Grand Hotel, Hastings

Production date
03 Feb 1931 Current rights
Public Domain
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About this object
The photograph shows the remains of the five story Grand Hotel, Hastings after the 3 February 1931 earthquake. Men are searching through the rubble for survivors.

Photographer, unknown
Date, 3 February 1931.
Place made
Hastings/Hastings District/Hawke's Bay/North Island/New Zealand
Production period
1930s/20th Century
Production technique
Photography
Media/Materials description
Black & white photograph.
Media/Materials
Photographs/Paper Products/Man-made Materials
Measurements
Height x Width: 150 x 200mm
Classification terms
Print, Photographic
Documentary Artifact
Communication Artifacts
Subject person
Subject period
1930s/20th Century
Subject date
03 Feb 1931
Current rights
Public Domain
Caption
Collection of Hawke's Bay Museums Trust, Ruawharo Tā-ū-rangi, 14590
Credit line
gifted by Mr A P B Cooper
Other number(s)
m2007/6/6, 14590, 71231

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earthquake black and white disaster rubble scrap geological phenomenon war waste monochrome photography

Place made

Hastings Hastings District Hawke's Bay North Island New Zealand Polynesia Oceania

Subject place

Hastings Hastings District Hawke's Bay North Island New Zealand Polynesia Oceania

Subject category

Hawke's Bay earthquake 1931 Archive classification Hotels Commercial premises Buildings and structures

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