Alpine photographs

Alpine views, chiefly taken by Harold (Ned) Porter, circa 1923 to 1927. The first two photographs were taken by Swiss guide Marcel Kurz who accompanied Porter. Interspersed with Porter's photographs are a few taken by Dr F W Vollmann, a German archaeologist who spent some time in 1909 climbing in the Southern Alps. The last photograph (no. 157) was taken by H O Frind. Inserted between photographs nos 075 and 076 is a slip with hand-drawn map of the Bonar Glacier Plain showing climbing routes, the Matukituki River and Saddle, Mounts Bevan and Joffre, and positions of campsites used (by Porter?). A number of images show unidentified mountaineers.

Most of the photographs are collected in sequences wrapped in paper folders. They are as follows: 1: Aspiring trip (nos. 001-025). 2: From David's Dome (nos. 026-034; including a route marked on no. 027). 3: From Conway (nos. 035-041). 4: From the Malte Brun Range (nos. 042-046). 5: From West Coast Flats (nos. 047-050). 6: National Park (nos. 051-054). 7: From about Newton Pass (nos. 055-061). 8: From Minarets (no. 062). 9: From Elie de Beaumont (nos. 063-065). 10: From the Fox Range (nos. 066-067). 11: From Chancellor Ridge, Fox neve (nos. 068-070). 12: From Mt. Haast (nos. 071-074). 13: [9 loose photographs] (nos. 075-083). 14: From De La Beche (nos. 084-093). 15: From summit of Cook (nos. 086-087). 16: From Glacier Peak (nos. 088-093). 17: From the col between Haast and Lendenfeld (no. 094). 18: From Tasman, Silberhorn & Teichelmann (nos. 095-105). 19: [8 loose photographs] (nos. 106-113). 20: From Green & Walter [Peaks] (nos. 114-126). 21: From about the Hooker bivvy [bivouac] (nos. 127-131). 22: From Walter Peak (nos. 132-135). 23: [3 loose photographs] (nos. 136-138). 24: From Franz Josef Glacier (no. 139). 25: [8 loose photographs] (nos. 140-147). 26: From the Sealy Range (nos. 148-153). 27: From Footstool (nos. 154-156). 28: [1 loose photograph] (no. 157).

Many of the places shown are listed above, most images having detailed identification in pencil on the back.

Photographs have been numbered following the sequence as they appeared in the box, but there are a number of images which appear in two or more separate folders.

Quantity: 157 b&w original photographic print(s).

Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints.