Ski lifts
Skiers on chair lift, Mount Ruapehu, National Park
Date: Aug 1964
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-62438-F
Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate
Transparencies of South Island vacation
Date: [ca 1960s]
From: Hare, Evelyn Nina, 1911-1989: Collection
Reference: PA12-12164
Description: Transparencies of South Island vacation, mainly from February 1968. Likely taken by Evelyn Hare. Some photographs have captions. Locations photographed on Hare's 1968 trip include Coronet Peak (including ski field chair lifts, views from bus); Cook River; La Perouse and Aoraki/Mount Cook; Arrowtown street scene; gondolas and buildings at Queenstown's Skyline Gondola; and aerial views of Queenstown, Lake Coleridge, and Southern alps. Photographs that are not dated, but also likely from the 1960s, show locations visited on a Mount Cook & Southern Lakes Tourist Co Ltd. bus tour. These include the tour bus, signs for Lake Pukaki and Lake Ohau, and lake views with a Southern Scenic float plane on the water in one and a playground on the lake shore in the other [Wanaka?]. Also includes a photograph of unidentified passengers boarding a National Airway Corporation (NAC) plane at Wellington Airport. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies mounted in card with captions. Physical Description: Colour transparencies mounted in card.
Skiers waiting for the ski lift near the chalet with view of the mountains beyond, Coro...
Date: Jul 1951
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-28960-F
Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate
Skiers using ski tow, Coronet Peak, Otago
Date: Aug 1950
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-25521-F
Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, ¼ plate
Skier using Coronet Peak tow
Date: [ca Aug 1947]
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-08988-F
Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, ¼ plate
Skiers on Coronet Peak, Otago, including ski tow mechanism in the foreground
Date: Aug 1950
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-25537-F
Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, ¼ plate
Ski tow mechanism, Coronet Peak, Otago
Date: Aug 1950
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-25520-F
Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, ¼ plate
Skiing on Coronet Peak, Otago, showing ski lift with chalet behind
Date: Jul 1951
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-28981-F
Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate
Skiers and chairlift, Whakapapa ski field, Mount Ruapehu, with Mount Ngauruhoe in the d...
Date: [195-?, after 1954]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
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
Start of tow, Coronet Peak Ski Field, Central Otago
Date: Aug 1950
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-25667-F
Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation Ltd Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, ¼ plate
Skiers and rope tow, Coronet Peak Ski Field, Central Otago
Date: Aug 1950
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-25655-F
Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation Ltd Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, ¼ plate
Skiers using Coronet Peak rope tow
Date: [ca Aug 1947]
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-08972-G
Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches
Skiers waiting for the ski lift, skiing on Coronet Peak, Otago
Date: Jul 1951
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-28959-F
Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate
Skiers waiting for the ski lift, skiing on Coronet Peak, Otago
Date: Jul 1951
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-28986-F
Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate
Chalet and ski lift, skiing on Coronet Peak, Otago
Date: Jul 1951
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-28979-F
Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate
Skiers with rope tow, Coronet Peak Ski Field, Queenstown
Date: 6 Aug 1948
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-14592-F
Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate
Skier using Coronet Peak rope tow
Date: [ca Aug 1947]
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-08999-F
Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, ¼ plate
Skiers using Coronet Peak tow
Date: [ca Aug 1947]
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-08983-G
Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic negative, ¼ plate
Skiing on Coronet Peak, Otago, showing chalet and ski lift
Date: Jul 1951
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-28982-F
Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate
Skiers at Coronet Peak rope tow
Date: [ca Aug 1947]
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-08970-G
Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches