Powell, Ian Lyall, 1905-1993

Of Porirua. Member of Tararua Tramping Club. Photographer who was a member of the Wellington Camera Club in the 1930s. Photographed with groups climbing with John Dobree Pascoe in the South Island in the 1930s. In 1934 he climbed Mount Cook in record time (11 hours up & down), with companion mountaineer, Bertie Mabin, but without a guide.

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Pascoe album 1

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

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Pascoe album 6

Date: [Between 1903 and 1935]

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

By: Westland, Charles J, active 1900s; Kitchingham, Frederick Arthur, 1885-1964; Mercer, James Cuthbert, 1886-1944; Atkinson, George Gordon, 1905-1982

Reference: PA1-o-411

Description: Photographs taken by John Dobree Pascoe and others in the Southern Alps, particularly the Westland Region. They include groups of mountaineers; routes traversing difficult terrain; views of mountains, mountain ranges and glaciers; deer stalkers and their catch; campsites, both in tents, and in caves (including Wilkinson Cave, in which prospectors, trampers and mountaineers have sheltered); fording swollen rivers; and mountain huts and life enjoyed by mountaineers. Album includes early photographs taken by C J Westland (1903), and a number of photographs taken by F A Kitchingham (1914). Particular trips taken include a new route from the Evans region to the Rakaia, discovered by J D Pascoe, Wyn Barnett and A P Thomson on 4th January 1933; the first traverse of the McKenzie Glacier, in rain (31st December 1932); and the first ascent of the McKenzie Col (31st December 1932). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; "J.D. Pascoe lettered in gold in lower right-hand corner; [185 p]; 26.5 x 32.5 cm

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Pascoe album 7

Date: [Between 1931 and 1934]

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

By: Teichelmann, Ebenezer (Dr), 1859-1938

Reference: PA1-o-412

Description: Photographs taken by John Dobree Pascoe and others, chiefly in the Rakaia River area. Views include groups of mountaineers; routes traversed in the mountains; the building of mountain huts; deer stalking; the difficulties of fording flooded rivers; traversing glaciers; camping in the mountains; and life enjoyed by mountaineers. Particular sequences include views of the source of the Rakaia River at the terminal face of the Ramsay Glacier; the first ascent of jacob Glacier and the second ascent of Mount Butler by ian Powell and Jim Nichols; the first ascent and traverse of Mount Whitcombe by Boney Chester, Allan Willis and Bill Mirams (28/12/1931); the first ascent of the Snow Dome by Jack Hayes, Cedric Turner and A Anderson; record of pioneer work in the Wanganui-Rangitata-Rakaia watershed by Dr E Teichelmann with guides A Graham and J Clark (in 1911); and the first traverse of Malcolm Peak by Jack Hayes and Cedric Turner in February 1934. Throughout the album are excerpts from Pascoe's articles published in the Canterbury Mountaineer, relating to the photographs. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; "J.D. Pascoe" lettered in gold in lower-right corner; [285 p.]; 26.5 x 32.5 cm

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Art photographs in the pictorial style

Date: ca1935-ca1955

From: Powell, Ian Lyall, 1905-1993 :Photographs

By: Powell, Ian Lyall, 1905-1993

Reference: PAColl-7563-2

Description: Art photographs in a pictorialist style. The subject categories include street scenes with a human interest, landscapes, seascapes and marine subjects, architecture, and free choice called "any subject". Examples of this latter category includes a snow covered tramping hutin the bush, and a pastoral landscape. One notable group of landscape images are of the Putangirua Pinnacles on the south eastern coast of the Wairarapa Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s) one of which has been hand coloured.

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Powell, Ian Lyall, 1905-1993 :Photographs

By: Powell, Ian Lyall, 1905-1993; Coulter, Iris, active 1980-2002

Reference: PAColl-7563

Description: Photographs and papers of AD Mead, including his stereoscopic photographs and slides of land features, photograph albums, papers relating to his writing interests. Published maps, tourist ephemera and some cookery and tourist books relating to New Zealand and Pacific, collected by Mrs Coulter and her husband. Also some photographs and papers of Ian and Enid Powell relating to family and tramping interests. 30 Jan 2002 Mrs Coulter's daughter, Mrs Peszynski, brought further materials - AD Mead's stereoscope; photographs by I Powell; ephemera, publications, maps, private press ephemera and bookplates Quantity: 98 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Powells were family friends and their materials were given to Mrs Coulter's family. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1095 (Ian Powell papers).

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Art photographs in the pictorial style

Date: ca1935-ca1955

From: Powell, Ian Lyall, 1905-1993 :Photographs

By: Powell, Ian Lyall, 1905-1993

Reference: PAColl-7563-3

Description: Art photographs in a pictorialist style. The subject categories include street scenes with a human interest, landscapes, seascapes and marine subjects, architecture, and free choice called "any subject". Examples of this latter category includes a snow covered tramping hutin the bush, and a pastoral landscape. Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Corner of a cloister, Canterbury University College, Christchurch, New Zealand

Date: [ca 1932]

From: Powell, Ian Lyall, 1905-1993 :Photographs

By: Powell, Ian Lyall, 1905-1993

Reference: PAColl-D-1022

Description: Architectural photograph of columns and arches of a cloister in the Canturbury University College buildings, Christchurch, New Zealand. Photographed by Ian Lyall Powell in about 1932 This photographs was exhibited in the Auckland Art Gallery from the 3rd to the 30th of March 1932 and entitled "Sunlit Columns".(info from Auckland Art Gallery lable on the back of the mount). Another statement in pencil indicates that the photographer was a member of the Wellington Camera Club. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 245 x 195 mm on mount 520 x 432 mm

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Powell, Ian Lyall, 1905-1993 : Papers

Date: [1940-1992]

By: Powell, Ian Lyall, 1905-1993

Reference: MS-Group-1095

Description: Papers of Ian Powell relating to his interest in tramping and mountaineering and including correspondence, clippings, files on search and rescue operations and related papers Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 19 folder(s). 1 volume(s). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts and printed matter

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A man boiling a billy in the open air

Date: [1930s]

From: Powell, Ian Lyall, 1905-1993 :Photographs

By: Powell, Ian Lyall, 1905-1993

Reference: PAColl-D-1023

Description: Photograph of a man bending over a fire on which a billy is set to boil. The scene is outside in a grassed area surrounded by trees. The title is "Russel-ing afternoon tea". Photographed by Ian Lyall Powell some time in the 1930s Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Russel-ing afternoon tea Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 240 x 196 mm on mount 530 x 405 mm

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Correspondence - Ian Powell

Date: 1931-1936

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8630-06

Description: Letters from John Pascoe to Ian Powell, given by Mr Powell to Dorothy Pascoe in 1976. Written while John Pascoe was working for Harper and Co, Solicitors, Christchurch. Topics are mainly mountaineering and photography. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Tararua Tramping Club trip from Otaki to Woodside

Date: 20-24 Jan, 1922

From: Powell, Ian: Hutt Valley Tramping Club photographs

By: Powell, Ian Lyall, 1905-1993

Reference: PAColl-2743-1

Description: Photographs taken by Hector Milne showing the first Tararua Tramping Club southern crossing from Otaki in 1922 Quantity: 1 album page containing 9 b/w orig photoprints.

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Powell, Ian: Hutt Valley Tramping Club photographs

Date: 1922 - 1948

By: Powell, Ian Lyall, 1905-1993

Reference: PAColl-2743

Description: Photographs of tramping occasions 1923 - 1948 compiled for the 25th anniversary of the Hutt Valley Tramping Club, and photographs taken by Hector Milne showing the first Tararua Tramping Club southern crossing from Otaki in 1922 Quantity: 4 album(s). 1 album page containing 9 b/w orig photoprints.