakespeare Road, Napier, showing the Post Office on the left. No negative." Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1933

By: Hay, James Augustus Louis, 1881-1948

Reference: Plans-86-0046/0058

Description: Shows elevations, details of ground and upper floor plan on Shakespeare Road, lighting plan and stair entrances. Quantity: 13 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawings, some on cream paper, others in blue paper

Date: 1972-1976

From: Angus Corporation: Photographs of building construction

Reference: PA1-q-512

Description: Photographs of the construction of a government department building, 3 Shakespeare Road, Napier, from November 1972 to March 1976, taken by Batchelor's studio, Napier Source of title: Title from cover of album

Date: 1931

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 9

By: Daroux, James Henry, 1870-1943

Reference: PAColl-6181-44

Description: View of the badly damaged Empire Hotel on Shakespeare Road, Napier, after the earthquake of 1931. Photograph taken by James Henry Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1876

By: Wah Studio

Reference: PA7-22-10

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1931 - 1999 - 2001

By: MacNab, Donald George, 1912-1996; Percy, Kevin, active 1990s

Reference: E-592-073

Description: Shows the old Napier Post Office on the corner of Shakespeare Road and Browning Street, burning. An elderly lady at the right is helped by two fireman. A man in white uniform stands at the centre. Two prisoners clear rubble at the left. Notes on verso indicate that the elderly woman had walked down the hill past the fire and was dazed and blistered. The prisoners who helped were later released for this work, except for one who escaped and was later recaptured and returned to prison. 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 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard. Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard, 120 x 177 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Kevin and Judy Percy in 2001. 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: February 1931

From: Wood, Kitty :Photographs of Wairoa Falls, Whakarewarewa, and aftermath of Hawke's Bay Earthquake in Napier

Reference: PAColl-1009-10

Description: The telegraph office, Napier (on the intersection of Hastings Street, Browning Street and Shakespeare Road), in ruins after the 1931 Hawke's Bay Earthquake. In the right background, in Shakespeare Road, are (from centre to right) the Avoca House private hotel, the Empire Hotel, the Norwich Union Insurance Society and the offices of Humphries & Humphries, solicitors. Photograph taken by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 67 x 112 mm

Date: [ca 1860s-1880s]

From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Chapman, Alfred, 1828-1874; Rhodes, Joseph, 1826-1905

Reference: PA1-q-193

Description: Album owned by Joseph Rhodes containing photographs and sketches and ephemera dated between 1860s-1880s of New Zealand and overseas. Includes photographs of Hawkes Bay dated between 1860s-1870s. Many of the sketches were drawn by Alfred Chapman, one section containing an illustrated tale "The life and adventures of Thomas Pinniger" (p 34a-d). On p 34b Governor Eyre is pictured lower left at Government House, Wellington. There are two photographs of paintings by Charles Barraud (one of Te Aro Flat, City of Wellington (p 68), and one of Wellington Heads (p 104). Many of the photographs of the Hawke's Bay area show the houses on various sheep stations, including Clive Grange Station, and Spring Hill Station (Joseph Rhodes), Maraekakaho Station (Donald Mclean), Woburn Station (Thomas Purvis Russell), Mount Herbert Station (Henry Robert Russell), and Mangatarata Station (Donald Gollan). There is also one of George Fannin's house in Napier, one of the Reverend Hamlin's mission station at Wairoa, and one of The Grange (Wellington home of Joseph Rhodes's brother William Barnard Rhodes).Others in the area are related to military encampments, barracks, stockades, and mission stations. On page 31 there is a photograph of "The great peace meeting, 1863", and one entitled "Whaka & tribe". On page 53, the caption reads "Donald McLean Esq. Superintendent, Hawkes Bay, purchasing Wairoa from the natives, 18[55?]." There are many photographs, postcards and tourist scenes taken in Egypt, Ireland, Norway, Italy and Australia. The Australian scenes show views in Queensland, including Australian Aborigines fishing for dugong, the Railway Mortuary Chapel at the Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney (subsequenlty sold to a church group, dismantled and rebuilt in North Ainslie in Canberra) and views in the Maryborough area. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown leather embossed cover 29 x 23 cm, with 79 leaves

Date: 1931

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

Reference: 1/2-002954-F

Description: Shakespeare Road, Napier, after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Shakespeare Rd Napier Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-533

Description: New Zealand views taken circa 1870s to 1880s by E Wheeler & Son. Scenes include both North Island and South Island views, and all places named are listed above, as are businesses, ships and buildings, where possible. Items of interest include a photograph of trout taken by the Upper Selwyn River "A good day's sport. 38 fish, with the fly, 2 rods" with two large baskets alongside. Two scenes show different means of transport across rivers where there are no bridges. One is the "Cage bridge" (or Flying Fox) across the Teremakau (Taramakau) River, and the other shows a ferry punt across the Buller River. A number of views show farming activities, including a scene near Cheviot of about 20,000 sheep being drafted for shearing; and one of a wagon laden with wool bales being hauled by a team of bullocks. A view of gold sluicing is shown in this album with the locality indistinct. The same view is shown in the first Wheeler Album (PA1-o-532) in which the locality is named as Waimea. Other Titles - New Zealand Views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "New Zealand Views. Wheeler & Son" in gold lettering on spine; 26.5 x 33.0 cm

Date: [ca July/August 1914]

From: Atkinson, J :Photographs taken in the Middle East during World War I, and postcards of New Zealand

By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923

Reference: PAColl-0095-001

Description: Shakespeare Road, Napier, circa July/August 1914. Shows commercial buildings and trams. The photography business of Frederick W Bunting is on the right, at number 10. Photograph taken by Frederick George Radcliffe. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Shakespeare Road. Napier. F.G.R. 4564; Verso - top centre - Real Photo Post Card (Copyright) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1931

From: Daroux, James Henry, 1870-1943 :Collection of negatives and prints

Reference: 1/2-004835-F

Description: View of the badly damaged Empire Hotel on Shakespeare Road, Napier, after the earthquake of 1931. Photograph taken by James Henry Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: ca 1880s

From: Nairn, Douglas, fl 1973 :Photographs of New Zealand and Fiji

Reference: PAColl-3336-1-1

Description: Shakespeare Road, Napier, circa 1880s. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 18.1 x 23.9 cm

Date: 1876

Reference: PAColl-8192

Description: Photograph of houses on Shakespeare Road, Napier, taken 1876 by an unknown photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Shakespeare road Napier 1876. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 10.6 x 14.5 cm mounted on card