Tramping - New Zealand - West Coast Region

Date: [ca 1914-1915]

By: Fletcher, H A, active 1914-1915

Reference: PAColl-2507

Description: Photograph of a group of men at a camp, taken ca 1914-1915 during a tramping holiday Mr H A Fletcher took in the Franz Joseph area. Twelve men are holding equipment and posing in front of three tents. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 10.6 x 15 cm Provenance: Purchased from Quilters Bookshop, Wellington, 1992 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MSX-3471 : Fletcher, H A : Diary of a trip to Franz Joseph Glacier.

Date: 1984 - 1995

From: Ross, Gregory F A 1951- :[Red beech writing. Illustrations. 1970-1984].

By: Ross, Gregory F A, 1951-

Reference: A-285-014

Description: Illustration to his publication "Red beech writing". Toronto: GFA Ross, 1995. 90p. Shows one tramper in the river, and one standing on a boulder. Illustrations for Greg Ross's "Red beech writing". Toronto, The Author, 1995. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Greg Ross Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 230 x 220 mm. Provenance: Donated by Greg Ross, residing in Canada, in 1995.

Date: 1920 - 1929

From: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch :Charm of Franz Josef N.Z., the world's most beautiful glacier. [1920s?]

Reference: Eph-B-TOURISM-Franz-1920s-01-cover

Description: Shows two walkers on a path through the bush in the right foreground, looking out at the Franz Josef Glacier in the central distance. Colouring is pink/red and blue/grey. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 245 x 187 mm.

Date: 1968

From: Thorn, Benji, fl 2005 :Colour slides taken on holidays in the South Island

Reference: PA12-3436

Description: A group on a tramp on the Heaphy Track. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1968. Quantity: 15 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35 mm

Date: [1958-1968]

By: Bennett, Holly, active 2002

Reference: MS-Papers-7479

Description: Comprises track instructions for Roberts Point track, Peter's Pool/Douglas track, Lake Wombat track and Callery/Warm Spring track; file recording Pelorous [sic] Sound trip by the Wellington branch, Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society trip recorded by Beryl Rountree (1958); colour centre pages of a Routeburn Track expedition; and notes on Kaingaroa Forest (1964) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs H Bennett, Brooklyn, Wellington, Jun 2002

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1104-F

Description: Close-up panoramic view of the Waiho Hotel, Franz Josef Glacier. Two-storeyed wooden hotel with verandahs on both levels. Two cars are parked in front, and there are several groups of men and women wearing hiking clothes, carrying walking poles. Large stones edge a small lawn on the left. Trees, including cabbage trees to left and right of hotel. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Waiho Hotel. T Govt. 24; Photographer's title on negative - "Waiho Hotel" Franz Josef Glacier. New Zealand. No. 931 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 128.0 cm

Date: 1956-1958

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

Reference: PAColl-10131-3

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1956 to 1958. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Most prints relate to the West Coast Region, but also some images of Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago regions. Identified people are: Kopara Sawmill workers Bill Brown, Owen Jacobs, Morry Pullman, Hans Van Ruyven, Jimmy Birchfield, Doug Macalister, Joe Kavanagh, Neil McLean, Archy Fluerty, saw doctor John Henry Ord, Ted McGhie; licensee of Nelson Creek Hotel D Graham; Dorothy Debenham; Mick Bowie, and chief guide at Mt Cook Hermitage. Unidentified people include a female French tourist and some children. Featured natural environments include Karamea beach scenes, mining and sawmilling sites, and Buller Gorge. Featured town sequences include Reefton and Nelson's Creek houses and businesses, many of which are derelict. Further images (and series of images) of note include: a series of images of the Kopara Sawmill with forests, exterior felling scenes, lumber yard, processing of timber, and workers; spectators at a Cobden soccer match; crib-logging on the Wataroa River; various road works and maintainence scenes; locomotive at Ngahere sawmill site; images relating to various mining activities; church buildings; municipal buildings; and some mountaineering prints. 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: 72 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: [ca 1950-1970]

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

Reference: PAColl-10567-16

Description: Photographs relating to mountaineering and skiing taken by Les Cleveland circa 1950s to circa 1970. A small number of prints include caption information on the rear of the print. One vintage print is stamped "Les Cleveland Photograph." Contains prints of scenic mountain landscapes which feature peaks, valleys, and glaciers in the Southern Alps (including Mount Cook). There are several aerial photographs. Unidentified mountaineers are photographed, including climbers roped together on a mountain face, building a snow cave, and at mountain huts. Also contains photographs of a group backcountry skiing, likely in the South Island. Downhill ski scenes are mainly taken at Whakapapa Ski Field. People, in skiing attire, are photographed but are unidentified with the exception of Austrian ski instructor Joe Maka[d?] (giving a lesson) and Judy Ryan of the Taupo Ski Club ( in a group photograph with staff from the National Downhill). People are photographed relaxing in ski huts and smoking, and one woman has her leg in a full cast. Cleveland's wife Mary Cleveland is photographed at an alpine geothermal area, likely Ketetahi Springs. Title transcribed from item. Arrangement: Prints arrived at Library in one file box labelled "Mountaineering". Quantity: 87 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photographs Transfers: Box two of two. See PAColl-10567-15 for box one.. Processing information: Prints arrived at Library in one file box labelled "Mountaineering" by the donor. Prints were in no discernible order. Library staff arranged prints by subject where possible and were able to discern some series through paper manufacturers and subject matter. Prints are now housed in two separate boxes.

Date: [ca 1939 to 2007]

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

Reference: PAColl-10645-21

Description: Contains photographic prints showing a range of subjects and locations relating to Les Cleveland's life, 1939 to circa 2007. Photographs taken by Les Cleveland and other unidentified photographers. Includes photographs and images relating to World War Two, photographs taken on Cleveland family trips overseas including in Portugal and the United States of America (Washington D.C. and New York City), and Cleveland family scenes in New Zealand including Donna Cleveland and her children Max and Maddie (Les Cleveland's grandchildren). A sequence of photographs shows author Michael Jackson's book launch on the 29th August 1997 in Palmerston North, with Les Cleveland appearing in one photograph. Photographs taken on the West Coast of New Zealand include photographs relating to mining, buildings, meatshooting, tramping trips with unidentified friends, and bush. A laser print of a nude of Mary Cleveland, taken circa 1970, is also included. Les Cleveland is photographed beside a river [circa 1940s to 1950s]. A modern print of a woman reclining with a fan, her dress falling off her shoulder, likely from circa 1900s, is unattributed. Photographic ephemera includes original print wallets, photographer's notes for development, and a paper fold used to keep a set of prints together. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Prints arrived at the library in a file box in no discernible order. Some were loose while others were in photo wallets or kept together by folds of paper. Note that none of these prints had correpsponding negatives stored with them. Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s). 14 colour original photographic print(s). 4 item(s) of photographic ephemera photograph wallets, development notes. 1 colour copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Colour and black and white photographs, photo wallets, and mss notes Processing information: Prints were removed from print wallets or paper folds with the original enclosure maintained.

Date: ca 1928

From: Musker, Doris :Photograph albums and slides

Reference: PA1-o-1007

Description: Commercial tourist photographs of the Heritage, Mount Cook, Mount Sefton, Lake Pukaki, the Tasman and Hochstetter glaciers, the Red Lake on Mount Sebastopol. Other prints record a trip into the mountains by a group of gym clad school girls and their adult minders. These include the group eating near a stone built camp fire, crossing a swing foot bridge, and climbing an ice cliff Other unidentified images include girl guide groups, portraits of girls, more school girls, an interior view of of a sitting room fire place, and a house and a sea view at Plimmerton. Wellington City is represented by the Kelburn Cable Car terminus and the Skyline Tearooms. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1935-1938

From: Koppel, Irene, 1914-2004 :Photographic prints, albums and negatives taken by Irene Koppel

By: Verry, Horace Leslie, 1916-1996

Reference: PA1-o-987

Description: The images record six tramping trips made between 1935 and 1938. 1935: Trip through the central North Island including Lake Taupo, the Volcanic Plateau, and thermal areas. 1936: Trip through Westland. 1936: Visit to Lake Horowhenua and it's surroundings. 1937: Southern crossing of the Tararua Ranges Christmas/New Year 1936-1937: Visit to Tongariro National Park. 1938: Trip from Blenheim to Dunedin via the West Coast and the Southland Region mountains near Milford Sound and Queenstown. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1952-1953

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

Reference: 75-241-124

Description: Notebook gives details of provisions and the route of a transalpine crossing from the Matukituki Valley to Jacksons Bay, south Westland Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and black and white phototgraphs

Date: 1952-1953

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

Reference: 75-241-125

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter and maps

Date: 1934-1968

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

Reference: 75-241-144

Description: Photo notebook of Rangitata (Canterbury) and Perth (Westland) watersheds; notebook of a trip to the Wilkin which includes general household notes as well as trip notes Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1984 - 1995

From: Ross, Gregory F A 1951- :[Red beech writing. Illustrations. 1970-1984].

By: Ross, Gregory F A, 1951-

Reference: A-285-014-a

Description: Illustration to his publication "Red beech writing". Toronto: GFA Ross, 1995. 90p. Shows one tramper in the river, and one standing on a boulder. Illustrations for Greg Ross's "Red beech writing". Toronto, The Author, 1995. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Greg Ross Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy, 280 x 220 mm. Provenance: Donated by Greg Ross, residing in Canada, in 1995.

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1207-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down over Franz Josef Glacier. A man carrying an ice pick, wearing hiking clothes is standing on a ledge on the ice facing away from the camera. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape, torn] Franz Jo... Glac...; Photographer's title on negative - Looking down Franz Josef Glacier. New Zealand. No. 496 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 99.8 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1212-F

Description: Panoramic view of a group of nine men and women standing on the glacier in the foreground. They are carrying walking poles and are facing the camera. Crevasses are visible in the ice. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] The F.J. Glacier; Photographer's title on negative - On the Franz Josef Glacier. N.Z. No. 493 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 111.8 cm

Date: 20 April 1935

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

By: Sweney, Herbert Merle, active 1930s

Reference: PA1-o-411-051-1

Description: View of Mount Evans, West Coast Region, taken 20 April 1935 by Herbert Merle Sweney. John Pascoe is standing in the left foreground. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Pilgrimage; John, Evans, (Sweney); centre right - 20/4/35 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 58 x 99 mm mounted on album page

Date: 1865 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-066

Description: Shows two figures with packs and walking sticks, on road leading away between bush. Mountain slope is visible in the background. Stuck to leaf tipped into sketchbook. E-501-f-065 on verso. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (In ink): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Monotone watercolour, 265 x 185 mm.

Date: 1865 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-022

Description: Shows traveller walking with pack on road at right foreground, beside gentle rapids of the river. Bush-covered hills come down to river flat, and there are rosy-tinted mountains in the background. Another very similar picture is at E-501-f-070. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 142 x 230mm.