Alpine photographs

Scenic photographs of the Southern Alps, taken between about 1914 and the 1940s by various unidentified and identified photographers including William Alexander Kennedy, Markham Cardew Lysons, Jane Thomson, Frank Hurley and James Cuthbert Mercer, and possibly Elizabeth Graham (Mrs P Graham).

Includes views of "Turner Hooker Expedition" in which Samuel Turner was the first man to climb Mount Hooker (in 1929), probably with guide Peter Graham (images 001-007); view no. 14 of the high peak of Mt Cook, taken by Mrs Thomson (Jane Thomson); numbers of unidentified images; views of glaciers and crevasses, mountains, and mountain huts; cutting round the schrund? below the Tasman Saddle showing the steepness of the snow slopes; the dining room of The Hermitage Hotel at Mt Cook; various expeditions including a Callery Valley Expedition and a goldminer's camp in Waikukupa Valley; aerial photographs taken by James Cuthbert Mercer including a campsite and landing site in the Arawata Valley; four views of Antarctica, including one of the end of the Shackleton Expedition ship Endurance, taken in 1915 by Frank Hurley (image no. 087), and one of Campbell Island; the foot of the Unser Fritz Falls; Copland Valley; Mt Ngaruahoe, and Tama Lake (Mt Tongariro); the road over Mt Hercules; Cascade Point; Mounts Cook and Tasman; aerial view of tree ferns ("palm trees") at Waiho; plane over Otako branch of Paringa looking north; Mount Hooker; five views of a group of men carrying planks up the Haast Ridge from the Tasman Glacier, probably in 1915 for the building of the King Memorial Hut; Mt Elie de Beaumont from the Upper Callery Valley; cloud reflections in Mapourika; the Fox Moth plane ZK-ADH by the camp and landing strip at Arawata.

Quantity: 122 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.".