Tekapo River

Date: between 1934 and 1935

Reference: PAColl-6619

Description: 46 images of the Duke of Gloucester's tour of New Zealand in 1934-5 including: nine of his visit to Rotorua including Maori kapa haka; one of veterans at the bridge of remembrance in Christchurch; one of him opening Tekapo bridge and another of the party at Tekapo House hotel; one of him in a crowd outside the railway station in Hokitika; one of him inspecting a parade of nurses; one of him visiting a traditional whare; two of him as a jockey at a race meeting; three of the felling of a kauri tree; seven of his stay at Longbeach sheep station, Ashburton County; and two of him at the Waitangi memorial. Photographer unidentified but possibly Hall Raine. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-019066 to 019078, 019082 to 019107, 019111, 019113, and 059505 to 059509 Quantity: 46 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: [1920s?]

From: Brocklebank, Norris Athol, 1904-1988 :Albums of scenes of New Zealand, and one album of shipboard life and views of Canada and England

Reference: PA1-o-069

Description: Scenes of mostly unidentified areas of New Zealand, and unidentified people. Photographs taken by Norris Athol Brocklebank Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Tan paper-covered album, 12 x 15 cm

Date: 1865 - 1880

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-084-015

Description: Shows a view over a plain, probably the Tekapo River Plain, with a range of snowy mountains in the distance. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 228 x 355 mm

Date: [Circa 1890s-1930s]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: Fitzgerald, Edward Arthur, 1871-1931; Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936; Lippe, Jack N, active 1914; Marsden, (Miss), active 1900s; Pascoe, Dorothy Gladys, 1917-2014; Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972; Sanders, R, active 1910s?; Sun Newspapers Ltd; Sutton-Turner, Arthur Seymour, 1879?-1957

Reference: PAColl-0959-36

Description: Alpine views in the South Island, taken by various identified and unidentified photographers. Those named include Miss Marsden (no. 33), E.A. Fitzgerald, J.J. Kinsey, J. Lippe, A.S. Sutton-Turner, a member of Sun Newspapers Ltd (possibly McGregor?), R. Sanders and C. Beken. Two images of an unidentified mountain hut were taken by John Pascoe (in 1931) and Dorothy Pascoe (in 1944) showing the hut which had been in use since 1895, and was completely destroyed by erosion. There are early images (nos. 1-7, 20-22, and 41). No. 1. is a diorama of an ice cave in the Mueller Glacier; no. 2. shows three mountaineers (two older men greeting a younger man, two of whom are carrying ice picks, the man on the right possibly J.J. Kinsey); no. 3. is entitled ""In difficulties" Ollivier carrying Barrow as hor[ses in difficulties]" and no. 6. taken at the same time is entitled "Ollivier carrying Fitzgerald ashore. In difficulties in the Forks Stream", signed J.J. Kinsey and dated 13/7/[18]97 on the back. Nos. 4-5. were taken by E.A. Fitzgerald show Zurbriggen and Clark [i.e. Jack Clarke] on the summit of Haidinger, dated 14/7/[18]97 on the back. Image no. 20. shows five men holding ice-picks, standing in front of a stone wall with a tent behind at Separation Camp at the ehad of the Godley River; image no. 20 shows four men with heavily laden bicycles on a track with mountains behind. No. 41. shows two women wearing large hats sitting in the wire cage above the Hooker River (one possibly Freda Du Faur). One sequence shows aerial photographs of the Southern Alps, some of which were taken by a member of the Sun Newspapers. Another sequence (nos. 23-31) were taken by Arthur Seymout Sutton-Turner, many of which show the effects of storm clouds in the mountains. Image no. 33. (taken by Miss Marsden) shows the foot of the Unser Fritz Falls. Charles beken took images no. 36-40, showing The Minarets, serac on the Hochstetter Icefall, the bridge over the Tekapo River, and the Pukaki Bridge and lake with the accomodation house centre right. Image no. 34. (taken by R. Sanders) shows a disused logging railway with wooden sleepers, which leads into the mouth of a tunnel, surrounded by native bush. Image no. 42. was taken by W.A. Kennedy and shows a bridge on the road to the hermitage. Most of the places identified are listed above. Other Titles - W.A. Kennedy. Misses Marsden and Freda du Faur Quantity: 42 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

Date: [195-?]

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/1-011599-F

Description: Looking up the Tekapo River, Canterbury, to Lake Tekapo. Photograph taken November 1957 for the National Publicity Studios, by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28105-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 1862 - 1872 - 1864

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Teschemaker, Frederick William, 1834-1878; Teschemaker, Thomas John Cornelius, 1840-1919

Reference: D-007-003

Description: The Mackenzie Plains from near Haldon. From the centre background to the left is the Ohau River; the centre Ben Ohau; near the right Pukaki River. Mount Cook is the highest peak, just right of centre in the Southern Alps in the background. Also showing are Simons Hill, Marys Range, Tekapo River, Grays Hills, Mount Maggie (the isolated hill on the plains), Aiguilles (the needle rocks in the foreground) and Kirkliston Range (the hills in the right foreground from which the view is taken). Signed and titled in pencil below image. Date supplied by Dr R. Collins, 23/5/1985 (see also TL 3/1/1, 15/9/1983). Drawing possibly commissioned by Walter Black in 1872. This is suggested in a letter to the Library AT13/14/1 20 September 2002, from information supplied by descendants of Walter Black. The same letter also mentions a preliminary pencil sketch for this view owned by the Mackenzie District Council. Other Titles - fecit. Birdseye Inscriptions: Title from earlier mount inscribed by artist and discarded by previous owners. Title from photograph of drawing in its earlier mount Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 402 x 869 mm Provenance: Donation: Estate of Mrs J.E. Grigg, daughter of Mr and Mrs T. Teschemaker, of Haldon Station, who commissioned the drawing, 27 March 1984. (see TL 3/1/1/4, Feb 1984; and 3/1/1, 29/4/1985).

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28094-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 15 March 1969

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-68473-F

Description: View of Lake Tekapo and the surrounding countryside. In the forground can be seen the Tekapo River, and at the lake's edge the town of Lake Tekapo. The Southern Alps are in the background. Photograph taken 15 March 1969 by Leo White. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13.8 x 13.4 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder blue 218, Lake Tekapo.

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28095-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28099-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 19 March 1959

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-49612-F

Description: The Tekapo River and the Mackenzie Basin with the Southern Alps in the background. Photograph taken 19 March 1959 by Leo White. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13 x 10.5 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder green 50, Mackenzie County.

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28096-F

Description: View of Tekapo power house and tank for holding water to feed the turbines. Photograph taken May 1951 by Leo White. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13.2 x 11 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder blue 218, Lake Tekapo.

Date: 15 Mar 1969

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-68474-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 19 March 1959

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-49595-F

Description: View of Lake Tekapo and the surrounding countryside. In the forground can be seen the Tekapo power house and a stretch of the Tekapo River. Photograph taken 19 March 1959 by Leo White. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13.8 x 13.4 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder blue 218, Lake Tekapo.

Date: 19 March 1959

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-49615-F

Description: The Mackenzie Basin, New Zealand. In the foreground the junction of the Ohau and Pukaki rivers. Middle distance the junction of the Pukaki and Tekapo rivers. In the backgound are the Southern Alps. Photograph taken 19 March 1959 by Leo White. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13 x 10.5 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder green 50, Mackenzie County.

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28098-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28106-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28074-F

Description: Lake Tekapo, the Tekapo river, and the Southern Alps, Mackenzie Country, New Zealand. Photograph taken May 1951 by Leo White. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13 x 10.5 cm Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder green 50, Mackenzie County.

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28075-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate