Earthquake Damage, Hastings Street, Napier
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About this object
A photograph of earthquake damaged buildings in Hastings Street, Napier. At the far left in the photograph is the Caledonian Hotel which was located on the corner of Dickens and Hastings Streets. On the opposite side of the street are the Post Office, Bennett's Optometrists and Blythe's building.
Photographer unknown.
Date, post 3 February 1931.
Photographer unknown.
Date, post 3 February 1931.
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Black and white photograph.
Media/Materials
Measurements
Height x Width: 86 x 141mm
Signature/Inscription
Two x's is the strong room of the bank. Everything in the strongroom got burnt. You can see much better here where we were, the debris has been cleared away. Where x is where a phone box was but got burnt. That was the box that we held onto. This was a bank on the corner., Inscription, Handwritten
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Subject period
Subject date
Post 03 Feb 1931
Current rights
Caption
Collection of Hawke’s Bay Museums Trust, Ruawharo Tā-ū-rangi, 9296
Credit Line
gifted by Wairoa District Heritage and Museum Trust
Other number(s)
m2000/15/3, 9296, 75328
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