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New Zealand scenery album 2
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
Photographs relating to the New Zealand airforce particularly between 1935-1940s, and o...
Date: [187-?],[ca 1895], [ca 1914-1940s], 1953
From: Harper, James Edward, fl 2004 :Photographs
By: Busch, Louis W, active 1872
Reference: PAColl-9885
Description: Photographs collected by Jim Harper. 23 relate to the New Zealand airforce. 12 are of other subjects. Comprises: Photographs relating to James Frederick Henessy Harper's (donor's father) service with the New Zealand airforce between 1935-1940s, and 1953. Includes a set of images of Hobsonville Airbase, Auckland; a set of images showing the HMS Dunedin in 'Gulf'; airforce aeroplanes -Gipsy Moths, Fairey IIIF floatplane, Hawker Hind; military personnel including the 'Houhora Boys'; J F H Harper at Hobsonville with the aeroplane 'Faith in Australia' circa 1936; RAF pilot Ian Reid during training at Bell Block, New Plymouth; fully identified group portrait of RNZAF Signals conference, April 1953. A range of other images including a carte-de-visite of a scene with horses at (Belfast, Canterbury?) taken by L W Busch circa 1872-3; photographs given to the donor by the famiy of Frances Hodgkins showing Cobb & Co coaches and a homestead of Oamaru stone taken circa 1890s; WWI soldiers; views of the Bay of Islands beaches - Long Beach and Paihia, circa 1920s; the Hermitage Hotel, Mount Cook in 1938; group in a canoe at Halcombe, Manawatu, circa 1920s-1930s; buildings on the road by the Chateau Tongariro (State Highway 48) circa 1938; group portrait of the Spinsters' Club, circa 1942 Accompanying information - Copy of a newspaper article about the Spinsters' Club is at PAColl-9885-34 Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s) comprising 36 images. Physical Description: Photographic prints
Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935 :Kea Pass near the Hermitage. [ca 1880]
Date: 1875 - 1885
From: Various artists :[Watercolour and pencil drawings by members of the Lysaght and Stowe families. ca 1870-1930]
By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935
Reference: B-190-024
Description: A view along a mountainous pass in the Southern Alps, probably in the Summer months as the landscape appears green and lush Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Kea Pass near the Hermitage / MGCL [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on paper, 255 x 355 mm
Background information on THC hotels
Date: [1866-1975]
From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7261-24
Description: Part of folder, Background information, certain hotels formerly administered by Department of Tourist and Publicity, comprising draft by C G Riley, `Peaks, people and past; the story of Mount Cook National Park', copy of his published, `Place names in Mount Cook National Park' (1968), copy of letter from Annie Lysaght to her father (1866), extract from `Expanded notes' - `The Hermitage and Mount Cook' and copy of draft essay or book, `The Hermitage and Mount Cook' Other Titles - Place names in Mount Cook National Park by C Graham Riley Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Kinsey album
Date: [1890s]
From: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936 :Photographs relating to Antarctica and mountaineering
By: Harper, Arthur Paul, 1865-1955; Inglis, Charles, active 1894
Reference: PA1-q-137
Description: Album includes scenic photographs of areas in the region of the Southern Alps, including panoramas and closer views of mountains, valleys, rivers and glaciers. Many photographs show groups of men and women, many of whom are identified, camping and climbing in the Southern Alps area. Also shown are scenes of The Hermitage at Mount Cook (one of which shows a bullock team for transporting stores, and another which shows Frayne's coach leaving Mount Cook); views of the Birch Hill Station; and Ball Hut (with a curtained-off area as a "ladies' compartment"). Many of the photographs were taken by Joseph James Kinsey, some also by Arthur Paul Harper, Charles Inglis, and Kinsey's daughter May. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover; 37.5 x 29.5 cm
Stout album
Date: [Circa 1895 to 1919]
By: Stout, Thomas Duncan Macgregor (Sir), 1885-1979; Aldersley, David James, 1862-1928; Beattie, William, 1864-1931; Billens, Henry, 1846-1936; Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945; Denton, Frank James, 1869-1963; Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Miller, C, active 1900s; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918; Muir & Moodie (Firm); Parkerson, C P, active 1911-1912; Preen, Edith, active 1907; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers); Whalley and Company; Winzenberg, Albert Edward, 1865-1931; Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965
Reference: PA1-q-226
Description: Album of postcards with subjects ranging from religious, humourous, British scenes, greetings, old paintings, New Zealand scenes, interspersed with some family and personal photographs. None of the personal subjects are named, but where possible the names of photographers are listed above. A loose envelope is inserted inside the back cover, containing a few more general postcards, but also including an envelope containing a group portrait of boys from the VIth standard at Terrace School, Wellington, in 1895. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, entitled "Album" in stylised white lettering; 34 x 24 cm
Liebig Range, taken from the top of Mt Ollivier
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-137-21
Description: View from the top of Mount Ollivier, looking west over the Mueller and Hooker Glaciers towards the Liebig Range. The Hermitage is at the bottom of the photograph. Photographed in 1895 by Joseph James Kinsey Inscriptions: Mount recto - above image - Leibig Range; Mount recto - beneath image - Taken from the top of Mt Ollivier (6296); Mount recto - bottom left - J J Kinsey 1895; Mount recto - centre left - Hooker, Mueller; Mount recto - centre right - Hooker Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 322 x 230 mm
Team of bullocks outside the Hermitage, Mt Cook
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