Herschell Street, Napier
Current rights
Public Domain
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Object detail
About this object
View of Herschell Street from Browning Street thought to have been taken around 1890. The South British Insurance Company building stands on the corner of Herschell Street and Browning Street. Signs advertising Jacobsen and Peez (architects and engineers) are visible in the first floor windows of this building. Napier Hill is visible in the background.
Photographer, unknown.
Photographer, unknown.
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Black and white photograph mounted on card.
Media/Materials
Measurements
Photograph: Height x Width: 103 x 151mm
Card backing: Height x Width: 121 x 160mm
Card backing: Height x Width: 121 x 160mm
Signature/Inscription
Box 7, Inscription, Handwritten
Classification terms
Subject person
Subject period
Subject date
Circa 1890
Current rights
Caption
Collection of Hawke's Bay Museums Trust, Ruawharo Tā-ū-rangi, 4398
Credit Line
gifted by R E Ham
Other number(s)
m71/20, 4398, 76113
Public comments
The photograph is a Burton Bros photo, taken by Alfred between April 1885 and July 1886 (It would be early summer of late 1885 as the deciduous trees are in full foliage. Burton Bros had an agency in Napier and Alfred took some 47 photos in Napier on at least 3 visits. https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/17521 The South British was likely completed in 1884 on a section that had previously been a retail shop, show-room, workshop dwelling for Large & Townley. That building site was cleared in October 1883. Peter Frank Jacobsen and Otto Karl Peez first appear in the 1885-86 Napier Electoral roll. April 21st they advertised from the Masonic for roos central, and by the 23rd were advertising the South British as their address. On 1 July 1886 an advert advertised the dissolution of the partnership on account of Otto leaving for Europe, the business to continue under Jacobsen.
- Garry Clapperton posted 4 years ago.