Hastings Street five weeks after the quake

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About this object

The photograph shows Hastings Street, Napier, looking towards Bluff Hill, five weeks after the Hawke's Bay earthquake. On the left is a building bearing the words: Accident and Marine. The Clarendon Hotel is visible at the end of the street, and on the right is the newly built Masonic Bar on the site of the former Masonic Hotel.

Production date

Mar 1931

Production place

Napier/Hawke's Bay/North Island/New Zealand

Production period

1930s/20th Century

Media/Materials description

Black and white photograph

Media/Materials

Photographic/Man-made Materials

Measurements

Height x Width: 60 x 86mm

Classification terms

Print, Photographic
Documentary Artifact
Communication Artifacts

Subject period

1930s/20th Century

Subject date

Mar 1931

Current rights

Public Domain

Caption

Collection of Hawke's Bay Museums Trust, Ruawharo Tā-ū-rangi, 20249

Credit Line

gifted by Kaye Neill

Other number(s)

2017/7/38, 20249, 94573

Accession number

2017/7/38

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Place made

Napier Hawke's Bay North Island New Zealand Polynesia Oceania

Subject place

Napier Hawke's Bay North Island New Zealand Polynesia Oceania

Subject category

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

Subject auto tags

Building House Adaptation Tree Tints and shades Window Landscape Paper product History Rectangle

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