Ruined Napier City Landscape

Damaged buildings in Napier some time after 3 February 1931 earthquake

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Description

Taken from Seapoint Road, Bluff Hill

Text on signs –

“MUNICIPAL LIBRARY

MUNICIPAL RECONSTRUCTION [Herschell and Browning Streets intersection]

LOCKYER’S FOR PIANOS

HANNAH’S 1915 BUILDINGS”

Hawke’s Bay County Council building

Note the direction the chimneys have fallen on the three houses in Byron Street, bottom left

Alexander Lavery (1863-1940) took photos of Hawke’s Bay from the early 1900s to 1940

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Location

Napier

Format of the original

Glass plate negative

Date published

1931

Author(s) / Creator(s)

Accession number

612429

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