Drapers on Emerson Street, Napier, circa 1910. Listed in 1914 Wise's Post Office Directory: "130-2 Queen st, Masterton; 2-4 Emerson st, Nap; Victoria Ave, Wanganui; & Westport. There are also other McGruer firms, also drapers, listed at Hawera, Timaru, Invercargill, Gore and Feilding". There was also a branch at 138 Gladstone Road, Gisborne fl 1927-1929. (For a photograph of the McGruer's building in Wanganui see Pan-1132, taken by Robert Percy Moore in the 1920s.)
McGruer & Company
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Todd, Thomas : Views of Gisborne and Norfolk Island
Date: [ca 1900-1927]
Reference: PAColl-6545
Description: Two views of Gladstone Road, Gisborne, one with a jubilee arch celebrating 50 years of the Borough of Gisborne and the County of Cook; one of a man seated on a harpooned whale hauled up on the shore of Norfolk Island; and a man unloading a row boat caught in a big wave off a stone jetty on Norfolk Isalnd with the New Zealand Government Steamer Hinemoa moored just off the shore. Photographer unknown. The boat pictured in 1/4-015143 was smashed on the rocks just after the photograph was taken (source: accession card). Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-015143 to 015145 Quantity: 4 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives
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Emerson Street, Napier. Frank Duncan & Co. Auckland. FGR 3608.
Date: Between 1910 and 1913
From: Zachariah (Zak), Joseph 1863-1965 :Photographs
By: Frank Duncan and Company; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923
Reference: PA5-0104
Description: Emerson Street, Napier, showing commercial buildings on both sides of the Street and two open motor vehicles in the centre. Includes Union Bank of Australia and McCruer & Co. on the left. Photograph taken between 1910-1913 by FGR and published by Frank Duncan & Co. Auckland. Note on back reads: Zac Coll Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph, 85 x 135 mm
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McGruer & Co. Drapers, Wanganui
Date: [Between 1923 and 1928]
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
By: McGruer & Company
Reference: Pan-1132-F
Description: Panoramic view in Wanganui township showing McGruer & Co's store at the corner of Victoria Avenue and Guyton Street. There are other shops and businesses in the area including those named in the headings above. Photographed in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape) - McGruer & Co. Drapers. Wanganui. 3 copies; Marginal notes on negative - 3 3 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative
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Radcliffe, Frederick George :Emerson Street, Napier
Date: [ca 1912]
From: Zachariah (Zak), Joseph 1863-1965 :Photographs
By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923
Reference: 1/2-060967-F
Description: Looking along Emerson Street in Napier, circa 1912. The Union Bank of Australia is on the left. A sign advertising McGruer & Co is visible. Photograph taken by Frederick George Radcliffe. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Emerson Street. Napier. F.G.R. 3608 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).