Tramping - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: 1931

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

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PA1-o-412-060

Description: "Snares and delusions that beset the rakaia pilgrim. Fording the "great grey green greasy Limpopo" a boulder rumbling torrent." Photographed by John Dobree Pascoe on the 26th of December 1931 Top photograph (PA1-o-412-060-1) "Drama in a nasty side stream. Bones, Bill, and Allen fishing for Basil Honour who was well and truly "over" with his pack holding him down in the roaring flood. [It] looks like an eel spearing expedition, but was nearly more serious. This was only a side stream, the main stream had yet to come" Bottom left photograph (PA1-o-412-060-2) view of the Rakaia River showing the main stream and the nasty side stream Bottom right photograph (PA1-o-412-060-3) "Safely over the Rakaia floods at this cost. [We are] shivering with misery and wet as shags. Packs upside down to empty surplus water" Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Three siver gelatin photographic prints mounted on album page 305 x 250 mm (page size)

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7822

Description: Transparency slides of Mount Cook National Park, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 15 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7821

Description: Transparency slides of tramping trip in the Tasman and Hurunui districts, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: [ca December 1936 - January 1937]

From: Salmon, Albert Armitage, 1899-1982: Photographs taken on a trip to New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-10262-2

Description: Mounted images with annotations from Albert Armitage Salmon's 1936-1937 trip to New Zealand. The images follow the route of Salmon and his companions' travels tramping and travelling through the South Island. Photographs taken by Salmon. - The bulk of the images show South Island scenery, particularly Milford Sound and nearby mountains, and Tasman Glacier. Includes images of Sutherland Falls, Lake Ada, the Cleddau Valley, the Darran Range, Barren Peak, Sheerdown Peak, views of Milford Sound, Mitre Peak, The Lion, Mount Pembroke, Bowen Falls, Anita Bay, Lake Te Anau, the Remarkables and Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown, Mount Sefton, Tasman Glacier, Mount Haidinger, Mount Haast, Silberhorn, Mount Tasman, the Hochstetter ice fall, Mount Cook (Aoraki), rock formations in West Canterbury, the Raikaia Gorge, and aerial views of Franz Josef Glacier and the Waiho River. - Several images show Irene Booth, Reg Booth, Mary Hansen, and Eric Keehn tramping through glaciers with Scottish guide, Duncan Darroch, who is wearing a kilt. One image shows Keehn amongst foxglove plants in bloom at Milford Sound. Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s) on mounts. 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1939-1951

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1969

Description: Photograph album compiled by Les Cleveland, comprising mainly photographs of mountaineering expeditions and tramping trips, 1939-1951, as well as images relating to his service in World War Two. Photographs showing Cleveland himself are taken by unidentified photographers. Most images are captioned with names, locations, and, in some cases, dates. Mountaineering and tramping photographs comprise the majority of prints in the album. New Zealand images feature Southern Alps and Canterbury, with many peaks, valleys, passes, and glaciers identified. Huts (interior and exterior) are also featured and most are identified. North Island tramping locations include the Tauherenikau Valley and Orongorongo Valley. Expedition members also appear in photographs but are largely unidentified. Album also includes photographs of a hunting trip at Mount Somers and various skiing scenes. Christchurch Ski Club (1951) and Ruapehu Ski Club (group portrait and building) are identified. Some individuals are identified. "Junee" is pictured crouched with an ice axe (page 5), Sophia Walsh of Christchurch appears in a seaside portrait (page 60), A B [Borely?] is identified on the Mt Somers hunting trip, Doug Fyfe is pictured mountaineering, and J Lange is seen rappelling in the Port Hills. Cleveland appears in several photographs. World War Two photographs feature New Caledonia in 1942. The images include military camps, scenic landscapes, and church at Thio as well as recreation scenes (swimming, boating, collecting oysters). Cleveland is pictured playing a guitar in a number of photographs. Also includes photographs of soldiers on motorbikes at an unknown location and a group photograph captioned "I4 Platoon". Album also includes mountaineering group in the Dolomite Ranges, postcards of Gruppo di Brenta, Rufugio Gonella, and Cormaiore. A boating scene from Lake Trasimeno, Italy, is included as is a [European?] skiing trip in 1945 and mountaineering Other images show the Majestic Caberet, Wellington (1950) and Ashburton Races (1939). Also includes West Coast scenes, with Wanganui River and Lake Mahinapua. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 323 b&w photographic prints. Physical Description: Brown textured card photograph album, 26 x 32.5 cm Processing information: Loose prints removed from album pages, with page number noted, and stored in envelope with album. Donor's interleaved notes on scrap paper removed by archivist after relevant information was transferred to record.

Date: ca 1928

From: Musker, Doris :Photograph albums and slides

Reference: PA1-o-1007

Description: Commercial tourist photographs of the Heritage, Mount Cook, Mount Sefton, Lake Pukaki, the Tasman and Hochstetter glaciers, the Red Lake on Mount Sebastopol. Other prints record a trip into the mountains by a group of gym clad school girls and their adult minders. These include the group eating near a stone built camp fire, crossing a swing foot bridge, and climbing an ice cliff Other unidentified images include girl guide groups, portraits of girls, more school girls, an interior view of of a sitting room fire place, and a house and a sea view at Plimmerton. Wellington City is represented by the Kelburn Cable Car terminus and the Skyline Tearooms. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1950-1961

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 : Papers

Reference: 75-241-148

Description: Diary and photos of Godley trip 1950; correspondence with Frank Gunn regarding crossing of mountain passes in 1905 and a photo of a musterer's hut Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, printed matter and black and white photographs Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Negatives - 559201/2 to 559961/2.

Date: 1968

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-8765-12

Description: Photographs of a mountaineering expedition into the mountains of the Ahuriri River valley. The images include members of the party, their camps, mountain huts they stayed in, views of wide vallies, streams, mountains and snow fields. Arrangement: Associated negatives at 1/4-111574-F to 1/4-111592-F. Associated colour transparencies at PA12-5583 to PA12-5588. Quantity: 77 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1934-1968

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 : Papers

Reference: 75-241-144

Description: Photo notebook of Rangitata (Canterbury) and Perth (Westland) watersheds; notebook of a trip to the Wilkin which includes general household notes as well as trip notes Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1950-1960

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 : Papers

Reference: 75-241-145

Description: Notebook of Mt Aspiring trip, 1959-1960 including diary and equipment and supplies list; diary of Havelock (Rangitata) trip, 1950. Includes `A cave above the Rangitata'. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 28 May 1993

From: Arthurs Pass Oral History Project

By: Cox, Elva Gean Stewart, 1906-1999

Reference: OHInt-0049/1

Description: Elva Cox describes childhood, reasons for taking up outdoor pursuits, cycling trips to the West Coast, Murchison earthquake, Lyell Hotel, her husband; Edna Pierce (first policewoman in Christchurch); Lesley Island; clothes worn on tramping; cycling over Haast Pass; roadmen's and mountaineering huts; New Zealand Alpine Club; recalls various huts for trampers and mountaineers; their construction; Cheeseman Skifield Races; skiing; huts in Arthurs Pass region; stories about various expeditions in the Southern Alps Venue - Christchurch Interviewer(s) - Kay Holder Venue - Christchurch Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.45 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 953.

Date: 1922, 1939-1951, 1980-1981

By: Collins, Charles E, active 1939-1981

Reference: MS-Papers-6741

Description: Accounts of tramping and mountaineering trips in the Canterbury region of the Southern Alps and other parts of the alps from 1939-ca 1951 by Collins with transcripts of some for distribution to members of the parties; also includes correspondence and a photograph relating to a Sherpa who visited New Zealand in 1922 Collins recorded each trip beginning with the group's departure from Christchurch, arrival at the base camp, such as Arthur's Pass, preparations and arrangements, describing weather in particular, food, terrain, any unusual aspects and included information about routes Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 8 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts and photograph