The Lion

Date: 1885

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921; Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985; Wildey, Alexander Edward, 1888-1967

Reference: E-788

Description: Includes views sketched during a trip in April 1885, of Preservation Inlet from the "Stella", Puysegur Sound, Dusky Sound, Breaksea Sound, Dea's Cove, Thompson Sound, Charles Sound, Caswell's Sound, Lookinglass Bay, George Sound, Bligh Sound, Poisson Bay, Sutherland Sound, Pembroke from south of Milford, Lion Mountain, Milford Sound, Sealer's Cove and Benton Peak, Kaipo, Mount Argentum, Jacksons Bay, Mahitahi, Cook Bluff, Cook from Gillespies Bluff, Okarito, Lake Waihapo, Rangitipo-Otira, Mount Rolleston, Lake Pearson, Governor's Bay (Lyttelton Harbour). The cover title also mentions Rolleston and Christchurch but these are not shown (although Governor's Bay is near Christchurch). Other Titles - Mount Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Album of 42 leaves, each 113 x 190 mm. Cover fawn linen. Pencil-holder at top Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A85-097 - Other material from the same provenance is at MSS 85-097, PAColl-0931, NegColl-246, A-367-028/029, B-163-014/026, C-081-003/009 and E-787..

Date: 1883

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-060-2

Description: A scene in Milford Sound showing `The Lion', Mt Kimberly (4290 ft) and Pembroke Peak (6710 ft). Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Milford Sound - `The Lion' - Mt Kimberley [Kimberly] (4290 ft) - Pembroke Peak (6710 ft) Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 142 x 205 mm

Date: [Circa 1900s]

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department

Reference: PA1-o-501

Description: Photographs of the South Island, chiefly showing the are around Fiordland and Stewart Island, taken by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department Other Titles - New Zealand scenery Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, entitled "New Zealand scenery" in fold lettering; 26.0 x 34.5 cm

Date: 1883

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-059-1

Description: A view of `The Lion' Milford track, framed with beech trees Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - `The Lion', Milford Sound Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 150 x 203 mm

Date: 1878

By: Minchin, Richard Ernest, 1831-1893

Reference: B-038-015

Description: A view of the Lion, the entrance to the Sounds and Stirling Falls. A small ketch and a rowboat are in the water in the foreground. The shapes of the mountains are exaggerated Painted in greys and browns Inscriptions: Recto - Signed and dated in pen & ink: R E Minchin 78 (1ower left, below mat) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Oval watercolour with scratching out, in oval mount, 350 x 250 mm

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: 1940

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: B-167-028-1/10

Description: Shows a view of the Lion peak in Milford Sound. Includes examples of first, second, third, fourth and fifth printings. One print is numbered 104 of a print run of 200. Dated from dates on watercolour sketches in sketchbook at E-761. Quantity: 10 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Woodcuts on sheets, 285 x 478 mm.

Date: 1883

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-059-2

Description: A view of Mitre Peak (5560 ft) and the `Lion', Milford Sound Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Mitre Peak (5560 ft) Milford Sound. `The Lion' Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 150 x 201 mm

Date: 1889

From: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :[Fiordland sketches. 1880s]

Reference: E-119-q-030

Description: Panoramic view showing The Lion and Pembroke Peak on the left. Artist's notes indicate ice and timber areas. Other Titles - The Lion Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 112 x 255 mm

Date: 1885

From: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :Sounds & Mt Cook [Sketchbook] No 5. 1885.

Reference: E-788-035

Description: A view from inside Milford Sound of the sheer mountains, The Lion and Mount Pembroke Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on album page, 113 x 190 mm.

Date: [1930s]

From: Union Steam Ship Company :Photographs of Ship Cove, Milford Sound, and Pacific Islands

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-D-0114

Description: View looking down onto the deck of the RMS Monowai. A launch is approaching with passengers. The Lion and Pembroke Peak can be seen in the background. Probably taken during a Union Shipping Company excursion to Milford Sound in 1930s by photographer William Raine. Other photographs possibly taken on same occasion at PAColl-D-0115 & PAColl-D-0116 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 57.5 x 42.5 cm Provenance: Donated by Union Steam Ship Company, Nov 1970

Date: 1890 - 1910

By: Thomson, D A, active 1900?; Hislop, Robert Neil, 1913-2005

Reference: G-306

Description: View of Lion Head across the water of the Sound, with a sunset glow Inscriptions: Verso - bottom left - Title and artist Quantity: 1 oil(s) in original oak frame. Physical Description: Oil on cardboard 280 x 482 mm (sight)

Date: [1920s]

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

By: Peart, Heaton Clairemont, 1894-1991

Reference: PAColl-0959-31

Description: Photographs taken by H C Peart, circa 1920-1921. Various views of glaciers, crevasses, and unidentified climbers; southern lakes, Milford Sound and waterfalls. Several show the Franz Josef Glacier from the Almer bivouac. Three views of Milford Sound show a steamship. Of these numbers 16 and 17 show a small steamship in Milford Sound, and number 27 shows a steamship and several men in two dinghies. Photographs numbered 24-26 show the old Rimu gold dredge and tailings. Identified places are listed above. Quantity: 38 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints.

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-7029

Description: Photographs of the Milford environment taken ca 1960s by John Ingle. Views include Mount Tutoko; boats at Milford; The Lion and Mount Pembroke from "old river bed"; The Lion from Barren Ridge; Bowen Falls; Looking up the Cleddau Valley; Stirling Falls from a yacht; Mitre Peak from the Milford Hotel, and from other angles; The Lion in cloud; Arthur Valley; falls on Mitre Peak after rain; Sheerdown tops with snow; Mount Isolation and the Cleddau Valley; two images of "sun burst" throwing light onto water. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]

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

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Finch, F, active 1878-1900; Iles, Arthur James, 1870-1943; Le Grice, Edward, 1881-1959; Malaghan, Patrick Thomas, -1938; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Ross, Charles S, active 1890s-1900s; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Valentine, James, -1880

Reference: PAColl-0959-40

Description: New Zealand scenes including thermal areas in the North Island, and river, mountain and roading scenes in the South Island, taken by various identified and unidentified photographers between about the 1880s and 1900s. Two photographers, Josiah Martin and Patrick Thomas Malaghan took most of the images. Other identified photographers include Edmund Wheeler, F. Finch, A.J. Iles, Charles Spencer, Edward Le Grice, J.V. (James Valentine), and Ross (Photographer, Invercargill). Several of the unidentified photographers are listed under their initials only, and include one with the initials T.S.M (or S.T.M. in a monogram), also A.A.B., R.G., Rooney, Luney (?), and L.M. A large number of those taken by Patrick Malaghan show Skippers Road and the Shotover River, with Pinchers Bluff, Huttons Cutting, Hell's Gate, and Skippers Creek. Thermal areas in the North Island show the Pink and White Terraces before the 1886 eruption of mount Tarawera, and also a number taken after the eruption, including the remnants of Te Ariki Pa. A large number also show various geysers, mud pools and hot springs. One method of crossing rivers is shown with the Hooker Wire Bridge (or Hooker Cage) and a "chair" travelling across a wire in Skippers over the Shotover River. Note on this box reads: "1st Ball Hut print" (no. 33); and "J. Martin "Mt Cook"" (no. 66). Most of the places identified are listed above. Other Titles - Old P.O.P. Quantity: 154 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.".

Date: [Between 1885 and 1919]

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

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0959-15

Description: Views of the Southern Lakes District, interspersed with a few scenes in the North Island taken by the Burton Brothers and Muir & Moodie between about 1885 and 1919. Most of the places mentioned are listed above. Image no. 63 shows a party of men and women at Sandfly Point (Milford Sound) showing some of the women wearing veils over their hats for protection from sandflies; image no. 79 "Phantom canoe as seen on Lake Tarawera" is an artist's impression of the phantom canoe which appeared to a group of tourists on Lake Tarawera on May 31st prior to the eruption of Mount Tarawera on June 10th 1886 and which was considered to be a bad omen; image no. 82 shows a collage "No. 1. Maori Land. The portraits are originals - taken from life"; image no. 094 shows a close-up view of the "wire tram" over the Taramakau River; no. 095 shows a logging tramway in the Taupaki Kauri Bush belonging to Matthew Henry Roe, while no. 120 shows his Kauri Point Sawmill, with the paddle steamer "Oregon" in the background; no. 096 shows a self-acting tramway incline at Wairongomai used for gold extraction; nos 104 and 105 show gold dredges, "the Dunedin Gold Dredge" and "Sew Hoy's Dredge". Quantity: 122 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Some items retouched with white, showing snow-covered peaks. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

Date: 1889

From: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :[Fiordland sketches. 1880s]

Reference: E-119-q-023

Description: View of The Lion (Lion Mountain) and Milford Sound Label - No 14 - Top righthand corner Other Titles - The Lion Inscriptions: Verso - Title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 145 x 235 mm

Date: 1880

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: C-007-014

Description: Shows a view of Milford Sound from the site of the present (1990s) hotel, with Bowen Falls partly obscured at the extreme right, and Lion Rock in the centre with Pembroke Peak just to the right of it.. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C.D.B. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 369 x 533 mm.

Date: 1885

From: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :Sounds & Mt Cook [Sketchbook] No 5. 1885.

Reference: E-788-036/037

Description: A panoramic view from inside Milford Sound of the sheer mountains, The Lion and Mount Pembroke Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on album page, 113 x 190 mm.

Date: [Circa 1910s to 1920s]

From: Sutton-Turner, Arthur Seymour, 1879?-1957 :Albums of the Southern Alps

By: Deverell, Walter, 1853?-1920; Sutton-Turner, Arthur Seymour, 1879?-1957

Reference: PA1-o-486

Description: Album of photographs taken by Arthur Seymour Sutton-Turner, on the walking track between Manapouri and Milford Sound. Inserted in the front of the album is a map issued by the New Zealand Government Department of Tourist and Health Resorts, drawn by W. Deverell, 1903. it is entitled "Map of the tourist foot road from Te Anau Lake to Milford Sound." Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey-brown suede cover, entitled "From Manapouri to Milford" in gold lettering; 24 x 30 cm