Copland Basin

Date: 1896-1897

By: Roberts, George John, 1848-1910; Cundy, Horace Gordon, 1907-1983

Reference: PA1-o-124

Description: Photograph album of West Coast scenes, compiled, and in part photographed by surveyor George John Roberts. Several images show Roberts, including one image of him with L Cockayne and C E Douglas standing on ice at the Bealey in April 1897. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black bound album with cream cotton spine, entitled "Photographs", 26 x 32 cm Provenance: Donated by Mr H G Cundy, Palmerston North, 1977. The album was compiled by surveyor George Roberts, uncle of Mr Cundy.

Date: [Circa 1890s]

By: Beattie, John Watt, 1859-1930; Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937; Roberts, Elizabeth, 1856-1918; Stoner, W

Reference: PA1-o-482

Description: Album of photographs relating to mountains and mountaineering in the Southern Alps. A photograph of George John Roberts, Charles Edward Douglas, and Leonard Cockayne (p 1), was probably taken by George Roberts' wife, who took one of the group at the same time but in different positions (See image at PAColl-5926-13) C H Stonor is seen with "Dr Teichmann" [i.e. Ebenezer Teichelmann] (p 40). Two photographs at the end of the album are of Tasmania, one showing a bush scene with a small waterfall; and one taken by John Watt Beattie of Hobart from the bay. All the inscriptions in the album are hand-written with decorative lettering and patterning. Inscriptions: Album page - W. Stoner, Llanvair, Coronation Rd, South Ascot. Rev. Celsus Kelly Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue cover, black spine; 24.0 cm x 31.5 cm

Date: ca 1890

By: Roberts, George John, 1848-1910; Harper, Arthur Paul, 1865-1955; Cundy, Horace Gordon, 1907-1983

Reference: PAColl-3412

Description: Mostly photographs of scenic West Coast Region. Note that under Places only a handfull of the 108 photoprints have been indexed Inscriptions: All the photographs are identified on the back in pencil written in most cases in the same hand. Some of the negatives have reference numbers on the back in pencil. These may indicate that several sets of prints were made Quantity: 108 b&w original photographic print(s) in two boxes. Physical Description: Majority of photoprints approx 110 x 150mm (the few that are not are smaller)

Date: 1892 - 1893

By: Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916; Strauchon, John, 1848-1934; Strauchon, Kathleen St. George, 1899-1981

Reference: A-048-019

Description: Looking onto plains Previously thought to have been drawn ca 1870. See New Zealand surveyor, CIV: 6, June 1930. (This gives information about John Strauchon's official positions, but does not give dates of Douglas' drawings). For dating and other details, see letter AT 13/14/1, 7 February 1995. Dated with reference to John Pascoe's "Mr Explorer Douglas", page 49, and others. Other Titles - Copland Inscriptions: Verso - title and other pencilled notes Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monotone wash on paper 190 x 150 mm Provenance: John Strauchon, a previous owner, was Chief Surveyor of Westland at the time Douglas made the 1892 drawings. In May 1893, he became Chief surveyor for Taranaki. Transfers: Transferred from Strauchon, John (1848-1934) MS collection..

Date: [Between 1914 and 1945]

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

By: Graham, Elizabeth Muriel, -1957; Hurley, James Francis, 1885-1962; Lysons, Markham Carthew, 1907-1944; Mercer, James Cuthbert, 1886-1944; Thomson, Jane, 1858-1944; Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983

Reference: PAColl-0959-03

Description: Scenic photographs of the Southern Alps, taken between about 1914 and the 1940s by various unidentified and identified photographers including William Alexander Kennedy, Markham Cardew Lysons, Jane Thomson, Frank Hurley and James Cuthbert Mercer, and possibly Elizabeth Graham (Mrs P Graham). Includes views of "Turner Hooker Expedition" in which Samuel Turner was the first man to climb Mount Hooker (in 1929), probably with guide Peter Graham (images 001-007); view no. 14 of the high peak of Mt Cook, taken by Mrs Thomson (Jane Thomson); numbers of unidentified images; views of glaciers and crevasses, mountains, and mountain huts; cutting round the schrund? below the Tasman Saddle showing the steepness of the snow slopes; the dining room of The Hermitage Hotel at Mt Cook; various expeditions including a Callery Valley Expedition and a goldminer's camp in Waikukupa Valley; aerial photographs taken by James Cuthbert Mercer including a campsite and landing site in the Arawata Valley; four views of Antarctica, including one of the end of the Shackleton Expedition ship Endurance, taken in 1915 by Frank Hurley (image no. 087), and one of Campbell Island; the foot of the Unser Fritz Falls; Copland Valley; Mt Ngaruahoe, and Tama Lake (Mt Tongariro); the road over Mt Hercules; Cascade Point; Mounts Cook and Tasman; aerial view of tree ferns ("palm trees") at Waiho; plane over Otako branch of Paringa looking north; Mount Hooker; five views of a group of men carrying planks up the Haast Ridge from the Tasman Glacier, probably in 1915 for the building of the King Memorial Hut; Mt Elie de Beaumont from the Upper Callery Valley; cloud reflections in Mapourika; the Fox Moth plane ZK-ADH by the camp and landing strip at Arawata. Quantity: 122 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 1930s-1940s]

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

By: Frazer, William D, active 1920s-1940s

Reference: PAColl-0959-11

Description: Photographs of mountaineering, mountain views and mountain huts in the Southern Alps taken by W D Frazer (engine driver, mountaineer and photographer in Otira). A number of unidentified people are seen, who may be linked to the Canterbury Mountaineering Club. Most locations are identified in ink or pencil on verso of photographs. Broken numbering sequence by the photographer appears on some of the images. (Where the photographer's number has been given it is added in brackets after the subject in next paragraph). Views include a workmen's camp between Fox & Cook Rivers (no. 2); Cook River Gorge (no. 5); looking down Cook River from Gulch Creek (no. 12), up to the head of La Perouse Glacier (no. 13), and looking up the glacier (no. 14); evening scene of Mount Tasman from high bivouac on La Perouse (no. 16), looking down Cook River Valley from west arete leading to La Perouse (no. 18), Sefton & Footstool from ridge leading to La Perouse (no. 19), and David's Dome, Dampier & Cook (no. 22), ridge near the summit of La Perouse (nos. 25, 26, 27), a group approaching the summit (no. 28), view from the summit (no. 30); looking up Balfour River from junction with Cook River (no. 32); from the lower slopes of La Perouse looking down Cook River Valley (no. 33), and same view in an evening scene (no. 34). The rest of the images do not have photographer's numbers. They include the Douglas Hut in the Copland Valley; mountain daisies on Mount Philistine; Craig Peak; Oscar Coberger's chalet; two men beside Lake Kaurapataka (bird sanctuary); Otira township; view from Mrs W D Kennedy's garden in Otira with the Kelly Range in the background); an undentified mountain hut; Mt Barron from the zigzag with two young girls in the foreground; Mt Barron from Pegleg Flat, and from above the zigzag; two young girls at the foot of falls (probably Devil's Punchbowl Falls) in the Otira Gorge; snow-covered upper bridge in the gorge; Kelly Range from foot of Otira Gorge; snow-covered Arthur's Pass; two men and a woman on the Goldney Glacier; Stirling Rocks from Spencer; Minarets from the summit of Malte Brun; Gardiner Peaks from foot of Spencer; the high peak of Rolleston from the middle peak; Elie de Beaumont from summit of Malte Brun; an ice cave near the Almer; view from Malte Brun Hut; Malte and Lemmer[?] from Almer. Quantity: 46 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1900s]

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

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

Reference: PAColl-0959-16

Description: Alpine views, probably taken by Dr Ebenezer Teichelmann, circa 1890s to 1900s. Many of the places shown are listed above. The photographs are separated into 10 sequences: 1: From Bismarck Peak (nos. 1-6). 2: From Spenser [i.e. Mount Spencer] (nos. 7-13). 3: Odd [i.e. From] Chancellor Ridge (nos. 14-27). 4: La Perouse Icefall from lower glacier (nos. 28-33). 5: Victoria Falls (nos. 34-36). 6: From Victoria Range (nos. 37-44). 7: Copland Pass & Valley (nos. 45-53). 8: Tasman Glacier floor (nos. 54-60). 9: From Malcolm Peak (nos. 61-72). 10: Pan[orama] of 3 from Chancellor Ridge (nos. 73-75). Many of the scenes show different angles of the main divide between Canterbury and Westland, including views of from Bismarck Peak (Glacier Peak to Pioneer Pass) looking along the Fritz Range; the divide from the Minarets to Conway; Pioneer Pass to Tasman; head of Franz Josef Glacier; Spenser [i.e. Mount Spencer], Conway and Malte Brun. Views from Mount Spencer include Mounts Tasman and Torres; Mounts Hackel, Hamilton, Malte Brun and De La Beche spur; Elie de Beaumont and Minarets; Triad Peaks; part of the Fritz Range. Views from the Chancellor Ridge include an overflow tent and camp on the ridge (500 feet above the Fox Glacier); down on the Fox Glacier from near the first campsite, and another from just below the Chancellor Ridge hut present hut site; Hardinger to Pioneer Pass; Mounts Lendenfeld, Tasman, Torres and Cook; Hardinger and Haast. Views of the La Perouse Icefall include head of the La Perouse Valley and Mount Tasman; the Tasman group; head of the Cook River Glacier Valley with Mt Tasman, Teichelmann Peak; Mounts Torres, Tasman and Teichelmann; Balfour Range. Views of the Victoria Falls (900 feet from the Fox Glacier). Views from the Victoria Range including the divide from Conway to Lendenfeld; upper Fritz Range; Mount Sefton; Lendenfeld to Davids Dome; Douglas to Tasman. Views from the Copland Pass include Mt Sefton and Footstool; up the Copland Valley from Welcome Flats; Mount Copland; hot springs at Welcome Flats; La Perouse. Views from the Tasman Glacier floor include Mounts Lendenfeld, Haast and Hardinger; Mount Cook; Ball Glacier. Views from Malcolm Peak include southwards along the divide, and southerly views of the Rakaia, Rangitata, Lambert and Lord Rivers; northerly, north easterly, southerly and south westerly views; the Lyell Glacier and Mt Arrowsmith; Mount Cook; Mount Tyndall. The final three images are a three part panorama taken from Chancellor Ridge of the divide (Conway to Haast), Tasman etc. and part of Fox Range across Fox Icefall, and part of the Fox Range as seen across the Fox Icefall. Source of descriptive information - Photographer's name "Dr. T, 2" [i.e. Dr Ebenezer Teichelmann] taken from information on original box. Quantity: 75 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.".