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[New Zealand Tourist and Publicity Department: Poster of seven photographs]. A.R. Shear...
Date: 1973
By: Shearer, Archibald Reid, 1914-1997
Reference: Eph-D-TOURISM-1973-03
Description: Shows photographs of seven scenes: Aoraki / Mount Cook; Tourist beside light plane on a glacier; Boat in Waitomo Glow-worm carves; Geysr at Whakarewarewa; Wellington cable car; picnic beside an inland reiver with distant snowy mountain; dining in a tourist restaurant with high vaulted ceiling. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on poster 815 x 535 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1982.
Cooper, William Marshall, 1833-1921 :Okarita, Mount Cook bearing south. Litho[graphed] ...
Date: 1868 - 1870
By: Cooper, William Marshall, 1833-1921; Schmidt, John Diedrich, 1839-1925
Reference: A-104-049-b
Description: Shows the small digging township on the south end of the Okarito Lagoon, on the West Coast. In the right foreground, small boats are pulled up on the shore beside a house and a fishing net hanging to dry. A coastal bluff and a steamship at sea can be seen in the right distance. Title from label on verso. See Ellis, E M. Early prints of N.Z. 1642-1875. Christchurch, 1977. p. 192-193. From a sketch by W M Cooper; lith by Schmidt. Other Titles - Okarito Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 220 x 300 mm
Ross, Malcolm, 1862-1930 :Photograph of three mountaineers on the summit of Mount Cook
Date: 9 January 1906
By: Ross, Malcolm, 1862-1930
Reference: PAColl-1396
Description: From left to right: Peter Graham, Samuel Turner and Tom Fyfe, standing on the summit of Mount Cook. Photograph taken 9 January 1906 by Malcolm Ross. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Copy of the First photograph taken on the Summit of Mount Cook. Jan. 1906. [signed] Malcolm Ross Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s) mounted on card. Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 36.6 x 26.7 cm Provenance: Possibly donated by Samuel Turner in 1921. No definite donor or provenance information available.
New Zealand scenery album 2
Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]
By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)
Reference: PA1-o-386
Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm
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.
Perkins, J (Mr), fl 1967 :Photograph album and loose prints
Date: [ca 1872-1880s]
By: Perkins, J (Mr), active 1967; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)
Reference: PAColl-4608
Description: Photographs of Mount Taranaki; Mount Cook; Tasman Glacier near Malte Brun hut site; lower Tasman Glacier with Mounts De La Beche, Minarets, Green and Elie de Beaumont; Tasman Glacier with Mounts Cook, Tasman and Haidinger behind; main divide south of De la Beche with Glacier Dome and the Rudolf Glacier on the lower left; and the junction of Ball and Tasman Glaciers with the Anzacs ridge in the background. Photographs taken by Burton Bros. Photographs of view down Princes Street with the Colonial Mutual building on the left and the Exchange building on the right; Victoria Bridge over the Avon, Christchurch, with the Supreme Court building on the right; the Glacier Hotel at Bealey with a carriage and four pulling up; and Jackson's on the West Coast Road. Photographs taken by Wheeler & Son. Photograph of the flood in Mawhera Quay and Catholic School in Greymouth. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). 14 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph album, photographic prints
Photographs of the Hermitage Hotel, and tourists to Mount Cook
Date: 1958-ca1964
From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis
Reference: PAColl-7359-7
Description: Photographs of the Hermitage under construction in 1961, of tour groups, groups learning to ski, of staff parties, and one of the Prime minister of Japan and his wife during a visit to the Hermitage. Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s).
Transparencies of Lake Matheson
Date: August 1965
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: PA12-7410
Description: Transparencies of Aoraki reflected in Lake Matheson, taken August 1965 by Whites Aviation Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies
Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-ca 1919 :[Mt Cook?]. F A Coxhead. [ca 1870s-1890s]
Date: 1870 - 1898
From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook [1856-ca 1890]
By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908
Reference: E-207-q-025-2
Description: View of a mountain, possibly Mt Cook Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - F A Coxhead, photo, Dn., NZ (stamp); Recto - beneath image - Is this Mt Cook ? Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Sepia photograph, 100 x 153 mm
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.
McArthur & Co album 4
Date: [Circa 1907 to 1915]
By: Muir & Moodie (Firm); Moore, May Gertrude, 1874-1954
Reference: PA1-o-284
Description: The signature `May Moore' inside front cover, is possibly that of Mrs May Moore (daughter of Sir Joseph Kinsey), who travelled and mountaineered in the areas covered by the album. Album containing 21 scenes of the South Island. Of these, 12 were taken by photographers Muir and Moodie, between 1907 and 1913. The Muir and Moodie numbers for these views are 1810, 6743, 6752, 6780, and 6782 to 6789. The photographer for the other nine images is not identified. 24 leaves are blank. Several of the Muir and Moodie views were taken on 1st January 1913, a number of which show various stages of a group crossing the Haast Pass on horseback. Places noted include Cameron's Flat, Will's Bridge, the Burke Huts, and Mule Flat. Inscriptions: Album page - May Moore Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with loose green cloth cover, entitled `Photographs'; 24 x 30 cm
McLean album
Date: [Early 1880s?]
By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Taber, Isaiah West, 1830-1912
Reference: PA1-q-153
Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken by various photographers, circa early 1880s. Images include several Maori groups, Maori kainga, meeting houses, carving; a large number of views of mud pools, geysers, hot springs, and in particular views of the Pink and White Terraces before the Tarawera eruption in 1886. Other views show areas of the South Island, including Dunedin City, Oamaru, Christchurch; and the North island including Auckland, Thames District (a number showing aspects of gold mining in the area). The last photograph, of the R.M.S.S. Zealandia was taken by Taber Photo, San Francisco. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with grey blue cover, black corners and spine edged with gold; 30.5 x 25.5 cm
Transparencies of Lake Matheson
Date: 1956
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: PA12-7408
Description: Transparencies of Aoraki reflected in Lake Matheson, taken 1956 by Whites Aviation Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies
Aoraki (Mount Cook)
Date: 6 August 1950
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: PAColl-D-1215
Description: Aoraki (Mount Cook), from near the Hermitage. Print with hand-applied colouring made from negative taken 6 August 1950 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print with hand-applied colouring, mounted on board, 38 x 68 cm
Hermitage Hotel, Mount Cook
Date: 1905
By: New Zealand. Tourism Department
Reference: 1/2-002299-F
Description: Postcard of the hotel with the mountains behind it. The caption reads Mount Cook Government Hermitage Hotel. A Tourist Dept. photograph (F T Series No 265). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative
Deans, William :Photographs of Mount Cook and Te Aro
Date: [ca 1900]
Reference: PAColl-0329
Description: Photographs of Mount Cook and an intersection in Te Aro, Wellington, looking west and showing the Union Bank of Australia on the right. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives for the image of Te Aro housed at 1/2-003925 and 023113 and 1/1-017880 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints mounted on thin card
Photograph album of tramping in Otago and Wellington
Date: [192-?]
From: Ainslie, Esme Airini Mollie, 1901-1983 :Photograph albums
Reference: PA1-o-1287
Description: Photographs of tramping trips to Whare Flat, Cecil Peak, Harbour Cone, and Mount Holdsworth; scenes at Fairlie; views of Mount Cook; picnicking; and trips to tourist sites around Dunedin. Photographs taken ca mid-1920s. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Blue cloth covered album 20 x 24 cm
Webster album 9
Date: [Circa 1890s]
From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection
By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919
Reference: PA1-o-520
Description: Album of tourist views of New Zealand and the sub-Antarctic Islands, chiefly taken by John Richard Morris, Jnr, circa 1890s. Places and subjects listed above where identified. The Sub-Antarctic Island views are all of native flora and fauna of the different islands, listed on the images as mollymawks, albatrosses, sea lions, crested penguins and erect-crested penguins On page 32 there is a view of the SS Knight Templar leaving Lyttelton on February 17, 1900, taking about 260 soldiers and 300 horses of the 3rd Contingent "the New Zealand Roughriders" to Durban, en route to fight in the South African War. The wharf is crowded with people seeing the ship off, soldiers lined up alongside the ship, and bunting flying on two ships nearby. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 24.5 x 32.5 cm
Mt Cook 1918 with Sammy Turner
Date: 1918
From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera
By: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983
Reference: 1/4-085971-F
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose nitrate negative
Brown, Rachel :Photograph of the Hermitage
Date: 1944
By: Brown, Rachel, active 1990s-2022
Reference: PAColl-5847
Description: Photograph of the Hermitage, December 1944 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).