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

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).

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

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.

Date: 1963-1967

From: Tararua Tramping Club : Records

Reference: MSY-1138

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: n d

From: Tararua Tramping Club : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1858-168

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1920-1922

From: Tararua Tramping Club : Records

Reference: MSX-0960

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1953-1960

From: Tararua Tramping Club : Records

Reference: MSY-1136

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1960-1963

From: Tararua Tramping Club : Records

Reference: MSY-1137

Description: Includes historical notes on Alpha Hut and tramping on the `Southern Crossing' Quantity: 1 volume(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 2 June 1929

From: Powell, Ian: Hutt Valley Tramping Club photographs

Reference: PA1-o-652-03

Description: Alpha Hut in winter, Tararua Ranges. Photograph taken 2 June 1929 probably by Ian Powell. Inscriptions: Album page - above image - Alpha Hut; Album page - right of image - (Ian Powell's skiis); Album page - beneath image - New Alpha 2/6/1929 King's Birthday Weekend (H.V.T.C. Southern Crossing-Otaki-Kaitoke) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.9 x 11.7 cm, on album page 24.6 x 31 cm

Date: 17 October 1947

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Elvines, Noel Jerred, 1923-2007

Reference: 1/2-118107-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative