Snow - New Zealand - West Coast Region
United States and Waiuta
Date: 1923-[ca 1930]
From: Divis, Joseph, 1885-1967: Photographs of New Zealand gold mining
Reference: PAColl-9540-1
Description: Photographs taken in Washington and New York, USA. People establishing the Alexander Mine, West Coast. Views of Waiuta. Waiuta people. Portraits of women. In some cases there are prints on both sides of the mount. Quantity: 54 b&w original photographic print(s) stereographs.
Denniston in winter, scenes along the way, and Westport wharves
Date: ca1905
From: Humphreys, W :Photographs of the Westport Coal Company's operation at Denniston
Reference: PA1-o-992
Description: The first ten images are views of Denniston and the Camp under snow. These images include distant views and views within the town showing houses and streets. One image shows coal trucks crossing the trestle bridge in snow covered country side, and another is of the iron bridge in winter. Five images are of waterfalls and scenic features taken along the horse track connecting Denniston with the coastal plain The last eight images are of Westport. One shows a typical villa of the period, another shows the exterior of the Westport Coal Company's laboratory building. There is a view of the railway yards with Denniston coal waiting in trucks. The rest are of Westport wharves, ships, and dredges working in the harbour Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Aerial view of Mount Evans, Red Lion Col, Red Lion Peak, Ramsay Ridge, Amazons Breasts,...
Date: Winter 1933
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
By: Mercer, James Cuthbert, 1886-1944
Reference: PA1-o-411-095-3
Description: Aerial view of Mount Evans, Red Lion Col, Red Lion Peak, Ramsay Ridge, Amazons Breasts, Bracken Snowfield, and Barron Ridge, all under snow. Photograph taken by Bert Mercer in Winter 1933. Other Titles - Capt Mercer's aerial view Inscriptions: [on surface of print] Red Lion & Col, Mt Evans, Ramsay, Amason's Breasts, Bracken, Barron; Album page - beneath image - Capt. Mercer's aerial view. Winter 1933. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 75 x 55 mm, mounted on to album page
Mountaineering in the Southern Alps
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
Overlooking the township of Waiuta, under snow
Date: [ca 1930s]
From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis
Reference: PAColl-4796-03
Description: Waiuta township under snow, looking south east. The hotel is at centre bottom. Miners (red) huts at centre top. Miners hall, centre left. Photographed by Joseph Divis some time in the 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 20.4 x 15.6 cm
Otira Gorge under snow
Date: [ca 1891]
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
By: Tomlinson, Francis Ernest, 1864-1944
Reference: PAColl-5927-02
Description: Otira Gorge under snow, photographed by Francis E Tomlinson, circa 1891. Dated using Francis E Tomlinson's flourishing date Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Otira Gorge 174 F.E.T Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Mountaineers on Albert Glacier, waving to an aeroplane flying over the Southern Alps
Date: [195-?]
From: Tourist and Publicity
Reference: 1/4-018670-F
Description: Mountaineers on Albert Glacier, at the head of Fox Glacier, waving to an aeroplane flying over the Southern Alps. Photograph taken circa 1950s for the National Publicity Studios by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.
The Otira Gorge
Date: [Circa 1910s]
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-000872-G
Description: View looking down the glaciated valley of the Otira Gorge, with heavily snow-covered mountains above. Photograph taken by William Archer Price Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Otira Gorge. [No.] 591.E Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative
Railways road service truck stuck on a snow covered road, West Coast
Date: [ca 1938]
From: Junge, Norman Earl, 1916-1989 :Negatives and photographs of Reefton and Inangahua districts
Reference: 1/4-022970-F
Description: Railways road service truck stuck on a snow covered road, Reefton or Inangahua regions, West Coast, circa 1938. Photograph taken by Norman E Junge. Other - Note on back of file print reads:" Photo shows the new Railways Road service in operation with the truck well bogged in snow with a tree stump (unseen) in front of the rear axle. At that time the road was not much more than a gravel track." Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative