Mount La Perouse

Stokes, Mount

Used to be known as Mount Stokes

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Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916 :Peruse and Sefton from Craig's Peak. [1870-1900]

Date: 1870 - 1900

From: Douglas, Charles Edward 1840-1916 :[Mountain and West Coast Sketches. Peaks and rivers etc. named]

By: Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916

Reference: E-056-002

Description: View of mountain peaks looking east towards the summits of the Southern Alps from a high point (Craig Peak) in South Westland Other Titles - La Perouse, Craig Peak Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 85 x 202 mm

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Cundy album

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.

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Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916 :Mt Stokes. Cook and Bakers Pass. Something like a g...

Date: 1870 - 1900

From: Douglas, Charles Edward 1840-1916 :[Mountain and West Coast Sketches. Peaks and rivers etc. identified]

By: Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916

Reference: E-059-q-075

Description: Mountain features in the Southern Alps Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) on page of sketchbook. Physical Description: Pencil, crayon and watercolour, 231 x 187 mm

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Mounts Tasman, Cook and La Perouse Range, Westland

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-1690-F

Description: Panoramic view from flat tussock farmland across to a range of high bush-clad hills with Mount Tasman and Cook in the background. Peep of a glacier visible between hills centre left. Fencing and sheep pens in right foreground. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1698 Inscriptions: No marginal notes - Mnts Tasman, Cook and La Perouse Range. Westland. New Zealand. No. 889 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 112.9 cm

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Mounts Tasman, Cook and La Perouse Range, Westland

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-1698-F

Description: Panoramic view from flat tussock farmland across to a range of high bush-clad hills with Mount Tasman and Cook in the background. Peep of a glacier visible between hills centre left. Fencing and sheep pens in right foreground. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1690 Inscriptions: No marginal notes - Mnts Tasman, Cook and La Perouse Range. "Westland". New Zealand. No. 890 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 112.5 cm

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South Island prints three

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

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Ruth Adams Rescue

Date: February 1948

From: Riddiford family: Harold Earle Riddiford papers relating to Garhwal Himalaya and Everest Reconnaissance

Reference: PAColl-10769-01

Description: Contains photographs showing the alpine rescue of injured mountaineer Ruth Adams, February 1948. Photographs taken by Harold Earle Riddiford. Images include various points of the rescue including on the slopes of La Perouse, camp sites and huts, various points along the Cook River Valley, and fording the Cook River. Adams is seen in her stretcher; being pulled, carried, during rests, and finally being loaded onto the back of a flat-bed truck. Members of the rescue party, which included Harry Ayres, are also photographed. There are a number of photographs showing alpine areas. One photograph shows a small aircraft flying above the photographer. Title transcribed from item. Arrangement: Arrived at Library in an envelope labelled "Ruth Adams Rescue". Envelope contained two glassine bags with the first containing prints one through to 20 and the second prints 21 through to 28. Included in the second envelope were six negatives. Members of the rescue party included Harry Ayres, Edmund Hillary, Norman Hardie, and Mick Sullivan, who are also photographed. Quantity: 28 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: Negatives are held at 1/4-138162-F to 1/4-138167-F.. Processing information: Negatives originally held with these prints have been separated for reasons of preservation and storage.

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Roberts, George J :One hundred and eight photographs of the West Coast Region by photog...

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)

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Alpine scenes, including Rakaia trip in 1917, and La Perouse Expedition, 1932

Date: [Circa 1917-1932]

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

By: Mitchell, John Wesley, 1884-1954; Speight, Robert, 1867-1949; Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983; Frazer, William D, active 1920s-1940s

Reference: PAColl-0959-39

Description: Alpine, bush, valley and mountaineering images taken by various photographers in the South Island. While there is a typescript inventory, many of the sites are unidentified, including images numbered 1-7, 27-141. There are two major sequences, one taken by Edgar Richard Williams (signed ER) when on a trip up the Rakaia River with T.T. Gough in 1917 (information from internet) (image nos. 10-11, 14, 18-26). Some of these have notes on the back added by John Pascoe at a later date. The other main sequence shows an expedition to Mount La Perouse in 1932. This sequence was possibly taken by William D Frazer (from information on internet), although it is possible they were taken by Jack Mitchell (John Wesley Mitchell, Snr). The La Perouse expedition included mountaineers Tom Sheenan, Alex Graham, Marion Scott, Jack Mitchell, Louie Roberts (Mary Louise Roberts), and Anne Stevenson. Images numbered 6-7, show a large group of men, possibly members of the Canterbury Mountaineering Club, or the New Zealand Alpine Club (either the Canterbury or the Otago branch). John Dobree Pascoe is visible standing in the middle row towards the right. Most or the men are seen in front of a mountain hut, while three men are perched on the roof. The last two images are sterescopes from an "Earthquake series" published by W.S. Smith, showing earthquake damage in San Francisco in 1906. They are No. 317 "Northeast from Fifth Street", and No. 318 "Portsmouth Square". Most of the places identified are listed above. Quantity: 150 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.".

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Alpine scenes [taken by] Kurz

Date: [Circa 1910s-1930s]

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

By: Barker, Clive Studholme, 1899-1994; Frazer, William D, active 1920s-1940s; Frind, Herbert Otto, 1887-1961; Graham, Elizabeth Muriel, -1957; Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942; Kurz, Marcel, 1887-1967; Mannering, George Edward, 1862-1947; Porter, Harold Edward Lionel, 1886-1973; Teichelmann, Ebenezer (Dr), 1859-1938

Reference: PAColl-0959-34

Description: Alpine views in the South Island, many apparently taken by Marcel Kurz (according the the title on the box), though none have the name Kurz noted. However other photographers are named on the back of many of the photographs including Ebenezer Teichelmann (no. 1); W.D. Frazer (nos. 18-20, 48-58); H.O.F. (Herbert Otto Frind) (nos. 21-26, 40-45); Leslie Hinge (no. 47); H.E.L. Porter (nos. 59-65); Mrs P. Graham (Elizabeth Muriel Graham) (no. 66); C. Barker (no. 67); ? Lewthwaite (nos. 71-72, 75-76); and G.E. Mannering (nos. 77-81, 85-89). Nos. 1-11 show scenes on the route to Alex Knob, with the Franz Josef Glacier and the Divide at its head, and the Waiho Valley; nos. 27-39 are en route to, and views from, Torres Peak; and nos. 40-44 are views from Mt Thomson. Photograph number 47 shows seven guides with a coiled climbing rope and two crossed ice picks in front. The guides are not identified on the image, but are identified from comparison with image at (1/2-035265-G). They are (back row from left) Alf Cowling, Jock Richmond, Jack Lippe, Charlie Milne and Frank Milne; (front row) Darby Thomson and Peter Graham. According to this copy of the photograph it was taken by [Leslie] Hinge. There are a large number of images of native alpine plants, some of which are unidentified. Many have the name of W D Frazer as photographer. (The plant images are nos. 13-17, 51, 53, 55, 57, 67-76, 87). Identified names are listed in the subject field above. Most of the places identified are listed above. Quantity: 94 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.".

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Alpine photographs

Date: [Circa 1900s-1910s]

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

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

Reference: PAColl-0959-07

Description: Scenic photographs of the Southern Alps taken circa 1900s to 1910s by various unidentified photographers. Photographs (nos. 34 and 35) probably taken by Dr Ebenezer Teichelmann, and photograph (no. 60) was probably taken by G E Mannering. Most of the locations are identified, and include views from various vantage points including from the Balfour Range, the Chancellor Ridge, Gillespies Trig, Waheka Flats, Glacier Dome, Haast Ridge, Lake Matheson, the Sealey Range, the Sebastopol and Malte Brun. Specific places identified are listed in the place headings above. Quantity: 79 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.".

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Alpine scenes, birds and plants, [taken by] Miss K. Gardiner

Date: [Circa 1900s-1920s]

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

By: Beken, Charles Albert, 1859-1944; Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970; Gardiner, Kate, 1885-1974; Joachim, Mary Eleanor, 1874-1957; Kurz, Marcel, 1887-1967; Mannering, George Edward, 1862-1947; Theomin, Dorothy Michaelis, 1888-1966

Reference: PAColl-0959-32

Description: Photographs of various mountains and valleys, birds and plants in New Zealand taken by identified and unidentified photographers. A large proportion were taken by Kate Gardiner (nos. 1-10, 13-30, 33, 54, 66-94). Other identified photographers are G E Mannering (nos 136-141, 143, 146-149); Miss Joachim (nos 37, 48-50, 56-57, 63-65, 148, 15-153); Miss Theomin (nos 31, 35-36, 38-43, 53, 55, 144, 145); Tudor Collins (nos 45-47, 52); and Marcel Kurz (nos 95-135, 142). Note on the back of image no. 1 reads "1928 ascent of Malte Brun with Frank Alack and Peter Graham. Picture shows Frank Alack and Mrs Ivan Wilson (Mrs Mona Wilson). Info from Mrs Wilson's daughter, 1990." Additional note reads "one opinion. However in Frank Alack's book 'Share my joys' a similar photo of the same woman is identified as Katie Gardiner" [writer not identified]. Photographs numbered 34 and 35 are probably of the helichrysum species. Image no. 11 shows mountain guides Jack Lippe, Frank Milne, J Clarke (John Michael Clarke) and Jock Richmond (back row), and Alec Graham and Peter Graham (front row). Image no. 12 shows Guy (George Edward) Mannering with three undentified mountaineers. A number of images, chiefly taken by Miss Joachim, show various New Zealand birds and plants, including pied and spotted shags on Little Barrier Island (nos 45-47), gannets at Cape Kidnappers (nos 48-51, 56-57), kea and pukeko; and Prince of Wales feathers fern, a cabbage tree, two varieties of helichrysum and staghorn ferns. Many of the images by Marcel Kurz show mountaineers, bivouacs and camping sites in the mountains, including the Pioneer Ridge Bivvy. Image no. 133, taken by Marcel Kurz shows Ned Porter, Clive Barker and Doris Barker (later Mrs Porter), on the second ascent of Mount Haidinger in 1927. Most identified places are listed above. Other Titles - Miss K. Gardiner (with additional note which reads "includes photos by Mannering, Kurz, Gardiner, Joachim, Theomin".) Quantity: 153 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." Some photographs have no information or identification of places, times or names of people..

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Alpine photographs

Date: [Circa 1900s]

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

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

Reference: PAColl-0959-17

Description: Alpine views, probably taken by Dr Ebenezer Teichelmann, circa 1900s. Many of the places shown are listed above. The photographs are separated into 11 sequences: 1: Down Haast Ridge (no. 001). 2: From Chudleigh (nos. 002-005). 3: From La Perouse floor (nos. 006-044) (many of these taken from the photographer's "Ribbonwood Camp" under Mount La Perouse above the La Perouse Glacier, including a "glacier table" and "erratic boulders" on the glacier). 4: Lower Fox Valley (nos. 045-049) (including gushing springs at the head of the Fox River). 5: From Harper's Saddle and Opal Glacier. 6: Whitcombe Pass (nos. 064-065). 7: From Thelma Peak (nos. 066-074). 8: From Hooker floor (nos. 075-082). 9: From Haast Ridge (Glacier Dome) (nos. 083-088). 1. From R S Lowe rocks (Baird Range) (nos. 089-099). 11. From Glacier Dome (Haast Ridge) (nos. 100-111, including no. 108 which shows two unidentified men on "The Lady's Shoe" rock formation on the Haast Ridge). (No. 112 unidentified). Source of descriptive information - Photographer's name "Dr. T, 5" [i.e. Dr Ebenezer Teichelmann] taken from information on original box. Quantity: 112 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints.

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Alpine photographs

Date: [Circa 1913-1915]

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

By: Frind, Herbert Otto, 1887-1961

Reference: PAColl-0959-12

Description: Scenic photographs of the Southern Alps taken circa 1913-1914 by Herbert Otto Frind (H.O.F.). All the views are identified. Images in the box are filed in ten blue wrappers with the following titles: from Hooker Glacier; from Thomson; from face of Brunner; from Karangarua Saddle; from The Hermitage; from Tasman Glacier; from Shark's Teeth; from Sefton; from Cook; from Watchtower. Includes views of a bergschrund (crevasse formed when moving glacier ice separates from the stagnant ice above), and avalanches, in the views from the Hooker Glacier. Most of the named physical features are listed above in "places". On the verso of all the images the initials "H.O.F." is printed in the top left hand corner, with information about location printed along the lower edge. Quantity: 70 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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New Zealand scenes [chiefly taken by Government Publicity photographers]

Date: [Circa 1910s-1920s]

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

By: New Zealand. Government Publicity Office

Reference: PAColl-0959-38

Description: Scenic views of New Zealand chiefly taken by Government Publicity photographers. North Island views include the Waitomo Caves system, including the "Waitomo Caves Hostel" (circa 1908); "King Edward's Court" and "Bride's Jewels" in the Ruakuri Cave; and an image of glow-worms. The other main area in the North Island is along the Whanganui River, including small ferry boats, the Makere Houseboat, and a Maori in a dugout canoe. There is one view of Lake Waikaremoana showing the Panekiri Bluff (no. 28); and one view of Seatoun, Wellington, taken circa 1910s. South Island views are chiefly in the Southern Alps and glacier area on the West Coast. The other main region is lake Kanieri, with a number of images of a small boat named "Dorothy". Most of the places identified are listed above. Quantity: 37 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.".

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Alpine photographs

Date: [Circa 1909-1930s]

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

By: Frind, Herbert Otto, 1887-1961; Kurz, Marcel, 1887-1967; Porter, Harold Edward Lionel, 1886-1973; Vollmann, F W (Dr), active 1900s

Reference: PAColl-0959-19

Description: Alpine views, chiefly taken by Harold (Ned) Porter, circa 1923 to 1927. The first two photographs were taken by Swiss guide Marcel Kurz who accompanied Porter. Interspersed with Porter's photographs are a few taken by Dr F W Vollmann, a German archaeologist who spent some time in 1909 climbing in the Southern Alps. The last photograph (no. 157) was taken by H O Frind. Inserted between photographs nos 075 and 076 is a slip with hand-drawn map of the Bonar Glacier Plain showing climbing routes, the Matukituki River and Saddle, Mounts Bevan and Joffre, and positions of campsites used (by Porter?). A number of images show unidentified mountaineers. Most of the photographs are collected in sequences wrapped in paper folders. They are as follows: 1: Aspiring trip (nos. 001-025). 2: From David's Dome (nos. 026-034; including a route marked on no. 027). 3: From Conway (nos. 035-041). 4: From the Malte Brun Range (nos. 042-046). 5: From West Coast Flats (nos. 047-050). 6: National Park (nos. 051-054). 7: From about Newton Pass (nos. 055-061). 8: From Minarets (no. 062). 9: From Elie de Beaumont (nos. 063-065). 10: From the Fox Range (nos. 066-067). 11: From Chancellor Ridge, Fox neve (nos. 068-070). 12: From Mt. Haast (nos. 071-074). 13: [9 loose photographs] (nos. 075-083). 14: From De La Beche (nos. 084-093). 15: From summit of Cook (nos. 086-087). 16: From Glacier Peak (nos. 088-093). 17: From the col between Haast and Lendenfeld (no. 094). 18: From Tasman, Silberhorn & Teichelmann (nos. 095-105). 19: [8 loose photographs] (nos. 106-113). 20: From Green & Walter [Peaks] (nos. 114-126). 21: From about the Hooker bivvy [bivouac] (nos. 127-131). 22: From Walter Peak (nos. 132-135). 23: [3 loose photographs] (nos. 136-138). 24: From Franz Josef Glacier (no. 139). 25: [8 loose photographs] (nos. 140-147). 26: From the Sealy Range (nos. 148-153). 27: From Footstool (nos. 154-156). 28: [1 loose photograph] (no. 157). Many of the places shown are listed above, most images having detailed identification in pencil on the back. Photographs have been numbered following the sequence as they appeared in the box, but there are a number of images which appear in two or more separate folders. Quantity: 157 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints.

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Southern Lakes and mountains, and some North Island views

Date: [Between 1885 and 1919]

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

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0959-15

Description: Views of the Southern Lakes District, interspersed with a few scenes in the North Island taken by the Burton Brothers and Muir & Moodie between about 1885 and 1919. Most of the places mentioned are listed above. Image no. 63 shows a party of men and women at Sandfly Point (Milford Sound) showing some of the women wearing veils over their hats for protection from sandflies; image no. 79 "Phantom canoe as seen on Lake Tarawera" is an artist's impression of the phantom canoe which appeared to a group of tourists on Lake Tarawera on May 31st prior to the eruption of Mount Tarawera on June 10th 1886 and which was considered to be a bad omen; image no. 82 shows a collage "No. 1. Maori Land. The portraits are originals - taken from life"; image no. 094 shows a close-up view of the "wire tram" over the Taramakau River; no. 095 shows a logging tramway in the Taupaki Kauri Bush belonging to Matthew Henry Roe, while no. 120 shows his Kauri Point Sawmill, with the paddle steamer "Oregon" in the background; no. 096 shows a self-acting tramway incline at Wairongomai used for gold extraction; nos 104 and 105 show gold dredges, "the Dunedin Gold Dredge" and "Sew Hoy's Dredge". Quantity: 122 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Some items retouched with white, showing snow-covered peaks. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

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Mountaineering in the Southern Alps

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

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Mount's Cook and Tasman, and La Perouse, Westland County, South Westland

Date: Sep 1935

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-09861-G

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Leo White. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches

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Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887: Hokitika near mouth. July 1 1865.

Date: 1865

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-028

Description: Shows a panorama looking north and south from the mouth of the Hokitika River with shipwrecks near the bar to the right, the river winding inland to the left, the town and wharves to the far left and the Southern Alps in the background. Many peaks are identified, including, from left, North Range Kanieri, South Range Kanieri, Browning Pass, Mount Cook, Mount Stokes, Mount Hooker Reproduced in: Burrows, Colin James. 'Julius Haast in the Southern Alps'. Canterbury University Press, 2005, plate 31. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 128 x 1325 mm

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