Places

Date: [Between 1914 and 1937]

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

Reference: PA1-o-406

Description: Photographs taken by John Dobree Pascoe and others, in the Southern Alps, particularly Canterbury region. They include groups of mountaineers; views of mountain ranges and valleys; mountain huts and life enjoyed by the mountaineers; and several scenes showing Canterbury Mountaineering Club annual sports days over a number of years. Most of the photographs are fully described, with names usually given with initials and surnames, or nicknames. Many of the people and places photographed are listed above. Most of the landscape photographs are again fully described, with peaks and routes traversed marked on the images. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; "J.D. Pascoe" lettered in gold in bottom right-hand corner; [240 p.]; 26.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: ca 1925

From: East, Pamela: Photographs of groups visiting the Canterbury outback, family portraits, and Maori

Reference: PAColl-6917-2

Description: The people in these photographs look like tourist groups who have just got out of a bus. They are photographed aginst scenic backdrops of forest covered hills, river valleys and mountains; they are showen picnicing in similar locations; some of the locations are identifiable and include Otira, Otira Gorge and Tunnel, Arthurs Pass, and the gravel reaches of the upper Waimakariri River. Some of the images show groups of people associated with corrugated iron huts. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1919

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

Reference: A-026-04-004

Description: Two huts in foreground, hills in background. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on sheet, 182 x 273 mm.

Date: 1916

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

Reference: A-026-05-009

Description: Shows a hut with a terrace and hills in the background, grassland in the foreground. Other Titles - 1916 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on sheet, 182 x 273 mm.

Date: 1924-1925

From: Loftus, Helen :Photographs of climbing Mt Tapuaenuku and a trip to Kaikoura

By: Gunn, George Alexander, 1895-1968

Reference: PA1-o-1217

Description: Record of six members of the Awatere Rugby Football Club who climbed Mount Tapuae-O-Uenuku on the 10th and the 11th of February 1925. Four of the team had made a failed attempt at the summit the year before (1924), and two of the images in the album were taken at this time. The party foregathered at Seddon and drove up the Awatere Valley to the Hodder River where the walking began. They followed the Hodder River and then its tributary, the Shin. They spent the night in Shin Hut (built in 1880) and the next morning made the climb to the Crows Nest, passing the Pinacle, and then on to the summit. The reached Shin Hutt on the way out at four o'clock on the afternoon of the 11th of February. The six men were George Alexander Gunn, Alan Fleming, William (Bill) Dick, Jock Dick, Frank Dick, and Albert (Bert) Lawsen Kennington. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1923

By: Saunders, Frank Lewis, 1902-2002

Reference: MapColl-q834.48a/1876-2000/Acc.32345

Description: Shows: The Black stump (Pou o tu Mokai); Claridge House; Weirs house; G Meredith, Dohrmans Road; Suspension foot bridge; Sir Charles Creek (named after a race horse drowned in creek, owned by Mr Studholme); Mayers Rd; Waimate creek; Maori hut occupied by man now known as Kinita Karate Hir; Char Creek; Yorkeys creek (named after a man employed to clean it); Poingdestres Road. Accompanied by two records: (i) Note on North Branch of Waihoa River (MapColl--q834.48a/1876-2000/Acc.32345A) and (ii) Biography of Frank Sanders (MapColl--q834.48a/1876-2000/Acc.32345C) Other Titles - [Map of Waihao River North Branch] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - A request by Arthur Rollinson to supply him with a plan of this part of the Waihao, eventually turned into a map showing objects of interest past and present. Signed Frank Sanders 26.8.2000. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s) in two parts + booklet by Frank Saunders giving history of area. Physical Description: Ink drawings. No scale given. Each piece 30 x 21 cm

Date: [ca 1920s]

Reference: PAColl-6488

Description: 17 views of Aoraki/Mount Cook one of which shows two men on horseback, one a cow grazing on the plains in the foreground, and one an old, delapidated hut possibly a tramping hut. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044126 to 044142 Quantity: 15 b&w original negative(s) glass. 2 b&w original negative(s) film. Physical Description: Glass and film ¼ plate negatives Processing information: These negatives belong to a sequence of unidentified negatives. The negative register has the heading Mount Cook for them but the provenance is unknown. 1/4-044135 is missing at the time of entry but is most likely to belong to this collection.

Date: 1919

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

Reference: A-026-04-019

Description: Two Huts and hills. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on sheet, 182 x 273 mm.

Date: 1919

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

Reference: A-026-04-006

Description: Two huts with hills. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on sheet, 182 x 273 mm.

Date: 1919

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

Reference: A-026-04-020

Description: Two Huts Close Together, Hills in Background. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on sheet, 182 x 273 mm.

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Gray, William Alexander, 1862?-1937

Reference: Pan-1609-F

Description: Panoramic view of ducks and swans strung between three cars and a hut after a day's shooting. At least 57 ducks and 38 swans. Corrugated iron and wood hut centre left. Two tents behind the hut. Eight men are in view, five seated near the hut, some holding guns, one on right holding a billy with a thermos flask on the ground, and a man by the hut holding a shovel. Three cars (number plates L to R, NZ 52-636, NZ 53-520 [?, part hidden], NZ 49-515). (Possibly on the property of William Alexander Gray (see Pan-1602 for view of wild swans and ducks on Lake Ellesmere, taken from his property)). Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. (See also Pan-1608 for a view from almost the same position but with fewer men visible). Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Shooting camp on Lake Ellesmere N.Z. No. 563 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 119.0 cm

Date: [1907]

From: Gifford, Algernon Charles, 1862-1948 : Albums and photographs

Reference: Pa1-o-184

Description: Photographs of a group of men and women on a walking tour in the area of Mount Cook, Tasman Glacier, and the Malte Brun Hut. Photographs taken by Algernon Charles Gifford. This album appears to be linked with Gifford Albums 2, 5, 6 and 7. An undated article Gifford wrote for the Oamaru Mail entitled `To Mount Cook by motor car', is pasted in the back of Gifford Album 2. The article talks about a group travelling by car to Mount Cook, and then tramping in the mountains in the area. This album shows the party travelling in two Darracq automobiles, while the other albums show the party in the mountains, mountain views, the group crossing the Tasman Glacier, and relaxing at various spots on the way, including at Ball Hut and Malte Brun Hut. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cardboard cover, impressed pattern on front; 17.5 x 23.5 cm

Date: 1913

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

Reference: A-026-02-035

Description: Shows Shaggy Hill hut and surrounding mountains, with Lake Heron Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - 26/2/13; Recto - top centre - Mount Smythe; Recto - bottom left - Shaggy Hill Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 179 x 274 mm

Date: [193-?]

Reference: PAColl-6941

Description: 19 views of a climbing expedition on Mount Cook. Includes one of a man in a hut with a pile of tramping boots next to him using a last to make repairs and two of huts in the mountains. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-057452 to 057470 Quantity: 19 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: ca 1910s-1930s

By: Teichelmann, Ebenezer (Dr), 1859-1938

Reference: PAColl-6953

Description: The collection includes a typed list of headings along with their NZAC negative numbers. The related prints, some duplicated, have their negative numbers on the reverse. These are of: men with pack horses next to the Waiatoto River; men on horseback fording the Waiatoto; landing cargo from a row boat at Bruce Bay and loading up a horse and cart; the Waiatoto River; horses swimming across the Blue River; part of the Haast Range including Stargazer and Moonraker taken from the shoulder of the Glacier Dome; the Eggelings homestead at Waiatoto; a group of Maori women and children in European dress at Bruce Bay ca 1910s; Mount Aspiring from Therma Glacier; an avalanche from the shoulder of Stargazer; Mount Aspiring from near Glacier Dome; Stargazer from the upper Waiatoto; and the view looking down the Waiatoto River from the Therma Glacier. Other photographs which are not on the list but some of which have original negatives in this collection are of a small group of soldiers staying in a mountain hut and camping at the foot of Aoraki/Mount Cook. One of them shows the men standing in a line in a clearing with their rifles, possibly on a military exercise. Also included is a photograph of cows in a field in the snow. The photographer was probably Dr Teichelmann. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-058287 to 058292 Quantity: 6 b&w original negative(s). 36 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1925

From: East, Pamela: Photographs of groups visiting the Canterbury outback, family portraits, and Maori

Reference: PAColl-6917-1

Description: The people in these photographs look like tourist groups who have just got out of a bus. They are photographed aginst scenic backdrops of forest covered hills, river valleys and mountains; they are showen picnicing in similar locations; some of the locations are identifiable and include Otira, Otira Gorge and Tunnel, Arthurs Pass, and the gravel reaches of the upper Waimakariri River. Some of the images show groups of people associated with corrugated iron huts. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1912 - 1913

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

Reference: A-026-02-031

Description: Shows Downs hut, near Lake Heron Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 179 x 274 mm

Date: 31 January - 7 February 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8780

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides includes views of Lake Coleridge, the Rakaia River, Lake Tekapo, Lake Pukaki showing the outflow river, views from the Hermitage (including Mts Sefton and Cook), terminal moraine in the Tasman Valley, and Ball Hut and the botanising ground with gentians and mountain daisies. Slides on this sheet are numbered 176-206 with gaps for those removed for lectures on New Zealand. (No. 175 of Lake Coleridge, is not noted on this sheet, but is one of those removed for the lecture series). Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slides (nos. [175], 178-179, 181-184, 189, 191-194, 197, 204) showing views of Lake Coleridge and country around, Rakaia River, the road to Mount Cook (Aoraki/Mount Cook), Lake Pukaki to Mount Cook, Mount Sefton, Hermitage Hotel, and the Tasman Valley from Ball Hut looking up the glaciers. These were taken as part of a representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 18 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1935-1953

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-147

Description: Photographs taken for publication in NZ Free Lance between 1935 and 1951. Includes: The Hermitage (Mount Cook); huts and scenery in Tararua Ranges; life-saving competitions held at Taylor's Mistake; military recruits and personnel, ca 1950; Rimutaka tunnel under construction,1951; Mechanic's Institute, Wellington (1860); Rakaia traffic bridge (1939); Maori Canoe Hurdle Race held on Wanganui River; Dobson Memorial (Arthur's Pass); aerial view of Hokianga [?], 1951; Dart Hut. Overseas photos: G K Chesterton (portraits); Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret attending Royal Film Performance, 1951; Captain Vyvyan Holt arriving in England from Korea, 1953; Sir Winston Churchill & General Eisenhower, 1951; Churchill, Roosevelt & Stalin, Mar 1945; Tibetan Trade Delegation, 1948; Australian parliament and John Curtin; Australian naval divers; Australian ballroom dancer, Joan Allen; funeral of King George VI; Henry Ford's first car; etc. Quantity: 63 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [Between 1914 and 1945]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: Graham, Elizabeth Muriel, -1957; Hurley, James Francis, 1885-1962; Lysons, Markham Carthew, 1907-1944; Mercer, James Cuthbert, 1886-1944; Thomson, Jane, 1858-1944; Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983

Reference: PAColl-0959-03

Description: Scenic photographs of the Southern Alps, taken between about 1914 and the 1940s by various unidentified and identified photographers including William Alexander Kennedy, Markham Cardew Lysons, Jane Thomson, Frank Hurley and James Cuthbert Mercer, and possibly Elizabeth Graham (Mrs P Graham). Includes views of "Turner Hooker Expedition" in which Samuel Turner was the first man to climb Mount Hooker (in 1929), probably with guide Peter Graham (images 001-007); view no. 14 of the high peak of Mt Cook, taken by Mrs Thomson (Jane Thomson); numbers of unidentified images; views of glaciers and crevasses, mountains, and mountain huts; cutting round the schrund? below the Tasman Saddle showing the steepness of the snow slopes; the dining room of The Hermitage Hotel at Mt Cook; various expeditions including a Callery Valley Expedition and a goldminer's camp in Waikukupa Valley; aerial photographs taken by James Cuthbert Mercer including a campsite and landing site in the Arawata Valley; four views of Antarctica, including one of the end of the Shackleton Expedition ship Endurance, taken in 1915 by Frank Hurley (image no. 087), and one of Campbell Island; the foot of the Unser Fritz Falls; Copland Valley; Mt Ngaruahoe, and Tama Lake (Mt Tongariro); the road over Mt Hercules; Cascade Point; Mounts Cook and Tasman; aerial view of tree ferns ("palm trees") at Waiho; plane over Otako branch of Paringa looking north; Mount Hooker; five views of a group of men carrying planks up the Haast Ridge from the Tasman Glacier, probably in 1915 for the building of the King Memorial Hut; Mt Elie de Beaumont from the Upper Callery Valley; cloud reflections in Mapourika; the Fox Moth plane ZK-ADH by the camp and landing strip at Arawata. Quantity: 122 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".