Malte Brun Hut (Southern Alps, N.Z.)

Mountaineering hut located on the moraine terraces above the Tasman Glacier, Southern Alps, New Zealand. Destroyed by an avalance in the early 1990s.

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Collett, Michael, fl. 1910 :Photograph of two keas on rocks of Tasman Glacier

Date: 1906-1908

From: Collett, Michael, fl 1910 : Photographs

By: Collett, Michael, active 1910

Reference: PA4-1324

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a scene looking to head of Tasman Glacier, from Malte Brun Hut, showing two keas sitting on rocks. Photograph taken by Michael Collett, ca 1906-1908. Note on back reads: Photo by M Collett. Looking to Head of Tasman Glacier from Malte Brun Hut. 1906-1908. Keas on rocks. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print Provenance: Donated by P J Collett, August 1976.

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Collett, Michael, fl. 1910 :Photograph of three men on Tasman Glacier near Malte Brun Hut

Date: 1906-1908

From: Collett, Michael, fl 1910 : Photographs

Reference: PA4-1306

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of three men on Tasman Glacier, near Malte Brun Hut, taken by Michael Collett, ca 1906-1908. Note on back reads: Photo by Michael Collett, On Tasman Glacier near Malte Brun Hut 1906-1908. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print Provenance: Donated by P J Collett, August 1976.

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Permin, J W, fl 1900 :Mt Haidinger & Tasman Glacier from Malte Brun Hut

Date: 1900

By: Permin, James William, 1880-1921

Reference: PA4-1091

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Mt Haidinger and Tasman Glacier taken from Malte Brun Hut, by J W Permin ca 1900. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Mt Haidinger & Tasman Glacier from Malte Brun Hut; Backing board recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Backing board recto - left of image - J W Permin photo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

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Permin, J W (Dunedin), fl 1900 :Malte Brun Hut

Date: 1900

By: Permin, James William, 1880-1921

Reference: PA4-0542

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Malte Brun Hut, taken by J W Permin ca 1900. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Malte Brun Hut; Backing board recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Backing board recto - left of image - J W Permin photo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

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Permin, J W fl 1900 :Mount Walter and Mount Green from the Malte Brun Hut

Date: 1900

By: Permin, James William, 1880-1921

Reference: PA4-1039

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Mount Walter and Mount Green taken from the Malte Brun Hut, by J W Permin ca 1900. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Mounts Walter & Green from the Malte Brun Hut; Backing board recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Backing board recto - left of image - J W Permin photo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

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Pascoe album 5

Date: [Between 1910s and 1930s]

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

By: Adamson, Jack, 1866-1951; Beken, Charles Albert, 1859-1944; Cain, Conrad, active 1910s; Kent, T R, active 1930s; Lysons, Markham Carthew, 1907-1944; Mitchell, John Wesley, 1884-1954; Nanson, Gerald Leighton, 1907?-; Odell, Robert Sidney, 1908-1992; Pascoe, Arnold Paul, 1908-1976; Porter, Harold Edward Lionel, 1886-1973; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Snowden, Andrew Craig, 1897-1981; Syme, Roderick, 1900-1994; Teichelmann, Ebenezer (Dr), 1859-1938; Thompson, A F, active 1939

Reference: PA1-o-410

Description: Photographs taken by John Dobree Pascoe and others, in the Southern Alps, particularly Canterbury region. They include groups of mountaineers; routes traversing difficult slopes; views of mountains, mountain ranges and glaciers; mountain huts and life enjoyed by mountaineers. A number of images in this album have no captions, but some have been identified as having been taken by, or of, Jack Adamson in the late 1890s and possibly up to the early 1910s. A number of postcard images by F G Radcliffe are included. Other photographers and subjects include early mountaineers Kate Gardiner, Mrs Thompson, and there is one image of mountain guide Darby Thomson (who died in an avalanche on the Linda Glacier in 1914). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; "J.D. Pascoe" lettered in gold in lower right-hand corner; [197 p.]; 26.5 x 32.5 cm

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Michael Collett and two other men lunching on Tasman Glacier, half way between Ball Hut...

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.

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Gifford album 4

Date: [1907]

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

Reference: Pa1-o-184

Description: Photographs of a group of men and women on a walking tour in the area of Mount Cook, Tasman Glacier, and the Malte Brun Hut. Photographs taken by Algernon Charles Gifford. This album appears to be linked with Gifford Albums 2, 5, 6 and 7. An undated article Gifford wrote for the Oamaru Mail entitled `To Mount Cook by motor car', is pasted in the back of Gifford Album 2. The article talks about a group travelling by car to Mount Cook, and then tramping in the mountains in the area. This album shows the party travelling in two Darracq automobiles, while the other albums show the party in the mountains, mountain views, the group crossing the Tasman Glacier, and relaxing at various spots on the way, including at Ball Hut and Malte Brun Hut. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cardboard cover, impressed pattern on front; 17.5 x 23.5 cm

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Photograph of Michael Collett and two other men outside Malte Brun Hut

Date: 1906-1908

From: Collett, Michael, fl 1910 : Photographs

By: Collett, Michael, active 1910

Reference: PA4-1309

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Michael Collett (in doorway) and two other men standing outside Malte Brun Hut, taken by Michael Collett ca 1906-1908. Note on back reads: Malgte Brun and Mt Cook, Photo M Collett. 1906-1908. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print Provenance: Donated by P J Collett, August 1976.

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Permin, J W (Dunedin), fl 1900 :Malte Brun Hut

Date: 1900

By: Permin, James William, 1880-1921

Reference: PA4-0994

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Malte Brun Hut, taken by J W Permin ca 1900. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Malte Brun Hut 5700 high; Backing board recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Backing board recto - left of image - J W Permin photo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

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Collett, Michael, fl. 1910 :Mt Cook from Malte Brun Hut

Date: 1906-1908

From: Collett, Michael, fl 1910 : Photographs

By: Collett, Michael, active 1910

Reference: PA4-1308

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Mt Cook taken from Malte Brun Hut, by Michael Collett ca 1906-1908. Note on back reads: Mt Cook, from Malte Brun Hut. Photo Michael Collett, 1906-1908. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print Provenance: Donated by P J Collett, August 1976.

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Collett, Michael, fl. 1910 :Malte Brun Hut with Mount Hooker on the left and Mount Tasm...

Date: 1906-1908

From: Collett, Michael, fl 1910 : Photographs

By: Collett, Michael, active 1910

Reference: PA4-1291

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Malte Brun Hut, with Mount Hooker on the left, and Mt Tasman on the right, taken by Michael Collett, ca 1906-1908. Note on back reads: Photo by M Collett. Malte Brun Hut - Mt Hooker on the left, Mt Tasman on the right. 1906-1908. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print Provenance: Donated by P J Collett, August 1976.

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Alpine photographs

Date: [Between 1914 and 1945]

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

By: Graham, Elizabeth Muriel, -1957; Hurley, James Francis, 1885-1962; Lysons, Markham Carthew, 1907-1944; Mercer, James Cuthbert, 1886-1944; Thomson, Jane, 1858-1944; Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983

Reference: PAColl-0959-03

Description: Scenic photographs of the Southern Alps, taken between about 1914 and the 1940s by various unidentified and identified photographers including William Alexander Kennedy, Markham Cardew Lysons, Jane Thomson, Frank Hurley and James Cuthbert Mercer, and possibly Elizabeth Graham (Mrs P Graham). Includes views of "Turner Hooker Expedition" in which Samuel Turner was the first man to climb Mount Hooker (in 1929), probably with guide Peter Graham (images 001-007); view no. 14 of the high peak of Mt Cook, taken by Mrs Thomson (Jane Thomson); numbers of unidentified images; views of glaciers and crevasses, mountains, and mountain huts; cutting round the schrund? below the Tasman Saddle showing the steepness of the snow slopes; the dining room of The Hermitage Hotel at Mt Cook; various expeditions including a Callery Valley Expedition and a goldminer's camp in Waikukupa Valley; aerial photographs taken by James Cuthbert Mercer including a campsite and landing site in the Arawata Valley; four views of Antarctica, including one of the end of the Shackleton Expedition ship Endurance, taken in 1915 by Frank Hurley (image no. 087), and one of Campbell Island; the foot of the Unser Fritz Falls; Copland Valley; Mt Ngaruahoe, and Tama Lake (Mt Tongariro); the road over Mt Hercules; Cascade Point; Mounts Cook and Tasman; aerial view of tree ferns ("palm trees") at Waiho; plane over Otako branch of Paringa looking north; Mount Hooker; five views of a group of men carrying planks up the Haast Ridge from the Tasman Glacier, probably in 1915 for the building of the King Memorial Hut; Mt Elie de Beaumont from the Upper Callery Valley; cloud reflections in Mapourika; the Fox Moth plane ZK-ADH by the camp and landing strip at Arawata. Quantity: 122 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.".

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Gifford album 7

Date: [1907]

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

Reference: PA1-o-187

Description: Photographs of a group of men and women on a walking tour in the Southern Alps, taken by Algernon Charles Gifford. This album appears to be linked with Gifford Albums 2, 4, 5 and 6. An undated article Gifford wrote for the Oamaru Mail entitled `To Mount Cook by car', is pasted in the back of Gifford Album 2. In it he talks about a group travelling by car to Mount Cook, and then spending some days tramping in the mountains in the area. Gifford Album 4 shows the party travelling in two Darracq automobiles, while the other albums show the party in the mountains, mountain scenes, the group crossing the Tasman Glacier, and relaxing at various spots, including at Ball Hut and the Malte Brun Hut. Relationship complexity - Glass negatives of some of the images in this album are filed at 1/2-060500-G, 1/2-060503-G, 1/2-060506-G, 1/2-060508-G and 1/2-060511-G Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Black album, entitled `Photographs', 18.5 x 23.0 cm

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Tourist Department album 7

Date: [Circa 1900s]

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department

Reference: PA1-o-500

Description: Photographs, mostly showing the West Coast of the South Island, with some showing parts of Southland, taken by the New Zealand Tourist and Publicity Department circa 1900s. Most are landscapes, but some show people in the distance, including horse-drawn coaches in the Buller Gorge and Bealey Gorge; Archer's punt on the Inagahua River; two men standing outside the Malte Brun Hut; climbers on the various glaciers; and people in rowing boats on Lake Kaniere. Other Titles - New Zealand scenery Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, entitled "New Zealand scenery" in gold lettering; 26.0 x 34.5 cm

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Sutton-Turner album 3

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

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Alf Brustad standing outside Malte Brun Hut

Date: [ca 1929]

From: King, L (Mr) :Photographs of New Zealand towns

By: New Zealand. Government Publicity Office

Reference: PAColl-0267-04

Description: Alf Brustad standing outside Malte Brun Hut, with Tasman Glacier in the background. Photograph taken ca 1929 by New Zealand Government Publicity Department. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom centre - Maltebrun Hut + Tasman Glacier about 1929 Maltebrun Hut and Tasman Glacier, Southern Alps of New Zealand.; Verso - centre - Acknowledge as New Zealand Government Publicity Photo. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 12.9 x 18.5 cm