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New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch: Modern transport; by rail car to the West Coast...
Date: 1936
From: New Zealand Railways: [Ephemera relating to railways, railway trains, rail timetables, rail travel in New Zealand. 1920-1969]
By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch
Reference: Eph-B-RAIL-1936-01
Description: Front cover shows rail car driver at the controls, and the view in front. Inside are pictures of models of rail car, West Coast hotels, and a map of the road and air connections to Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers from Hokitika. Extended Title - Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie Ltd. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Pamphlet, folded in four, each section 285 x 114 mm.
[Gifford, Algernon Charles] 1862-1948 :[Views of Franz Joseph Glacier and Waiho Settlem...
Date: 1910 - 1930
By: Gifford, Algernon Charles, 1862-1948
Reference: A-203-004
Description: Shows hotel surrounded by bush-covered hills, viewed from a flat foreground area Other Titles - Franz Josef Inscriptions: Verso - title "Waiho. Franz Joseph" in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour over pencil 177 x 254 mm
Creator unknown :Museum album
Date: [1860s-1880s?]
Reference: PA1-q-166
Description: Scrap book of miscellaneous photographs, many of which have no captions and have not been identified. At the front of the album is an undated newspaper cutting showing the original building used for the Colonial Museum in 1865, which `has been revealed by the pulling down of the Dominion Museum, at the back of Parliament House. For many years this building has been used for a variety of purposes, museum exhibits being housed in adjacent quarters, but it is about to be demolished'. The first group show interior scenes of the Canterbury Museum, with exhibits of bird skeletons, and mounted birds. Other scenes show mounted animals, possibly not in Canterbury. Scenery includes views of the Franz Josef Glacier; and a number which are identified showing the gold-mining area around Ross and Donoghues, the Totara River and Mikonui River. One page has six photographs of mountainous regions in Switzerland; several show the area near the Wellington caves in Queensland, Australia; and two views show the breaking of the Cook Strait Cable. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, maroon spine and corners, entitled `Photographic scrap book'; 30 x 24 cm Provenance: No donor or provenance information available. Possibly part of a larger collection.
[Gifford, Algernon Charles] 1862-1948 :[Views of Franz Joseph Glacier and Waiho Settlem...
Date: 1910 - 1930
By: Gifford, Algernon Charles, 1862-1948
Reference: A-203-005
Description: Other Titles - Franz Josef Inscriptions: Verso - title "Waihao" in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour over pencil 254 x 370 mm
[Gifford, Algernon Charles] 1862-1948 :[Views of Franz Joseph Glacier and Waiho Settlem...
Date: 1910 - 1930
By: Gifford, Algernon Charles, 1862-1948
Reference: A-203-006
Description: Other Titles - Franz Josef Inscriptions: Verso - title "Waihao" in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour over pencil 358 x 252 mm
Creator of Collection Unknown : Photographs from an album of Ross and the Franz Joseph ...
Date: ca 1870s
Reference: PAColl-7479
Description: Francis Joseph (sic) Glacier near the outlet of the Wai-au River; tabular flume, Donolly Creek, Ross height 98 feet length 800 feet - a flume supported on poles above the creek; Aylmer Street, Ross showing the Junction Hotel, Dunedin Hotel, and Dr Bush's consulting rooms in front of the Morning Star mining claim; the viaduct from the creek at Ross height 167 feet; Bond Street, Ross with a church and what may be the Star Bakery in the foreground and along the street from the left, Provincial Hotel, J Manson & Co, Shamrock Hotel, Gay and Green Hall of Commerce, Bank of New Zealand(?), Post Office, Post Office Hotel, a wholesale wine merchants and the Camp Hotel; and the few buildings of Lagoon Town between Ross and Hokitika. Photographer unidentified. From the same unidentified album Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004615, 004646 to 004649 and 004654 Quantity: 6 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives
Background material (c)
Date: [1970-1975]
From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7261-12
Description: File relating to background information on various Tourist Hotel Corporation hotels and venues covering history of the hotels and the use of the surrounding areas; included are the Franz Josef and Fox glaciers, Wairekei Thermal Reserves, Tokaanu Hot Springs, Waitomo Caves including Waitomo, Ruakuri and Aranui caves Quantity: 1 folder(s).
`Glacier Hotel' Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand
Date: Between 1923 and 1928
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: Pan-2434-F
Description: Panoramic view of the large two-storeyed wooden Glacier Hotel centre left. Covered porch over the entrance on the left, no verandahs. Angled wing on the right with verandahs upstairs and downstairs. Four cars out the front with various groups of people looking towards the camera from the ground, with others on the upstairs verandahs. On the right there are two trucks near an open-sided shed, with timber lying on the ground. Bush-clad hills immediately behind and a peep of the Franz Josef Glacier in the centre and snow-capped mountains in the background. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Glacier Hotel; Photographer's title on negative - Glacier Hotel. No. 491. Franz Josef Glacier in background, N.Z.; Marginal notes on negative - 2 2 2 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 119.0 cm
Franz Josef Glacier from Canavans Knob. New Zealand
Date: Between 1923 and 1928
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
Reference: Pan-1712-F
Description: Panoramic view between stands of native bush in the left and right foreground, looking across bush-clad hills to Franz Josef Glacier in the distance centre right. The Franz Josef Glacier Hotel by the Waiho River is visible in the distance on the left. Hills and snow-clad mountains in the background are partially obscured by cloud. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: No marginal notes - Franz Josef Glacier from Canavans Knob. New Zealand. No. 933 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 105.7 cm
Mayne, Elsie Florence, 1909-1996 :Photograph album of a 1928 trip to New Zealand
Date: [ca 1928]
By: Mayne, Elsie Florence, 1909-1996
Reference: PA1-o-1768
Description: Photograph album documenting a trip to New Zealand in circa 1928 made by Mrs Elsie Florence Mayne (nee Cannan) of Australia and her husband Allan Mayne. Comprises photographs likely to have been taken by Mrs or Mr Mayne, also postcards, and tourist photographs. Album probably compiled by Mrs Mayne. Images comprise scenes taken around New Zealand. North Island locations include Auckland, Rotorua and Taupo districts, the Wanganui River, and Wellington. South Island locations include Blenheim, Nelson, Christchurch city, and the West Coast region, including Franz Josef Glacier. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Soft-covered photograph album, entitled 'Portraiture'; 18 x 25.5 cm, containing 65 images Provenance: Ms Shepherd is the niece of Mrs Elsie Mayne.
South Island prints three
Date: 1959-2007
From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs
Reference: PAColl-10131-4
Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1959 to 2007. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Identified people are: Senior Sergeant George Christopher Donnelly of Hokitika police; Ivy Harper and Bert Birchfield; Mike Armstrong and Jim Daken; Mary and Heather Cornwell; Charleston coal mine operator Neil Mouat; Mack Heinz; Tex Smith; Mike Armstrong; Henry Heveldt and M Bennett of Nolan's Mill; Garth Graham; meat shooters Mike Bennett and Kevin Blythell; John 'Opo' Angus, the Eggling brothers; helicopter pilot Ben Morris and Les's wife Mary Cleveland; and Johnny Hewer, Claire Easterbrook and Liam Easterbrook in front of the Neils Beach school house. Featured natural environments include the hot springs at Welcome Flat and the Karangarua Valley, River, Ranges, and the view from the Sefton bivouac, Ocean Beach, and Neils Beach, including car wrecks at the rubbish dump. Other images (and series of images) of note include scenes from the Kumara races; environmental damage (slips and road works at Milford Tunnel, Inangahua River road, and Haast and Jackson's Bay area; open face coal mining at Charleston; deer hunting, largely based in Mussel Point; Central Otago Hotels (Cardrona, White Horse, and Vulcan); Post Offices and boxes (St Bathan's, Outram, Ophir, and Dunedin) and a Pacific Films crew on Fox Glacier. Also includes images of James Heveldt's grave (Jackson's Bay), Peregrine Vinyard, a new house in Bannockburn, a girl in a Westport ice cream parlour, women in a Carter's Sawmill shop, a Hokitika cake stall, and various shop fronts and signage in Dunedin, Gore, and on the West Coast. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 80 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints
Scenic photographs of New Zealand
Date: [ca 1860s-1880s, ca 1950s-1960s]
From: Newcomb, Stanley Peter, 1934-2008 :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-9453-6
Description: Scenic photographs taken for New Zealand Tourist and Publicity Department Quantity: 86 b&w original photographic print(s).
Travel in New Zealand
Date: 28 January - 2 February 1959
From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia
Reference: PA12-8779
Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides includes views of Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers, Gillespies Beach, Revingtons Hotel (Greymouth), over the Lewis Pass by bus to Christchurch. There he shows views of Warner's Hotel, a large Victorian house, a boathouse on the River Avon, a view from the Summit Road, Lyttelton Harbour and Homebush (home of the Deans family at Darfield). From Christchurch views include the Rakaia River and Lake Coleridge. Slides on this sheet are numbered 148A-174 with gaps for those removed for lectures on New Zealand. Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slides (nos. 149-151, 154-155, 158-159, 161-162, 166, 168, 172) showing views of Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers, Maruia Springs, over the Lewis Pass, views of Christchurch (including Christchurch Cathedral and Cathedral Square, the River Avon and Scott's Statue), and the Rakaia River. 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: 15 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm
Guides [Alpine photographs]
Date: [Circa 1900s-1920s]
From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area
By: Fletcher, Thomas A, active 1910s-1920s; Graham, Alexander Carter, 1881-1957; Graham, Peter, 1878-1961; Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942; Lippe, Jack N, active 1914; Milne, Francis Middleton, 1891-1933; Murrell, John Robert, 1886-1918; Pope, Jack, active 1920s
Reference: PAColl-0959-23
Description: Alpine photographs taken by various mountain guides circa 1900s to 1910s. Photographers identified are Peter Graham, Alec Graham, Jack Pope, John Robert Murrell, Jack Lippe, Tom Fletcher, Leslie Hinge, and Frank Milne. Photograph number 35 shows seven guides with a coiled climbing rope and two crossed ice picks in front. The guides are not identified on the image, but are identified from comparison with image at (1/2-035265-G). They are (back row from left) Alf Cowling, Jock Richmond, Jack Lippe, Charlie Milne and Frank Milne; (front row) Darby Thomson and Peter Graham. Image no. 7, taken by Peter Graham, is labelled "Building the Sefton bivvy" in pencil on the back. Image no. 9 shows a woman climber standing in the mouth onf an ice arch. There are a number of views of the Hermitage reflected in a pool in winter, and image no. 11 shows the chief guide's cottage by the Hermitage. Most of the places shown are listed above. Quantity: 40 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.".
Photographs of the Chateau and Hermitage
Date: [ca 1929-1975]
From: Dennis, Jonathan Spencer, 1953-2002 :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-5023-1
Description: Mainly photographs of the Chateau Tongariro and The Hermitage in the 1950s and 1960s. There is also a group of photographs of NZ Tourist Dept hotels taken in the 1970s, a number of views of the crater lake, Mount Ruapehu, and its surroundings taken after an eruption, and views of Mount Ngauruhoe erupting probably sometime in the 1930s Quantity: 100 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints
New Zealand's Franz Josef Glacier - - The Franz Josef Glacier, South Westland New Zeala...
Date: 1935
By: H L Young Ltd.
Reference: Eph-B-TOURISM-Franz-1935-01
Description: One side shows colour photograph of the Franz Josef Hotel and its grounds (with tennis court), with rata blooming in the trees around it. The other side shows black and white photographs of the Franz Josef Glacier, Lake Mapourika, hot springs near the glacier, a scene from the trig station at Okarito, skiing on the glacier. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on both sides of folded pamphlet. Physical Description: Colour photolithograph on both sides of pamphlet 235 x 350 mm.
Photograph album compiled by William Herbert Perkins
Date: [ca 1881]
From: Perkins, J (Mr), fl 1967 :Photograph album and loose prints
By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Perkins, William Herbert, -1927; Ring, James, 1856-1939
Reference: PA1-o-415
Description: Photographs of Greymouth, Grey River, Brunnerton, Ahaura, Reefton, Waimakariri, Lake Pearson, Lake Brunner, Dillmanstown, Milford Sound, Franz Josef Glacier, Ross, and the thermal areas of central North Island. The photographers represented include William Herbert Perkins, James Ring and the Burton Brothers. There is one interior view of a quartz-crushing battery at Reefton. Pages 55, 57 and 58 have portraits of women (and one man) in "Fancy Fair" costumes Inscriptions: Album page - "William Perkins. Greymouth. 1884" Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon covers, darker corners and spine; "Album" lettered in gold on spine; 23.5 x 30.0 cm
Lovell-Smith, Edgar McLeod, 1875-1950: Franz Josef Glacier New Zealand / E M Lovell-Smi...
Date: 1932
By: Lovell-Smith, Edgar McLeod, 1875-1950; New Zealand. National Publicity Studios; Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie Ltd
Reference: Eph-E-TOURISM-Franz-1932-01
Description: Shows a view of the Franz Josef Glacier with the road and hotel in the foreground. Various places are labelled and the altitude given: Minarets (10,050 feet), Grahams Saddle (8,800 feet), Almer Hut (5,500 feet), Defiance Hut (2,700 feet), the hotel (350 feet, Callery Gorge and Alec's Knob (no altitudes given). Two suspension bridges over the river are shown. The offices from which information could be obtained were in London, Toronto, Sydney, Melbourne and Wellington. Other Titles - Christchurch Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 1005 x 640 mm.
Travel in New Zealand at the Franz Josef Glacier, a gleaming jewel in the mountain side...
Date: 1935
From: The Franz Josef Glacier, South Westland, New Zealand. H L Young Limited, art printers, Palmerston North, New Zealand. [1935].
By: H L Young Ltd.
Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Franz-1935-01-cover
Description: Shows the Franz Josef Hotel with the glacier behind it. Extended Title - cover of "The Franz Josef Glacier, South Westland, New Zealand", 1935. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on cover of booklet.. Physical Description: Photolithograph on cover 212 x 135 mm.
Graham's Hotel, Franz Josef Glacier, Westland
Date: [ca 1910]
Reference: 1/2-030459-F
Description: Graham's Hotel, Franz Josef Glacier, Westland. Taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1910. Note on back of file print reads: Grahams Hotel, Franz Joseph Glacier Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Grahams Hotel Franz Josef Glacier. N.Z.A.C.G.2 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative