Creator unknown :Photographs of mountaineering and skiing

Photographs relate to the Hermitage Hotel, and mountains, glaciers and river vallies in the Aoraki/Mount Cook area. The mountain landscape is part of most of the photographs which focus on skiers, singly and in groups, and some in action. Also tramping/climbing groups and tour groups associated with the buses of Mount Cook and Southern Lakes Tourist Company Ltd. There are group photographs of people gathered in front of the Hermitage Hotel, and groups taken outside a two storied corruagated iron lodge built on a mountain side.

Subject details within the collection include - A large buldozer that at one point gets stuck in a river. Men snow ball fighting. People standing in water surrounded by floating ice. An American 1938 model Ford De Lux Sedan. A young woman ice skating. People riding rafts made from 40 gallon drums. Groups with sledges. What looks like Public Works Department camps. Takapo House built 1919. Family photographs.

Glass negatives at 1/4-121924 to 1/4-122119, and 1/4-122176 to 1/4-123011.

Film negatives at 1/4-122234. 1/4-122908. 1/4-122916. 1/4-122932. 1/4-122939. 1/4-12312 to 1/4-123019.

Source of title - Title supplied by Library

Quantity: 1040 b&w original negative(s) of which 1027 are glass negatives, and 13 are film negatives.

Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2010