Hooker Glacier

Date: 1930 - 1939

From: [Ephemera relating to hotels, motels, hostels and other accommodation in Mount Cook Village. 1900s onwards ]

By: Hermitage (Aoraki/Mount Cook, N.Z.); Munt, Jeanie, active 1978

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Mt-Cook-1930s-01

Description: Menus for a set breakfast menu. Each has a different "scene in the Southern Alps" on the cover. These include: Mt Cook and the Hooker Glacier, The Hochstetter Icefall, Mt Cook from Red Lake Mt Sebastopol, Mt Sefton and the Stocking Glacier. Two sets held. Dated 1930s because the phrase "thousands of feet above worry level" was being used on posters at that time. Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on cards, 137 x 209 mm, to be folded to 137 x 104 mm.

Date: 1906-1908

From: Collett, Michael, fl 1910 : Photographs

By: Collett, Michael, active 1910

Reference: PA4-1322

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Hooker Valley, taken by Michael Collett, ca 1906-1908. Note on back reads: Photo by M Collett, guide. Hooker Valley, 1906-1908. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print Provenance: Donated by P J Collett, August 1976.

Date: 1920s-1930s

By: Vinicombe, Audrey K, active 1998

Reference: PAColl-5659

Description: Photographs of Graham and Elsie Massingham at various localities in New Zealand. Graham Massingham and his wife came out from England in the late 1920s. The 1928 Wises Post Office Directory describes Massingham as a company manager and lists him as living in Dunedin at 34 Dundonald street, Andersons Bay. Later in the 1930s he lived at 75a Grant Road, Wellington. He died on 20 November 1947. Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1890s-1900s]

Reference: PAColl-9669

Description: An album page with views of Otira Gorge and Mount Cook. Shows horses pulling a carriage on the Christchurch and Hokitika Road in Otiria Gorge. Shows Mount Cook from the Hooker Glacier. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album leaf with 2 b&w original photographic prints. Physical Description: 41.5 x 31 cm mounted album page

Date: 1910-1913

Reference: PA5-0259

Description: Mount Cook taken from the Hooker Glacier ca 1910-1913. F T series. Verso has message from Miri to Margaret, addressed to Miss MacKinlay of Miramar, Wellington and date stamped 1913. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 87 x 138 mm

Date: [1890s-1900s?]

From: Teale, Edmund Oswald (Sir), 1874-1971 : Birell album

By: Charles H Kerry & Company; Shearsby, A J, active 1913-1928; Star Photo Company; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA1-q-029

Description: Postcards, chiefly of Australia, including Tasmania, Adelaide, Queensland, New South Wales, with several showing various tin mines in Tasmania. There is a section of New Zealand postcards in the middle of the album, many taken by an Australian photographic company "Charles H Kerry & Co", labelled "Series 53. Hot Lakes District, New Zealand". These images are tinted, and include views of the Huka Falls, the Pink and White Terraces, Waiotapu, Ohinemutu, Whakarewarewa, Lakes Waikaremoana and Taupo, and the Aratiatia Rapids. The NZ images also include views of the Mount Cook region of the South Island, including Franz Josef Glacier, Hooker Glacier, Mounts Darwin, Sefton and Cook, and Lakes Te Anau and Wakatipu. Many of the postcards show the photographers' names, and include R C Harvey, A J Shearsby, the Star Photo Co., de Tourret, and the New Zealand Tourist Department. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown "Postcard album" with red, green and blue decoration, 285 x 240 mm

Date: 1879-1892

From: Vance, William, 1899-1981 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9826

Description: Photographs of mountaineers, glaciers, mountains, lakes and rivers. Included are - Crossing the Hooker River by cable car (flying fox?). Percy Hawkins Johnson, W Low, J W Annan, George Edward Mannering, and Marmaduke J Dixon in the Murchison Valley, 1880. Irishman Rev William S Green and his two guides, Ulrich Kaufmann and Emil Boss, 1882. Mountaineers George Edward Mannering, Percy Hawkins Johnson and Mamaduke J Dixon photographed in 1889. Lake Pukaki, 1889. Tasman Glacier. Lake Tekapo. Hut in the Godley Valley. Mount Aorangi and the Hooker Glacier. Mount Aorangi seen from Ball spur. Panoramic View of mountains seen from Mount Sealy. Murchison glacier and river. Views of Aorangi, De la Beche Peak, and Tasman Glacier. Views of the Godley Glacier, 1892. Volynteers digging for Smith and Morrison in the avalanch of snow on the Rollesby Range, 28 August 1879. Quantity: 10 card mounts containing 33 images.

Date: ca 1880-ca 1889

From: Reid, Robert Stuart :Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: PA1-q-921

Description: Views of Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu, Lake Waihola, Lake Moke, Mount Cook, Mount Sefton, the Hooker Glacier, Tapanui, Oamaru, Milford Sound, Dusky Sound, Hooker River, Moonlight Gorge, Bowen Fall, and general views in Canterbury and Otago taken by an unknown photographer in the 1880s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1906-1908

From: Collett, Michael, fl 1910 : Photographs

By: Collett, Michael, active 1910

Reference: PA4-1287

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Hooker Glacier with Mount Cook in background, taken by Michael Collett, ca 1906 Note on back reads: Photo by M Collett. Hooker Glacier. Mt Cook in back 1906-1908. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print Provenance: Donated by P J Collett, August 1976.

Date: 1906

By: Rose, George, 1861-1942

Reference: PAColl-10365

Description: Mounted stereograph with the title 'Suspension Bridge, Hooker River, Mt. Cook, New Zealand. About a mile from the Hermitage, leading to the Hooker Glacier', by George Rose, taken in 1906. Stereographic photograph mounted on standard format printed card mount with the publisher's imprint 'Rose's Stereoscopic Views - Copyright - Sold only by George Rose, Melbourne, Publisher'. The imprinted caption includes the photograph number '7195'. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) Stereograph. Physical Description: Mounted stereograph Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath Rare Books, 2015. No further provenance information available.

Date: [ca 1900-1920]

From: Greenslade, Bevan, active 2017 : New Zealand stereographs and postcards by various photographers

By: Frank Duncan and Company; M Lehany (Firm); Rose, George, 1861-1942; William Beattie & Company

Reference: PAColl-10604

Description: Stereographs and photographic postcards of New Zealand scenery, by George Rose (Melbourne), M Lehany (Wellington), William Beattie and Company (Auckland), and Frank Duncan and Company (Auckland), published in the period circa 1900-1920. The collection includes George Rose stereographs with the following numbering and caption: - 7011 Caroline Bay, Timaru - 7071 Curious limestone rocks, Hikurangi - 7124 The House-boat, Wanganui River - 7131 Interior of Parliament House, Wellington - 7140 Shipping at Port Chalmers, Otago - 7178 Terrace formation, Orakei Korako - 7295 The Haka, Whakarewarewa - 7312 Pinnacle of Ice below the Grant Duff Glacier, Mount Cook - 7313 Mount Cook, and the Head of the Hooker Glacier - 7341 The Otira Gorge, Westland Also one stereograph showing a band rotunda, photographer not identified. Postcards: - 1484 'Wellington N.Z. From Tinakori Hill', postcard back stamped "Real Photo Post Card M. Lehany, 115 Willis St. Wellington". - No. 2 Wanganui River Boats Taumarunui. by 'W. Beattie & Co. Auckland', dated 1 February 1909. With message in pencil. - 'Rail, Road, River & Bridge. Manawatu Gorge. N.Z. Tourist Series. 721', by "Frank Duncan & Co, Auckland". Some of the stereographs on trade mounts feature extended printed captions on verso. Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s) 11 stereographs and 3 postcards. Physical Description: Stereographs and postcards.

Date: 1905; undated

From: Hughes, Helen Hannah, 1929- : Photographs relating to Rigg and Hughes families

By: Rigg, Kathleen Maisey (Lady), 1892-1994

Reference: PAColl-10649-2

Description: New Zealand landscape photographs featuring mountains, glaciers, and alpine plants, most likely taken by Lady Kathleen Maisey Rigg, nee Curtis, and others in the period circa 1905 to 1920s. Some prints have caption details inscribed verso, including: - "Te Reinga Falls. Gisborne, Jan 1905" - "Ruapehu from above homer Tama Lake Taken by Miss Cracroft" - "Lower Tama Lake near pool of Ngauruhoe" - "Mt Cook" - "The Footstool" - "Hochstetter Ice Fall" - "Tasman Glacier - The Minarets" - "Mt Cook - Hooker Valley - Müller Glacier" - "Sefton, left - Footstool, right" - "Hooker Glacier - The Minarets" - "Stocking Glacier" - "Daisies and spaniards" - "Mount Cook - Hooker River" - "Mt Cook looking up Hooker Valley" - "Mt Cook from Governor's Bush". Other images show glacial ice formations. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 27 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints.

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Permin, James William, 1880-1921

Reference: PA4-1050

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Mt. Sefton and Hooker Glacier, taken by J W Permin. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Mt Sefton and Hooker Glacier; Recto - right of image - J W Perman - photo; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: December 1903-January 1904

From: Teale, Edmund Oswald (Sir), 1874-1971 : Birell album

Reference: PA1-o-037

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by Sir Edmund Oswald Teale, who visited New Zealand to attend a meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science in Dunedin between December 1903 and January 1904. Images include a number showing geological formation along the route between Napier and Taupo; images of hot springs and mud pools, and the Aratiatia Rapids; Napier and Wellington. Views of the South Island include many in the Mount Cook region, and show various glaciers, including the Tasman Glacier, Hochstetter Glacier, and the Hooker Glacier; geological aspects of moraines, crevasses and moulins associated with glaciers; Lake Pukaki; alpine flowers in the Tasman Valley; a carriage and horses near the Hermitage, with Mount Sefton visible behind; the Mataura River and Bluff. A collection of duplicates are filed in a pocket at the front of the album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, 235 x 185 mm

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.".

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.

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

Date: [ca 1949]

By: MacPherson, R, active 1949; Blockley, John, active 1995

Reference: PAColl-4915

Description: Quantity: 259 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1905 - 1912

By: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-071-013

Description: Mount Cook seen with the Hooker Glacier in the foreground, through trees Paper watermarked M B M and part of an AE inside a circle. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [title and signature in pencil] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching on laid paper 124 x 100 mm

Date: [ca 1938-1950s]

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 :Photographs relating to the career of Lawrence Samuel Dennis

Reference: PAColl-7359-4

Description: Views of mountains and glaciers in the Southern Alps; Pat Dennis with New Yorkers Will and Peg Conrad at Mount Aspiring; skiers at Chateau Tongariro; portrait of a ski instructor from before the Second World War Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s).