Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs

Date: 1923

From: Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-o-233

Description: Scenes of a group of trampers in the Greenstone, Mackenzie and Routeburn areas. Photographs probably taken by Thomas Alexander Hunter, tramping with four other men. They are identified only as Irwin (Thomas Hunter's older brother Irwin Hunter?), McIntyre, A. Walt and M. Walt. Inscriptions: Album page - `Greenstone, MacKenzie, Route Burn. 1923. Irwin, McIntyre, A Walt, M Walt, T A Hunter' (hand-written inside front cover). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Grey card cover; 10 x 15 cm

Date: [1920s?]

From: Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-o-234

Description: Scenes of a group of men tramping in the central North Island. Views include a number of tramping huts, mountain scenes, and a few with the group identified by surname only. Names include Von Haast, Hoggard, Morrison, Maitland, Major Wyman, Beaglehole, Jerram and T A H (Thomas Alexander Hunter). Most photographs probably taken by Thomas Alexander Hunter. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Outer cover of dark cream buckram, 28 x 22 cm; with small coverless album inside, 17 x 21 cm

Date: 1939 to 1950

From: Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-o-237

Description: Photographs, chiefly taken by Sir Thomas Hunter, between 1939 and 1950. Many of the scenes show camping holidays, with camping sites at Whangamata (two holidays, January 13-29, 1939; and January 26 to February 16 1940), Gisborne, Wairoa, Napier, Palmerston North, Taupo, and Waikanae. The album is split in two, with half starting at one end, and the other half starting upside down at the other end of the album (tete-beche). Two photographs show Thomas Hunter with his son Irwin wearing army uniform, taken in 1940. The last few scenes are of Thomas Hunter's home at 10 Clermont Terrace, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album, lacks cover; 18.5 x 23.5 cm

Date: [1890s]

From: Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-o-236

Description: Photographs of South Island scenes, including Waitaki Boys' High School, a regatta at Port Chalmers, school athletic sports, picnic at Hanmer, camping at Kinloch. Place names are mostly given, but people are not identified, except one woman who is named as "Aunt Sally". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with pinkish card cover, entitled `Braithwaite's School of Art drawing book'; 25.5 x 18.5 cm

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-o-2065

Description: Photograph album titled 'The Tararua Track - Woodside to Otaki' containing black and white photographic prints, primarily showing male figures outside huts on the Tararua range. Some of the album pages are captioned: "up Mt Reeves"; "spring below Reeves"; "Top of Reeves"; "over Reeves"; "Tauherenikau"; "Tau"; "Alpha Hut"; and "Alpha above Bush". Also includes photographs of rivers, hilltops, and mountain ranges. No figures have been identified. Title taken from item. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 57 black and white photographic prints.. Physical Description: String-bound album with grey pages and a green cover, 25 x 17.5 cm. Provenance: Originally donated to the Library by the estate of Sir Thomas Hunter in 1953. In 2021 the album was found in the Tararua Tramping Club's archive amongst their lantern slide collection and returned to the Library on 21 January 2022. It is not known how or when the album left the Library's possession.

Date: [ca1920s]

From: Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs

Reference: PAColl-0963

Description: Photographic prints mainly of a trip on the Whanganui River, circa 1920s, taken by an unidentified photographer Quantity: 61 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: About half the photographs appear to have been removed from an album

Date: ca 1920s

From: Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs

Reference: PAColl-4422

Description: A man standing outside a log cabin in the bush. Described on the reverse as Smith's Creek, Tauherenikau River. Photographer unidentified. A group of Maori men, women and children outside a meeting house at Galatea on the Whanganui River next to the tekoteko aro. The photograph was taken by a member of a canoe trip travelling from Taumarunui to Wanganui captained by Bob Grey (not pictured). Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1926 to 1931

From: Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-o-235

Description: Album of photographs, chiefly taken by Sir Thomas Hunter. Many of the images are of tramping, camping and climbing holidays with friends and family, both in the North Island (Lake Waikaremoana, the far north, and in the Ruapehu and Taupo Districts), and the South Island (Greenstone River, gold sluicing and gold panning at Moonlight, Queenstown and Wanaka). Most scenes state the location, but very few people are identified, and then only by Christian name. Photographs were taken overseas on a trip to London via Panama, and to New Zealand via San Francisco, May-September 1931. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled `Photographs'; 18 x 29 cm

Date: [192-?]

From: Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs

Reference: PAColl-4407-1-01

Description: Mangatepopo Hut, Tongariro National Park, amongst snow, with a pair of skis leaning up against one wall. Photograph taken circa 1920s, by an unidentified photographer. Other - Library notes on back of print read: "2nd stage Mangatepopo hut" Source of descriptive information - Notes on print. Date estimated by cataloguer. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Mangatepopo Hut Tongariro National Park; Verso - Improved Hut Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 7.9 x 12.8 cm Processing information: Original print from file print collection.