Guides [Alpine photographs]

Alpine photographs taken by various mountain guides circa 1900s to 1910s. Photographers identified are Peter Graham, Alec Graham, Jack Pope, John Robert Murrell, Jack Lippe, Tom Fletcher, Leslie Hinge, and Frank Milne.

Photograph number 35 shows seven guides with a coiled climbing rope and two crossed ice picks in front. The guides are not identified on the image, but are identified from comparison with image at (1/2-035265-G). They are (back row from left) Alf Cowling, Jock Richmond, Jack Lippe, Charlie Milne and Frank Milne; (front row) Darby Thomson and Peter Graham.

Image no. 7, taken by Peter Graham, is labelled "Building the Sefton bivvy" in pencil on the back.

Image no. 9 shows a woman climber standing in the mouth onf an ice arch.

There are a number of views of the Hermitage reflected in a pool in winter, and image no. 11 shows the chief guide's cottage by the Hermitage.

Most of the places shown are listed above.

Quantity: 40 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.".