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Date: 1902

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

By: Ranfurly, Constance Elizabeth Knox, Countess of, 1858-1932

Reference: C-133-006

Description: Shows a view of Mount Cook from the area in front of the Hermitage. The Hermitage building is seen at the left, below the foothills. The peak of Mount Cook is bathed in a rosy light. Possibly the watercolour of Mount Cook by Lady Ranfurly shown in Wellington in October 1902 at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - CR 1902; Verso - centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sheet, 377 x 561 mm. Provenance: Purchase: England, 1998 Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-533

Description: New Zealand views taken circa 1870s to 1880s by E Wheeler & Son. Scenes include both North Island and South Island views, and all places named are listed above, as are businesses, ships and buildings, where possible. Items of interest include a photograph of trout taken by the Upper Selwyn River "A good day's sport. 38 fish, with the fly, 2 rods" with two large baskets alongside. Two scenes show different means of transport across rivers where there are no bridges. One is the "Cage bridge" (or Flying Fox) across the Teremakau (Taramakau) River, and the other shows a ferry punt across the Buller River. A number of views show farming activities, including a scene near Cheviot of about 20,000 sheep being drafted for shearing; and one of a wagon laden with wool bales being hauled by a team of bullocks. A view of gold sluicing is shown in this album with the locality indistinct. The same view is shown in the first Wheeler Album (PA1-o-532) in which the locality is named as Waimea. Other Titles - New Zealand Views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "New Zealand Views. Wheeler & Son" in gold lettering on spine; 26.5 x 33.0 cm

Date: [ca 1960]

From: Goodall, Gladys Mary, 1908-2015: Scenic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: GG-11-0081

Description: Mount Cook & Southern Lakes Tourist Co bus at The Hermitage, photographed in the mid-1960s by Gladys M Goodall. Mount Cook is in the background. Other - Published by Whitcombe & Tombs as postcard WT655 Inscriptions: Mount recto - top left - Mt Cook 12,349 ft with Mt Cook tourist bus ready to leave Hermitage Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparency 6 x 9 cm, in mount 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Date: ca 1890s

Reference: 1/2-004675-G

Description: Unidentified men and women watch a team of bullocks resting outside the Hermitage, Mount Cook. Taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1890s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - "The Hermitage" 2500 feet. Mode of conveying stores - team of 12 bullocks Note on back of file print reads: Team of bullocks which were used for bringing stores, in front of hermitage, ca 1890s Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Date: 1895

From: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936 :Photographs relating to Antarctica and mountaineering

By: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936

Reference: PA1-q-137-01

Description: View of Mount Cook (Aorangi), and part of the Hooker Valley. Photographed in 1895 by Joseph James Kinsey Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Mt Cook (Aorangi). Highest peak - 12,349; Middle [peak] - 12,178; Lowest [peak] - 11,844; Mount recto - right of image - Hooker Valley; Mount recto - left of image - Mt Hector - Green's Saddle; Mount recto - bottom left - J J Kinsey 1895 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: [ca 1890]

From: Vance, William, 1899-1981 :Photographs

Reference: 1/2-002057-F

Description: View of Aorangi from Ball Glacier, taken ca 1890 by an unidentified photographer Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [189-?]

From: Vance, William, 1899-1981 :Photographs

Reference: 1/2-002047-F

Description: Mountaineers in the Mount Cook region, 1890s. Shows Marmaduke Dixon (top), and George Mannering (bottom). Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print, and image. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1935

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch; Loney, George Henry, 1871-1957

Reference: Eph-E-TOURISM-Mt-Cook-1935-01

Description: Shows a young woman in a short skirt, striped top and beret, with a walking stick, standing in a mountains setting, with Mt Cook and the Hermitage in the background. There are edelweiss flowers around her feet. The sky is red. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on sheet , 875 x 565 mm.

Date: 1882

By: Green, William Spotswood (Rev), 1847-1919; Baldock, Belinda, -1999

Reference: A-329-012

Description: The central peak is Mount Cook, with Mount Dampier to the right (across the Green Saddle), and the Linda Glacier (named by Green after his wife) descending from the centre of Mount Cook. The view is probably taken from Mount Dixon. In the foreground is an ice plateau with a crevasse. Framer's label (now discarded): 'Framed by Combridge & Co., printsellers, picture framers &c., 19 & 20 Grafton Street, Dublin'. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 325 x 252 mm

Date: 1862 - 1864

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: C-096-009

Description: A broad river valley surrounded by alps, with the glacier in the centre background, Mt Cook the highest snowy peak to its left. Illustration for lecture, Notes on the mountains and glaciers of the Canterbury Province, New Zealand, delivered by Julius von Haast, London, 1864 Based on Julius von Haast's field sketch: The great Tasman Glacier, 16 April 1862 (Located at C-097-061-1) Inscriptions: Signed J. Gully; Mount recto - Mt Sefton: Mt Stokes; Mt Cook; Mt Haidinger; Mt de la Beche Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 272 x 620 mm

Date: ca 1895

From: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936 :Photographs relating to Antarctica and mountaineering

Reference: PA1-q-137-04-2

Description: View of Mount Cook from Fitzgerald's Saddle. Part of the Moorhouse Range and the Hooker Valley can be seen. Saint David's Dome is in the distance. Photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1895 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1862 - 1864

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: C-096-012

Description: Illustration for lecture, Notes on the mountains and glaciers of the Canterbury Province, New Zealand, delivered by J. Haast, 1864 Inscriptions: Signed: John Gully; Mount verso - Mt Cook; Mt Hardinger; Mt de la Beche; Great Tasman Glacier; Mt Elie de Beaumont; Malte Brun Range; Mt Darwin eastern spurs; Mt Tyndall; Murchison Glacier Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 431 x 610 mm (Canterbury, N.Z. no. 12)

Date: 1878 - 1895

By: Sauerbier, Peter, active 1991

Reference: A-049-035

Description: Shows the early accommodation house or hotel at the head of the Pukaki River, the southern end of Lake Pukaki, the ferry over the Pukaki River, part of Ben Ohau and the Liebig Ranges and Mount Cook in the distance. A horse and cart are being moved over the river on the ferry. Compare a photograph of a very similar view supposedly "from a watercolour by E. Norman, entitled [Lake Pukaki showing original accommodation house, since burnt down] Title from ink inscription on secondary support, below image. By the same artist as A-049-036. The hotel was built in 1863. The ferry was built in 1876. Both hotel and ferry were moved to the site shown here at the source of the Pukaki River in 1878. The accommodation house was enlarged in 1885. It caught fire in 1891, but was rebuilt. The site was bridged in 1895. The watercolour must date from between 1878 and 1895, perhaps from the middle period of about 1885. Edmund Norman, referred to in the similar view held by the Library (NON-ATL-0185) died in 1875, the year before the ferry was built and 3 years before the accommodation house was moved to this site. He could not have been the artist of this view (A-049-035) or the related view. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 79 x 170 mm, on card 125 x 210 mm.

Date: 1906

From: Woodhouse, Airini Elizabeth, 1896-1989: Photographs of Timaru

Reference: PAColl-4746-01

Description: First motor car at the Hermitage hotel, Mount Cook, 1906. Note on back of backing card reads: "From left - J S Rutherford, Opawe; R H Rhodes, Blue Cliffs. Back seat - R L Wigley." Photographer unidentified. A library client has questioned the date of this photograph, 23-August-2007. According to him the first cars to Mount Cook were a pair of De Dion 2 seaters. He suggests that this vehicle may well be one of the first service cars to make the the trip in 1907. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 7.5 x 9.7 cm

Date: 1891

By: Huddleston, Francis Fortescue Croft, 1846-1922; Ellis, Donald Grant, 1937-2010

Reference: A-219-003

Description: Looking east towards Mount Blackburn (also known as Rotten Tommy, the main peak on the left), with another peak on the right, the Tasman River bisecting the view, and a cottage in the left foreground on flat land among scrub. The cottage is likely to be part of either Birch Hill Station or Glentanner Station Other Titles - Mount Blackburn. Rotten Tommy on the right [former title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 254 x 355 mm

Date: [ca 1905]

From: Birch, A E :Scenic negatives and prints taken by Thomas Pringle

Reference: 1/1-006950-G

Description: Mount Cook from Hooker Glacier. Photograph taken circa 1905 by Thomas Pringle. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - No 294 Mount Cook from Hooker Glacier Thos Pringle Wellington Protected 1.5.05 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: between 1908-1911

From: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-007546-G

Description: Hooker Hut, Mount Cook, and an unidentified group, photographed by Frederick George Radcliffe between 1908 and 1911. Dated according to a register of Radcliffe photographs compiled by Stan R Goodwin. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1862 - 1864

By: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain); Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: C-096-011

Description: The base of the Mueller Glacier in the foreground, the Hooker Glacier central and Mount Cook forming a large part of the background. Illustration for lecture, Notes on the mountains and glaciers of the Canterbury Province, New Zealand, delivered by Julius von Haast, London, 1864 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - John Gully [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 610 x 450 mm

Date: 1884 - 1894

By: Ross, Kenneth Alexander, 1864-1959

Reference: A-329-022

Description: Shows the upper part of Mount Cook or Aoraki, with the head of the Linda Glacier labelled in the foreground. In the lower centre foreground a small figure of a climber can be seen, about the follow a dotted line up the mountain towards "Green's ledge". Also labelled are (at right) the saddle between the Hooker and Linda, the ridge named the Tasman arete by Green, and (at left) the north east arete and the top and bottom couloirs. Also marked are the seracs just below the peak, and the "bergschrund [crevasse] all round" at lower right. Artist may possibly be Kenneth Ross who was one of several climbers who made early attempts of Mt Cook, following an earlier attempt in 1882 by the Rev W S Green. These climbers included Ross and his brother Malcolm Ross, and A. P. Harper, who returned to New Zealand in 1889 after two seasons of climbing in the European Alps. Three young men who worked at the Hermitage, Tom Fyfe, George Graham and Jack Clarke, also began climbing on their days off. From 1884 to 1894, this small group of men brought New Zealand climbing into existence. Eventually Jack Clarke, Tom Fyfe and George Graham succeeded on Christmas Day 1894, in making the first complete ascent of the highest peak of Mount Cook (Some content taken from Te Ara website http://www.teara.govt.nz/TheBush/BushandMountain... on 29 June 2009). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 130 x 180 mm. Provenance: Probably from the papers of the family of Malcolm Ross.

Date: 1888

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000

Reference: Eph-D-TOURISM-1888-02

Description: Unfolded brochure, showing scenes of Mt Sefton, Mt Cook, and a map of the Mt Cook area. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Chromolithograph on folded pamphlet, 610 x 470 mm.