Places

Date: 1952

Reference: E-278-q-113

Description: Shows Mitre Peak, and vessels in Milford Sound. Trees, rocks and plants in immediate foreground. Artist's name can not be deciphered (lower righthand corner). Inscriptions: Verso - Postcard addressed to Mrs T P Huggins No 42 Hall Street, Wellington. 28 Dec [1952?]. "Wishing you and Tom and Master W P Huggins a Happy New Year from Mam & Dad" Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 90 x 140 mm

Date: [1960?s]

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7261-57

Description: Scrapbook of brochures, information sheets for guests, photographs and other papers relating to the various hotels within the THC organisation and the services they provide Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1891-1946]

From: Connell, Marjorie Bertha, 1907-1995 : Seed family papers

Reference: 88-051-04

Description: Scrapbook belonging to Bertha Aldrich who married Arthur Seed in 1905. Contains ship's log for Union Steam Ship voyage on S S Rotorua from Dunedin to Milford Sounds, photos taken during the voyage, pencil sketches of `one of the party' and `D Sutherland & his dog', and passengers' and crew members' signatures; flower and leaf pressings; photographs of ships; unidentified family photographs; pencil sketch of a house; `The Idle talkative' published by The Firm, 1896; the seal of Canterbury Agricultural college, 1897; newspaper clipping re prizegiving at Waitaki Girls' High School, 1891; photos of Oamaru; invitation to Fancy Dress dance from Myrtle Jellicoe, Aug 1921; newspaper clipping re NZ Founders' Society; obituary for W B Allen; greeting cards; stickers; miscellaneous cuttings (some relating to Wakefield House, Wellington); menu for Christmas dinner on board TSS Awatea, 1938 (with autographs) Other - Loose photographs inserted in scrapbook removed to 88-051-04A Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1985

By: Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985

Reference: MS-Papers-4752

Description: In `Pioneering the Milford Sound Road' Christie describes the surveying and initial work undertaken to put a road through over the Milford Saddle into the Cleddau Valley during 1934-1935. Source of title - transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: [1891]

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: E-965-f-20

Description: Looking across choppy water to steep mountains at the entrance to Milford Sound. Low cloud obscures one of the peaks. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Entrance to Milford Sound [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on page of sketchbook, 230 x 340 mm

Date: 1879

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: B-004-028

Description: Shows the Bowen Falls, viewed from the water. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 342 x 482 mm

Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]

By: James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Hawley & Company

Reference: PA1-q-251

Description: Album of photographs taken by James Valentine & Sons, circa 1880s-1900s. Most of the images have a caption printed into the photograph, and many also have a hand-written caption beneath. At some point many of the photographs have been removed from their slots, and others have been placed in the wrong slot so that the subject and caption on the photograph does not match with the caption below. Places are listed above. There are five photographs of Maori, three of women, two of chiefs. The names given are difficult to identify, having complicated spelling, and the captions on photographs have faded in some cases. They include "Maori wahine Ngareti"; "Maori chief Hoera Watene"; "Maori chiefs Panapa Tenihotiti and Topopoki" and "Maori wahine Huihana?". One photograph, of Atiamuri, has the name "Hawley" as photographer. Other Titles - "Valentine & Sons. Photographs" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with greenish cover, entitled "Valentine & Sons. Photographs" in gold lettering; 39 x 31 cm

Date: 1889

By: Spicer, Eleanor Juliet, 1876-1958

Reference: MS-Papers-3542

Description: Account of the journey from Milford Sound to Sutherland Falls, over McKinnon Pass to Lake Te Anau. Eleanor, aged eleven, accompanied a survey party led by her father Charles Adams who was Chief Surveyor for the Otago Province. She recalls that the tarn on top of the Pass was named Lake Ella in her honour. Source of title - Transcribed Eleanor (`Ella') Adams was the daughter of C W Adams, an Otago surveyor. In 1889 she accompanied her father and two survey parties in a journey along the Milford Track. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with holograph annotations Provenance: Notes of Eleanor Adams lent to A H Reed by Miss Peggy Spicer