Coberger, Oscar August Bernard, 1902-1982

Date: 1933-1934

From: Powell, Ian Lyall, 1905-1993 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7408-06

Description: File of accounts by group of people from various parts of New Zealand, organised by the Hutt Valley Tramping Club for a Christmas-New Year trip to the Milford Sound area (1933-1934); places visited included Milford, Cleddau Valley, Anita Bay, Lake Manapouri, Doubtful Sound, the Milford Track and other paerts. Includes accounts of concerts etc, poems and songs. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [Circa 1930s-1940s]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: Frazer, William D, active 1920s-1940s

Reference: PAColl-0959-11

Description: Photographs of mountaineering, mountain views and mountain huts in the Southern Alps taken by W D Frazer (engine driver, mountaineer and photographer in Otira). A number of unidentified people are seen, who may be linked to the Canterbury Mountaineering Club. Most locations are identified in ink or pencil on verso of photographs. Broken numbering sequence by the photographer appears on some of the images. (Where the photographer's number has been given it is added in brackets after the subject in next paragraph). Views include a workmen's camp between Fox & Cook Rivers (no. 2); Cook River Gorge (no. 5); looking down Cook River from Gulch Creek (no. 12), up to the head of La Perouse Glacier (no. 13), and looking up the glacier (no. 14); evening scene of Mount Tasman from high bivouac on La Perouse (no. 16), looking down Cook River Valley from west arete leading to La Perouse (no. 18), Sefton & Footstool from ridge leading to La Perouse (no. 19), and David's Dome, Dampier & Cook (no. 22), ridge near the summit of La Perouse (nos. 25, 26, 27), a group approaching the summit (no. 28), view from the summit (no. 30); looking up Balfour River from junction with Cook River (no. 32); from the lower slopes of La Perouse looking down Cook River Valley (no. 33), and same view in an evening scene (no. 34). The rest of the images do not have photographer's numbers. They include the Douglas Hut in the Copland Valley; mountain daisies on Mount Philistine; Craig Peak; Oscar Coberger's chalet; two men beside Lake Kaurapataka (bird sanctuary); Otira township; view from Mrs W D Kennedy's garden in Otira with the Kelly Range in the background); an undentified mountain hut; Mt Barron from the zigzag with two young girls in the foreground; Mt Barron from Pegleg Flat, and from above the zigzag; two young girls at the foot of falls (probably Devil's Punchbowl Falls) in the Otira Gorge; snow-covered upper bridge in the gorge; Kelly Range from foot of Otira Gorge; snow-covered Arthur's Pass; two men and a woman on the Goldney Glacier; Stirling Rocks from Spencer; Minarets from the summit of Malte Brun; Gardiner Peaks from foot of Spencer; the high peak of Rolleston from the middle peak; Elie de Beaumont from summit of Malte Brun; an ice cave near the Almer; view from Malte Brun Hut; Malte and Lemmer[?] from Almer. Quantity: 46 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1970 - 1989

Reference: Eph-A-SKI-GEAR-1970/1989

Description: Includes: 1972: Oscar A Coberger. Ski equipment '72. 15 Cranmer Sq., Christchurch [1972] S Meltzer Ltd. Winter sports clothing & equipment catalogue 1972 (2 copies) Roy Turner Ltd. Ski catalogue '72 [1972] 1973: S Meltzer Ltd. Winter sports clothing & equipment catalogue 1973 1974: Snowline Sport Centre (Christchurch). Catalogue 1974. 1975: Roy Turner Ltd, Buddo Street, National Park, North Island. Ski 75; ski-ing climbing, tramping catalogue [1975] 1976: The Ski Shed; ski equipment for season '76 1977: Oscar A Coberger. [Ski pamphlet]. 15 Cranmer Sq., Christchurch [1977] John McEwing Ltd. 93 Cashel St., Christchurch. Ski ski ski 77 [1977] 1978: The 1978 Rangatira annual "Snowball", May 13th. Fashion show of latest ski equipment and accessories .... Manhattan Lounge, Mt Roskill [Ticket] ca 1984: ACC. Going ski-ing? What will you wear? The Ski Safe Programme ca 1984 ACC. Going ski-ing? What equipment will you need? The Ski Safe Programme ca 1984 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets and pamphlets, sizes ranging up to 240 mm.

Date: 1924-1960s

From: Hitchcock family: Collection

By: Coberger, Oscar August Bernard, 1902-1982; Life Photography

Reference: PAColl-10659-006

Description: Family photographs, probably collected by Harry Hitchcock. Taken by a range of (mainly unidentified) photographers during the period circa 1924 to 1960s. Many prints have annotations on the reverse. Includes images from; "First Darlington trip" Cardiff R.D.C. and Nesco power lines, a 1937 trip to Leningrad and Moscow, and at the Cotswold Sanatorium, Cranham, England in 1941. Identified people at the Sanatorium include: Nurse Pritchard, Luffie, Lorrie, Mrs Marsh, Monty Morris, Sally Holder, Mrs Davis, Russell, Sutcliffe, Mr Lock, Dr Mulligan, and Nurse Beard. Other identified people include: Richard, Felicity, Edward Hitchcock, Elizabeth Annie Hitchcock, Edward Hamilton (Ned) Hitchcock, H C Hitchcock, Ngaire Gai Hitchcock, Barry Hitchcock, Michael Leslie Radford, Cecil, and Harry Letin. Identified locations include: 159 Rolleston Street, Linwood, Christchurch; Durham Crescent [Lower Hutt]; Darlington, [Sydney]; Kaihere Ferry crossing Piako River near Kerepehi, Waikato Region; and Arthur's Pass, Otago Region. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: From box 6 in the donor listing. Quantity: 258 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: Negatives separated from prints for preservation purposes are held at 1/4-132121-F to 1/4-132528-F. Processing information: Negatives separated from prints to facilitate appropriate storage.

Date: 1938-1953

From: Powell, Ian Lyall, 1905-1993 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7408-01

Description: Tararua Tramping Club's 25th birthday celebration programme signed by people attending the occasion (1944); four Alpine Sports Depot price lists (1938, 1940, 1953, 1956) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1926-1946

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-186

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1926-1946. Several photographs of English mountaineer, Miss Kate Gardiner - with her guide Alack, with her guide V Williams on summit of Mt Cook, 1929, and one with English companion, Miss Corry, ca 1931; Miss L Familton with guides Williams and Alack, 1930; guide Brusted, 1932 and as leader of a rescue party (undated); Maori guide Joe Fleurty at Franz Josef Glacier; member of Tararua Tramping Club climbing a rock face at Titahi Bay, 1926; guide Graham with L M S Amery & A P Harper; P Graham, Vic Williams & Dave Graham resting on Haast Ridge (undated). Group photos of mountain guides (Frank, Alack, etc); prominent Taranaki alpinists - L O Hooker, J P Murphy & Rod Syme, 1932; photo of or by E T Napier; Canterbury Mountaineering Club rescue at Mount Rolleston, 1942; climbing the Whakapapa Glacier; H K Douglas of Wellington with guide M Bowie of Hermitage, Mt Cook, after their traverse of Mts Silberhorne, Tasman and Ledenfelt, 1937. Chess tournaments - E H Severns and R G Wade, 1944; Mrs Brethwith [?], member of Otago Chess Club, 1941; Victory Chess Congress, Christchurch - winner T Lepviikmann of Wellington, finalists J D Speele, H McNabb & R G Wade, 1946; Arturito Pomar, 14 year old Spanish chess prodigy competing in the International Chess Tournament in London, 1945-1946. Hiking and walking - Hikers and hitch-hiker in England during the war years, 1941; father with daughter in his knapsack near the summit of Mt Tarawera, 1932; group of climbers ascending Tarawera, 1932; group of young Christchurch women walking over the Cashmere Hills, 1941; large group resting beside Lake Blackwater, Christchurch, 1937; group of young men and women hikers from Christchurch, 1933 Oscar Coberger and Felix Harley navigating the Waimakariri in a kayak, 1933 Quantity: 54 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [Between 1929 and 1937]

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

By: Boot, Leonard William, 1908-1998; Honour, Walter Basil, 1897-1988; Snowden, Andrew Craig, 1897-1981; Speight, Robert, 1867-1949; Teague, Bernard Henry Norris, 1903-1982; Townsend, Maxwell Geith, 1911-1935; Wilson, Evan, active 1931-1964

Reference: PA1-o-407

Description: Photographs taken by John Dobree Pascoe and others in the Southern Alps. They include views of mountaineers; views of mountain ranges and valleys; mountain huts and life enjoyed by the mountaineers. One sequence (pages 129-140) show aspects of the search for the body of Edgar Russell who died on Mount Avalanche in 1933. They show the location where he was lost on 30th July 1933, the search party, and the routes they took to search, finally succeeding on 6th August 1933. Pages 99-100, 83-84, and 105-106 show the building and completion of the Athur's Pass Canterbury Mountaineering Club mountain hut; page 87 has an indistinct view of the unveiling of the Arthur Dobson Memorial, on 18th April 1937 (5 km north of Arthur's Pass Village). Most of the photographs re fully described with names usually given with initials and surnames, or nicknames. Many of the people and places photographed are listed above. Most of the landscape photographs are again fully described, including panoramas with peaks and routes traversed marked on the images. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; "J.D. Pascoe" lettered in gold in bottom right-hand corner; [224 p.]; 26.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 2014

By: Barrer family

Reference: MSDL-2341

Description: Electronic document comprises transcribed Second World War letters between Margaret Barrer and her husband Bryan Barrer of Christchurch. The bulk of the transcribed letters are from Margaret Barrer to her husband serving in Italy, and detail daily family and domestic life, life in Cashmere, Christchurch, and local events, such as talks, film going, and theatre productions. Accounts of note include Margaret's trips to Arthurs Pass, an acquaintance receiving shock treatment, interaction with Mrs Dowling, wife of a conscientious objector, and Oscar Coberger sending an item from his German Red Cross parcel received while he was a prisoner of war. Letters from Bryan Barrer include details of his illness. Document includes letters to Bryan Barrer from Sergeant Bill Massetti, and Ray of Wades Avenue, Christchurch. The letters were transcribed by Anne Barrer from carbon copies and original airgraphs. Document also contains copies of a photograph of Margaret Barrer, and her painting 'The Fuschias', and a copy of a Christmas Greeting card from the 2NZEF. Source of title - Transcribed from item Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Provenance: Electronic transcript created by Anne Barrer of original letters and airgraphs in the possession of the Barrer family