Alma

Date: [ca 1862-1866?]

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: C-097-005

Description: A sketch showing the view from the Rangitata side, northeast of the Two Thumb Range, with the Rangitata valley and named peaks in the background. Title transcribed as composite of labels on item. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on paper, 250 x 450 mm.

Date: [ca 1862-1866?]

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: C-097-004

Description: An incomplete sketch showing the buildings of Mr Pott's farm in the foreground, looking across a river valley to Two-Thumb Range and the hill known as Alma in the distance. Reproduced in: Burrows, Colin James. 'Julius Haast in the Southern Alps'. Canterbury University Press, 2005, plate 8. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on paper, 170 x 545 mm.

Date: [Between 1926? and 1937]

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

By: Ambras, Walter Frederick, 1888?-1970; Clark, Richard E, active 1931-1961; Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950; Speight, Robert, 1867-1949

Reference: PA1-o-409

Description: Photographs taken by John Pascoe and others in the Southern Alps, particularly Canterbury and Westland regions. They include groups of mountaineers; views of mountain ranges, glaciers and valleys; mountain huts and life enjoyed by mountaineers. Many images show climbers exploring new routes in the Southern Alps, and first ascents of various mountains, including Mount Farrer (by N. Barker & G.D.T Hall, 27.12.1935); exploration of the "Adams ice-world" (from 27th-30th December 1935); Mount Kensington (28.12.1935); Mount Hulka (28.12.1935); Guardian Peak (30.12.1935); Speculation Hill (1.1.1936); exploration of Hot Spring Creek headwaters (2.1.1936); Tent Peak, Arrowsmith Range (Jan. 1931); Cloudy Peak (by B.A. Barrer & F.R. Askin, 28.12.1931); The Marquee (Easter 1932); the first crossing of the Lyall-Lawrence watershed (solo trip by F. Ambrose, 1926?); and the second ascent of Mount Arrowsmith (by Evan Wilson, J. Wilson, & A. Anderson, Jan. 1931). Several photographs show methods of crossing rivers, particularly in gorges, and in flood situations; and several show the suspension bridge in the Wataroa (Whataroa) Gorge, built by miners in 1906). McRae's Hut was located in Clyde Valley, Canterbury. Abandoned in 1890. Photographed by J D Pascoe in 1930s, and again in 1961. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; "J.D. Pascoe" lettered in gold in lower right-hand corner; [236 p.]; 26.5 x 32.5 cm