Hastings Street, Napier
Current rights
Public Domain
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Object detail
About this object
View of Hastings Street looking towards Napier Hill thought to have been taken in the 1920s or early 1930s. On the extreme left of the image stands the Criterion Hotel, which was located on the corner of Hastings Street and Emerson Street. In the distance, the Clarendon Hotel and the Roope Brooking building are visible along Shakespeare Road. Signs advertising Fargher and Company (outfitters), Parkers and Company (tailors and outfitters), a hairdresser (possibly H E Mercer), a chemist, and D S L (Hawke’s Bay Direct Supply Association Ltd, drapers, mercers and house furnishers) are also visible along Hastings Street. Tram lines run down the centre of the street. The street is occupied by cars and pedestrians.
Photographer, unknown.
Photographer, unknown.
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Black and white photograph.
Media/Materials
Measurements
Height x Width: 165 x 217mm
Signature/Inscription
Douglas Shearer 94 Kennedy Road Napier Phone 2164, Stamp, Stamp
Stuart McKenzie on bicycle (right-foreground), Inscription, Handwritten
Stuart McKenzie on bicycle (right-foreground), Inscription, Handwritten
Classification terms
Subject person
Subject period
Subject date
1920s
Current rights
Caption
Collection of Hawke's Bay Museums Trust, Ruawharo Tā-ū-rangi, 10857
Credit Line
from the S N Mckenzie collection
Other number(s)
10857, 75804
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