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We can connect 12 things related to 1900, Canterbury Region, Rivers, Mountains, and 1940 to the places on this map.
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Hooker Valley, Mount Cook, New Zealand

Date: [1930-1939]

From: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946 :Prints and negatives of New Zealand wildlife and scenery

By: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946

Reference: PA7-47-18

Description: View of snow-covered mountain from the Hooker Valley. There is a wire footbridge suspended across the river in the foreground. Copy of a photograph taken by Thelma Kent. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom centre - Title. 438 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 30 x 23.8 cm

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Scenic views of New Zealand

Date: [ca 1930-ca 1940]

From: Webb family: Transparency slides of new Zealand scenes

Reference: PA12-6796

Description: Tourist boats on the Whanganui River. Paddock of sweeds. Children showing lambs. Otahuna (house), Taitapu, Canterbury. Mount Tarawera. Flowering pohutukawa. Sharks. Men and luggage on stony bank. Milford Sound. Man and woman on rocky coast. Birds (black robin?) feeding from tin containers. Mount Sefton. Trout, Rainbow Springs, Rotorua. Ice skating partners,. Shovel ray fish. Eroded hill country. Lava hills, Waimunga, Rotorua. Aircraft in flight. Quantity: 23 b&w original transparency/ies 3 hand coloured images. 1 colour original transparency/ies Dufaycolor.

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Tyrell, Norman, d 1994 : Negatives

Date: 1949-1958

By: Tyrell, Norman, -1994; Hayward, Margaret Jane, 1940-

Reference: PA-Group-00367

Description: Photographs of holiday excursions and job sites taken ca 1949-1958 by railway engineer Norman Tyrell. Covers hydro-electric dams and their construction, bridges and their construction, the construction of a septic tank at Palmerston, cities, ports, Auckland Zoo, tramping and mountains and scenic New Zealand. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives in registers at F 71104 1/4 - F 71731 1/4 Photographs taken by Norman Tyrell, railway engineer, d 1994 Quantity: 627 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-4779 to PA-Group-00367 in 2009.

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Creator unknown :Photographs of mountaineering and skiing

Date: [ca 1933-1940]

Reference: PA-Group-00663

Description: Photographs relate to the Hermitage Hotel, and mountains, glaciers and river vallies in the Aoraki/Mount Cook area. The mountain landscape is part of most of the photographs which focus on skiers, singly and in groups, and some in action. Also tramping/climbing groups and tour groups associated with the buses of Mount Cook and Southern Lakes Tourist Company Ltd. There are group photographs of people gathered in front of the Hermitage Hotel, and groups taken outside a two storied corruagated iron lodge built on a mountain side. Subject details within the collection include - A large buldozer that at one point gets stuck in a river. Men snow ball fighting. People standing in water surrounded by floating ice. An American 1938 model Ford De Lux Sedan. A young woman ice skating. People riding rafts made from 40 gallon drums. Groups with sledges. What looks like Public Works Department camps. Takapo House built 1919. Family photographs. Glass negatives at 1/4-121924 to 1/4-122119, and 1/4-122176 to 1/4-123011. Film negatives at 1/4-122234. 1/4-122908. 1/4-122916. 1/4-122932. 1/4-122939. 1/4-12312 to 1/4-123019. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1040 b&w original negative(s) of which 1027 are glass negatives, and 13 are film negatives. Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2010

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Head waters of the Rakaia River, Manuka Point Station, Canterbury

Date: 1943

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

Reference: 1/4-045893-F

Description: View of the upper part of the Rakaia River near it's head waters, and the surrounding mountains of the southern Alps. Photographed by John Dobree Pascoe in 1943. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 6 x 6 cm Finding Aids: Print in Turnbull Library Photograph Archive Pascoe album 7 (ref PA1-o-412) page 17..

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Horses and cart fording the Rakaia River, Manuka Point Station

Date: [ca 1940-1949]

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

Reference: 1/4-045884-F

Description: Man driving two horses and a cart through the Rakaia River. Manuka point Station, Upper Rakaia, Glenrock, Methven, Canterbury. Photographed by John Dobree Pascoe some time in the 1940s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 6 x 6 cm Finding Aids: Print in Turnbull Library Photograph Archive in Pascoe Album 7 (ref PA1-o-412), page 4..

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Cart load of wool bales crossing the Rakaia River

Date: 1943

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

Reference: 1/4-067521-F

Description: Cart load of wool bales drawn by two horses crossing the Rakaia River. Another horse follows behind. A mountain range can be seen in the background. Manuka Point Station, Rakaia River Valley, Canterbury, New Zealand. Photographed by John Dobree Pascoe in 1943. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 6 x 6 cm Finding Aids: Print in Turnbull Library Photograph Archive in Pascoe Album 7 (ref PA1-o-412), page 9..

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Two horse cart carrying wool bales

Date: [ca 1940-1949]

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

Reference: 1/4-067523-F

Description: Two horse cart loaded with wool bales parked near a corrugated iron farm building. Manuka Point Station, Rakaia River Valley, Canterbury, New Zealand. Photographed by John Dobree Pascoe some time in the 1940s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 6 x 6 cm Finding Aids: Print in Turnbull Library Photograph Archive in Pascoe Album 7 (ref PA1-o-412), page 9..

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Panoramic view of Manuka Point Station and Rakaia River valley, Canterbury

Date: 1943

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

Reference: 1/4-045886-F

Description: Panoramic view of Manuka Point Station and the Rakaia River valley, looking towards the snow topped Arrowsmith Range, Canterbury, New Zealand. Photographed by John Dobree Pascoe in 1943. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 11.2 x 7 cm Finding Aids: Print in Turnbull Library Photograph Archive in Pascoe Album 7 (ref PA1-o-412), page 10..

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Arrowsmith Range from below Totara Point, Manuka Point Station, Canterbury

Date: February 1946

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

Reference: 1/4-044990-F

Description: Snow capped Arrowsmith Range, Canterbury, from below Totara Point, near Jellicoe Hut, Manuka Point Station. Trampers with a packhorse can be seen on grassland flats beside the Rakaia River. Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe in February 1946. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

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View towards the head of the Rakaia River valley

Date: [ca 1940-1949]

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

Reference: 1/4-045901-F

Description: View from Totara Point towards the head of the Rakaia River valley. Clouds hang over the mountains indicating a snowstorm and flood. Photographed by John Dobree Pascoe some time in the 1940s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 6 x 6 cm

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View of Black Jack's Point, Waitaki River, south Canterbury

Date: 1948

From: Maori rock drawings album

Reference: PA1-o-330-50

Description: View of Black Jack's Point on the Waitaki River, south Canterbury. Photographed by Theo Schoon in 1948. Inscriptions: Verso - Black Jack's Point Waitaki River. View on ridge on the Ahuriri River. This photo was taken from the Canterbury side looking towards Omarama. No 91. (There is also a rough map showing the Waitaki and Ahuriri rivers, and the location of the photographer). This photograph was taken from a ridge above the point looking south west in the direction of Omarama. Today Black Jack's Point lies in the join of lakes Benmore and Avimore which fill all the low lying land seen in this photograph. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 24 x 19 cm

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