Alpha Hut (Tararua Forest Park, N.Z.)

Mountain hut on the Dress Circle Track, in the Tararua Range.

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Jansen, Nancy, fl 1940-1999 :Photographs relating to Nancy Jansen's family

Date: ca1910-ca1929

By: Jansen, Elwyn George, 1904-1979; Jansen, Nancy, active 1940s-2000s

Reference: PAColl-6174

Description: Photographs relating to the Jensen family, especially to E G (Paddy) Jensen. There is also a portrait of the Presbyterian medical missionary, Dr Owen Lamont Eaton, who was shot in China in 1939. Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Hunter album 2

Date: [1920s?]

From: Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-o-234

Description: Scenes of a group of men tramping in the central North Island. Views include a number of tramping huts, mountain scenes, and a few with the group identified by surname only. Names include Von Haast, Hoggard, Morrison, Maitland, Major Wyman, Beaglehole, Jerram and T A H (Thomas Alexander Hunter). Most photographs probably taken by Thomas Alexander Hunter. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Outer cover of dark cream buckram, 28 x 22 cm; with small coverless album inside, 17 x 21 cm

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The Tararua Track - Woodside to Otaki, photograph album

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-o-2065

Description: Photograph album titled 'The Tararua Track - Woodside to Otaki' containing black and white photographic prints, primarily showing male figures outside huts on the Tararua range. Some of the album pages are captioned: "up Mt Reeves"; "spring below Reeves"; "Top of Reeves"; "over Reeves"; "Tauherenikau"; "Tau"; "Alpha Hut"; and "Alpha above Bush". Also includes photographs of rivers, hilltops, and mountain ranges. No figures have been identified. Title taken from item. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 57 black and white photographic prints.. Physical Description: String-bound album with grey pages and a green cover, 25 x 17.5 cm. Provenance: Originally donated to the Library by the estate of Sir Thomas Hunter in 1953. In 2021 the album was found in the Tararua Tramping Club's archive amongst their lantern slide collection and returned to the Library on 21 January 2022. It is not known how or when the album left the Library's possession.