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Group including Swiss guide Jakob Lauper, circa 1880s. Location photograph taken unknown. Photographer unidentified. Group including Swiss guide Jakob Lauper (far right). Location unknown. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Jakob Lauper identified by Library client. Dated estimated by cataloguer. Formerly identified as possibly being a group of gold miners. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 7.2 x 10.1 cm Not specified TAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library
Lauper, Jakob, 1815-1891 : Umstandlicher Bericht uber die Expedition und den Tod des Hr Withcomb [ie Whitcombe] Account of his journey, as guide for John Henry Whitcombe, from the headwaters of the Rakaia River across the Southern Alps to the mouth of the Taramakau River, near Kumara. Whitcombe was working on contract for the Canterbury Provincial Government and drown during the expedition. Also, holograph notes by William Young of Lauper's and Whitcombe's exploration. A typescript copy is at qMS-2304 Publication - Published as: Over the Whitcombe Pass: the narrative of Jakob Lauper, reprinted from the Canterbury Provincial Gazette, 6 July 1863 (Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd, 1960), edited by John Pascoe Accompanying material - Photocopy of death certificate in folder and carbon copy of a letter to donor from the Librarian Source of title - Transcribed from item Other Titles - Translated as `Draft report of the expedition and death of Mr Withcomb' Swiss mountaineer, guide and lighthouse keeper Quantity: 1 folder(s) (36 pp; 11 pp). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Processing information: Transferred from Misc MS G4 & N6, Jun 1969 Lauper, Jakob, 1815-1891 TAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library
Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :Trail of death [ca 1957]. A six-panelled account of the deaths of 7 surveyors in Canterbury in the 1860s and 1885. They were Henry Whitcombe (mistakenly called George by the artist) who drowned while crossing the Teremakau River with Jacob Louper (correctly Lauper) in 1863; Carleton (correctly Charlton) Howitt and two others (Robert Little and Henry Miller) drowned in Lake Brunner in 1863, their packs found by the sole survivor, James Belgrave Hammett; Charles Townshend (correctly Townsend), drowned while crossing the Grey River in 1863; George Dobson, shot by the Maungatapu murderers in 1866; and Edward Lake Paske, who died in a snowstorm in the Clarence Valley in 1885 (correctly 1886), followed by another member of his party, Hugh Thompson who died in similar circumstances on the same trip. These illustrations were reproduced in New Zealand newspapers during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The newspapers included The Evening Post, Auckland Star, Christchurch Star Sun, Taranaki Herald, Southern Cross, Students' Digest, Greymouth Evening Star, Evening Star (Sports) Dunedin, and the Southland Daily News. In 1953, 48 of them were collected and published as a booklet called 'It happened in New Zealand' by Ross Gore. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm. Not specified TAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library
Group including Swiss guide Jakob Lauper, circa 1880s. Location photograph taken unknown. Photographer unidentified. Group including Swiss guide Jakob Lauper (far right). Location unknown. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Jakob Lauper identified by Library client. Dated estimated by cataloguer. Formerly identified as possibly being a group of gold miners. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 7.2 x 10.1 cm Not specified TAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library
Lauper, Jakob, 1815-1891 : Umstandlicher Bericht uber die Expedition und den Tod des Hr Withcomb [ie Whitcombe] Account of his journey, as guide for John Henry Whitcombe, from the headwaters of the Rakaia River across the Southern Alps to the mouth of the Taramakau River, near Kumara. Whitcombe was working on contract for the Canterbury Provincial Government and drown during the expedition. Also, holograph notes by William Young of Lauper's and Whitcombe's exploration. A typescript copy is at qMS-2304 Publication - Published as: Over the Whitcombe Pass: the narrative of Jakob Lauper, reprinted from the Canterbury Provincial Gazette, 6 July 1863 (Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd, 1960), edited by John Pascoe Accompanying material - Photocopy of death certificate in folder and carbon copy of a letter to donor from the Librarian Source of title - Transcribed from item Other Titles - Translated as `Draft report of the expedition and death of Mr Withcomb' Swiss mountaineer, guide and lighthouse keeper Quantity: 1 folder(s) (36 pp; 11 pp). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Processing information: Transferred from Misc MS G4 & N6, Jun 1969 Lauper, Jakob, 1815-1891 TAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library
Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :Trail of death [ca 1957]. A six-panelled account of the deaths of 7 surveyors in Canterbury in the 1860s and 1885. They were Henry Whitcombe (mistakenly called George by the artist) who drowned while crossing the Teremakau River with Jacob Louper (correctly Lauper) in 1863; Carleton (correctly Charlton) Howitt and two others (Robert Little and Henry Miller) drowned in Lake Brunner in 1863, their packs found by the sole survivor, James Belgrave Hammett; Charles Townshend (correctly Townsend), drowned while crossing the Grey River in 1863; George Dobson, shot by the Maungatapu murderers in 1866; and Edward Lake Paske, who died in a snowstorm in the Clarence Valley in 1885 (correctly 1886), followed by another member of his party, Hugh Thompson who died in similar circumstances on the same trip. These illustrations were reproduced in New Zealand newspapers during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The newspapers included The Evening Post, Auckland Star, Christchurch Star Sun, Taranaki Herald, Southern Cross, Students' Digest, Greymouth Evening Star, Evening Star (Sports) Dunedin, and the Southland Daily News. In 1953, 48 of them were collected and published as a booklet called 'It happened in New Zealand' by Ross Gore. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm. Not specified TAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library
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Lauper Stream, Rakaia Valley One of the earliest associations between Swiss people and the New Zealand mountains came about when Jakob Lauper accompanied John Henry Whitcombe on the first crossing of Whitcombe Pass, between Canterbury and Westland, in 1863. On their journey, the pair followed a stream from the Rakaia River ... Jock Phillips
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Lauper Stream, Rakaia Valley One of the earliest associations between Swiss people and the New Zealand mountains came about when Jakob Lauper accompanied John Henry Whitcombe on the first crossing of Whitcombe Pass, between Canterbury and Westland, in 1863. On their journey, the pair followed a stream from the Rakaia River ... Jock Phillips
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Jakob Peter Lauper 5 Apr 1815 🔍 20 May 1891 🔍 📰 Old Napier Cemetery Napier, Napier City Hawke's Bay
Jakob Peter Lauper 5 Apr 1815 🔍 20 May 1891 🔍 📰 Old Napier Cemetery Napier, Napier City Hawke's Bay
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Alexander Turnbull LibraryLauper, Jakob        🔍 ASH

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Group including Swiss guide Jakob Lauper, circa 1880s. Location photograph taken unknown. Photographer unidentified. PAColl-4363-1-14. Group including Swiss guide Jakob Lauper, circa 1880s. Location photograph taken unknown. Photographer unidentified.. [188-?]. Mueller family :Photographs (PAColl-4363). [Piece]
Over the Whitcombe Pass - Inward and outward correspondence 75-241-065. Over the Whitcombe Pass - Inward and outward correspondence. 1953-1963. Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 : Papers (MS-Group-1328). [Item]
Lauper, Jakob, 1815-1891 : Umstandlicher Bericht uber die Expedition und den Tod des Hr Withcomb [ie Whitcombe] MS-Papers-0348. Lauper, Jakob, 1815-1891 : Umstandlicher Bericht uber die Expedition und den Tod des Hr Withcomb [ie Whitcombe]. 1863. [Item]
Group including Swiss guide Jakob Lauper, circa 1880s. Location photograph taken unknown. Photographer unidentified. PAColl-4363-1-14. Group including Swiss guide Jakob Lauper, circa 1880s. Location photograph taken unknown. Photographer unidentified.. [188-?]. Mueller family :Photographs (PAColl-4363). [Piece]
Over the Whitcombe Pass - Inward and outward correspondence 75-241-065. Over the Whitcombe Pass - Inward and outward correspondence. 1953-1963. Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 : Papers (MS-Group-1328). [Item]
Lauper, Jakob, 1815-1891 : Umstandlicher Bericht uber die Expedition und den Tod des Hr Withcomb [ie Whitcombe] MS-Papers-0348. Lauper, Jakob, 1815-1891 : Umstandlicher Bericht uber die Expedition und den Tod des Hr Withcomb [ie Whitcombe]. 1863. [Item]
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Dictionary of NZ Biography (Scholefield, 1940)Jakob Lauper        🔍 ASH

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Source: A Dictionary of NZ Biography, by Scholefield (1940), from NZ History / CC BY-NC 3.0 NZ

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Jakob Lauper
(Louper)

LAUPER, JAKOB, or LOUPER, belonged to Giffers, canton Freiburg, Switzerland, and came to New Zealand in 1863. He was engaged with J. H. Whitcombe (q.v.) in exploration of the routes to the West Coast when the latter was drowned. Lauper's report of the exploration appears in the Canterbury Provincial Gazette (1863, vol x, no. 10). He received a grant of £100 from the province for his services. Some years later he returned to his native land, which he again left in 1884 or 1885 for New Zealand.

Canterbury P.C. Proc., ii, p 214; Canterbury Gaz., cit.; Lands and Survey dept. (information); Dobson; Harrop, Westland; Cycl. N.Z., i, 1023; Lyttelton Times, 11 Jul 1863.

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Jakob Lauper
(Louper)

LAUPER, JAKOB, or LOUPER, belonged to Giffers, canton Freiburg, Switzerland, and came to New Zealand in 1863. He was engaged with J. H. Whitcombe (q.v.) in exploration of the routes to the West Coast when the latter was drowned. Lauper's report of the exploration appears in the Canterbury Provincial Gazette (1863, vol x, no. 10). He received a grant of £100 from the province for his services. Some years later he returned to his native land, which he again left in 1884 or 1885 for New Zealand.

Canterbury P.C. Proc., ii, p 214; Canterbury Gaz., cit.; Lands and Survey dept. (information); Dobson; Harrop, Westland; Cycl. N.Z., i, 1023; Lyttelton Times, 11 Jul 1863.

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Puke Ariki Collections - PeopleJakob Lauper        🔍 ASH

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Name Born Died Cemetery Region
Jakob Lauper 5 Apr 1815 🔍 20 May 1891 🔍 📰 Napier (Old) Cemetery Hawke's Bay
Jakob Lauper 5 Apr 1815 🔍 20 May 1891 🔍 📰 Napier (Old) Cemetery Hawke's Bay
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Lauper Jakob Swiss explorer (1815-1891)
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