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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.
Creator unknown :Photograph album page of views of Otira Gorge and Mount Cook
Date: [ca 1890s-1900s]
Reference: PAColl-9669
Description: An album page with views of Otira Gorge and Mount Cook. Shows horses pulling a carriage on the Christchurch and Hokitika Road in Otiria Gorge. Shows Mount Cook from the Hooker Glacier. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album leaf with 2 b&w original photographic prints. Physical Description: 41.5 x 31 cm mounted album page
Birell album 2
Date: [1890s-1900s?]
From: Teale, Edmund Oswald (Sir), 1874-1971 : Birell album
By: Charles H Kerry & Company; Shearsby, A J, active 1913-1928; Star Photo Company; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department
Reference: PA1-q-029
Description: Postcards, chiefly of Australia, including Tasmania, Adelaide, Queensland, New South Wales, with several showing various tin mines in Tasmania. There is a section of New Zealand postcards in the middle of the album, many taken by an Australian photographic company "Charles H Kerry & Co", labelled "Series 53. Hot Lakes District, New Zealand". These images are tinted, and include views of the Huka Falls, the Pink and White Terraces, Waiotapu, Ohinemutu, Whakarewarewa, Lakes Waikaremoana and Taupo, and the Aratiatia Rapids. The NZ images also include views of the Mount Cook region of the South Island, including Franz Josef Glacier, Hooker Glacier, Mounts Darwin, Sefton and Cook, and Lakes Te Anau and Wakatipu. Many of the postcards show the photographers' names, and include R C Harvey, A J Shearsby, the Star Photo Co., de Tourret, and the New Zealand Tourist Department. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown "Postcard album" with red, green and blue decoration, 285 x 240 mm
Mountaineers, glaciers, and mountains
Date: 1879-1892
From: Vance, William, 1899-1981 :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-9826
Description: Photographs of mountaineers, glaciers, mountains, lakes and rivers. Included are - Crossing the Hooker River by cable car (flying fox?). Percy Hawkins Johnson, W Low, J W Annan, George Edward Mannering, and Marmaduke J Dixon in the Murchison Valley, 1880. Irishman Rev William S Green and his two guides, Ulrich Kaufmann and Emil Boss, 1882. Mountaineers George Edward Mannering, Percy Hawkins Johnson and Mamaduke J Dixon photographed in 1889. Lake Pukaki, 1889. Tasman Glacier. Lake Tekapo. Hut in the Godley Valley. Mount Aorangi and the Hooker Glacier. Mount Aorangi seen from Ball spur. Panoramic View of mountains seen from Mount Sealy. Murchison glacier and river. Views of Aorangi, De la Beche Peak, and Tasman Glacier. Views of the Godley Glacier, 1892. Volynteers digging for Smith and Morrison in the avalanch of snow on the Rollesby Range, 28 August 1879. Quantity: 10 card mounts containing 33 images.
Views of Dunedin and Port Chalmers
Date: ca 1880-ca 1889
From: Reid, Robert Stuart :Photographs of New Zealand
Reference: PA1-q-921
Description: Views of Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu, Lake Waihola, Lake Moke, Mount Cook, Mount Sefton, the Hooker Glacier, Tapanui, Oamaru, Milford Sound, Dusky Sound, Hooker River, Moonlight Gorge, Bowen Fall, and general views in Canterbury and Otago taken by an unknown photographer in the 1880s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Birell album 1
Date: December 1903-January 1904
From: Teale, Edmund Oswald (Sir), 1874-1971 : Birell album
Reference: PA1-o-037
Description: Views of New Zealand taken by Sir Edmund Oswald Teale, who visited New Zealand to attend a meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science in Dunedin between December 1903 and January 1904. Images include a number showing geological formation along the route between Napier and Taupo; images of hot springs and mud pools, and the Aratiatia Rapids; Napier and Wellington. Views of the South Island include many in the Mount Cook region, and show various glaciers, including the Tasman Glacier, Hochstetter Glacier, and the Hooker Glacier; geological aspects of moraines, crevasses and moulins associated with glaciers; Lake Pukaki; alpine flowers in the Tasman Valley; a carriage and horses near the Hermitage, with Mount Sefton visible behind; the Mataura River and Bluff. A collection of duplicates are filed in a pocket at the front of the album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, 235 x 185 mm
Alpine photographs
Date: [Circa 1900s]
From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area
By: Teichelmann, Ebenezer (Dr), 1859-1938
Reference: PAColl-0959-17
Description: Alpine views, probably taken by Dr Ebenezer Teichelmann, circa 1900s. Many of the places shown are listed above. The photographs are separated into 11 sequences: 1: Down Haast Ridge (no. 001). 2: From Chudleigh (nos. 002-005). 3: From La Perouse floor (nos. 006-044) (many of these taken from the photographer's "Ribbonwood Camp" under Mount La Perouse above the La Perouse Glacier, including a "glacier table" and "erratic boulders" on the glacier). 4: Lower Fox Valley (nos. 045-049) (including gushing springs at the head of the Fox River). 5: From Harper's Saddle and Opal Glacier. 6: Whitcombe Pass (nos. 064-065). 7: From Thelma Peak (nos. 066-074). 8: From Hooker floor (nos. 075-082). 9: From Haast Ridge (Glacier Dome) (nos. 083-088). 1. From R S Lowe rocks (Baird Range) (nos. 089-099). 11. From Glacier Dome (Haast Ridge) (nos. 100-111, including no. 108 which shows two unidentified men on "The Lady's Shoe" rock formation on the Haast Ridge). (No. 112 unidentified). Source of descriptive information - Photographer's name "Dr. T, 5" [i.e. Dr Ebenezer Teichelmann] taken from information on original box. Quantity: 112 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints.
Alpine photographs
Date: [Circa 1913-1915]
From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area
By: Frind, Herbert Otto, 1887-1961
Reference: PAColl-0959-12
Description: Scenic photographs of the Southern Alps taken circa 1913-1914 by Herbert Otto Frind (H.O.F.). All the views are identified. Images in the box are filed in ten blue wrappers with the following titles: from Hooker Glacier; from Thomson; from face of Brunner; from Karangarua Saddle; from The Hermitage; from Tasman Glacier; from Shark's Teeth; from Sefton; from Cook; from Watchtower. Includes views of a bergschrund (crevasse formed when moving glacier ice separates from the stagnant ice above), and avalanches, in the views from the Hooker Glacier. Most of the named physical features are listed above in "places". On the verso of all the images the initials "H.O.F." is printed in the top left hand corner, with information about location printed along the lower edge. Quantity: 70 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
Wheeler and son album 2
Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]
By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)
Reference: PA1-o-533
Description: New Zealand views taken circa 1870s to 1880s by E Wheeler & Son. Scenes include both North Island and South Island views, and all places named are listed above, as are businesses, ships and buildings, where possible. Items of interest include a photograph of trout taken by the Upper Selwyn River "A good day's sport. 38 fish, with the fly, 2 rods" with two large baskets alongside. Two scenes show different means of transport across rivers where there are no bridges. One is the "Cage bridge" (or Flying Fox) across the Teremakau (Taramakau) River, and the other shows a ferry punt across the Buller River. A number of views show farming activities, including a scene near Cheviot of about 20,000 sheep being drafted for shearing; and one of a wagon laden with wool bales being hauled by a team of bullocks. A view of gold sluicing is shown in this album with the locality indistinct. The same view is shown in the first Wheeler Album (PA1-o-532) in which the locality is named as Waimea. Other Titles - New Zealand Views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "New Zealand Views. Wheeler & Son" in gold lettering on spine; 26.5 x 33.0 cm
Mount Cook from Hooker Glacier
Date: [ca 1905]
From: Birch, A E :Scenic negatives and prints taken by Thomas Pringle
Reference: 1/1-006950-G
Description: Mount Cook from Hooker Glacier. Photograph taken circa 1905 by Thomas Pringle. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - No 294 Mount Cook from Hooker Glacier Thos Pringle Wellington Protected 1.5.05 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
Gully, John 1819-1888 :Mt Cook with the Hooker Glacier, from the Mueller Glacier. [1862]
Date: 1862 - 1864
By: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain); Gully, John, 1819-1888
Reference: C-096-011
Description: The base of the Mueller Glacier in the foreground, the Hooker Glacier central and Mount Cook forming a large part of the background. Illustration for lecture, Notes on the mountains and glaciers of the Canterbury Province, New Zealand, delivered by Julius von Haast, London, 1864 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - John Gully [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 610 x 450 mm
Peart, H C: Mount Cook and Hooker Glacier
Date: [ca 1913]
From: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives
By: Peart, Heaton Clairemont, 1894-1991
Reference: 1/2-007549-G
Description: Mount Cook and Hooker Glacier as seen from Sealy Range, photographed by H C Peart circa 1913. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Mt Cook & Hooker Glacier from Sealy Range NZ H C Peart photo Tourist Series 4058 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
Terminal face of the Hooker Glacier
Date: [189?]
From: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936 :Photographs relating to Antarctica and mountaineering
Reference: PA1-q-137-18-2
Description: The terminal face of the Hooker Glacier, at an altitude of 2882 feet, photographed in the 1890s, probably by Sir Joseph Kinsey. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Terminal face of the Hooker Glacier - 2882 feet. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 155 x 207 mm mounted on album page
Liebig Range, taken from the top of Mt Ollivier
Date: 1895
From: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936 :Photographs relating to Antarctica and mountaineering
By: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936
Reference: PA1-q-137-21
Description: View from the top of Mount Ollivier, looking west over the Mueller and Hooker Glaciers towards the Liebig Range. The Hermitage is at the bottom of the photograph. Photographed in 1895 by Joseph James Kinsey Inscriptions: Mount recto - above image - Leibig Range; Mount recto - beneath image - Taken from the top of Mt Ollivier (6296); Mount recto - bottom left - J J Kinsey 1895; Mount recto - centre left - Hooker, Mueller; Mount recto - centre right - Hooker Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 322 x 230 mm
Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875 :Mount Cook & Hooker Glaciers. [ca 1870].
Date: 1870
By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875
Reference: C-110-017
Description: Shows a view of the Hooker Glacier with Mt Cook in the centre right background. The view is framed right and left by foreground trees. Other Titles - and Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - E Norman; Recto - bottom right - [Title]; Verso - centre - Painted by Hector Norman between 1870 & 1872 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 235 x 410 mm on sheet 327 x 485 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by the Smith family of Temuka and Geraldine.
Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :Mount Cook / W. M. H. 1875. C. F. Kell, Chromo lit...
Date: 1875 - 1877
From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The illustrations by C. D. Barraud. Edited by W. T. L. Travers. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1877
By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898
Reference: PUBL-0016-32
Description: According to the accompanying text "...from a sketch by Mr W. M. Hodgins [sic] of Dunedin, who visited it in 1875 ... This noble peak ... is taken from a point a few miles up the Hooker Glacier; the dark spur [on the left] is the lower ridge of Mount Sefton, the other [on the right] a portion of the lower or main spur of Mount Cook. The glacier is seen issuing from the peak and winding its way down the valley..." Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 289 x 240 mm