Gordon Peak

Date: [Between 1920 and 1927]

From: Sutton-Turner, Arthur Seymour, 1879?-1957 :Albums of the Southern Alps

Reference: PA1-f-073-030

Description: Panorama Peak, with Gordon Peak and Mount Fletcher in the background, photographed during a mountaineering expedition in the 1920s by Edward Seymour Sutton-Turner. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom left - Panorama Peak. And Mounts Gordon and Fletcher. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 128 x 215 mm mounted on album page

Date: [Between 1920 and 1927]

From: Sutton-Turner, Arthur Seymour, 1879?-1957 :Albums of the Southern Alps

Reference: PA1-f-073-028

Description: View looking up the Godley Valley towards Gordon Peak, Mount Fletcher and Mount Wolseley, photographed during a mountaineering expedition in the 1920s by Edward Seymour Sutton-Turner. The expedition base camp is to the right. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom left - Some of the Godley Peaks. And the base camp. Mounts Gordon, Fletcher and Wolseley. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 128 x 215 mm mounted on album page

Date: [Circa 1900s-1920s]

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

By: A G Wehrli & Company; Mannering, George Edward, 1862-1947

Reference: PAColl-0959-33

Description: Alpine views in the South Island and two views of rock formations in the North Island taken by G E Mannering. There are also four images of the Matterhorn in Switzerland, which were probably all taken by Wehrli AG, a photographic company between 1900 and 1924 (nos. 27, 32, 50 and 57). Images numbered 36, 41 and 47 show views from the Godley Riverbed, with the various mountains identified in pencil on the back. No. 7 shows clouds above Waiho with the note "The condensing power of mountains, Waiho". Several images look down to Bealey township from the top of the pipeline. Photograph 24 is probably of the helichrysum species. Several views show close-ups of glaciers, including ice pinnacles on the Franz Josef Glacier (no. 20); one of "hummocky ice" on the Godley Glacier (no. 37); Mannering's two young sons on the Franz Josef Glacier (no. 38); broken ice on Franz Josef Glacier (no. 39); a sand cone on the Tasman Glacier, with four women and three men in the backgound (no. 43); and the terminal glacier face (Franz Josef?). Image no. 25 has identification which reads "Organs - Sandstone cliffs on Mahaka (Mohaka?) River, Hawke's Bay. Image no. 34 shows Samuel Butler's cottage at Mesopotamia Station; and no. 56 probably shows the Cass Field Station. Many of the images by Marcel Kurz show mountaineers, bivouacs and camping sites in the mountains, including the Pioneer Ridge Bivvy. Image no. 133, taken by Marcel Kurz shows Ned Porter, Clive Barker and Doris Barker (later Mrs Porter), on the second ascent of Mount Haidinger in 1927. Most identified places are listed above. Quantity: 58 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." Two photographs have been numbered 47, now changed to 47 and 47a (47a added to typescript inventory in pencil)..

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: [Circa 1920s]

From: Sutton-Turner, Arthur Seymour, 1879?-1957 :Albums of the Southern Alps

By: Driver, H (Mrs), active 1977; Sutton-Turner, Arthur Seymour, 1879?-1957

Reference: PA1-f-073

Description: Album of photographs taken by mountaineer and photographer Arthur Sutton-Turner, all related to the Southern Alps and all with good captions. People climbing with Sutton-Turner include Jack Lippe and T A Fletcher. A number of images relate to their journey towards the mountains, stopping at two sheep stations, the Richmond Station at Lake Tekapo, and Lilybank Station. At Lilybank, Sutton-Turner took a number of photographs of sheep being mustered from the High Country ready for shearing, and finally trucks being loaded with wool bales for sale in Fairlie. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown hessian cover; 29 x 43 cm

Date: [Circa 1920s]

From: Sutton-Turner, Arthur Seymour, 1879?-1957 :Albums of the Southern Alps

By: Driver, H (Mrs), active 1977

Reference: PA1-f-074

Description: Album of photographs taken by mountaineer and photographer Arthur Sutton-Turner, all related to the Southern Alps and with good captions. People climbing with Sutton-Turner included W A Kennedy and T A Fletcher. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown hessian covers; 29 x 43 cm