Post Office, Hastings Street, Napier
Current rights
Public Domain
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Object detail
About this object
A photograph of the Napier Post Office on the corner of Dickens and Hastings Streets. Damage including broken windows and blackened exterior caused by the Hawke's Bay earthquake on 3 February 1931 and the fires that followed can be seen in this image. Note that the clock stopped when the earthquake occurred.
Photographer unknown.
Date, post 3 February 1931.
Photographer unknown.
Date, post 3 February 1931.
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Black and white photograph on cardboard backing.
Media/Materials
Measurements
Photograph: Height x Width: 114 x 70mm
Cardboard: Height x Width: 139 x 102mm
Cardboard: Height x Width: 139 x 102mm
Classification terms
Subject period
Subject date
Post 03 Feb 1931
Current rights
Caption
Collection of Hawke’s Bay Museums Trust, Ruawharo Tā-ū-rangi, 6846 f
Credit Line
gifted by Mr C O Anson
Other number(s)
m84/18, 6846 f, 75520
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