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Metadata
Title |
Climbing photographs collected by Mick Bowie (deconstructed album) |
Collection |
Ashurst/Langton Collection |
Description |
A collection of 137 prints, previously removed from an album, that were taken or collected by Aoraki Mount Cook Hermitage guide Mick Bowie (1901-1982), dating from circa 1930 to 1931. 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 pictured in part of the image. Some prints were identified (and dated) by the donor, or verso notes as: - #001 - Sefton Bivvy: Vic Williams, Betsy Blunden, & Arthur Shand; - #002 - On Footstool : Betsy Blunden & Vic Williams cutting, 3 March 1930; - #004 - On Footstool Summit, 3 March 1930: Arthur Shand, Betsy Blunden, & Vic Williams - #005 - Aoraki Mount Cook climb, 14 March 1930 : Tasman - #006 - Aoraki Mount Cook climb, 14 March 1930 : Mick Bowie & Parker - #012 - Unidentified woman on a glacier; - #020 - Mueller Hut : Mick Bowie, Mount Sefton in the background; - #021 - Mueller Glacier in the early 1930s; - #023 - [A kea]; - #032 - A ski party on the Tasman Glacier: De la Beche Ridge etc visible in the background; - #035 - "3 on scaffolding windlass"; - #036 - Mick Bowie (right) "... plus 2 [on] scaffolding"; - #038 - Mick Bowie (right) "... plus 2 [on] scaffolding"; - #040 - [A kea]; - #041 - [Climber and a Kea at an unidentified hut]; - #042 - "Minarets party"; - #043 & #044 - Two climbers on the Minarets; - #048 - Malte Brun - #049 - Malte Brun : climbing the ridge à cheval ; - #050 - [A climber outside a simple low canvas[?] tent]; - #051 - Chris Irving (right) and Mick Bowie[?]; - #059 - Ball Pass looking north-north-east; - #061 - Mount Sefton as seen looking through Ball Pass : Mick Bowie [pictured?]; - #062 - Another version of image #049; - #063 & #064 - Different views of climbers on the Malte Brun, climbing the ridge à cheval; - #065 - Betsy Blunden; - #066 - Lin Murray, Mick Bowie, Dan Bryant, Betsy Blunden, & Rod Syme; - #067 - Climbing party at Ball Hut: Mick Bowie (left), and Vic Williams (right); - #075 - Chancellor Hut at Fox Glacier [Westland]; - #094 - Clients, resting with their ice axes and packs; - #108 - A client posed looking across to a peak; - #115 to #117 - Husky pens near the Hermitage; - #121 - Aoraki Mount Cook etc from the Footstool; - #122 - Mount Sefton from the Footstool; - #126 - Three unidentified climbers on the summit of Aoraki Mount Cook. NB: A few prints bears the annotation "Bowie" on the verso, apparently as something like an ownership note rather than an identification. |
Photographer |
Bowie, Andrew Robert Michael, 1901-1982 |
Year Range from |
1930 |
Year Range to |
1931 |
Place |
Aoraki/Mount Cook, N.Z. |
Format |
Print, Photographic |
Medium |
Paper, Photographic |
Processing Method |
Silver gelatin print |
Print Size |
Various |
Dimension Details |
Prints typically around 65 x 110 mm, in a mixture of portrait and landscape formats. |
Original/Copy |
Original |
People |
Bowie, Andrew Robert Michael (Mick), 1901-1982 Murray, Lindley (Lin) Kennedy, 1905-1993 Syme, Rod, d.1994 Williams, Vic Blunden, Betsy Helen, 1909-2001 Anderson, Betsy Helen, 1909-2001 Ensor, Betsy Helen, 1909-2001 Shand, Arthur Parker Irving, Chris Bryant, Leslie Vickery (Dan), 1905-1957 |
Search Terms |
Aoraki Mount Cook National Park Westland Tai Poutini National Park Aoraki / Mount Cook, Canterbury Mount Sefton, Canterbury Sefton Bivouac, Canterbury Footstool, The (hill), West Coast Mueller Glacier, Canterbury Tasman Glacier, Canterbury De La Beche Ridge, Canterbury Minarets (hill), West Coast Malte Brun, Canterbury Malte Brun Range, Canterbury Ball Pass, Canterbury Chancellor Hut, West Coast Fox Glacier, West Coast |
Subjects |
Landscape photographs Portrait photographs Mountains Mountaineering Climbing Working dogs Dog sledding |
Catalogue Number |
2019/041.101 |