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South Island trips

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.

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The Hermitage (Hotel) :The Hermitage, Mount Cook New Zealand. "Thousands of feet above ...

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.

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Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916 :Mount Tasman. Boyd Glacier. [1870-1900]

Date: 1870 - 1900

From: Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916 :[Mountain and West Coast sketches. Peaks and rivers etc. identified. 1870-1900.]

By: Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916

Reference: E-058-044

Description: View from a high point looking down onto the Boyd Glacier and Mount Tasman The name Boyd Glacier is no longer in use. It appears to be now either the Albert Glacier or the upper part of the Fox Glacier Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 135 x 173 mm

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Railways album 5

Date: [Circa 1937]

Reference: PA1-f-054

Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways between 1937 and 1938 by unidentified photographers. Photographs in the North Island include tours between Stratford and Ongarue; Ngaruawahia celebrations in 1938 (including views of King Koroki's house which was built in 1938); Rotorua and six lakes trip; and opening ceremonies for the Hutt Railway. In the South Island views include Caroline Bay with events at the soundshell; in Timaru, views of a two-storied clubhouse and men playing bowls, a person practising croquet, and several games of tennis on a series of tennis courts; areas in Queen Charlotte Sound, Portage, Pelorus and Kenepuru Sounds and Blenheim Aerodrome; Tasman and Franz Josef Glaciers; Milford Sound; Punakaiki; and Cromwell. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, dark green spine, entitled `Tours 5'; 40 x 60 cm

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The Godley Glacier where it joins the Maud and Grey Glaciers

Date: [Between 1920 and 1927]

From: Sutton-Turner, Arthur Seymour, 1879?-1957 :Albums of the Southern Alps

Reference: PA1-f-074-015

Description: The Godley Glacier at its junction with the Maud and Grey Glaciers, with Mount Moffat hidden in cloud in the background, photographed during a mountaineering expedition in the 1920s by Edward Seymour Sutton-Turner. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom right - The Godley Glacier where it joins the Maud and Grey Glaciers. Mount Moffat in the clouds. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 157 x 215 mm mounted on album page

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Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and a tour of the South Island

Date: 1925

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1052

Description: Album recording a motoring and camping holiday through the South Island of New Zealand. This took in the New Zealand South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and included the West Coast, Otago, and Canterbury. The central part of the album has images of Khandallah, Wellington, and the family home in that suburb. Family photographs include Doug on his Norton Motorcycle, and Jack and Neville similarly posed on a Douglas Motorcycle. Rene and Frank stand at the net holding tennis rackets, and mother has several images with young Joyce. The last part of the album recordes something of a holiday to Auckland where the family camped at Brown's Bay and took a trip to Kawau Island. A group shot on Mt Messanger on the way back and some views of Pukekura Park New Plymouth complete the album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Craddock album 1

Date: [Circa 1929-1939]

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

By: Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966; Springboks (Rugby team)

Reference: PA1-o-112

Description: Album of images collected and partly photographed by Gerald Rainsford Craddock. Images include clipping from newspapers and magazines, and postcards (chiefly of Akaroa, Wellington, Sydney and Perth). The photographs include family photographs, mountaineering trips, scenery in various parts of New Zealand, interior views of the Union Bank of Australia (Wellington Branch) where Gerald Rainsford worked from 1936-1939, and several views of the first Springbok test at Athletic Park in 1937. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "Photographs", 26 x 32.5 cm

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Birell album 2

Date: [1890s-1900s?]

From: Teale, Edmund Oswald (Sir), 1874-1971 : Birell album

By: Charles H Kerry & Company; Shearsby, A J, active 1913-1928; Star Photo Company; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA1-q-029

Description: Postcards, chiefly of Australia, including Tasmania, Adelaide, Queensland, New South Wales, with several showing various tin mines in Tasmania. There is a section of New Zealand postcards in the middle of the album, many taken by an Australian photographic company "Charles H Kerry & Co", labelled "Series 53. Hot Lakes District, New Zealand". These images are tinted, and include views of the Huka Falls, the Pink and White Terraces, Waiotapu, Ohinemutu, Whakarewarewa, Lakes Waikaremoana and Taupo, and the Aratiatia Rapids. The NZ images also include views of the Mount Cook region of the South Island, including Franz Josef Glacier, Hooker Glacier, Mounts Darwin, Sefton and Cook, and Lakes Te Anau and Wakatipu. Many of the postcards show the photographers' names, and include R C Harvey, A J Shearsby, the Star Photo Co., de Tourret, and the New Zealand Tourist Department. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown "Postcard album" with red, green and blue decoration, 285 x 240 mm

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Brown, L, fl 2009 :Photographs of Wellington and Tasman Glacier

Date: December 1944, 17 November 1945

By: Brown, L, active 2009

Reference: PAColl-9663

Description: Comprises: Photograph of Tasman Glacier, taken December 1944, from front of Ball Hut with sevice car in foreground View of Evans Bay and Rongotai from Mount Victoria, Wellington, taken 17 November 1945 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: From Book Collections - see also Ephemera Collections.

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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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[Moreton, Samuel Horatio] 1845?-1921 :Ramsay Glacier and Mount Butler, taken from the d...

Date: 1913

From: [Moreton, Samuel Horatio], 1845?-1921 :Canterbury, Central Otago, Southland and Stewart Island sketches - 1889-1920

Reference: A-026-02-038

Description: Mountain peaks with glaciers Other Titles - debouche Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Ramsay Glacier and Mount Butler - taken from the Debouch. 24 March 1915 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 179 x 274 mm

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Baxter, Alfred Ernest 1879-1936 :Mt Elliott on the Jervois Glacier. [Christchurch] Capp...

Date: 1975

By: Baxter, Alfred Ernest, 1879-1936; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-021-a

Description: A view of mountain peaks from a high standpoint. A large glacier is close to the summit of the most distant mountain Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 407 x 491 mm on sheet 521 x 636 mm

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Salmon album 12

Date: [Between 1940 and 1954]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-208

Description: Album of photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1940 and 1954. The sequence of images is not chronological. Slip attached to spine reads: Trips - Bold Peak, 1943, Mt. Arthur tbld, Marlb. Sounds, Mt. Algidus, 1946, Honeymoon, 1948. 7th Pacific Sc. Congress. West Coast. The album opens with views taken on a trip to the West Coast in January 1954; followed by a West Coast museum trip, February 1940; a Neslson-Westhaven expedition, November 1952; John and Pam Salmon's honeymoon in the South Island in December 1948; and a trip to Mt. Algidus, February 1946. The next trips in the album were the Mt. Arthur tableland museum expedition, February 1946, and again in February 1948; the Bold Peak district, February 1943; trip around the Sounds on "The Alert", August 1948; air trip over the Sounds in April 1949; and then the South Pacific Science Congress, Auckland-Christchurch, February 1949. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm

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Brewster's Rare Books :Photographs of Port Chalmers, the Franz Josef Glacier, and the S...

Date: ca 1890, 1923

By: Brewster's Rare Books (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6819

Description: View of Port Chalmers taken ca 1890s, and views of Franz Josef Glacier, Fox Glacier, Waiho River and Lake Kanieri taken in March 1923. Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Hunter Brown album 1

Date: Between 1908 and 1915

From: Brown, Charles Hunter, 1826-1898 :Photographs of the Nelson and West Coast districts

Reference: PA1-o-238

Description: The Miscellaneous section contains photographs of the Hunter Brown family and friends at various gatherings including Christmas parties in 1909 and 1910, and New Year's Day in 1911; views of houses; outing to Tahuna Beach; driving in horse and carriage along the Moutere Road; haymaking at Riwaka; the Moutere River; and a scene from the New Zealand Tennis Championships in 1908 The Westland trip was taken in 1911, and includes scenes in Greymouth; the Buller Gorge; Lake Kanieri; Lake Mapourika; several views of the Franz Josef Glacier including some taken close-up near the snout and a section of the terminal face; Mount Rolleston; the railway viaduct at Rolleston Gorge; the Otira Gorge; the mouths of the Otira Tunnel under construction at both the Otira end and the Bealey end; construction works by the Waimakariri River; and coaches arriving at Cass. None of the people are identified, but most of the locations are given. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black card cover, entitled `Miscellaneous and Westland trip' (hand-lettered in white ink); 16.4 x 22.6 cm

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New Zealand Government Tourist Department : Scenic Views

Date: [ca 1903]

By: Barker, Alfred Charles (Dr), 1819-1873

Reference: PAColl-7028

Description: Lantern slides made by New Zealand Government Tourist Department showing scenes of Frankton, Queenstown; early Auckland; a paddle steamer probably on the Whanganui River; view of Port Chalmers; a crowd having a picnic on a beach with a girls' running race in progress; the cathedral, Christchurch; a man viewing geothermal activity; and a party of men climbing a glacier. Also included are at least two photographs (on the one slide) by Dr Barker of Bishop Selwyn. Arrangement: Slides at 1/4-094559 to 094569 Quantity: 11 b&w lantern slide(s). Physical Description: Glass lantern slides

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Mounts Cook and Tasman, Southern Alps, New Zealand - Taken by New Zealand Aerial Mappin...

Date: [ca 1935-1955]

From: Powell, Ian Lyall, 1905-1993 :Photographs

By: NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd

Reference: PAColl-D-1021

Description: Aerial view of Mounts Cook and Tasman, and the Tasman Glacier photographed by New Zealand Aerial Mapping Ltd some time between 1935 and 1955 Inscriptions: Mat recto - bottom left - Mts Cook & Tasman, Southern Alps ... N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 200 x 315 mm on mount 427 x 455 mm

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Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983 : Photographs of South Island mountains and glaciers

Date: ca 1930-1940

By: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983

Reference: PAColl-7575

Description: Photographs of Canterbury Mountaineering Club's Easter camp 1940 at Waimakariri showing tents amongst the trees; Mount Brewster with the Haast River in the foreground; the Havelock Glacier at the top of the Rangitata River; two of the Lyell Glacier; and Mount Rolleston. Photographs taken by Edgar Williams. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Gully, John 1819-1888 :Views of the Southern Alps ; three reproductions of watercolours...

Date: 1982 - 1867

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888; Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-112-019-a/022-a

Description: Contents: The west coast of the Province of Canterbury, from the northern bank of the River Grey (250 x 570 mm)--Two Waterfall Glacier, valley of River Macaulay, 4080 feet (490 x 390 mm)--Lake Pukaki,, 1746 feet (320 x 570 mm)--On cover; Macaulay Glaciers, 4375 feet (290 x 460 mm) Title from portfilio Reproductions of watercolours painted 1862 held by the library On sheets; 440 x 620 mm Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, coloured ; various sizes on 3 sheets and portfilio (450 x 630 mm) + notes (1 sheet ; ill ; 400 x 540 mm)

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Photographs chiefly of scenery and tramping along Milford Sound and Tasman Glacier

Date: [ca December 1936 - January 1937]

From: Salmon, Albert Armitage, 1899-1982: Photographs taken on a trip to New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-10262-2

Description: Mounted images with annotations from Albert Armitage Salmon's 1936-1937 trip to New Zealand. The images follow the route of Salmon and his companions' travels tramping and travelling through the South Island. Photographs taken by Salmon. - The bulk of the images show South Island scenery, particularly Milford Sound and nearby mountains, and Tasman Glacier. Includes images of Sutherland Falls, Lake Ada, the Cleddau Valley, the Darran Range, Barren Peak, Sheerdown Peak, views of Milford Sound, Mitre Peak, The Lion, Mount Pembroke, Bowen Falls, Anita Bay, Lake Te Anau, the Remarkables and Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown, Mount Sefton, Tasman Glacier, Mount Haidinger, Mount Haast, Silberhorn, Mount Tasman, the Hochstetter ice fall, Mount Cook (Aoraki), rock formations in West Canterbury, the Raikaia Gorge, and aerial views of Franz Josef Glacier and the Waiho River. - Several images show Irene Booth, Reg Booth, Mary Hansen, and Eric Keehn tramping through glaciers with Scottish guide, Duncan Darroch, who is wearing a kilt. One image shows Keehn amongst foxglove plants in bloom at Milford Sound. Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s) on mounts. 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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