Mountaineering - New Zealand

Date: [ca 1900-1940]

From: Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942 : Photographs, negatives and photo albums

Reference: PAColl-10849

Description: Photographic images of various sizes taken by Leslie Hinge, probably between 1900 to 1940. The images show a number of outdoor recreational, sports and tourism activities, including: - Images of skiers and mountain hikers on Aoraki/Mount Cook. - Two photographs showing a man at a rivermouth, location unknown, fishing up a doctored image of a shark's head. - Bushland with native ferns, ponds and waterfalls. - Closeup images of geothermal mud pools. - Horse and car tracks cutting their way through native forests. - Panoramic photographs of glaciers, mountain peaks and mountain ranges. - Mount Ngauruhoe from the Tongariro Chateau. - Boating, lake and wayside harbour scenes. - Miniature panorama photographs showing boats in Milford Sound and Mitre Peak; and an aerial view of Wellington Harbour, looking back towards the Hutt Valley. - A photograph of Oriental Bay, Wellington at night. There are also a handful of images that relate to industries such as whaling, forest clearing and farming, including: - A bullock team dragging a large log through bushland. - Images of whalers on harpoon boats heading out to sea. - Images of mobs of sheep being mustered. - Two large montage photographs showing whalers hunting and landing a whale for butchering at a processing station. - Two panoramic photographs of a large cattle stockyard, location unknown, containing mustered cattle. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Twelve mini-panorama photographs were originally found stored within an A4 envelope. The photographs have been placed in an acid free enclosure, and interleaved back in their original location. A4 envelope not retained. Quantity: 65 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Provenance: Donor is the granddaughter of Leslie Hinge and acquired the collection from her mother, Ruby Blanche Keen (nee Hinge), after her mother's death in 2001. The collection had previously been stored under the family house at Oriental Terrace, Wellington.

Date: 1959-2007

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-4

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1959 to 2007. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Identified people are: Senior Sergeant George Christopher Donnelly of Hokitika police; Ivy Harper and Bert Birchfield; Mike Armstrong and Jim Daken; Mary and Heather Cornwell; Charleston coal mine operator Neil Mouat; Mack Heinz; Tex Smith; Mike Armstrong; Henry Heveldt and M Bennett of Nolan's Mill; Garth Graham; meat shooters Mike Bennett and Kevin Blythell; John 'Opo' Angus, the Eggling brothers; helicopter pilot Ben Morris and Les's wife Mary Cleveland; and Johnny Hewer, Claire Easterbrook and Liam Easterbrook in front of the Neils Beach school house. Featured natural environments include the hot springs at Welcome Flat and the Karangarua Valley, River, Ranges, and the view from the Sefton bivouac, Ocean Beach, and Neils Beach, including car wrecks at the rubbish dump. Other images (and series of images) of note include scenes from the Kumara races; environmental damage (slips and road works at Milford Tunnel, Inangahua River road, and Haast and Jackson's Bay area; open face coal mining at Charleston; deer hunting, largely based in Mussel Point; Central Otago Hotels (Cardrona, White Horse, and Vulcan); Post Offices and boxes (St Bathan's, Outram, Ophir, and Dunedin) and a Pacific Films crew on Fox Glacier. Also includes images of James Heveldt's grave (Jackson's Bay), Peregrine Vinyard, a new house in Bannockburn, a girl in a Westport ice cream parlour, women in a Carter's Sawmill shop, a Hokitika cake stall, and various shop fronts and signage in Dunedin, Gore, and on the West Coast. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 80 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: ca1930-1960

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-0614-2-22

Description: Photographs relating to places in the South Island of New Zealand, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images are scenic views of the West Coast, Otago, Southland, Stewart Island, and the Southern Alps taken by a range of photographers, generally between 1930 and 1960.

Date: 2016

By: Keir, William James, 1938-

Reference: MS-Papers-12175

Description: Folder comprises a paper print-out of Bill Keir's illustrated reminiscences `Mountain memoirs'. The manuscript is in typescript form and includes copies of scanned photographs in the text. The work recounts Keir's experiences of mountain climbing in New Zealand and abroad. These recollections are based on diaries Keir kept on these adventures. Climbs and climbing locations described include: - Mount Ruapehu (1948-2014) - Hopkins Valley (1958) - Arthur's Pass (1958) - Mount Aspiring region (1959, 1960) - Mount Hooker (1959) - Mount Rolleston (1959) - Matukituki Valley (1959 onwards) - Aoraki Mount Cook National Park (1960) - Fiordland (1962) - Malte Brun (1967) and many more. It also describes travels and climbs in Europe, including Scotland, the Lakes District, Wales, the Bernina Alps of Switzerland, Mont Blanc Range and Matterhorn in 1962. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Loose-leaf typescript manuscript (computer print-out) with scanned photographic illustrations.

Date: 1947-[ca 1979], [ca 2000-2014]

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: Series-6419

Description: Series comprises photographs of and relating to mountaineering taken by Les Cleveland and organised under this subject by the photographer in three separate containers and an album. Photographs were taken 1947 to circa 1970s. Some prints are identified as vintage prints. One set of photographs were printed in circa 2000s to 2014 by Imagelab, Wellington. In addition to mountaineering this material includes photographs of skiing, tramping, and coastal areas of New Zealand. Title supplied by Library. Mountaineering and skiing prints are also to be found in other areas of this collection, including at Series-6438-1. Arrangement: Photographic material arrived at Library in various containers with labels relating to mountaineering. See sub-series records for details. Quantity: 559 b&w original photographic print(s). 207 b&w original negative(s). 14 b&w original negative(s) strips. 1 album(s) containing 323 b&w photographic prints. Physical Description: Photographic prints and negatives. Processing information: Not all names associated with this series have been indexed.

Date: [ca 1970s-2009]

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

By: Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA12-11554

Description: Copy transparencies of photographs relating to "Beginnings of doc[umentary] photog[raphy]". Original photographs taken by Cleveland and possibly other photographers, circa 1943-1945 and circa 1950s to 2000s. Copies likely made by Cleveland in 1970s to 2000s. Photographs include buildings in New Zealand (hotels, rural dwellings, Ophir Post & Telegraph Office, the Commercial Bank of Australia in Johnsonville), New York scenes (Off Broadway marquee reading "EXOTIC LADY WRESTLERS", and a truck painted with text "NO RELIGION LIKE VIOLENCE" on side), an accordion player, an unidentified woman sitting with sculpture, and a crowd outside Galleria Ortiz [San Antonio?]. Also includes an image of a cabbage tree, a mountaineering scene, and two images relating to World War Two: 25 Battalion C Company group portrait, 1945; and a destroyed building [Italy, World War Two?], circa 1943 to 1945. Title taken from original enclosure. Abbreviations have been expanded. Arrangement: Originally housed in box labelled "Beginnings of Doc Photog" by Cleveland. Quantity: 18 b&w copy transparency/ies mounted in plastic slide frames. Physical Description: Black and white transparencies mounted in plastic Transfers: Part two of two. See remainder of set at PA12-11553.. Processing information: Slides that were originally stored together were split into two parts to facilitate appropriate storage.

Date: [ca 1970s-2000s]

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

By: Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA12-11553

Description: Copy transparencies of photographic prints relating to what Cleveland identifies as "Beginnings of doc[umentary] photog[raphy]". Original photographs taken by Cleveland and Tyree studios, circa 1890s and circa 1940s-1950s. Copies made by Cleveland, likely in 1970s to 2000s. Photographs of West Coast scenes include men drinking and fishing. Also shown are mountaineering, goldmining, and timber industry photographs. Tyree photographs are titled "Slaty Creek" and "Collingwood Gold Field Limited". Also includes building portrait of the Hong Kong Cafe and a detail of the door at Dalgety's on Featherston Street. People who appear in images are unidentified. Title taken from original enclosure. Abbreviations have been expanded. Arrangement: Originally housed in box labelled "Beginnings of Doc Photog" by Cleveland. Quantity: 22 b&w copy transparency/ies. Physical Description: Black and white transparencies mounted in plastic Transfers: Part one of two. See remainder of set at PA12-11554. Processing information: Slides that were originally stored together were split into two parts to facilitate appropriate storage.

Date: [ca 1934-1946]

From: Cowan, James Robson, 1918-2006: Collection

Reference: PAColl-10756-13

Description: Black and white photographic prints documenting tramping and mountaineering expeditions and New Zealand alpine and scenic landscapes, mostly from the period circa 1934 to 1946, most likely taken by Roy Cowan and possibly other unidentified photographers. Includes images depicting recreational activities including mountaineering, skiing, and cycling. Prints bear no caption information. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 70 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Black and white photographic prints.

Date: 1934-1946

From: Cowan, James Robson, 1918-2006: Collection

Reference: PAColl-10756-12

Description: Black and white photographic prints documenting tramping and mountaineering expeditions and New Zealand mountain landscapes, mostly from the period circa 1934 to 1946, taken by Roy Cowan and possibly other unidentified photographers. Most prints have some caption information annotated verso. Includes photographs of hills around Wellington and Upper Hutt, cliffs in Titahi Bay, and coastal features in Island Bay, dated 1938 to 1939. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 87 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Black and white photographic prints.

Date: 1940-1948

Reference: MS-Group-2089

Description: Comprises two memorial albums presented to Dickson's parents by the students of Victoria University College, Wellington. The albums give a summary of Dickson's life in New Zealand with many illustrations of New Zealand scenes, and of Dickson and his friends. There are memories of Dickson written by his friends, including Alistair Campbell, and accounts of their various climbing and other activities. Source of title - Transcribed from item Roy Dickson emigrated to New Zealand from Scotland in 1940. He was 15, and was taken in by a foster family in Wellington. He lived in Wellington and studied at Victoria University. On New Year's Day 1947 he was killed in a climbing accident on Mt Cook. Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, photographs & printed material Provenance: The donor is the sister of Roy Dickson. The volumes were compiled by his friends and sent to his Scottish family in 1948 Transfers: Accessioned in Manuscripts and transfer made to Photographic Archive - To Photographic Archive - Graduation photograph of Roy Dickson (PAColl-9994).

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Bailey, Margaret (Dr), 1945-: Collection of Margaret and John Bailey

Reference: PA12-7826

Description: Transparency slides of possible Tongariro Crossing, taken ca 1950s-1960s by John Bailey Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: [ca 1930s-1950s]

By: Cowan, James Robson, 1918-2006

Reference: ATL-Group-00411

Description: Collection comprising mostly photographs taken and compiled by New Zealand potter, illustrator, and printmaker, James Robson (Roy) Cowan, predominantly relating to his involvement in motor racing in New Zealand in the 1930s to 1950s. Also included are photographs relating to mountaineering in New Zealand and Kenya, engineering, a motoring trip to the South Island, the Province of Ontario in Canada, the speedboat 'Redhead', and photographic images of art illustrations and graphic designs. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Collection was originally received with groups of prints enclosed in plastic pockets and negatives in paper envelopes as arranged by the vendor. Series and subseries were created by the Library to reflect some of the thematic subdivisions in the collection, as there was no evidence of an original order. Quantity: 1130 b&w original photographic print(s). 123 b&w original negative(s). 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver prints, film negatives, manuscripts, typescripts, and ephemera.

Date: 1998-2021

From: Ephemera donated to and collected by the Alexander Turnbull Library from 2020

Reference: Eph-B-MARCH-APRIL-2021/08

Description: Comprises ephemera relating to sporting events and outdoor activities: Wellington vs Canterbury (Double Header) game ticket, 25 January 2021; Waghorn Outdoor Education Trust Brochure; Price List, Erua Ski Lodge Mt Ruapehu, 1998; Infomap 'Off the beaten track' navigation leaflet; Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre Mountain Skills Programmes; Salomon Discover Snow Learn to Ski leaflet; Rubgy 2017 booklet; Tawa Bowling Club Inc 2020 Have a Go day flier Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) Containing eight pieces of ephemera. Physical Description: Colour brochures, fliers, leaflets, and a ticket.

Date: 1964, 2013

By: Brock, Joan, active 1964

Reference: MS-Papers-11537

Description: Collection comprises three letters from John Pascoe to Joan Brock relating to an invitation for John Pascoe to speak at the Auckland Section of the New Zealand Alpine Club. The topic of Pascoe's talk was `Beyond the Waitaha - A transalpine crossing to the Rakaia'. Also includes a personal letter from Miss M V Mueller to Pascoe. Miss Mueller was the daughter of the surveyor Gerhard Mueller and helped Pascoe with his publication `Mr Explorer Douglas'. Source of title - Transcribed by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss & typescript

Date: 1879, [ca 1900-1920s], 1932, 1940, 2004

By: Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985; Christie, Alice Jane, 1905-1989

Reference: PA-Group-00757

Description: Photographs collected and/or taken by John Hellard Christie relating to his career and interests. Images were taken by Christie and unidentified photographer(s) circa 1879, and between 1900 and circa 1940. One small set of copy negatives relates to the Sim and Crombie families. One set of b&w photographic prints and glass plate negatives relate to the surveying of New Zealand Public works. Negative images include: many unidentified landscape scenes of bush, rivers, beaches and coastline, tussock, mountains, and small settlements including Hunua, Lyall Bay before housing, Banks Peninsula, Bells Falls and Dawson Falls at Mount Taranaki (described as Mt Egmont). This group of outdoors images includes some scenes featuring people: family groups (?), tramping and mountaineering parties, and camping. The set also includes: scenes on a harbour and on an estuary, a hut under construction, family scenes with cars and house. Some plates have inscriptions: 'Bert Corpe Ruapehu', 'York Bay cottage Moreton (or Menton?) family swimming', 'Matuki with Al & Esther', 'wool wagons at Kurou', 'stone arch Albert & Essey river at Matukituki', and 'Wantaki panorama 3 negs with lake filled', and 'HMS Prometheus in dry dock'. The negative images in this set which were accompanied with annotated paper slips are described on the slips as: a man and the 'Misses Jacobs and Davis beside a coach on Pahautanui Hill Road'; woman and two children in a view of 'Lyall Bay before settlement'; people sailing model yachts on the pond, Newtown Park, 'well before Boer War'; Bell Falls on the Stony River, near Mt Egmont; and a climbing party at Dawson Falls, Mount Egmont. Includes an image showing a bearded male in foreground looking across a crater at three distant figures which is described on the paper slip as 'Egmont prior to 1880, 1st photos taken at summit by JW Davis who also made 1st accurate survey of crater, wet plate and a race to get there before plate dried'. A backfile for this collection is held in the Photograph Archive files. It contains: original handwritten paper slips [possibly hand of J H Christie] related to negative images, documentation relating to custody and appraisal of collection items, and photocopies of biographical articles on Christie. Other materials created or collected by John Hellyard Christie are also in other collections held by the Alexander Turnbull Library, see Library references: 85-097; MS-Papers-1463; MS-Papers-4752, and PAColl-2111. Christie's World War One military uniform is held at Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand (registration number PC001008) Arrangement: The set of negatives acquired in 2011 have two numbering sequences, the original by Christie (see marginal notes on negatives) and ones on stickers stuck on negative surfaces during scanning. The sticker ID relates to the file name of the matching digital scan. Film copy negatives at 1/2-022119, 028083 to 028085 (PH-94-383), 038410-F (PH-94-385), 1/2-082074-F, 1/2-082077-F to 1/2-082080-F (PH-LBII-015-5) Glass (original?) negative at 1/2-065382 (PH-94-386). Negatives from PH-DBII-124-5 are housed at 1/4-090994 and 1/2-186157-G to 186417-G. Glass negative plates from accession PH-2011-123 are held at 1/2-237586 to-G 1/2-237669-G , and 1/4-128530-G to 1/4-128691-G. John Hellard Christie was a noted New Zealand civil engineer and mountaineer. During his life, he was able to combine his love of climbing, tramping, exploration, hut building, and mountain history, with his work on New Zealand public works projects such as the Waitaki hydro dam and Homer Tunnel. He led the first traverse of the mountains between Lake Hauroko and Dusky Sound in 1931. The Christie Falls are named for him. Quantity: 246 electronic scan(s) of b&w original glass negatives. 245 b&w original negative(s) (glass). 48 b&w original negative(s) (glass). 44 b&w original photographic print(s). 11 b&w copy negative(s). 5 box(es) containing 368 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (a spreadsheet index of the glass negatives). Physical Description: Film and glass negatives, photographic prints. Provenance: Mr McGlinchy held the collection after it had been bequeathed to the Club by Christie's widow. Processing information: Some film and glass negatives do not have print or digital copies. The collection includes a set of original glass negatives and digital files acquired by the Library in 2011. Each image file is an electronic scan of a matching glass plate. Files have an index to the image content.

Date: 1950 - 1959

Reference: Eph-E-TOURISM-1950s-02

Description: Poster promoting New Zealand as a destination for sportsmen, hunters, skaters, mountaineers, curlers, skiers and climbers. Shows figures engaged in these activities against a background map of New Zealand. May be by the same artist as: Spring or summer is playtime at Mount Cook. New Zealand Government Tourist Bureau [1950s?] Some tears at lower centre and right. Some defacement as each figure has a name written on it in pencil: J. Hay, Doug, Clive, Betty, Enid, Isobel. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 1015 x 640 mm.

Date: 3 and 4 August 2012

From: Connected People - Volunteer Service Abroad (VSA) 50th anniversary oral history project

By: McKinnon, John Robert, 1938-

Reference: OHInt-1255-05

Description: Interview conducted by Jiff Stewart with interviewee John McKinnon.Topics cover: his family background and life history; becoming a mountaineer while at Otago medical school and the Alpine Club; influence of Sir Edmund Hillary and working with him; climbing in Nepal in October 1964 and his involvement with aid projects including building a school in Junbesi and the Lukla airstrip; introduction of piped water to villages; his impressions of Sherpa people; his interest in Buddhism; role of Max Pearl in Himalayan Trust and building of Khunde hospital; his interview to become a VSA volunteer doctor at Khunde and preparation for the role; the relationship between Edmund Hillary and VSA concerning VSA volunteers in Nepal; the thyroid research programme in Nepal and iodine deficiency; health issues in Nepal including vaccination and tuberculosis; the influence of the barefoot doctor system he saw in China in 1970; training paramedics in Nepal; working with Sherpa spiritual beliefs and attitude of Sherpa people to Khunde hospital and Western medicine; mentions his wife Diane McKinnon working as an anaesthetist; openess of Sherpa to trekking tourism and education; doing medical visits to villages with Diane McKinnon; Sherpa health issues such as life expectancy, birth control, blindness, and doing cataract surgery; talks about Sherpa houses and chimneys; impact of Lukla airstrip; isolation at Khunde and working conditions at the hospital; and impact of volunteer experience in Nepal on his life and that of Diane McKinnon. Reflects on Sir Edmund Hillary's impact in Nepal. Includes an index to the abstract topics and full digital abstracts. Title supplied by Library. As part of this oral history project John McKinnon was also interviewed with Diane McKinnon, see Library reference OHint-1255-04. Quantity: 1 Interview(s). 4 digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s) abstract and index to abstract. Search dates: 2012

Date: 1993

By: Gallagher, Jennie, 1957-

Reference: OHColl-1296

Description: Interviews with four women mountaineers, conducted as research for a HIST489 essay. Interviewees are Betsy Shand-Blunden-Anderson, Mavis Davidson, Shelia Natusch, and Doreen Murie. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 7 audiocassette(s). 4 Interview(s). 1 folder(s). Search dates: 1993

Date: [ca 1900-1940s]

From: Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942 : Photographs, negatives and photo albums

Reference: PA1-o-2063

Description: An album containing photographs of New Zealand town and country landscapes, industrial and agricultural activities, and tourism and recreational scenes. The album also includes some photographs relating to Maori subjects. The photographs were taken by Leslie Hinge, circa 1900-1940. Many of photograph feature short captions written by Hinge giving subjects and locations. Images showing various subjects include - Panoramic and aerial photographs of cities and towns such as Wellington, Napier, Auckland, Queenstown, and Tauranga. - Views of country, landscape, lake and seascape scenes across New Zealand, including Island Bay, Wellington, Lake Matheson, Lake Te Anau, and Lake Ada; a coastal scene at Whangamumu Habour in Northland; Otehei Bay; Akaroa farmland; Ninety Mile Beach and Castle point, Wairarapa. - Photographs portraying New Zealand's forestry, agricultural, wine and meat industries, such as viticulture, logging, sheep mustering, and wheat, barley and oat harvesting. - Well known popular tourism destinations from around New Zealand, such as Rotorua and the Rotorua Lakes; Lake Taupō and theTongariro Chateau; Waitomo Caves; Mount Cook and the Hermitage; Milford Sound and Milford Track. - Photographs of recreational and sporting activities, including river fly fishing; horse riding; duck shooting, deer and pig hunting; waka ama on the Waikato River at Ngāuruwāhia; swimmers at the Blue Baths, and hot pool bathing in Rotorua; moutaineering at Franz Joseph Glacier; dirt road trips through localities such as Karamea and Kaikōura; Lake cruises and excursions in Milford sound and other South Island Lakes. - Maggie and Bella Papakura photographed standing in front of an ornate meeting house. - A photograph of an unidentified Māori women using a cooking pool in Rotorua. - A photographic study of three Māori girls taken on the Ongarue River. - Carvers pictured at work at the Māori School of Arts, Rotorua. - Taumarunui chief Hakiaha photographed holding a taiaha and dressed in traditional finery, including a korowai. The album's front cover has a gold leaf imprint which contains the words "THE LAMBTON ALBUM". Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: The album contains a handwritten note at page 137, which relates to the number of photographs in the album. The note has been placed within a clear enclosure and interfiled at its original location. The album contains loose photographs at album pages 3, 20, 27, 33, 47, 81, 91, 107, 133 and 137. The photographs have been kept interleaved within the album in their original order. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, 22 x 32 cm. Provenance: Donor is the granddaughter of Leslie Hinge and acquired the collection from her mother, Ruby Blanche Keen (nee Hinge), after her mother's death in 2001. The collection had previously been stored under the family house at Oriental Terrace, Wellington.