Mount Cook area

Photographs of the Mount Cook area taken by unidentified photographers, with most sites unidentified.

Several images show mountain huts, one of which is under construction.

Image no. 18 shows the Hermitage, ca 1920s; image no. 106 shows a group of five mountaineers, showing Dr Ebenezer Teichelmann, probably with Robert Stuart Low, Reverend Henry Edward Newton, and mountain guides Peter and Alex Graham when they made the third ascent of Mount Cook in 1905.

Image no. 93 shows a "gendarme" on the high ridge of La Perouse. [An abrupt rock pinnacle on an arete which has resisted frost shattering].

Identified places are listed above.

Quantity: 120 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." Photographs numbered 1-75, 77-89, 91, 95, 100-106, 108, and 114-115 have no information or identification of places times or names of people..