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Title |
Climbing photographs collected by Mick Bowie (deconstructed album) |
Collection |
Ashurst/Langton Collection |
Description |
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 climbers) pictured in part of the image. Some prints were identified (and dated) by the donor, or verso notes as: - #001 - Lillian Familton looking across to Mount Elie de Beaumont : as viewed from Mount Darwin; - #002 - Mount Annan : as viewed from Mount Darwin; - #003 - Lillian Familton on top of Mount Darwin, taken by Mick Bowie; - #004 - Mount Hamilton and Malte Brun : as viewed from Mount Darwin; - #005 - The view from Mount Darwin : looking across the top of the Tasman Glacier?; - #006 - Mount Green and Elie de Beaumont : as viewed from Mount Darwin; - #007 - Mount Hamilton and Malte Brun : as viewed from Haeckel Peak; - #008 - Malte Brun : as viewed from Coronet; - #010 - The Upper Franz Glacier : as viewed from Coronet; - #011 - The view from the Coronet; - #012 - The Minarets : as viewed from Coronet; - #014 - A view from Haeckel Peak?; - #018 - A view of the Unicorn : viewed from the Copland Glacier?; - #020 - '[Mount] Sefton from western side of pass"; - #022 - Mount Sefton from Douglas Rock Hut; - #027 - Malte Brun à cheval ridge "perhaps Betsy [Blunden?]" - #030 - Mount Elie de Beaumont : as viewed from the south; - #031 - Looking south from Mount Green; - #034 - Pioneer Pass, as approached from the south-east; - #037 - Mount Darwin : as viewed from Mount Turnbull; - #038 - Mount Green and Elie de Beaumont from Malte Brun hut; - #045 - A Hayes (left) and Mick Bowie on The Footstool in 1929; Mount Sefton appears in the background; - #050 - Looking across the Grand Plateau to the Tasman Glacier from the summit of Aoraki Mount Cook; - #051 - Douglas Peak (left) and Haidinger from Grey Peak; - #058 - Malte Brun à cheval ridge?; perhaps Betsy Blunden??; - #059 - Sefton bivvy : "perhaps Betsy [Blunden?]"; - #060 - Mick Bowie (left) and a client on skis; - #061 - Mick Bowie (left) and Lillian Familton[??]; - #062 - A portrait of two women, bearing a note on the verso (presumably form a climbing client) reading: "To Mick. In gratitude for a kind, helping hand in difficult places. March 3-8, 1932. [signed] Mollie Neilson". - #065 - An Aoraki Mount Cook party, 22 January 1932; Ida Corry [2nd from left?], Lin Murray (on right); - #066 - The Malte Brun Range : (from left) Mount Hamilton, Malte Brun, Aiguilles Rouges; - #067 - Identified on the verso as "Mt Copeland[sic] Ridge"; - #069 - Mick Bowie (with camera) and Ida Corry; - #071 - Alack Douglas on the Fox Glacier neve; - #074 - Malte Brun form Mount Hamilton [Aiguilles Rouges in left background]; - #077 - Welcome Flat Hut, West Coast; - #080 - Left to right: Mount Tasman, Lendenfeld Peak, Mount Haast and Mount Dixon, as viewed from the south; - #081 - A climber posed beneath the Minarets; - #082 - A climbing party with Mick Bowie (left) and Vic Williams (right); - #084 - Mick Bowie on the Hooker swing bridge; - #087 - The upper Tasman Glacier and surrounding peaks - Mount Darwin etc; - #093 - Two climbers posed beneath the high peak of Aoraki Mount Cook during a grand traverse; - #094 - Middle and Low Peak from High Peak, Aoraki Mount Cook; - #095 - An early car outside a shed in the snow, wit peaks rising in the near background; - #100 - Looking across the Tasman Valley to the west side of the Aoraki Mount Cook (left) to Mount Tasman (right), showing the Grand Plateau and Haast Glacier; - #101 - Mount Elie de Beaumont, visible beyond Mount Darwin and Mount Annan [taken from the vicinity of Haeckel Peak?]; - #115 - A cheeky Kea looking through a hut window; - #122 - Mount Tasman, peaking above the ridge from Mount Graham to Silberhorn, as viewed from the upper Linda Glacier; - #127 - Nora Haggitt on the summit of Aoraki Mount Cook, 25 November 1934; - #128 - (Left to right) Felix Harvey, Nora Haggitt, and Percy Williams on the summit of Aoraki Mount Cook, 25 November 1934; - #128 - (Left to right) Felix Harvey, Nora Haggitt, and Mick Bowie on the summit of Aoraki Mount Cook, 25 November 1934; - #135 - A skier posed below the Minarets, "perhaps 1936"; - #138 - A group posed outside Ball Hut, including Harry and Rodolf Wigley (on the left); - #139 - A group posed outside the Malte Brun Hut, including Mick Bowie (on right); - #140 - A group posed inside the Malte Brun Hut, including Mick Bowie (second from right); - #141 - A group of Mount Cook lilies; - #142 - Mount Sefton rising behind the Mueller Hut, where a woman is posed standing on a low rock wall; - #144 - The upper Tasman Glacier - #145 - Felix Harvey, Norah Haggitt, and Mick Bowie pictured after climbing Aoraki Mount Cook on 25 November 1934, pictured at Haast Hut; - #146 - Aoraki Mount Cook, pictured from Haast Ridge; - #148 - Vic Williams posed outside the doorway of Haast Hut; - #149 - A climbing party descending Aoraki Mount Cook; - #150 - An avalanche coming down the side of a mountain slope; - #151 - A similar image to the above, just a little later?; - #152 - Four men posed outside Mueller Hut, including Felix Harvey (left) and Percy Williams (right); - #153 - Some of the same four men from #152 posed Mueller Hut, including (from left to right) Mick Bowie, Percy Williams, Felix Harvey, and an unknown man; - #154 - Felix Harvey (left), Percy Williams (right), and Mick Bowie (on the roof) at Mueller Hut; - #156 - Mueller Hut, with a peak [Mount Ollivier?] rising behind it; - #157 - A climber crossing an ice bridge; - #158 - "Among the crevasses"; - #159 - Two climber on the summit of Aoraki Mount Cook "perhaps EK Brown Williams"; - #162 & #163 - Mount Sefton from the Footstool; - #164 - The Main Divide, as viewed north from the Footstool; - #165 - A young Mick Bowie (left), with another unknown climber; - #166 - A ski group posed outside the Ball Hut; - #167 - Looking westward from the Douglas Glacier; - #170 - The Sierra Range, looking west from belong Mount Sefton toward Scott Peak; - #171 - Looking down on the Hooker Valley to the junction with the Tasman Valley, from Mount Sefton; - #172 - La Perouse and Aoraki Mount Cook as viewed from Mount Sefton; - #175 - Two climbers at the summit of Mount Sefton. 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 |
1929 |
Year Range to |
1936 |
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 |
Familton, Lillian Agnes Anna, b.1890 Blunden, Betsy Helen, 1909-2001 Hayes, A Bowie, Andrew Robert Michael (Mick), 1901-1982 Neilson, Mollie Corry, Ida Murray, Lindley (Lin) Kennedy, 1905-1993 Douglas, Alack Williams, Vic Haggitt, Nora Harvey, Felix Williams, Percy Wigley, Henry Rodolph (Sir Harry), 1913-1980 Wigley, Rodolph Lysaght, 1881-1946 |
Search Terms |
Aiguilles Rouges (hill), Canterbury Aoraki / Mount Cook, Canterbury Aoraki Mount Cook National Park Ball Hut, Canterbury Copland Glacier, West Coast Coronet (hill), Canterbury Douglas Peak, West Coast Douglas Rock Hut, West Coast Footstool, The (hill), West Coast Fox Glacier, West Coast Franz Josef Glacier/Ka Roimata o Hine Hukatere, Westland District Grand Plateau (glacier), Canterbury Grey Peak, Canterbury Haast Glacier, Canterbury Haast Hut, Canterbury Haast Ridge, Canterbury Haeckel Peak, Canterbury High Peak (hill), Canterbury Hooker Glacier, Canterbury Hooker River, Canterbury La Perouse (hill), West Coast Linda Glacier, Canterbury Low Peak (hill), Canterbury Malte Brun Hut, Canterbury Malte Brun, Canterbury Middle Peak (hill), Canterbury Minarets (hill), West Coast Mount Annan, Canterbury Mount Copland, West Coast Mount Darwin, Canterbury Mount Dixon, Canterbury Mount Elie de Beaumont, West Coast Mount Graham, West Coast Mount Green, West Coast Mount Haast, West Coast Mount Haidinger, Canterbury Mount Hamilton, Canterbury Mount Ollivier, Canterbury Mount Sefton, Canterbury Mount Tasman, West Coast Mount Turnbull, Canterbury Mueller Glacier, Canterbury Mueller Hut, Canterbury Pioneer Pass, West Coast Scott Peak, West Coast Sierra Range, The, West Coast Silberhorn, West Coast Southern Alps / Ka Tiritiri o te Moana (N.Z.) Tasman Glacier, Canterbury Tasman Valley, Canterbury Unicorn (hill), West Coast Welcome Flat Hut, West Coast Welcome Flat, West Coast Westland Tai Poutini National Park |
Subjects |
Landscape photographs Portrait photographs Mountains Mountaineering Climbing |
Catalogue Number |
2019/041.102 |