Access is provided in the Katherine Mansfield Reading Room

Date

[195-?, after 1954]

By

New Zealand. National Publicity Studios

Reference

EP-New Zealand Recreation-Skiing-01

Description

Scene on Whakapapa ski field, Mount Ruapehu, showing two female skiers and a chairlift (probably the first chair lift in New Zealand, the Rock Garden single chair). Mounts Ngauruhoe and Tongariro are visible in the background. Photograph taken circa 1950s, after 1954, for the National Publicity Studios, by an unidentified photographer.

Source of descriptive information - Notes on print. Information about the first chair lift from http://www.mtruapehu.com/school_groups_students.asp accessed 13 November 2006.

Inscriptions: Verso - Ski supp June 16th Top first chairlift Ruapehu

The first chairlift installed in New Zealand was the Rock Garden single chair at Whakapapa. It was opened in 1954 by Sir Edmund Hillary.

Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16.1 x 21 cm

Use/Reproduction

Copyright must be checked

Access restrictions

Partly restricted - Digital content available only in Katherine Mansfield Reading Room

Part of

Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers / Skiing

Format

1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Gelatin silver prints, Silver gelatin print, 16.1 x 21 cm, Orientation: Horizontal image