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Size4\" x 7\" (Cabinet Stereoview)MountflatPublisher / Photographer
Probably Martin Buckley Joyce, Wellington and Timaru, New Zealand.
Title
A view of \"The Hermitage\" Southern Alps, New Zealand.
Conditionvery good to excellentKeywordsAoraki/Mount Cook National Park
Notes:Image is sharper than scan.
This extremely rare stereoview came from a group of views chronicling an early expedition in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. Little information was provided about these views. However through detailed research, I have discovered some details about this trip. The following description may not be 100% accurate. But, it is essentially correct.
The expedition occurred in 1906.
There are four names that are listed on these views:
Climbers Mr. Budd & Mr. Millard. A photographer named Joyce. And a mountain guide named Collett.
The historical records do reference a prominent late-Edwardian mountaineering party on the Haupapa/Tasman Glacier, led by the early New Zealand alpine guide Michael Collett accompanied by climbers Mr. Budd and Mr. Millard.
1906 and 1908, Michael Collett worked as an active guide in the Southern Alps, documenting expeditions through pioneer stereoscopic photography. Collett was part of the foundational generation of New Zealand mountain guides operating out of the original Hermitage Hotel. They pioneered early routes using traditional step-cutting methods with ice axes—skills passed down to the modern operators who guide the glacier today.
The expedition traversed the Tasman Glacier, looking down the expanse of New Zealand\'s longest glacier with the east face of Aoraki/Mount Cook towering on their right.
Original albumen photographic prints capturing \"Mr. Budd, Mr. Millard, and guide Collett\" navigating the crevasses and seracs of the ice fall are preserved within national historical collections, notably archived by the National Library of New Zealand.
The references to Mr. Budd and Mr. Millard regarding a \"New Zealand expedition\" or mission around 1906 relate to the famous global missionary and \"Keswick Deputation\" tours linked to the Keswick Convention. At the turn of the 20th century, the Keswick movement in the UK organized global deputation groups—frequently referred to in historical records as missionary expeditions—to travel to British colonies and other parts of the world. Their goal was to spread their theological message and set up regional conventions.
Henry Millard was a prominent missionary writer and organizer deeply tied to these foreign tours. He famously authored accounts detailing these spiritual expeditions, such as What God Hath Wrought and The Neglected Continent.
J.T. Budd served as a logistical cornerstone for the Keswick movement around this time. He was widely known for organizing special transport, travel itineraries, and publishing the authoritative Key to Keswick guide to manage large-scale travel for convention visitors and missionary movements.
Finally the photographer Joyce. His identity is unknown. The only photographer with that name that I can find in 1906 who was active in Zealand is Buckley Joyce.
Martin Buckley Joyce (often credited as M. Buckley Joyce or simply Buckley Joyce) was a prominent early New Zealand amateur photographer, compositor, and linotype operator primarily active in Wellington and Timaru during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
He was an enthusiastic proponent of stereoscopic (3D) photography. He served on the executive committee of the Wellington Camera Club around the turn of the century alongside other notable New Zealand photographic pioneers like Thomas Pringle. His dedication to stereoviews was well-documented; in the 1902 edition of The British Journal Photographic Almanac, he advocated passionately for the medium, stating that once a photographer successfully makes a stereograph, they will \"never afterwards be contented with a small single photograph.\"
Historical records place Buckley Joyce traveling through the South Island in April 1906, when he and a cycling companion named Harrow notably rode from Timaru to The Hermitage at Mount Cook and returned via Lake Pukaki.
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