Masonic Hotel, Napier

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About this object

A view of the Masonic Hotel and collapsed rotunda and showing smoke from the post-earthquake fire. A man is pictured walking across Tennyson Street as another man walks up Tennyson Street towards Marine Parade.

Maker

T A Boston

Production date

1931

Production place

Hawke's Bay/North Island/New Zealand

Production period

1930s/20th Century

Production technique

Photography

Media/Materials description

Black and white photograph

Media/Materials

Paper/Photographic/Man-made Materials

Measurements

Length x Width: 73 x 115mm

Signature/Inscription

MASONIC HOTEL, Photographers details
BOSTON, Photographers details

Classification terms

Print, Photographic
Documentary Artifact
Communication Artifacts

Subject person

Masonic Hotel

Subject period

1930s/20th Century

Subject date

Post 03 Feb 1931

Current rights

Public Domain

Credit Line

gifted by Ngaire Curtis

Other number(s)

2022/13/8, 99794

Accession number

2022/13/8

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Place made

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

Motor vehicle Building House Tree Vehicle Handwriting Asphalt History Event Font

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