Places

Date: 1983. 1986

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6497

Description: Photographs of short tailed bats on Codfish Island. Trip to Caples Valley, Queentown Lakes District, in search of the South Island Kokako (native wattlebird), October 1983. The party included Rhys Buckingham, Peter Child, Graeme Elliot, and John Kendrick. There are images of the team and their equipment. Caples Valley viewed from the approaching helicopter. Photographs of Top Caples Hut. Views of Caples Valley and Caples River. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

Date: 1913

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-o-1224

Description: Mainly a series of holidays, tramping trips, and local excursions. The first is a trip to the head of Lake Te Anau and Milford Sound via the Milford track. It begins on the road between Glenorchy and Paradise, then through the valley of the Route Burn River to the Hollyford Valley where the party camped on the shores of Lake Howden. From there they passed Lakes Fergus and Gunn into the Eglinton River Valley and on to Te Anau, and then onto the Milford track to Milford Sound via the Clinton River Valley. Images on the way include Mount Balloon, Mount Elliott, Routeburn Hut, and Lake Ada. There is a view of Mitre Peak, Mount Tutoko, and the Pembroke Glacier from Milford Sound. The second series relates to a camping trip to Wanganui and the Whanganui River. This includes a game of golf and visiting friends in St John's Hill. There are views of the party's camp and a number of images taken during a canoeing trip up the Whanganui River in what looks like a Maori dug out canoe. Two other images in this group are of men standing beside the trigs on Mounts Holdworth and Dundas in the Tararua Ranges. The third series is of family and friends at home in Eastbourne and in the bush at Muritai; Girdlestone, a friend, and two women on motor cycles on the coast road; views of Eastbourne from the hills above the suburb; women on the beach and reading at home. The fourth series relates to a trip to the Volcanic Plateau during which the party climbed Mounts Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe. There are two group photographs of the whole party, one taken in front of the Waihohonu Hut, and the other on the summit of Mount Ruapehu. The fifth series shows a party of men and women on a walk and a picnic in the beach forest in Gollan's Valley near Eastbourne. The sixth series is a record of a holiday to Queen Charlotte and Pelorus Sounds taken by a group of men over Christmas 1913. There are views of the sounds and surrounding landscape, of Portage where the party stayed, and of boat and fishing trips that they made during their stay. The seventh series is of a tramping trip to the Orongrongo River Valley. The views are of native forest, the river and the mountains, and one of two men boiling a billy beside their tent in the bush. The eighth series consists of two photographs of the wreck of the "Devon" on the rocks at Pencarrow Heads, Wellington harbour. This occured on the 25th of August 1913. The ninth series is a group of photographic postcards of the Te Anau, Milford region, and probably relate to the trip recorded at the beginning of this album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1912-1913

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-o-1223

Description: There are three general groups of images in this album. The first records a holiday to the Volcanic Plateau, taken by a group of men over Christmas 1912, where they climbed Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro. The story starts with the group outside the 14 miles stables where they hired a wagon to transport them into the mountains. The route they took was from the north eastern side of Ruapehu to the Waihohonu Hut situated between Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe. They climbed Te Heu Heu Peak and then trekked across the snow to the Crater Lake returning to Waihohonu Hut and a dip in the Waihohonu Stream. The next day they set out for Mounts Ngarauhoe and Tongariro. They paused at the source of the northern branch of the Waihohonu Stream on their way to climb to the crater of Ngarauhoe. By the end of the day they reached the Ketetahi Hut on the northern slopes of Tongariro near the Ketetahi Springs. The next day they tramped out via Lake Rotoaira to Tokaanu where they set up camp on the shores of Lake Taupo. The Party then moved north to Wairakei and Rotorua taking in stops at the Huka falls and the Aratiatia Rapids. From Rotorua they returned to Wellington by train. The next group records a hunting trip into what is today the Haurangi State Forest Park in the south eastern Wairarapa in February 1913. There are views of the camp with Girdlestone's mother and another woman visiting. The area depicted is in the valley of the Turanganui River and the surrounding hills. Images include native forest views, a forest fire, hunting pigs with dogs, riding horses, the corpses of wild pigs, groves of Karaka trees, and partly cleared land. The third group of images are of social and sporting events associated with two houses. In both cases the sport depicted is men and women playing tennis. Other images include a child driving a peddle car, views of the "Devon" wrecked on the rocks at Pencarrow Head 25th of August 1913, and women and children with horses. The last image in the album is that of a young woman writing as she holds a telephone reciever to her ear. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: [ca 1930]

From: Rennie, William Stanley Norman, d 1976 :Photographs of Ruapehu Ski Club

Reference: PAColl-9904-4

Description: Group of photographs showing the activities of a group of people based at the Whakapapa Hut, Mount Ruapehu, ca 1930. Many of these photographs were taken by Leo L White. The narritive accompanying the images suggest that they were intended for a publication like the Auckland Weekly News. They include - Men and women on the hut porch, the women mending trousers. Snowball fights. Watching other groups climbing Mount Ruapehu. Chopping firewood. Melting snow for drinking. The mail arriving. Taking photographs. Climbing to the ski fields. Skiing. Walking in the bush. Lunch breaks. Preparing food. These photographs are a fairly good record of what, for women, was smart winter wear in 1930. Re the group located at the Whakapapa Hut and the date of this. Firstly the women are wearing clothes and headgear that date from styles current in the late 1920s-early 1930s (ca 1926-1932). Secondly, a group of mainly women lined up with their cameras, are identified as ready to take photographs of Lady Fergusson departing [the Chateaux] for Taupo. Fergusson's term as Governor General ended in 1930. This is probaly the earliest group of photographs in the collection. Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Hugh Rennie, Wellington, 2010

Date: 1934

From: Hewitt, Leonard Rodney, 1913-1964 :Photographs relating to mountaineering and aviation in Canterbury

Reference: PA1-o-1237

Description: Most of the album is a record of climbing expeditions made by members of the Canterbury Mountaineering Club between Easter 1934 and October 1939. There are photographs of the people involved in the expeditions, their names and the names of the mountains they climbed. There are also five pages of photographs relating to the Canterbury Aero Club dated 1938. They include people involved with the club, and aircraft. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [189-?]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025843-G

Description: Men and hut, Leith, Dunedin, 1890s. Stereographic photograph taken circa 1900 by William Williams. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Stereographic dry plate glass negative

Date: [ca 1910]

Reference: 1/2-021578-G

Description: Unidentified group alongside a dwelling in Ohura, circa 1910. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1937

From: Davis, Bruce Valentine, 1913-2003 :Photographs and negatives

Reference: 1/4-038814-F

Description: Neville Hatwell outside Burtons whare, beyond (Tokomaaru?) 1937. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [between 1892-1910]

From: Child, Edward George, 1860-1949 :Photographs of the Ohingaiti district

Reference: 1/2-032310-G

Description: George Edward Reid, Annie Reid, and children Myrtle and George, alongside a hut on Toe Toe Road, Taihape, circa 1897. Photograph taken by Edward George Child. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1925]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 18

Reference: PAColl-7581-82

Description: John Cullen (left) and Sir James Henry Gunson outside a haunted whare at Tongariro National Park. Shows the men standing alongside a corrugated iron hut. Photograph taken ca 1925 by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Verso - Haunted whare with Sir James Gunson and myself in front Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 8.9 x 13.9

Date: [ca 1890]

Reference: 1/2-021451-F

Description: Men, some holding axes, outside a hut in the bush, at Milford Sound, circa 1890. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).