Places

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.

Date: ca 1880s-1900s

Reference: PAColl-7220

Description: Photographs of Clarke, Graham and Fyfe who first climbed Mount Cook on Christmas Day 1894, with their mountaineering equipment; the sheep dog of James MacKenzie the sheep-stealer; a bullock team pulling wool bales; the Fairlie to Mount Cook coach with John Rutherford driving; the bridge over the river at Lake Tekapo with the hotel next to it; Mount Cook Station, originally built by A Burnett, with a thatched roof and the family outside it; a drawing of the ferry crossing Lake Pukaki and the original accommodation house on the shore; hay-making in front of the Balmoral homestead; the yard of Haldon station surrounded by trees showing the out-buildings and men with dogs; Levels homestead with a man with a hoe and others outside; and a group of men and women picnicking in front of two tents at Governor's Bush in Mount Cook township being the first party conveyed by the Mount Cook Motor Company ca 1880s. Images were used in the "History of the Mackenzie county to 1912" and all have similar typed captions beneath them. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-007817 to 007827 Quantity: 11 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

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

Date: 1960 - 1969

Reference: Eph-A-DINING-1960/1969

Description: Includes menus and ephemera for: Wellington Club. Dinner to His Excellency the Governor-General Brigadier Sir Bernard Fergusson. 30 November 1962. Menu Carlton Hotel, Wellington. Christmas dinner 1963. Menu Carlton Hotel, Wellington. Christmas dinner 1965. Menu A D Singleton Ltd. "French Maid" dinner at the dining room, Kirkcaldie and Stains Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand. 14 November 1961. Menu Gourmet Restaurant (Auckland). Noel. The season's greetings come to you from Otto Groen and the staff of the Gourmet Restaurant (autographed menu, Christmas 1962; chef Michael Marcinkowski) Grand Hotel Wellington. Dinner menu 15 October 1965. Hutt Valley Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. Twenty-fourth annual dinner. Wednesday March 22, 1967. Menu The Hermitage Mt Cook. Luncheon menu Friday 3rd April 1964. Chef: Frank H Luff. The Mermaid. "Noel". Christmas menu 1967. Maitre d'Hotel Arie de Jong; chef de cuisine Peter Bowald. Cover illustration by Kennedy dated 1954 The Mermaid. "Noel". Christmas menu 1968. Maitre d'Hotel Arie de Jong; chef de cuisine Peter Bowald. Cover illustration by Kennedy dated 1954 Le Normandie, 116 Cuba Street, Wellington. Exclusive French restaurant (under the direction of Madame Louise). Business card Wellington Club. Dinner to His Excellency the Governor-General Sir Arthur Porritt. 31 January 1968. Menu Quantity: 10 menus.. 1 card. Physical Description: Letterpress on cards, sizes varying below 210 mm. Provenance: Some items donated by Herman Kahlhofer in 2008. One item donated by Catherine Syme, Auckland, in 2010.

Date: 1913-1914, 1917-1919, 1942 [transcribed 2007]

By: Simpson, Andrew, active 2007

Reference: MSDL-0248

Description: Comprises transcriptions of note pad jottings by Percy Cecil Brockett during 1917. Also comprises transcriptions of letters relating to the Brockett family. Partial transcriptions of letters located at MS-Papers-2406. Accompanying material - Accompanied by biographical notes on Brockett family Arrangement: The transcriptions are arranged by five sections by author. First section is notes by Percy Brockett (1 Dec 1917-8 Jan 1918). Second is transcribed letters by Percy to his brother Fred and sister-in-law Marg (18 Nov 1917-11 Feb 1919). Third is letters by Charles Frederick Brockett to his son Percy (5 May-9 Jun 1913). Fourth is letters by Archie Brockett to his brother Percy (14 Aug-24 Sep 1914). Fifth is a letter by Rev N F E Robertshawe to Percy (10 Nov 1942). Quantity: 192 kilobyte(s). 1 Electronic document(s). Provenance: Donor is a descendant of Brockett family

Date: 1902

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

By: Ranfurly, Constance Elizabeth Knox, Countess of, 1858-1932

Reference: C-133-006

Description: Shows a view of Mount Cook from the area in front of the Hermitage. The Hermitage building is seen at the left, below the foothills. The peak of Mount Cook is bathed in a rosy light. Possibly the watercolour of Mount Cook by Lady Ranfurly shown in Wellington in October 1902 at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - CR 1902; Verso - centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sheet, 377 x 561 mm. Provenance: Purchase: England, 1998 Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: [ca 1960]

From: Goodall, Gladys Mary, 1908-2015: Scenic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: GG-11-0081

Description: Mount Cook & Southern Lakes Tourist Co bus at The Hermitage, photographed in the mid-1960s by Gladys M Goodall. Mount Cook is in the background. Other - Published by Whitcombe & Tombs as postcard WT655 Inscriptions: Mount recto - top left - Mt Cook 12,349 ft with Mt Cook tourist bus ready to leave Hermitage Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparency 6 x 9 cm, in mount 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Date: 1935

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch; Loney, George Henry, 1871-1957

Reference: Eph-E-TOURISM-Mt-Cook-1935-01

Description: Shows a young woman in a short skirt, striped top and beret, with a walking stick, standing in a mountains setting, with Mt Cook and the Hermitage in the background. There are edelweiss flowers around her feet. The sky is red. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on sheet , 875 x 565 mm.

Date: 1930 - 1939

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch

Reference: Eph-E-HOTEL-1930s-01

Description: Shows each of the four hotels laid out roughly in their relative positions within New Zealand. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Screenprint, 1015 x 762 mm.

Date: 1929

From: [Ephemera up to octavo size related to skiers and skiing. 1900-1949]

Reference: Eph-A-SKI-1929-01-cover

Description: Cover shows the hotels at the Chateau Tongariro, and the Hermitage, Mt Cook. A ski flies through the air in the centre. Inside are listed prices, and special winter rates, as well as photographs of skiers on the slopes. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on cover of booklet.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on cover, 221 x 141 mm.

Date: 1960

By: Mallitte, Howard Leon, 1910-1979

Reference: Eph-E-HOTEL-Mt-Cook-1960-01

Description: Poster shows a part of the Hermitage Hotel at Mount Cook in the left foreground, with a party of guests standing or sitting on the verandah and steps, and looking and the mountains in the background, Mount Sefton and the Footstool. One guest holds ski poles. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 1010 x 630 mm.