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1. uryAdamson Collection

   Several double-sided pages of prints from a disbound album belonging to Jack Adamson, dating from circa 1890-1900. The photographs are numbered and depict: - #01 - No.4: A view across flat tussock ground to the mountains beyond; No.5: A view across rocks and low peaks to the higher snow covered peaks beyond; No.6: The reflections of the snow covered peaks can be seen in the lake in the foreground; No.7: Looking across a river to bush cov...

   Record Type: Photo

   
2. [Ball Hut interior] - Adamson Collection

   The interior of the first Ball hut, circa 1889 to 1900. The hut, made of corrugated iron, had a dirt floor and was divided into ladies and gentleman's quarters by a canvas curtain. A range of paraphernalia appear around the hut including climbing equipment, maps on the wall, decorations and memorabilia.

   Record Type: Photo

   
3. Camera Studies: Souvenir from Mt. Cook NZ

   Leather-bound photographic album featuring the title "Camera Studies: Souvenir from Mt. Cook NZ" and illustrated with an image of the Hermitage, both burnt/embossed into the soft leather of the front cover. Features a number of blank pages plus others with identified and unidentified images, mounted on black paper album pages with glue and/or photo corners, as follows: - #04 & #05: Unidentified people, house and automobiles; - #06: Takapo H...

   Record Type: Photo

   
4. [Carrying a chimney on the Tasman Glacier] - Adamson Collection

   Men carrying a chimney on the Tasman Glacier, circa 1897 to 1898. A handwritten note on verso reads "Carrying things up to build the first Ball Hutt". The first Ball Hut was built in 1891, with a chimney and spouting being added in the 1897-1898 season. Most of the materials for the hut had to be carried in as only short pieces could be carried by pack horse.

   Record Type: Photo

   
5. [Carrying timber for the Malte Brun hut] - Adamson Collection

   Men at the Ball Hut, posed with timber intended for the Malte Brun hut, 1898. Depicts seven men, including two pairs of men with lengths of timber across their shoulders, ready for the eight mile journey to the Malte Brun hut site.

   Record Type: Photo

   
6. [Climbers outside the Ball Hut] - Adamson Collection

   Climbers posed with their packs outside the Ball Hut, circa 1898. Depicts four climbers with packs, while a fifth man looks on from the hut's doorway.

   Record Type: Photo

   
7. Climbing photographs collected by Mick Bowie (deconstructed album) - Ashurst/Langton Collection

   A collection of 176 prints, previously removed from an album, that were taken or collected by Aoraki Mount Cook Hermitage guide Mick Bowie (1901-1982), dating from circa 1929 to 1936. The prints appear to be images taken during some of Bowie's early years of guiding and climbing around Aoraki Mount Cook National Park (and Westland Tai Poutini National Park). They feature many landscape images, often with climbers (a number featuring a female c...

   Record Type: Photo

   
8. Cocoa time at Ball Hut, Aoraki Mount Cook National Park - Ashurst/Langton Collection

   A large (tourist?) group of young men and women posed around a cocoa pot at the Ball Hut in the Aoraki Mount Cook National Park, probably dating from circa 1950. Identified on the verso in pencil as: "Cocoa time at Ball Hut".

   Record Type: Photo

   
9. [Edward Fitzgerald at Ball Hut] - Adamson Collection

   Edward Fitzgerald posed in the doorway of the Ball Hut, early March 1895. Depicts Fitzgerald in the doorway, alongside a small pile of gear leaning against the hut.

   Record Type: Photo

   
10. Hap [Ashurst] the bus driver - Ashurst/Langton Collection

    An undated view of small group of men beside a Mount Cook and Southern Lakes Company bus, with the second Ball Hut in the background, circa 1960(?) It appears one of the men (possibly Hap Ashurst) is pictured digging snow away from the rear wheel of the slanted (stuck?) bus, while the others watch on. Identified by a pencil note on verso that reads: "Hap the bus driver" and the number "197"..

    Record Type: Photo

    
11. [Jack Adamson at Ball Hut] - Adamson Collection

    Jack Adamson posed in the doorway of the Ball Hut, taken in early March 1895. Depicts Adamson alongside a small collection of climbing gear and a camera on its tripod, leaning against the hut wall

    Record Type: Photo

    
12. Lake Pukaki and the Mount Cook National Park

    An undated black cloth-covered album of scenes around Lake Pukaki and the Mount Cook National Park, circa 1950? The album belonged to "N.Z.421883 Sgt C.R. Anderson, R.N.Z.A.F. 10 Sealey St., Timaru, N.Z." (as labelled in white ink inside front cover). It is comprised of black and white images mounted on black paper pages bound with a post-and-screw system. The images (numbered sequentially) are entitled as follows: #05 - A foggy sunrise at...

    Record Type: Photo

    
13. [Pack horses outside the Ball Hut] - Adamson Collection

    Two pack horses outside the Ball Hut, circa 1898.

    Record Type: Photo

    
14. Photograph album : C R Anderson

    An undated black and blue vinyl album of assorted scenes produced by C R Anderson, featuring numerous Mackenzie District scenes, that appears to date from the mid twentieth century. Multiple prints are present on each page, with each page featuring a main title and separate titles for each image as follows: - #03: Lake Ohau ("place of the winds") MacKenzie Country - A storm-worn black birch frames a view of the Lake; View up the lake from The...

    Record Type: Photo

    
15. Robert Cole : personal, travel, and alpine album

    An album of personal, travel, and alpine photography that belonged to Robe Cole of Timaru. The prints are often identified as (from top left, clockwise unless otherwise noted): - leaf #1 [1 print]: Mt Rolleston Feb-35; West Coast scenes: - leaf #2 [4 prints]: c.1934 Fox's Peak; Lower left: A.J. Rae; Lower right: D Proctor, Frank Newmarch; - leaf #2, verso [4 prints]: Mt Fox 193[blank]; Lower right: F Newmar[ch?]; - leaf #3 [5 prints]: F...

    Record Type: Photo

    
16. Sir Edmund Hillary at Ball Hut

    Sir Edmund Hillary posed outside the Ball Hut, Aoraki Mount Cook, in 1956.

    Record Type: Photo

    
17. Ski group, Ball Hut, Aoraki Mount Cook National Park - Ashurst/Langton Collection

    A ski group of young men and women (and their dog) posed in front of the second Ball Hut in the Aoraki Mount Cook National Park, probably dating from the 1950s. Identified on the verso in pencil as: "Ski group Ball Hut".

    Record Type: Photo

    
18. [Southburn Women's Divsion of Federated Farmer at Aoraki Mount Cook]

    A portrait of Southburn Women's Divsion of Federated Farmer members on a trip to the Aoraki Mount Cook National Park, 7 June 1957. The group, posed with the Ball Hut in the background, are identified on the verso as: BACK ROW: Mesdames Craib(?). Halkett, Bishop, Hill, Watt, Miss Caird, Mrs Parry, Furby, Hawkins, Bennett, Millikin, Gibson, Stamp; FRONT ROW: Simmonds, Jacobs, Buller, Anderson, Jan Anderson, Pat Jackson, Dot Fenwick, Mrs J Bell...

    Record Type: Photo

    
19. South Canterbury Catchment Board at Ball Hut

    An undated image of a South Canterbury Catchment Board group pictured on the terrace at Ball Hut, Aoraki Mount Cook, circa 1940. The man on the very left has been identified as Robert Gardiner Clelland. On the verso is the handwritten note: "RG [Robert Gardiner Clelland] on the Tce at Ball Hut".

    Record Type: Photo

    
20. [The first Ball hut(?)] - Adamson Collection

    An image identified as "First Ball Hut? Winter", circa 1889-1896. Provides a view looking across snow flat towards two people outside the hut, which nested at the foot of a slope. A line of clothing is strung from the side of the hut to air.

    Record Type: Photo

    
21. The second Ball Hut - Ashurst/Langton Collection

    The second Ball Hut, pictured before 1933. Identified by a pencil note on the verso reading: "2nd Ball Hut before 1933 & the 2 [freezers?]". Also bears a 'Velox' back-print. From a collection of loose prints belonging to, or taken by, Mick Bowie - probably during his earlier years of guiding and climbing around Aoraki Mount Cook National Park (and Westland Tai Poutini National Park).

    Record Type: Photo

    
22. Training Huskies, Ball Hut

    Sir Edmund Hillary (and others) training their Huskey teams for their Antarctic expedition near Ball Hut, Aoraki Mount Cook, in 1956.

    Record Type: Photo