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Date: [Between 1930 and 1935]

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

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972; Wildey, Alexander, 1865-1953

Reference: PA1-o-408

Description: Photographs taken by John Dobree Pascoe and others in the Southern Alps. They include views of mountain ranges, glaciers and valleys; mountain huts and life enjoyed by the mountaineers. Most of the photographs are fully described, with names of people usually given with initials and surnames, or nicknames. Landscapes too, are mostly fully described, with peaks and routes traversed marked on the images. The album includes a map of the Rakaia-Mathias River area, drawn by E. Porter; a map of the "Three pass route" across the Southern Alps, drawn by Len Boot (p. 003); two extracts from the New Zealand Alpine Journal hand-written by J D Pascoe (from Vol. IV, no. 18, p. 209-210; and Vol. IV, no. 18, p. 213-214); and a photograph of a painting by A E Wildey, with caption "Artist's versin of Carrington Peak" (p. 028). Pages 89-94 show the preparations and work undertaken by a large rescue party involved in searching for two school teachers, B Robbins and H D Smith, who died while attempting to cross the Harman Pass, en route from Hokitika to the Bealey. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; "J.D. Pascoe" lettered in gold in bottom right-hand corner; [247 p.]; 26.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1951-[ca 1961]

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-8765-01

Description: Views of open sea, of ketches transporting people, goods and mail to residents of the Marborough Sounds and D'Urville Island, views of the sounds and surrounding hills and islands from hilltop views. The group relating to D'Urville Island and Pelorus Sound was taken during a family holiday. There are group photographs of the family, of them camping, fishing and tramping. Some of these activities were done in the company of Maori friends. A few photographs record an unidentified climbing trip. Quantity: 74 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1931

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

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PA1-o-412-060

Description: "Snares and delusions that beset the rakaia pilgrim. Fording the "great grey green greasy Limpopo" a boulder rumbling torrent." Photographed by John Dobree Pascoe on the 26th of December 1931 Top photograph (PA1-o-412-060-1) "Drama in a nasty side stream. Bones, Bill, and Allen fishing for Basil Honour who was well and truly "over" with his pack holding him down in the roaring flood. [It] looks like an eel spearing expedition, but was nearly more serious. This was only a side stream, the main stream had yet to come" Bottom left photograph (PA1-o-412-060-2) view of the Rakaia River showing the main stream and the nasty side stream Bottom right photograph (PA1-o-412-060-3) "Safely over the Rakaia floods at this cost. [We are] shivering with misery and wet as shags. Packs upside down to empty surplus water" Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Three siver gelatin photographic prints mounted on album page 305 x 250 mm (page size)

Date: [ca 1920]

From: National Archives of New Zealand : Photographs of coal miners' houses at Burnetts Face, and Denniston Hill, West Coast

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-D-0817

Description: Six views of miners' houses at Burnett's Face, Buller District. Photographs taken by John Pascoe, ca 1920s Inscriptions: Backing board recto - above image - Title; Backing board recto - bottom right - J D Pascoe Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 6 albumen prints (various sizes) on display card

Date: 1951-1952

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-8765-09

Description: Photographs taken during Pascoe family holidays to Pelorous Sound and Te Towaka at the head of Hallam Cove. People in the images include family members, passengers on the mail launch from Picton, people waiting on jetties, and people associated with the farm at Te Towaka. There are views down onto the homestead at Te Towaka from the slopes of Mount Shewell, and images of farm activities. Many photographs are of the sounds and the hills surrounding them. A group of photographs in this collection continues on from the previous box. Though the rest were dated 1950/51, there are later images mixed in. Some are from "Half a day in a mail launch" most of which are in the previous box and dated 1958/59. Quantity: 71 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1958-1959

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-8765-03

Description: Photographs taken on a Pascoe family holiday in late December 1958 and January 1959. They took the mail launch from Havelock to Te Towaka at the head of Hallam Cove. A number of photographs of the children show them in a rowing boat, with a kitten, on the beach, and in camp. They travelled extensivly around the western Pelorus Sound area returning from Te Towaka to Picton via Havelock. Places photographed include Savill Bay, Elaine Bay, Te Towaka, Mount Shewell, Hallam Cove, Fitzroy Bay, Croiselles Harbour, Tenyson Inlet, French Pass, Waikawa Bay, McLarens Bay, Okuri Bay, Picton, and the motor camp at Picton. Quantity: 38 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1943

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: DA-01795

Description: Soldiers of the School of Bush and Mountain Warfare take a meal break near Phillips Creek, Eastern Hutt watershed, Tararua Range. Photograph taken on 18 Jan 1943 by John Dobree Pascoe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1942

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: DA-01787

Description: Bivouac on Sugarloaf Hill, Gollans Valley, Wainuiomata, built by the signal unit of the Somes Platoon of Bush Guides of the Wellington Home Guard. Photographed by John Dobree Pascoe in December 1942. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1958

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-8765-05

Description: Photographs taken on a holiday with friends on Mount Ruapehu in 1958. The photographs focus on people as they rest between bouts of skiing, viewing Crater lake, gather outside a hut, or construct an igloo. There are views of the snow covered peaks of Ruapehu and the countryside seen from the mountain. Several images show the white flowered native clematis supported by a young lancewood. Quantity: 66 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1958-1959

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-8765-02

Description: Photographs taken on a Pascoe family holiday in late December 1958 and January 1959. There is a view of the wharf at Havelock where they took the mail launch "Rata" to the Pelorus Sound area and the wharf at Te Towaka at the head of Hallam Cove. A number of photographs of the children show them in a rowing boat, with a horse, on the beach, and in camp. A cricket game at Te Towaka, a sports day at Hopai Beach, and launches parked in the Hopai Beach anchorage are recorded. Places photographed include Savill Bay, Elaine Bay, Te Towaka, Mount Shewell, Hallam Cove, Fitzroy Bay, Croiselles Harbour, Tenyson Inlet, French Pass, and Waikawa Bay. Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1954-1959

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-8765-10

Description: Contact prints taken during a holiday in the Marlborough Sounds and at Te Towaka. Family photographs taken at the Pascoe home, in the Marlborough Sounds, on Mount Egmont, and of John Pascoe with collegues of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. Prints from the series of images on the Contact prints of the sounds are at PAColl-8765-03. Quantity: 65 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1943

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: DA-01810

Description: The Inclination Officer at the battery observation post, Godley Head, Lyttelton Fortress Area. Photographed by John Dobree Pascoe on 12 Jan 1943 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1954, [ca 1958]

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-8765-06

Description: This collection is made up of two groups of photographs. One group records a trip to Mount Ruapehu, probably in the late 1950s, with views of the mountain, the Tararua Tramping Club's Lodge, distant groups lined up in ski schools as well as close ups of the new skiers in action. Photographs John, Sara, and Anna Pascoe with friends Tom and Margaret at the Crater Lake. A sequence shows how a rescue team treats and transports an injured skier down the mountain. The second, Mount Egmont (Mount Taranaki) group dates from 1954, and is similar with group photographs of children and adults on skies, Sara outside an igloo, people walking up a slope roped together, and a large group outside a mountain hut. There are views of the mountain and surrounding countryside under snow, and details of snowy mountain slopes. Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1941, 1962

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: MS-Papers-6523

Description: Comprises photocopy of work, `History of thermal fisheries', by Pascoe (1941), with covering note from him describing it as one of his major unpublished works and that it was lost for many years (1962). He discusses the introduction of trout in the Rotorua lakes and Taupo waters, control of the fisheries, collection of ova and hatchery operations, the old and new Rotorua hatcheries, Tongariro and Waikaremoana hatcheries, the destruction of ill fish and shags, tagging records, introduction of food for the trout, fry liberations, catches. He includes a bibliography, acknowledgements and index. Also a covering note from Pascoe to Andrew Sharp describing how he re-discovered the manuscript, had it microfilmed and a photocopy made from this. Source of title - Transcribed Other Titles - Historical records - Thermal fisheries Relationship complexity - See MS-Papers-0138 and 75-241 for further Pascoe collections; also check TAPUHI under his name Report done by Pascoe when he was with the Department of Internal Affairs Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with corrections (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by National Archives, Wellington, per Ms Toni Houghton, Mar 1999

Date: [ca 1880s-1966]

By: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979; Burke, Walter Ernest Messervy, 1866-1954; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-4454

Description: Mounted photographs of a moa skeleton compared with a human one; a view from Cains Terrace, Timaru showing the Post Office and old St Mary's Church; a group of Maori in traditional clothes outside the carved meeting house at Ohinemutu, Rotorua; view of Parihaka pa with Te Whiti's house on the left and Mount Taranaki in the background; Sir George Grey's house at Kawau Island with a jetty; two stuffed kiwi and a kiwi egg; a woman sitting outside a Maori whare with a pig; a man standing outside the Vulcan Hotel, St Bathans with advertisements for Gaytime ice-cream and Speights beer 1966; and a loose print of a young woman sitting at the pihanga of a meeting house with a carved pare. Photographers include Walter Burke. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-029165, 071676, 071677, 071678, and 071696. Two of the images are described as the same as 1/2-031035 and 1/2-015845 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 7 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.

Date: [Circa 1890s-1920s]

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

By: Beck, Dick, active 1895; Beken, Charles Albert, 1859-1944; Frazer, William D, active 1920s-1940s; Grace, W, active 1890s; Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950; Lee, A A, active 1920s?; Manson, (Mr), active 1920s; Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972; Peart, Heaton Clairemont, 1894-1991

Reference: PAColl-0959-25

Description: Photographs of mountains and valleys in the Arthur's Pass National Park, including numbers of views of the Otira Tunnel under construction, with interior and exterior views. Various photographers have been identified, some with only their surname. They include H C Peart, A A Lee, [?] Manson, [?] Beck, T.C., John Pascoe, W D Frazer, [?] Barrett, and C Beken. From information about William Alexander Kennedy it appears that a large number of the photographs were taken by him, taking groups of former students on mountaineering trips. Many of the images show groups of young people, none of whom are identified, taken circa 1925-1926. (See article at http://www/nzine.co.nz/features/wak.html) Many of the images show winter views including icicles formed on waterfalls, frozen spray on twigs, and one with frozen spume near the Otira Tunnel. Image no. 25 shows an undentified woman standing at the foot of a semi-frozen waterfall, and image no. 64 shows an undentified woman wearing a woollen coat with fur collar and a felt hat, looking at icicles in Arthur's Pass. Image no. 43 shows "The Birches" in winter, near the summit of Arthur's pass on the Bealey side. Image no. 65 shows four women and a men with armfuls of mountain lilies in Arthur's pass. Images no. 70-71 show a small ferry [?] by the pier at Lake Brunner. Image no. 89 shows three men and a dog standing near a mountain hut, with a camera on a tripod. Most of the places shown are listed above. Other Titles - Arthur's Pass National Park Quantity: 150 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.".

Date: [Circa 1910s-1930s]

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

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972; Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983

Reference: PAColl-0959-18

Description: Alpine views, taken by John Dobree Pascoe, circa 1930s, except image no. 27 (taken by Edgar Williams, in 1917). Many of the places shown are listed above, most images having detailed identification in pencil on the back. Image no. 8 has note on verso which reads "From Mein's Knob slopes. Andreas Reischek mentions the glacier in his book and says it was named by Haast as the "Reischek Glacier". Should this name stick?" [This glacier has been officially named in current topographical maps (2011)]. Image no. 10 shows three mountaineers, Barker [i.e. Nevile Barker], Clarke [i.e. Jack Clarke], and R E McInnes. Quantity: 27 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints.

Date: [ca 1814-ca 1965]

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-8791

Description: Most of the collection comprises prints collected during illustration research for The Oxford Junior New Zealand Encyclopedia (Published 1965), and prints actually used to illustrate the encyclopaedia. Other material includes prints of Mounts Everest and Makalu photographed in 1945, prints associated with John Pascoe's book "Great days of New Zealand Mountaineering," and a group of prints of the Haast Pass area of Westland. There are also negatives of a Wellington building on the Terrace being demolished in 1972, copy negatives taken from the prints of Mounts Everest and Makalu, and others relating to the Haast Pass area of Westland. Restrictions apply - as for photographs already held in Photographic Archive. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-230763-F to 1/2-230790-F, and 35mm-81744 to 35mm-81758. Quantity: 745 b&w original photographic print(s). 43 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1958-1959

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-8765-08

Description: View of a Picton street followed by images in a sequence called "Half a day in a mail launch," which carries people, mail, and goods from Picton to locations in the Marlborough Sounds including Arapawa Island. There are photographs of many people including members of John Pascoe's family, and many more of the sounds, and the hills and mountains surrounding them. As well as the mail launch other ships feature. These include the inter island ferry, the "Orca" which is probably a whaling ship out of Tory Channel, and an aircraft carrier in Pelorus Sound. Though this group was dated 1958/59, there are images in it identical to those in a group dated 1951/52. Quantity: 86 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Circa 1890s-1930s]

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

By: Fitzgerald, Edward Arthur, 1871-1931; Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936; Lippe, Jack N, active 1914; Marsden, (Miss), active 1900s; Pascoe, Dorothy Gladys, 1917-2014; Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972; Sanders, R, active 1910s?; Sun Newspapers Ltd; Sutton-Turner, Arthur Seymour, 1879?-1957

Reference: PAColl-0959-36

Description: Alpine views in the South Island, taken by various identified and unidentified photographers. Those named include Miss Marsden (no. 33), E.A. Fitzgerald, J.J. Kinsey, J. Lippe, A.S. Sutton-Turner, a member of Sun Newspapers Ltd (possibly McGregor?), R. Sanders and C. Beken. Two images of an unidentified mountain hut were taken by John Pascoe (in 1931) and Dorothy Pascoe (in 1944) showing the hut which had been in use since 1895, and was completely destroyed by erosion. There are early images (nos. 1-7, 20-22, and 41). No. 1. is a diorama of an ice cave in the Mueller Glacier; no. 2. shows three mountaineers (two older men greeting a younger man, two of whom are carrying ice picks, the man on the right possibly J.J. Kinsey); no. 3. is entitled ""In difficulties" Ollivier carrying Barrow as hor[ses in difficulties]" and no. 6. taken at the same time is entitled "Ollivier carrying Fitzgerald ashore. In difficulties in the Forks Stream", signed J.J. Kinsey and dated 13/7/[18]97 on the back. Nos. 4-5. were taken by E.A. Fitzgerald show Zurbriggen and Clark [i.e. Jack Clarke] on the summit of Haidinger, dated 14/7/[18]97 on the back. Image no. 20. shows five men holding ice-picks, standing in front of a stone wall with a tent behind at Separation Camp at the ehad of the Godley River; image no. 20 shows four men with heavily laden bicycles on a track with mountains behind. No. 41. shows two women wearing large hats sitting in the wire cage above the Hooker River (one possibly Freda Du Faur). One sequence shows aerial photographs of the Southern Alps, some of which were taken by a member of the Sun Newspapers. Another sequence (nos. 23-31) were taken by Arthur Seymout Sutton-Turner, many of which show the effects of storm clouds in the mountains. Image no. 33. (taken by Miss Marsden) shows the foot of the Unser Fritz Falls. Charles beken took images no. 36-40, showing The Minarets, serac on the Hochstetter Icefall, the bridge over the Tekapo River, and the Pukaki Bridge and lake with the accomodation house centre right. Image no. 34. (taken by R. Sanders) shows a disused logging railway with wooden sleepers, which leads into the mouth of a tunnel, surrounded by native bush. Image no. 42. was taken by W.A. Kennedy and shows a bridge on the road to the hermitage. Most of the places identified are listed above. Other Titles - W.A. Kennedy. Misses Marsden and Freda du Faur Quantity: 42 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.".