Hooker River

Date: 1938

From: Holdsworth, Alice Mabel 1878-1963 :[New Zealand plants and scenery] / A M Holdsworth 1937-1938

Reference: E-251-f-2-024

Description: Mount Cook viewed from the Hooker river, a rocky stream in the foreground Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in album, page size, 251 x 360 mm

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-o-386

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery taken by various photographs of whom Wheeler & Son and the Burton Brothers are identified. There are a number of images of Mount Tarawera and surrounds both before and after the eruption on 10th June 1886. A few other images show the volcanic areas around Whakarewarewa and Wairakei in the North Island; all the rest are in the South Island. Two interesting images show people transported across wide rivers by flying fox, one with a woman sitting in the `cage', across a river near Lake Wakatipu (probably Deep Creek or the Shotover, near Skippers), and one with two people crossing the Hooker River. Most of the views of people are distant views, but several near the end of the album show close-up views of men climbing on glaciers with ropes and ice picks. Other - "Apparently only part of an album", note in album register Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with grey card covers, tied with cream tape; 17.5 x 29.5 cm

Date: [Circa 1910s?]

By: New Zealand. Government Tourist Bureau

Reference: PA1-o-473

Description: Photographs of the South Island taken by various photographers, mostly unidentified, circa 1910s Other Titles - New Zealand photographs - South Island Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled "New Zealand photographs. South Island" in gold lettering; 26 x 32 cm

Date: ca 1860-1927

By: Heine, Lynette Sibyl, active 1987-1996; Beauchamp, J, active 1890s; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Mirrielees (Firm); Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers); Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965

Reference: PAColl-0722

Description: Mounted photograph and three loose prints of Wellington College both before and after 1909 when the tower was removed; the junction of Adelaide Road and Riddiford Street in Newtown; three postcards from the Evening Post "Old Wellington" series showing Cuba Street ca 1870 looking both north and south, the Supreme Court on Lambton Quay, and the waterfront ca 1860; the new mountain house at Mount Egmont ca 1927; Mount Sefton and the Footstool from the Hooker River, Southern Alps; Ocean Beach, Mount Maunganui viewed from the Mount; Takapau encampment 1914 showing rows of tents in the distance; two cars on a ferry over the Buller River; and Cromwell ca 1900 showing the old bridge over the Clutha River. Quantity: 10 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1909

From: Berwick, S W (Mr) :Albums of New Zealand scenes and coastal towns

Reference: PA1-o-834

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Permin, James William, 1880-1921

Reference: PA4-0957

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Hooker River & Stocking Glacier, taken by J W Permin Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Hooker River & Stocking 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: 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: 1877

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: B-035-006

Description: Mount Cook from a spur of Mount Sefton, looking down into the Hooker Valley below Probably copied from chromolithograph plate of Mount Cook after W M Hodgkins in: New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive by C D Barraud, 1877 Extended Title - Mount Cook by William Mathew Hodgkins in: New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive by C D Barraud, 1877 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 280 x 228 mm

Date: 1906-1908

From: Collett, Michael, fl 1910 : Photographs

By: Collett, Michael, active 1910

Reference: PA4-1286

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

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: 1882

Reference: C-068-002-5

Description: One of nine wood engravings showing William Spotswood Green's attempt to ascend Mount Cook. Green with Swiss mountaineers Kaufmann and Boss are shown roped together, up to their waists in the Hooker River, crossing with sticks Page from The Graphic London, 29th July 1882 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 100 x 151 mm on sheet 405 x 587 mm

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: 1950s-1970s

From: Reed Publishing :Photographs relating to New Zealand mostly 1950s-1970s

By: Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd; Bigwood, Kenneth Valentine, 1920-1992; Bigwood, Jean, active 1950s-1970s

Reference: PAColl-4871-06

Description: Mainly first rate scenic landscape photographs of points along some of the great tourist routes of the South Island Quantity: 96 b&w original photographic print(s).

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.

By: Houston, Frances Eliza, 1853-1900; Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-180-024

Description: A close view of the Hooker River emerging from a cave at the terminal face of the Mueller Glacier, Mount Cook. Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil, probably written by John Lysaght Moore, a later owner of this watercolour Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 232 x 310 mm

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Permin, James William, 1880-1921

Reference: PA4-0867

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the Rapids, on the Hooker River, taken by J W Permin. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Raids, Hooker River, N.Z.; 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: [Circa 1880s-1900s]

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

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Finch, F, active 1878-1900; Iles, Arthur James, 1870-1943; Le Grice, Edward, 1881-1959; Malaghan, Patrick Thomas, -1938; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Ross, Charles S, active 1890s-1900s; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933; Valentine, James, -1880

Reference: PAColl-0959-40

Description: New Zealand scenes including thermal areas in the North Island, and river, mountain and roading scenes in the South Island, taken by various identified and unidentified photographers between about the 1880s and 1900s. Two photographers, Josiah Martin and Patrick Thomas Malaghan took most of the images. Other identified photographers include Edmund Wheeler, F. Finch, A.J. Iles, Charles Spencer, Edward Le Grice, J.V. (James Valentine), and Ross (Photographer, Invercargill). Several of the unidentified photographers are listed under their initials only, and include one with the initials T.S.M (or S.T.M. in a monogram), also A.A.B., R.G., Rooney, Luney (?), and L.M. A large number of those taken by Patrick Malaghan show Skippers Road and the Shotover River, with Pinchers Bluff, Huttons Cutting, Hell's Gate, and Skippers Creek. Thermal areas in the North Island show the Pink and White Terraces before the 1886 eruption of mount Tarawera, and also a number taken after the eruption, including the remnants of Te Ariki Pa. A large number also show various geysers, mud pools and hot springs. One method of crossing rivers is shown with the Hooker Wire Bridge (or Hooker Cage) and a "chair" travelling across a wire in Skippers over the Shotover River. Note on this box reads: "1st Ball Hut print" (no. 33); and "J. Martin "Mt Cook"" (no. 66). Most of the places identified are listed above. Other Titles - Old P.O.P. Quantity: 154 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: [1930-1939]

From: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946 :Prints and negatives of New Zealand wildlife and scenery

By: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946

Reference: PA7-47-21

Description: Photograph of the Mueller Moraine beside the Hooker River. Photograph taken by Thelma Kent Inscriptions: Verso - bottom left - Title. M25 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 18.4 x 24 cm

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: 1906-1908

From: Collett, Michael, fl 1910 : Photographs

By: Collett, Michael, active 1910

Reference: PA4-1295

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Hooker Bridge, taken by Michael Collett, 1907 Note on back reads: Photo by M Collett. Hooker Bridge, 1906-1908. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print Provenance: Donated by P J Collett, August 1976.