Mountaineers - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-386

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm

Date: [188-?]

From: Vance, William, 1899-1981 :Photographs

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-o-1724

Description: Photograph album of scenic views of New Zealand taken ca 1880s by Frank Arnold Coxhead. Includes hunting group with shotgun and game birds (humorously posed in wheelbarrow); Mt Sefton and Mueller Glacier, including ice bridge, ice cave, and mountaineers; Te Wairoa after Tarawera eruption; Ohinemutu, including carved gateway; Maori bathing in hot pool, lake Rotorua; St Clair beach, Dunedin; Dunedin from Roslyn; Christchurch from Cathedral; White Terrace, including Coffee Cups; Pink Terrace; Lake Wakatipu; Gabriels Gully sluicing claim; Arthurs Point Bridge; Shotover River. Inscriptions: Album page - centre - [Cover] New Zealand Scenery F.A. Coxhead Photo. Dunedin. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with leather spine and corners, 21 x 29 cm

Date: 1912-1933

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

Reference: PAColl-9752-2

Description: Mountaineering in the Southern Alps includes - Trip to the Godley Valley and surrounding mountains, 1932-1933. Trip to the Waimakariri/Mount Cook area, 1912-1913, by Edgar Williams and friend Dolby Cootes. Trip which included Sammy Turner, Jack M, and Edgar Williams, 1917. Southern Alps trip 1928-1929, which included Selwyn Grave, Edgar Williams, Jim Martin, and Clarry Stewart. Trip to mountains in the area of the Mueller Glacier, ca 1920. Trip to the Lake Manapouri area 1915-1916, photos by A S Sutton-Turner. Mountains and glaciers photographed by Sammy Turner in 1932. Halifax, Colon, and Panama Canal ca 1919. Waterwheel, Lake Wakatipu, 1897. Edgar Williams' honeymoon trip, 1925. Group of schoolboys, 1920s. Motor boat `Utu.' Williams family holiday house in the Catlins. Edgar and mother in Wellington Botanical Gardens. Edgar with bicycle. Edgar's workshop and yard. Public Works Department office at Lake Coleridge. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 201 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1931-1934

From: Duthie, Alastair Simpson, 1912-1995 :Photographs of Lincoln Ellsworth Antarctic Expedition, coast watching in Sub-Antarctic Islands, service in Pacific, 1939-1945

Reference: PA1-o-1244

Description: A record of climbing expeditions in the Southern Alps made by Alister Duthie and other mountaineers from 1931 to 1934. The first is a single group photograph of a party of eight, one of whom was A P Harper, leaving 25 Mile Hut in the Rees Valley in 1931/1932. Another copy of this print is in the collection at Photo Archive ref PAColl-8102-5-63 and it carries a caption naming each person in the party. The print in this album is surrounded by their signatures. The caption on the copy print also states that this photograph was taken on the occasion of the first New Zealand climbing camp. The second expedition recorded took place from the 4th of January to the 10th of February 1934. Initially the party comprised Alister Duthie, Lella Davidson, and Greta Stevenson. It involved climbing mountains in the general vicinity of Mount Cook. They began by crossing the Copland Pass to Welcome Flat. At Waiho the party was joined by Kurt Suter who was working as a guide at Franz Josef Glacier. The party did much climbing which included Mount De la Beche, the Minerets of Mount Drummond, Mount Spencer, Glacier Peak, Mount Lendenfeldt, ending up at De la Beche Hut on January the 24th, at which point Lella Davidson left to return to Dunedin. The remaining three continued their climbing expedition during which they made the first crossing of the Southern Alps divide by way of Clarke Saddle, a high col at nearly 10,000 feet between Teichelmann Peak and Mount Bountier. The third expedition recorded took place earlier from the 25th of December 1933 to the 2nd of January 1934 when Alister Duthie and W H W Walker made an usuccessful attempt on Mount Aspiring. They were foiled by the weather and their tent was "blown to bits." However, from the 12th to the 19th of April 1934 a party consisting of Kurt Suter, R Pinney, and Alister Duthie climbed Mount Aspiring via the north-west ridge, and also climbed Plunket Dome and Cascade Saddle. As well as photographs relating to these expeditions, the album contains many other images of mountain peaks and river vallies in the Southern Alps. An article by Alister Duthie on the first crossing of the Southern Alps divide via Clarke Saddle is housed at Photo Archive ref PAColl-8102-7. It is from The New Zealand Alpine Journal, Vol 5, June 1934. The crossing of the Southern Alps divide via Clarke Saddle was reported in the "Star." A photocopy of the report can be found in the collection at Photo Archive ref PAColl-8102-6-12. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1921-1929

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

Reference: PAColl-9752-1

Description: Includes - Mountaineering trips in the Southern Alps. Car fitted with Edgar Williams' automatic gear box. Motorbike and side car. Public Works Department camp relating to the Harper River diversion, 1921. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 73 b&w original photographic print(s).

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 1920s-1940s]

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

Reference: PAColl-0959-10

Description: Snapshots of mountaineering, camping, and several unidentified mountain huts in the Southern Alps taken by unidentified photographers. The groups are probably members of the Canterbury Mountaineering Club and/or the New Zealand Alpine Club. Many of the scenes show men transporting building equipment (some with the use of vehicles and horses), then carried by the men across stoney river beds, fording rivers, climbing with planks on their backs, then showing the various stages of construction. One hut has a rounded roof-line; others made of corrugated iron and wood are situated at different sites, including one up a bare mountain-side, and one with trees behind, and another with a river in front. The collection includes several interior views of huts (nos. 130-134), and close-up pictures of the men. Names pencilled on the back of some of the photographs include F. Hulston, D.V. Apperley, W. Newton, G. Chisholm, M. Barford, John Sampson, J. Moore and R. Drake. Image no. 175 shows the tombstone of Minnie Cochran with the inscription "In memory of Minnie Cochran, d 27th Oct. 1879 and Baby" which was found "nestling under the hawthorn fence by the cattle yards at Mt White". Compare many of the images which are similar to those in the W A Kennedy Collection Box 09 (PAColl-0959-09) Quantity: 177 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

Reference: PAColl-0959-27

Description: Photographs of the Mount Cook area taken by unidentified photographers, with most sites unidentified. Several images show mountain huts, one of which is under construction. Image no. 18 shows the Hermitage, ca 1920s; image no. 106 shows a group of five mountaineers, showing Dr Ebenezer Teichelmann, probably with Robert Stuart Low, Reverend Henry Edward Newton, and mountain guides Peter and Alex Graham when they made the third ascent of Mount Cook in 1905. Image no. 93 shows a "gendarme" on the high ridge of La Perouse. [An abrupt rock pinnacle on an arete which has resisted frost shattering]. Identified places are listed above. Quantity: 120 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." Photographs numbered 1-75, 77-89, 91, 95, 100-106, 108, and 114-115 have no information or identification of places times or names of people..

Date: 1968

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographs of family, holidays and tramping trips

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-8765-12

Description: Photographs of a mountaineering expedition into the mountains of the Ahuriri River valley. The images include members of the party, their camps, mountain huts they stayed in, views of wide vallies, streams, mountains and snow fields. Arrangement: Associated negatives at 1/4-111574-F to 1/4-111592-F. Associated colour transparencies at PA12-5583 to PA12-5588. Quantity: 77 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1934

From: Hewitt, Leonard Rodney, 1913-1964 :Photographs relating to mountaineering and aviation in Canterbury

Reference: PA1-o-1237

Description: Most of the album is a record of climbing expeditions made by members of the Canterbury Mountaineering Club between Easter 1934 and October 1939. There are photographs of the people involved in the expeditions, their names and the names of the mountains they climbed. There are also five pages of photographs relating to the Canterbury Aero Club dated 1938. They include people involved with the club, and aircraft. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1935

From: Hewitt, Leonard Rodney, 1913-1964 :Photographs relating to mountaineering and aviation in Canterbury

Reference: PA1-o-1237-61-1

Description: Four men equiped for hunting and mountaineering. They are from left, Vic Milne, Leonard Hewitt, Reg Allen, and Donald Minson. Photographed probably by Jack Forbes, the 5th member of the party, Easter 1935. Easter 1935 this group of men, and one other (probably the photographer) Jack Forbes, went on a hunting and climbing trip south to Lake Ohau. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 10 x 5.6 cms

Date: 8 September 1885, [ca 1920]

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

Reference: PA11-255

Description: Comprises: Two lantern slides of an eclipse of the sun, taken by William Williams in Wellington on 8 September 1885. Three lantern slides of a man rock climbing, ca 1920. Quantity: 5 b&w lantern slide(s). Physical Description: Lantern slides

Date: [Circa 1920s]

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-f-073

Description: Album of photographs taken by mountaineer and photographer Arthur Sutton-Turner, all related to the Southern Alps and all with good captions. People climbing with Sutton-Turner include Jack Lippe and T A Fletcher. A number of images relate to their journey towards the mountains, stopping at two sheep stations, the Richmond Station at Lake Tekapo, and Lilybank Station. At Lilybank, Sutton-Turner took a number of photographs of sheep being mustered from the High Country ready for shearing, and finally trucks being loaded with wool bales for sale in Fairlie. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown hessian cover; 29 x 43 cm

Date: [ca 1943]

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

Reference: PA1-o-412-017-02

Description: John Pascoe at Manuka Point Station, upper Rakaia River valley, Canterbury, New Zealand. Photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1943. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 8.3 x 6 cm

Date: 1932

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

Reference: 1/4-047879-F

Description: John Dobree Pascoe (left) and Lawry Walker (right) at Manuka Point station, Rakaia River Valley, Canterbury. The Arrowsmith range can be seen in the background. Photograph taken in 1932 by John Dobree Pascoe. An original print from this negative is at PA1-o-412-010-1. Negative identified from caption on album page. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 11.5 x 7 cm

Date: 28 March 1932

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

Reference: PA1-o-412-087-2

Description: Panoramic down river view of the Rakaia River valley and surrounding mountains seen from Mein's Knob. Standing on a high bluff, two trampers are silueted against the sky. Photographed by John Dobree Pascoe on the 28th of March 1932. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.5 x 12.5 cm

Date: [ca 1890]

From: Vance, William, 1899-1981 :Photographs

Reference: 1/2-002045-F

Description: Group of mountaineers in Tasman Valley, showing from left: P H Johnson (on horse), G E Mannering, W Low, M J Dixon (in front), J W Annan. Photograph taken ca 1890s by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1943]

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

Reference: PA1-o-412-017-01

Description: John and Dorothy Pascoe at Manuka Point Station, upper Rakaia River valley, Canterbury, New Zealand. Photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1943. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 8.3 x 6 cm

Date: Jan 1906

From: Ross, Malcolm 1862-1930 :Photographs by Malcolm Ross of New Zealanders in the Great War, Maori, mountaineering, New Zealand scenery, etc

Reference: 1/2-002922-F

Description: Malcolm Ross on Mt Cook, January 1906. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 30 December 1933

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

Reference: PA1-o-412-182-3

Description: A P Thomson, Gavin Malcolmson and John Pascoe squatting in the snow on a mountainside. Photographed by John Pascoe 30 December 1933. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - A.P.Thomson, Gavin Malcolmson, John P. (J.D.P.) 30/12/33. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.2 x 10.5 cm