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Mountaineers, glaciers, and mountains
Date: 1879-1892
From: Vance, William, 1899-1981 :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-9826
Description: Photographs of mountaineers, glaciers, mountains, lakes and rivers. Included are - Crossing the Hooker River by cable car (flying fox?). Percy Hawkins Johnson, W Low, J W Annan, George Edward Mannering, and Marmaduke J Dixon in the Murchison Valley, 1880. Irishman Rev William S Green and his two guides, Ulrich Kaufmann and Emil Boss, 1882. Mountaineers George Edward Mannering, Percy Hawkins Johnson and Mamaduke J Dixon photographed in 1889. Lake Pukaki, 1889. Tasman Glacier. Lake Tekapo. Hut in the Godley Valley. Mount Aorangi and the Hooker Glacier. Mount Aorangi seen from Ball spur. Panoramic View of mountains seen from Mount Sealy. Murchison glacier and river. Views of Aorangi, De la Beche Peak, and Tasman Glacier. Views of the Godley Glacier, 1892. Volynteers digging for Smith and Morrison in the avalanch of snow on the Rollesby Range, 28 August 1879. Quantity: 10 card mounts containing 33 images.
Wheeler and son album 2
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
Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :Mount Cook / W. M. H. 1875. C. F. Kell, Chromo lit...
Date: 1875 - 1877
From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The illustrations by C. D. Barraud. Edited by W. T. L. Travers. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1877
By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898
Reference: PUBL-0016-32
Description: According to the accompanying text "...from a sketch by Mr W. M. Hodgins [sic] of Dunedin, who visited it in 1875 ... This noble peak ... is taken from a point a few miles up the Hooker Glacier; the dark spur [on the left] is the lower ridge of Mount Sefton, the other [on the right] a portion of the lower or main spur of Mount Cook. The glacier is seen issuing from the peak and winding its way down the valley..." Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 289 x 240 mm
Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875 :Mount Cook & Hooker Glaciers. [ca 1870].
Date: 1870
By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875
Reference: C-110-017
Description: Shows a view of the Hooker Glacier with Mt Cook in the centre right background. The view is framed right and left by foreground trees. Other Titles - and Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - E Norman; Recto - bottom right - [Title]; Verso - centre - Painted by Hector Norman between 1870 & 1872 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 235 x 410 mm on sheet 327 x 485 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by the Smith family of Temuka and Geraldine.