Ball Hut (Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park, N.Z.)

Date: [Between 1914 and 1937]

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

Reference: PA1-o-406

Description: Photographs taken by John Dobree Pascoe and others, in the Southern Alps, particularly Canterbury region. They include groups of mountaineers; views of mountain ranges and valleys; mountain huts and life enjoyed by the mountaineers; and several scenes showing Canterbury Mountaineering Club annual sports days over a number of years. Most of the photographs are fully described, with names usually given with initials and surnames, or nicknames. Many of the people and places photographed are listed above. Most of the landscape photographs are again fully described, with peaks and routes traversed marked on the images. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; "J.D. Pascoe" lettered in gold in bottom right-hand corner; [240 p.]; 26.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: Jan 1907

From: Gifford, Algernon Charles, 1862-1948 : Albums and photographs

By: Gifford, Algernon Charles, 1862-1948

Reference: PA1-o-186-10

Description: Photograph of the A C Gifford tramping party relaxing at Ball Hut, Mt Cook, showing the group sitting outside with guide Peter Graham standing in the doorway; taken in January 1907 by Algernon Charles Gifford. Other - Original negative at 1/2-060503-G Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.7 x 10.2 cm, on album page 21.3 x 16.5 cm

Date: 1906

From: Collett, Michael, fl 1910 : Photographs

By: Collett, Michael, active 1910

Reference: PA4-1280

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a kea perched on a horse's back at Ball Hut, taken by Michael Collett, ca 1906-1908 Note on back reads: Photo by M Collett. Keas at Ball Hut (Keas on horses back) 1906-1908. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print Provenance: Donated by P J Collett, August 1976.

Date: 1906-1908

From: Collett, Michael, fl 1910 : Photographs

Reference: PA4-1301

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Michael Collett (on left) and two other men lunching at Tasman Glacier, halfway between Ball Hut and Malte Brun Hut, taken by Michael Collett, ca 1906-1908. Note on back reads: Photo by Michael Collett Ross Westland. Lunch time on Tasman Glacier halfway between Ball Hutt and Malte Brun Hut 1906-1908. (left Michael Collett). Note jam on bread. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print Provenance: Donated by P J Collett, August 1976.

Date: 1938-1939

By: McBride, Muriel, active 1938-1985; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PA1-q-150

Description: Photographs of YMCA Christmas trips in 1938 and 1939, to Milford Sound and the Whanganui River, taken by William Hall Raine. As well as photographs there are a number of newspaper and magazine cuttings, some of which were produced in the New Zealand Free Lance (January 25, 1939), following the Wellington Y.M.C.A. party on their trip to Milford. The photographs of the Whanganui trip were not taken by William Hall Raine, as he was on the Milford trip at the time. The Whanganui scenes are in an envelope inserted in the front of the album, and show the party travelling by ferry up the river, with picnics on the bank. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, entitled `Scrap album'; 29.7 x 23.4 cm

Date: 31 January - 7 February 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8780

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides includes views of Lake Coleridge, the Rakaia River, Lake Tekapo, Lake Pukaki showing the outflow river, views from the Hermitage (including Mts Sefton and Cook), terminal moraine in the Tasman Valley, and Ball Hut and the botanising ground with gentians and mountain daisies. Slides on this sheet are numbered 176-206 with gaps for those removed for lectures on New Zealand. (No. 175 of Lake Coleridge, is not noted on this sheet, but is one of those removed for the lecture series). Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slides (nos. [175], 178-179, 181-184, 189, 191-194, 197, 204) showing views of Lake Coleridge and country around, Rakaia River, the road to Mount Cook (Aoraki/Mount Cook), Lake Pukaki to Mount Cook, Mount Sefton, Hermitage Hotel, and the Tasman Valley from Ball Hut looking up the glaciers. These were taken as part of a representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 18 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1946-1949

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Powell, Arthur Walter, 1893-1970; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Weigel, William George, 1890-1980

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-160

Description: Photographs taken for publication in NZ Free Lance between 1946 and 1949. Includes: Mona Vale, Christchurch (home of Mr Tracey Gough), 1948; aerial view of St George's Hospital, Merivale, Christchurch showing Heaton Street and Leinster Road, etc; lambs on property of C H James, Amberley; bridge at Kerikeri Inlet; flagpole at Russell; wharves at Dunedin (showing reflections in water on a still day); Waima Maori settlement with Taheke Hills in background; Mt Egmont; main street of Arrowtown; war memorial at Taihape; Ball Hut covered by deep snow drift; Franz Joseph Glacier; Waiotemarama; Waipiro Bay; aerial views of Ohakune [?], (Whites Aviation Nos 7704 & 7707) Photographers include A W Powell, W Hall Raine & W G Weigel. Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [Circa 1900s-1920s]

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

By: Pattle, John Charlesfield, -1971; Teichelmann, Ebenezer (Dr), 1859-1938

Reference: PAColl-0959-09

Description: Views, mostly snapshots, many of which show a group of eleven men camping in the Cook River area circa 1920s, taken by unidentified photographers. Other images are very clear portraits, but neither the subjects nor the phtographers are identified. The views of the group camping show the men's arrival at the end of the road in buses and cars, prior to their pushing a trailer filled with camping equipment over a stoney river bed to the campsite, tents erected in bush settings, and several different mountain huts including one A-frame hut and two huts identified as the Havelock Hut and Ball Hut. Jack Pattle is identified as the photographer of the Havelock Hut (no. 29); Dr Ebenezer Teichelmann took photograph no. 30 which shows Jack Clarke, Dr Parker, Rev H E Newton and Billy Batson at Ball Hut in 1902 when they made the first crossing of Graham's Saddle in 1902 (identified from copies at the University of Canterbury). Photograph no. 37 shows a cartoon of "Bergschrund Bill" (possibly Bill Batson?). Photographs no. 31, 33, and 46 show a large group of men having a picnic at a mountain hut circa 1920s (possibly members of the Canterbury Mountaineering Club); photographs 39, 40, 41 and 47 show men in military uniform about 1941. Nos 40 and 41 show a combimed reunion dinner of the Canterbury Mountaineering Club and New Zealand Alpine Club members in the 2NZEF and RAF Middle East Forces, held Saturday July 26, 1941 at Kings Hotel, Cairo, while no. 39 shows an unidentified soldier and no. 47 is inscribed "All good wishes, John Simpson" presumably both members of the Canterbury Mountaineering Club or the NZ Alpine Club. Compare many of the images in this box which are similar to those in W A Kennedy Collection Box 10 (PAColl-0959-10) Quantity: 47 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: [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: [1907]

From: Gifford, Algernon Charles, 1862-1948 : Albums and photographs

By: Gifford, Algernon Charles, 1862-1948

Reference: PA1-o-186

Description: Tramping party with Algernon Charles Gifford (member of the party and photographer), in the Southern Alps. Views of the area, crossing glaciers, crevasses, and scenes with the party relaxing at various points, including a stop at Ball Hut in which three of the group are seated outside, their guide, Peter Graham, standing in the doorway. None of the photographs in the album are identified, but information is given as to date and the name of their guide on the record for the original glass negative (Reference No. 1/2-060503-G, Alexander Turnbull Library, Photographic Archives) This album appears to be linked with Gifford albums 2, 4, 5 and 7. An undated article Gifford wrote for the Oamaru Mail, entitled `To Mount Cook by motor car' is pasted into the back of Gifford Album 2 (PA1-o-182). The article talks about a group travelling by car to Mount Cook, and then tramping in the mountains near Mount Cook. Gifford Album 4 shows the party travelling in two Darracq automobiles, while the other albums show the party in the mountains, with mountain scenes, the group crossing the Tasman Glacier, and relaxing at various spots, including at Ball Hut, and Malte Brun Hut. Relationship complexity - Original glass negatives are filed at 1/2-060503-G to 1/2-060511-G Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Grey card cover, with impressed pattern; 17 x 23 cm

Date: 2 Oct 1925-31 Mar 1929

From: Wigley, Rodolph Lysaght, 1881-1946: Papers

Reference: MSX-9411

Description: Contains minutes of Annual General Meetings of the Mount Cook Motor Company. Includes information regarding shares, purchase of vehicles, building of Ball Hut, and purchase and repairs of hotels and other buildings. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1906-1908

From: Collett, Michael, fl 1910 : Photographs

By: Collett, Michael, active 1910

Reference: PA4-1300

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a party on horseback leaving Ball Hut, taken by Michael Collett, ca 1906-1908. Note on back reads: Photo by M Collett. Party leaving Ball Hutt 1906-1908. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print Provenance: Donated by P J Collett, August 1976.

Date: [1890s]

From: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936 :Photographs relating to Antarctica and mountaineering

By: Harper, Arthur Paul, 1865-1955; Inglis, Charles, active 1894

Reference: PA1-q-137

Description: Album includes scenic photographs of areas in the region of the Southern Alps, including panoramas and closer views of mountains, valleys, rivers and glaciers. Many photographs show groups of men and women, many of whom are identified, camping and climbing in the Southern Alps area. Also shown are scenes of The Hermitage at Mount Cook (one of which shows a bullock team for transporting stores, and another which shows Frayne's coach leaving Mount Cook); views of the Birch Hill Station; and Ball Hut (with a curtained-off area as a "ladies' compartment"). Many of the photographs were taken by Joseph James Kinsey, some also by Arthur Paul Harper, Charles Inglis, and Kinsey's daughter May. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover; 37.5 x 29.5 cm

Date: ca 1895

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

Reference: PA1-o-410-018

Description: Jack Adamson (right), and another unidentified man, with horses, by Ball Hutt, at the junction of the Ball and Tasman glaciers, Mackenzie district, Canterbury, circa 1895. Shows the hut as it was first built in 1891. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.4 x 20.1 cm

Date: Jan 1907

From: Gifford, Algernon Charles, 1862-1948 : Albums and photographs

By: Gifford, Algernon Charles, 1862-1948

Reference: 1/2-060503-G

Description: Photograph of the A C Gifford tramping party relaxing at Ball Hut, Mt Cook, showing the group sitting outside with guide Peter Graham standing in the doorway; taken in January 1907 by Algernon Charles Gifford. Other - Original print from this negative at PA1-o-186-10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1895

From: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936 :Photographs relating to Antarctica and mountaineering

By: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936

Reference: PA1-q-137-30-1

Description: View of the interior of Ball Hut. Furnishings, climbing equipment, tin utensils and magazines can be clearly seen. Through a curtain is glimpsed the quarters of May Kinsey, the lady of the party. Photographed by Joseph James Kinsey in 1895. Inscriptions: Mount recto - bottom left - J J Kinsey 1895; Mount recto - bottom right - May's comforts; Mount recto - beneath image - Interior of the Ball Hutt. 19ft long, 12ft wide. Ladies compartment. 3,402ft Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: [Circa 1910s]

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

By: Driver, H (Mrs), active 1977; Sutton-Turner, Arthur Seymour, 1879?-1957

Reference: PA1-o-485

Description: Album of photographs taken by mountaineer and photographer Arthur Seymour Sutton-Turner, all related to mountaineering in the Southern Alps, and all with good captions. Many of the images show mountain accomodation, both the larger Hermitage (the old, built 1884, and the new, opened in 1914); and smaller mountain huts such as the Hooker, Malte Brun and Ball Huts. A group of mountain guides are named (initials and surnames), and a young girl is named (Nella Cook). Other groups of climbers (men and women) are not individually named, but their location is given. Nineteen untitled loose photographs are inserted in a pocket in the back cover of the album. They show various mountain scenes with several close-ups of keas Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured dark olive green covers, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 26.0 x 33.5 cm

Date: 24 Aug - 6 Sep 1929

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/4-097510-F

Description: Photograph taken by Edgar Richard Williams. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Photographer identified by Curatorial Services Leader John Sullivan. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative