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Pascoe album 1

Date: [Between 1914 and 1937]

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-406

Description: Photographs taken by John Dobree Pascoe and others, in the Southern Alps, particularly Canterbury region. They include groups of mountaineers; views of mountain ranges and valleys; mountain huts and life enjoyed by the mountaineers; and several scenes showing Canterbury Mountaineering Club annual sports days over a number of years. Most of the photographs are fully described, with names usually given with initials and surnames, or nicknames. Many of the people and places photographed are listed above. Most of the landscape photographs are again fully described, with peaks and routes traversed marked on the images. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; "J.D. Pascoe" lettered in gold in bottom right-hand corner; [240 p.]; 26.5 x 32.5 cm

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Perkins, J (Mr), fl 1967 :Photograph album and loose prints

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

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Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :Mostly Westland. No 3 Folder. [1885]

Date: 1885

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921

Reference: E-178-f

Description: Views of Mount Cook, Lake Mapourika, the Fox and Franz Joseph Glaciers, Okarito and South Westland At back - Two small cuttings (cut from a sketchbook cover/s) containing notes in pencil. One is a list of people and where they lived. Quantity: 75 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, sheets 194 x 327 mm Provenance: Purchased from the artist's widow, Mrs A R Moreton, Christchurch, 1926 (See IA 93/3, Mss Coll)

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McLean album

Date: [Early 1880s?]

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Taber, Isaiah West, 1830-1912

Reference: PA1-q-153

Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken by various photographers, circa early 1880s. Images include several Maori groups, Maori kainga, meeting houses, carving; a large number of views of mud pools, geysers, hot springs, and in particular views of the Pink and White Terraces before the Tarawera eruption in 1886. Other views show areas of the South Island, including Dunedin City, Oamaru, Christchurch; and the North island including Auckland, Thames District (a number showing aspects of gold mining in the area). The last photograph, of the R.M.S.S. Zealandia was taken by Taber Photo, San Francisco. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with grey blue cover, black corners and spine edged with gold; 30.5 x 25.5 cm

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Birrell album 4

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

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Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :Sounds & Mt Cook [Sketchbook] No 5. 1885.

Date: 1885

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921; Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985; Wildey, Alexander Edward, 1888-1967

Reference: E-788

Description: Includes views sketched during a trip in April 1885, of Preservation Inlet from the "Stella", Puysegur Sound, Dusky Sound, Breaksea Sound, Dea's Cove, Thompson Sound, Charles Sound, Caswell's Sound, Lookinglass Bay, George Sound, Bligh Sound, Poisson Bay, Sutherland Sound, Pembroke from south of Milford, Lion Mountain, Milford Sound, Sealer's Cove and Benton Peak, Kaipo, Mount Argentum, Jacksons Bay, Mahitahi, Cook Bluff, Cook from Gillespies Bluff, Okarito, Lake Waihapo, Rangitipo-Otira, Mount Rolleston, Lake Pearson, Governor's Bay (Lyttelton Harbour). The cover title also mentions Rolleston and Christchurch but these are not shown (although Governor's Bay is near Christchurch). Other Titles - Mount Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Album of 42 leaves, each 113 x 190 mm. Cover fawn linen. Pencil-holder at top Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A85-097 - Other material from the same provenance is at MSS 85-097, PAColl-0931, NegColl-246, A-367-028/029, B-163-014/026, C-081-003/009 and E-787..

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Saxby album 2

Date: 1870-1890

From: Saxby, Stephen Hector, 1907- :Photograph albums

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Ring, James, 1856-1939; Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-q-213

Description: Album of photographs of New Zealand and Pacific scenes, compiled ca 1870s-1880s. Includes views of Nelson. Bridge over the Waiau River near Hanmer. Hutt Valley (showing junction of Belmont Road), Manaia (showing Dr Hector, and oysters in foreground). James Hector's house `Ratanui,'near Petone, his family, and views from the house. Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu (showing flooding, acclimatisation ponds, and the road between Queenstown and Martin's Bay). Greymouth. Castle Hill. White Island. Mount Ruapehu. Otira Gorge. Arthur River. Milford Sound (with steamship Rotorua). Christchurch. Auckland (including a series of interior views of Kilbryde, the home of Sir John Logan Campbell). Cable car over Taramakau River. Hawks Crag. Brunnerton. Arnold river. Arthur's Pass. Buller River. Denniston (showing coal mines and incline). Mount Cook. Wellington (including views of the Botanic Garden). Lake Mapourika. Sutherland Falls. Tahiti. Wanganui. The Wainuiomata Reservoir. Napier. Photographers represented include W T L Travers (scenes on Waiau river), Hart, Campbell & Co (Queenstown and Wakatipu), James Ring (Greymouth, Castle Hill, and Buller), H T Lock (Hawks Crag and Denniston), Wheeler & Son (Christchurch), Connolly & Co (Wellington Botanic Garden) and Burton Brothers (Sutherland Falls). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded maroon cover, entitled "New Zealand ferns"; 30.5 x 25.0 cm

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Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887: Lake Ohau. 8 May 1862.

Date: 1862

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-030-1

Description: Shows panoramic view of Lake Ohau and the mountain ranges behind it, including Mount Cook. On verso of C-097-030. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, on sheet, 90 x 1300 mm (on verso of C-097-030)

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New Zealand. Railways. Publicity Branch: See New Zealand by rail. Mt Cook by rail & mot...

Date: 1934

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Mt-Cook-1934-01

Description: Combination of colour print, photographs and text on brochure. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on cover of booklet.. Physical Description: Coloured print on folded brochure, 228 x 380 mm.

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Bethune album

Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Lock, Henry Thomas, active 1885-1910?; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-013

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by various photographers including the Burton Brothers, Tyree Brothers, James Ring, Josiah Martin, and Henry Thomas Lock. Includes images of flooding in Blenheim, and a wire cable tram across the Taramakau River (West Coast). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red cloth bound folio album, 415 x 300 mm

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National Tobacco Company Ltd :[Nine tobacco advertising cards. 1920-1940s]

Date: 1920 - 1949

By: National Tobacco Company Ltd; Swailes Hurst & Company

Reference: Eph-C-TOBACCO-NTC-1920/1940s

Description: Includes: Roll your own with Riverhead Gold. No bite - no cough - no shattered nerves National Tobacco Company Napier. Riverhead Gold, Navy Cut no 3, Cut plug No 10, Cavendish Mixture (Oblong poster card, with circles at four corners) National Tobacco Co Ltd Napier. Toasted Navy Cut No 3 (Bulldog) National Tobacco Co Ltd Napier. It's toasted. Riverhead Gold tobacco (Girl with tobacco leaves) Riverhead Gold Tobacco. It's toasted. Less nicotine, therefore healthier. Protects heart nerves; no cough; no bite. (Girl with tobacco leaves) National Tobacco Co Ltd. Riverhead gold tobacco. Nothing higher in New Zealand. Mt Cook. Less nicotine than others. National Tobacco Co Ltd. Cut plug tobacco "stands the test of time". Cut plug No 10, full strength toasted (Bull). Recommended by medical authorities. National Tobacco Co Ltd. A lucky choice, Cavendish sporting mixture, always a winner. Medium toasted. Recommended by medical authorities. It's toasted. Riverhead Gold Tobacco. (Diamond-shaped sign with radiating rays) Some cards printed by Swailes, Napier. Quantity: 9 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on display cards, sizes irregular and varying up to about 500 x 400 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2005. Previously stored in the roof of a cafe in Rawene.

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Mt Cook & Southern Lakes Tourist Company Ltd :While you're here see it thoroughly; wing...

Date: 1955

By: Mount Cook & Southern Lakes Tourist Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-AVIATION-MC-1955-01

Description: Cover shows an illustration of a yellow aeroplane with a face, speaking in a speech bubble - "Come 'flight seeing' with Mount Cook Air Services". It flies in a mountain landscape. The inside spread shows seven photographs of scenery visible during the flight, and text elaborating on the places to see. The back cover shows a map of the Fiordland area. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on folded pamphlet. Physical Description: Photolithograph on folded pamphlet 230 x 110 mm (folded)

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Hislop album 1

Date: 1913-1922

From: Hislop, Harold Stevens, d 1933 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-228

Description: Views of Lake Rotoma, Hamurana Creek, and the Sanatorium gardens, Rotorua; Pukekura Park, New Plymouth; friends and houses in Napier; all 1916. Photographs of "Greenhill" homestead near Hastings, its gardens, and a group of visitors. Also "Ben Lomond" a house on the hill at Napier, its gardens and owners. All photographed in October 1921. Harold and Mabsie Hislop's house "Clovelly" at Wadestown, its gardens, and visiting friends. All photographed in 1916. A holiday at the Hermitage which included climbing trips and views of the Southern Alps. Photographs taken on board HMS New Zealand, and a view of ships stranded in Wellington Harbour by the waterside strike. Two photographs of a golfer on the Miramar golf course. All taken in 1913. Photographs of young women at Days Bay photographed in 1922 Inscriptions: Album page - `Wishing you very happy returns of this day, Aug. 18th 1916. With love, Dorice' (At end of album, upside-down) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red suede cover, entitled `Album. H.S.H.', containing platinum and silver gelatin prints; 18 x 34 cm

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Pascoe album 5

Date: [Between 1910s and 1930s]

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

By: Adamson, Jack, 1866-1951; Beken, Charles Albert, 1859-1944; Cain, Conrad, active 1910s; Kent, T R, active 1930s; Lysons, Markham Carthew, 1907-1944; Mitchell, John Wesley, 1884-1954; Nanson, Gerald Leighton, 1907?-; Odell, Robert Sidney, 1908-1992; Pascoe, Arnold Paul, 1908-1976; Porter, Harold Edward Lionel, 1886-1973; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Snowden, Andrew Craig, 1897-1981; Syme, Roderick, 1900-1994; Teichelmann, Ebenezer (Dr), 1859-1938; Thompson, A F, active 1939

Reference: PA1-o-410

Description: Photographs taken by John Dobree Pascoe and others, in the Southern Alps, particularly Canterbury region. They include groups of mountaineers; routes traversing difficult slopes; views of mountains, mountain ranges and glaciers; mountain huts and life enjoyed by mountaineers. A number of images in this album have no captions, but some have been identified as having been taken by, or of, Jack Adamson in the late 1890s and possibly up to the early 1910s. A number of postcard images by F G Radcliffe are included. Other photographers and subjects include early mountaineers Kate Gardiner, Mrs Thompson, and there is one image of mountain guide Darby Thomson (who died in an avalanche on the Linda Glacier in 1914). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; "J.D. Pascoe" lettered in gold in lower right-hand corner; [197 p.]; 26.5 x 32.5 cm

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Railways album 3

Date: [1934-1935?]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-052

Description: Publicity photographs taken by various unidentified photographers for New Zealand Railways. The only identifying information is a few pencilled notes giving some locations, but there are no captions identifying people. There is a large sequence showing events surrounding the first celebrations marking the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi on 6th February 1934 attended by Lord Bledisloe. He had purchased the site, and donated money for the Treaty House renovations in 1932. The celebrations brought 10,000 Maori to Waitangi. The images show huge crowds, haka parties, various iwi performing, and parties of dignitaries including Lord and Lady Bledisloe, Joseph Gordon Coates and George William Forbes. Other scenes with Lord Bledisloe show him visiting the Waitaki Hydroelectric power station. Views of New Zealand include Government Tourist Bureau accomodation houses including those at Waitomo and the Hermitage (Mt. Cook); accomodation houses at Helensville and Parakai with interior and exterior views, and showing activities available (spa pools, games such as croquet, golf, and bowls); anglers standing by swordfish they have caught; skiing and ski lessons; and waterfalls. Industrial and agricultural views show dairy cows, citrus groves, the Kiwi Bacon Factory, printing presses, and race courses. A number show people at the beach at Mount Maunganui, and a large group picniking. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, red spine, entitled `Tours Book B3'; 40 x 58 cm

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Field album 9

Date: [1870s-1880s?]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-q-081

Description: Views of the South Island, chiefly in Southland and Otago, taken by unidentified photographers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, lacking spine and back cover, 30.0 x 23.5 cm

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Turner, Samuel, 1869-1929 : Annotated copy of A climber in New Zealand by Malcolm Ross

Date: 1914-[1929]

Reference: MS-Group-1317

Description: Copy of Malcolm Ross's `A climber in New Zealand' (1914) extensively annotated by Turner; also photocopies of the annotated pages Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matetr with annotations; also photocopies of annotated pages

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Nairn album 2

Date: [Circa 1870s and 1880s]

From: Nairn, Douglas, fl 1973 :Photographs of New Zealand and Fiji

By: (W N) Tuttle & Company; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Hart, Campbell & Company; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland)

Reference: PA1-o-359

Description: Photographs of New Zealand, taken by various photographers. Some are unidentified, but many are taken by the Burton Brothers, J V (James Valentine), Tuttle & Co, for Simpson & Co., and Hart, Campbell & Co. In the North Island, a large number of photographs show the area around Mount Tarawera before and after the volcanic eruption in 1886. There are a number showing the huge deposits of mud and ash which covered the area, with views of the landscape and of ruined buildings, followed by scenes of the Pink and White Terraces, before the eruption. On page 8, there is a view of Ranana (London), on the Wanganui River with the caption, "Maori village similar to those overwhelmed by the eruption". Other scenes in the North Island were taken in Auckland City, Ohinemutu, Rotokakahi, and Whakarewarewa, Ti Eke [i.e. Tieke] on the Wanganui River, and one of Wellington City taken from Mount Victoria. South Island views include many around the main lakes, including Wakatipu, Wanaka, Manapouri, Queenstown and Hawea; Milford Sound and Mitre Peak; the Otira Gorge; Kawarau Gorge and Bridge; Oamaru; Port Chalmers; and Dunedin. Views of gold mining areas in Otago include excavation sluiced out by hydrants at St Bathans, and the miners' towns of Naseby with the river choked with tailings, and Nokomai. Portraits of Maori including Ana Rupene. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with marron leather binding covered with waxed brown-paper cover, entitled `New Zealand photographs, [E?] Nairn'; 25.5 x 32.5 cm

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Mount Cook & Southern Lakes Tourist Company Ltd :Ski at Coronet Peak and Mount Cook. Wi...

Date: 1951

From: [Ephemera relating to Coronet Peak ski field. 1950-1969]

By: Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie Ltd; Mount Cook & Southern Lakes Tourist Company Ltd; Hartstonge, J E, active 1950s

Reference: Eph-A-SKIFIELD-Coronet-1951-01

Description: A pamphlet advertising Coronet Peak (Queenstown) and Mount Cook as "New Zealand's leading winter sports playgrounds". Shows photographs of the two skifields, and of skiers using them. The front cover shows a smiling skier holding his skis in his left hand and the poles in his right, with a skifield in the background. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - J E Hartstonge Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on sheet 280 x 427 mm, folded to 225 x 110 mm. Provenance: Former owner J E Hartstonge.

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Jones, Dudley William Carmalt 1874-1957 :New Zealand sketches / [by] C. J. [ca.1937].

Date: 1932 - 1937

By: Carmalt-Jones, Dudley William, 1874-1957; New Zealand. High Commission (Great Britain)

Reference: E-347

Description: 24 sketches mainly of Dunedin and lower South Island scenes. Cover title in pencil. New Zealand and Pacific book collection of the Alexander Turnbull Library has another copy at NZ&P 741.9931 JON ca 1937 Inscriptions: Each image signed, dated, and entitled, either at bottom right or bottom left. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 24 photolithographs of pencil sketches, 150 x 104 mm, or 104 x 150 mm, stuck into volume pages 210 x 199 mm.

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