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Date: [1950s]

From: Birrell, Kenneth Stewart (Dr), b 1909 :Albums of photographs taken by Kenneth Stewart Birrell

By: Bodleian Library

Reference: PA1-f-014

Description: Collection of photograph album pages (lacking covers) which contain images of New Zealand, and images from trips to Switzerland and England (London and Oxford). Many of the photographs are in colour, taken by Dr Ken Birrell circa 1950s. A number of aerial photographs show areas around the Southern Alps, and Queenstown. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album pages, of varying sizes, lacking covers. 43 leaves are 240 x 300 mm, and 12 leaves are 240 x 375 mm, contained in phase box

Date: 1895

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

Reference: PA1-q-137-36

Description: Top photograph (PA1-q-137-36-1) view of the head of the Tasman Glacier from the Hochstetter Glacier. In the background can be seen the Rudolf Glacier, De la Beche, the Minarets, Elie de Beaumont, Lendenfeld Saddle, and the Hochstetter Dome Bottom photograph (PA1-q-137-36-2) view of the Male Brun Range and Mount Chudleigh, Canterbury Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Two silver gelatin photographic prints mounted on album page 360 x 260 mm (page size)

Date: [Circa 1910s]

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-o-485

Description: Album of photographs taken by mountaineer and photographer Arthur Seymour Sutton-Turner, all related to mountaineering in the Southern Alps, and all with good captions. Many of the images show mountain accomodation, both the larger Hermitage (the old, built 1884, and the new, opened in 1914); and smaller mountain huts such as the Hooker, Malte Brun and Ball Huts. A group of mountain guides are named (initials and surnames), and a young girl is named (Nella Cook). Other groups of climbers (men and women) are not individually named, but their location is given. Nineteen untitled loose photographs are inserted in a pocket in the back cover of the album. They show various mountain scenes with several close-ups of keas Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured dark olive green covers, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 26.0 x 33.5 cm

Date: 1865

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: C-097-079

Description: Shows a long view of the Southern Alps, seen from South Westland, with the peaks marked. Mt [Elie de] Beaumont and the Agassiz Glacier are on the left (above Franz Josef Glacier, which is not visible), followed by Mount De la Beche. Mount Cook is the tallest peak, roughly in the centre, the Hooker Range further to the right, Mount Hooker, the 'Gray Range' in the distance to the far right, ending in the sea. The moraine noted by Haast indicates that the Franz Josef Glacier had reached at least as far as the mouth of the Waiho River in a past era. Other Titles - Waiho River Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, on sheet 165 x 990 mm.

Date: [ca 1872-1880s]

By: Perkins, J (Mr), active 1967; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4608

Description: Photographs of Mount Taranaki; Mount Cook; Tasman Glacier near Malte Brun hut site; lower Tasman Glacier with Mounts De La Beche, Minarets, Green and Elie de Beaumont; Tasman Glacier with Mounts Cook, Tasman and Haidinger behind; main divide south of De la Beche with Glacier Dome and the Rudolf Glacier on the lower left; and the junction of Ball and Tasman Glaciers with the Anzacs ridge in the background. Photographs taken by Burton Bros. Photographs of view down Princes Street with the Colonial Mutual building on the left and the Exchange building on the right; Victoria Bridge over the Avon, Christchurch, with the Supreme Court building on the right; the Glacier Hotel at Bealey with a carriage and four pulling up; and Jackson's on the West Coast Road. Photographs taken by Wheeler & Son. Photograph of the flood in Mawhera Quay and Catholic School in Greymouth. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). 14 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph album, photographic prints