Places

Date: 1973

By: Shearer, Archibald Reid, 1914-1997

Reference: Eph-D-TOURISM-1973-03

Description: Shows photographs of seven scenes: Aoraki / Mount Cook; Tourist beside light plane on a glacier; Boat in Waitomo Glow-worm carves; Geysr at Whakarewarewa; Wellington cable car; picnic beside an inland reiver with distant snowy mountain; dining in a tourist restaurant with high vaulted ceiling. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on poster 815 x 535 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1982.

Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Cooper, William Marshall, 1833-1921; Schmidt, John Diedrich, 1839-1925

Reference: A-104-049-b

Description: Shows the small digging township on the south end of the Okarito Lagoon, on the West Coast. In the right foreground, small boats are pulled up on the shore beside a house and a fishing net hanging to dry. A coastal bluff and a steamship at sea can be seen in the right distance. Title from label on verso. See Ellis, E M. Early prints of N.Z. 1642-1875. Christchurch, 1977. p. 192-193. From a sketch by W M Cooper; lith by Schmidt. Other Titles - Okarito Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 220 x 300 mm

Date: 9 January 1906

By: Ross, Malcolm, 1862-1930

Reference: PAColl-1396

Description: From left to right: Peter Graham, Samuel Turner and Tom Fyfe, standing on the summit of Mount Cook. Photograph taken 9 January 1906 by Malcolm Ross. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Copy of the First photograph taken on the Summit of Mount Cook. Jan. 1906. [signed] Malcolm Ross Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s) mounted on card. Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 36.6 x 26.7 cm Provenance: Possibly donated by Samuel Turner in 1921. No definite donor or provenance information available.

By: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-106-010

Description: Trees on the right, the lake and Mount Cook in the background, rising above a layer of cloud. A small figures stands in the foreground near the trees. Date is suggested from similarity to W. F. Barraud's dated etching A Maori whare, Wanganui River, 1916. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [title and signature in pencil] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching 72 x 95 mm (platemark) on sheet 179 x 128 mm

Date: 1938

From: Holdsworth, Alice Mabel 1878-1963 :[New Zealand plants and scenery] / A M Holdsworth 1937-1938

Reference: E-251-f-2-024

Description: Mount Cook viewed from the Hooker river, a rocky stream in the foreground Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in album, page size, 251 x 360 mm

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-386

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm

Date: 1960-1973

From: Einhorn family :Photographs

Reference: PA12-7961

Description: South Island trips. Photographs relating to Mount Cook. These include - The Mackenzie Country, 1971. Lake Pukaki, 1960. Aoraki, Mount Cook, 1960, 1967, 1973. The Hermatage, 1973. Southern Alps from the air, 1967. Tasman Glacier, 1960. Photographed by Helmut Einhorn. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1885

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

Reference: E-178-f-008

Description: Mountain range with lagoon in the foreground Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 195 x 329 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

Date: 1958-ca1964

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PAColl-7359-7

Description: Photographs of the Hermitage under construction in 1961, of tour groups, groups learning to ski, of staff parties, and one of the Prime minister of Japan and his wife during a visit to the Hermitage. Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: July 1960

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7377

Description: Transparencies of Mount Cook from The Hermitage, taken July 1960 by Whites Aviation Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: August 1965

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7410

Description: Transparencies of Aoraki reflected in Lake Matheson, taken August 1965 by Whites Aviation Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

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)

Date: 1870 - 1898

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook [1856-ca 1890]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: E-207-q-025-2

Description: View of a mountain, possibly Mt Cook Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - F A Coxhead, photo, Dn., NZ (stamp); Recto - beneath image - Is this Mt Cook ? Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Sepia photograph, 100 x 153 mm

Date: 1930 - 1939

From: [Ephemera relating to hotels, motels, hostels and other accommodation in Mount Cook Village. 1900s onwards ]

By: Hermitage (Aoraki/Mount Cook, N.Z.); Munt, Jeanie, active 1978

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Mt-Cook-1930s-01

Description: Menus for a set breakfast menu. Each has a different "scene in the Southern Alps" on the cover. These include: Mt Cook and the Hooker Glacier, The Hochstetter Icefall, Mt Cook from Red Lake Mt Sebastopol, Mt Sefton and the Stocking Glacier. Two sets held. Dated 1930s because the phrase "thousands of feet above worry level" was being used on posters at that time. Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on cards, 137 x 209 mm, to be folded to 137 x 104 mm.

Date: [Circa 1907 to 1915]

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm); Moore, May Gertrude, 1874-1954

Reference: PA1-o-284

Description: The signature `May Moore' inside front cover, is possibly that of Mrs May Moore (daughter of Sir Joseph Kinsey), who travelled and mountaineered in the areas covered by the album. Album containing 21 scenes of the South Island. Of these, 12 were taken by photographers Muir and Moodie, between 1907 and 1913. The Muir and Moodie numbers for these views are 1810, 6743, 6752, 6780, and 6782 to 6789. The photographer for the other nine images is not identified. 24 leaves are blank. Several of the Muir and Moodie views were taken on 1st January 1913, a number of which show various stages of a group crossing the Haast Pass on horseback. Places noted include Cameron's Flat, Will's Bridge, the Burke Huts, and Mule Flat. Inscriptions: Album page - May Moore Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with loose green cloth cover, entitled `Photographs'; 24 x 30 cm

By: Houston, Frances Eliza, 1853-1900; Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-180-022

Description: A view across the Hooker Valley towards the mountains, with the river to the right of the viewpoint Inscriptions: Verso - 'Done by F E Lyaght [sic]. On the way to Mount Cook - on the opposite side of the river from the road of the present day' [note probably written by John Lysaght Moore, a later owner of this watercolour by his aunt] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 178 x 185 mm

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

Date: 1976 - 1978

From: Eagle, Audrey Lily, 1926- :[Collection of original paintings made for "Eagle's trees and shrubs of New Zealand" books. 1955-2005]

Reference: A-437-380

Description: Shows leaves, flowers and fruit of three varieties of coprosma. Artist's list: Coprosma pedicellata: Flowers Nov. 1977, Carters Beach Wairarapa, drupes May 198 from Carter's Beach, also coll Tony Druce C. wallii: Flowers male 11.11.76 orig. Porters Pass, Cant., cult Tony Druce. Female flowers Ruamahanga Ra., Wairarapa Oct. '78 also Tony Druce. Drupes from Lewis Pass (Maruia V.) March 1978 coll. Neil Simpson C. atropurpurea: Female flowers 11.11.76 cult. orig. from Mt Cook, Tony Druce cult. Drupes March 1978 and male flowers Nov. 1978 from Ngarita Travers cult. at Waipahihi, Sc. Res. Taupo. Appears on page 757 of Eagle's "Complete trees and shrubs of New Zealand" Other Titles - October, November; Range, Canterbury, A P Druce Other Titles - Ruamahanga Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, on sheet 261 x 211 mm.

Date: 1956

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7408

Description: Transparencies of Aoraki reflected in Lake Matheson, taken 1956 by Whites Aviation Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies