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Additional Images [9]
Metadata
Collection |
uryAdamson Collection |
Description |
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 covered hills and snow covered mountains beyond; No.8: Jack Adamson standing in front of icicles hanging from a rocky crag; No.9: A man looking through a telescope? on a tripod with mountains in the distance. - #02 - No.10: A woman standing in the snow with mountains behind her; No.11: A stream running through some rocky terrain; No.12: Two men sitting on rocks with snow in front of them and mountains behind; No.13: The Bridge at Lake Tekapo. - #03: No.14: Footprints in the snow in the foreground - mountains beyond; No.15: Sheer rock face on the other side of a stream; No.16: A snow covered ravine with mountains beyond; No.17: Rocky terrain no snow in sight; - #04 - No.18: Partly snow covered mountains with snow spilling down to the flat ground below. No.19: Mount Cook; No.20: Snow covered mountain with rocky crags. Cloud cover to the left; No.21: Tourists picnicking in long grass in the Tasman Valley; No.22: A man and a dog standing on a rocky outcrop; No.23: Wagoners with mountainscape behind them. - #05 - No.24: Six people on the verandah of an unidentified homestead. Large hill in the background; No.25: Two men with dogs in front of a boundary keeper's cottage in the Mackenzie Country. The man on the right could be James W Annan, rabbit boundary keeper on Birch hill Station, while the man on the left could be his assistant William Low; No.26: Two men on the verandah of a homestead at the foot of the alps; No.27: Farm buildings at the foot of the alps. - #06 - No.28: Partly snow covered mountain with partial cloud cover; No.29: Rocky terrain in the foreground, mountains beyond; No.30: Large crowd gathered around saleyards? two people on horses in foreground; No.31: Black Birch waterfall; No.32: Buildings at the base of mountains; No.33: Horse and wagon and people outside a house in the snow; No.34: Road running through snow covered ground with a house in the distance; No.35: Man beside a makeshift tent set among dry tree branches. - #07 - No.36: Skis and climbing gear leaning against the wall of the Ball Hut; No.37: Jack Adamson; No.38: Two men in front of a corrugated iron shed? on piles; No.39: A man a horse and three dogs in the snow; No.40: Wagoners in the snow. - #08 - No.41: Looking through a ravine to mountains beyond. Large dump of snow in the foreground; No.42: Jack Adamson in the doorway of the Ball Hutt with skis and climbing gear beside him; No.43: Identified as "Gold Dredge Alexandra"; No.44: Different angel of the Gold Dredge Alexandra. - #09 - No.45: Snow covered mountain terrain; No.46: A man in the doorway of the Ball Hut with skis and climbing gear beside him; No.47: Panoramic view of the mountains. - #10 - No.48: Jack Adamson and another man (possibly Jack's brother Bob Adamson), with four pack horses outside the BAll Hut, circa 1898; No.49: Identified as "Ball Hut" a man standing outside to the right; No.50: Dr Franz Kronecker's party camped at De la Beche bivy after climbing the Hochstetter Dome in March 1894. Left to right are: guides Tom Fyfe and Jack Clarke, Dr Franz Kronecker (of Austria), Mr J Mahler (Liverpool UK), and Mr & Mrs Maxwell (Tasmania); No.51: Two men in front of a large rock with thick snow behind it. - #11 - No.52: Four men on flat snow covered ground with mountains behind them; No.53: Partly covered mountains with rough rocky snow covered ground in front; No.54: Two men in front of a hut with clothes hung out to dry; No.55: Two climbers in the snow with backpacks and gear on the ground behind them. - #12 - No.56: Two men taking gear up the mountain to build the Ball Hut; No.57: Two men in front of a tent, in the snow, on the mountains; No.58: Two men camped at the base of a large rock; No.59: Two men in a tent pitched under a large rock . Supplies around them; No.60: Two men on the mountain in the snow dragging gear behind them; No.61: Snow covering the foreground Mt Cook? in the distance. - #13 - No.62: Two climbers in the snow with the gear on the ground to their right; No.63: Rock strewn snow covered ground with a man sitting on a rock; No.64: Small snow cave formation in the thick snow. Mountains in the background; No.65: A tourist party on the Tasman Glacier, circa 1894; No.66: Packed snow with ice cave? in it; No.67: Two men wrapped in blankets in the shelter of a large rock ( De La Beche?); No.68: Two men (one reading one writing) sheltering under a large rock; No.69: Seven men carrying planks of wood outside a hut in the mountains; No.70: Snowy mountainside with areas of rock showing though. - #14 - No.71: A roped climber in a hidden crevasse. Note: Canterbury Museum holds the second image in the sequence showing the climber being extracted (Kennedy Collection 1975.230.18920 WAK227 JA41); No.72: Two climbers roped together on the side of a rock face; No.73: Snow covered ground in the foreground of a mountain peak; No.74: Three men and two women with climbing gear - Mt Cook behind them; No.75: Long corridor with snow/ice covered walls on either side; No.76: A tent pitched under the lea of a large block of ice. |
Photographer |
Adamson, John (Jack), 1867-1951 |
Year Range from |
1890 |
Year Range to |
1900 |
Format |
Album, Photograph |
Medium |
Paper, Photographic |
Processing Method |
silver printing out paper |
Print Size |
Various |
Dimension Details |
Album pages approx 245(h) x 310(w) mm |
Original/Copy |
Original |
People |
Adamson, Jack Adamson, Robert Kronecker, Franz Maxwell, (Mr) Maxwell, (Mrs) Mahler, J Clarke, Jack Fyfe, Tom Annan, James W Low, William |
Search Terms |
Tasman Glacier, Canterbury Hochstetter Dome, West Coast Tekapo Bridge, Mackenzie District Aoraki / Mount Cook, Canterbury Aoraki Mount Cook National Park Black Birch Stream, Canterbury Ball Hut, Canterbury Birch Hill Station, Mackenzie District |
Subjects |
Photograph alums Landscape photographs Mountains Mountaineering |
Catalogue Number |
MC.93.5.4 |