The creators of an Upper Clutha fundraising calendar want the public's help in identifying some of the faces featured on its pages.
The Wanaka-Upper Clutha Lions Club recently produced its second calendar recording the history of the Upper Clutha in old images - called Our People, Our Places. The calendar is a follow-up to the club's first calendar project, A Walk in the Past 2012.
Club secretary Pam Kane said while most of the featured photographs had details attached on who, when and where, there were ''gaps'' remaining in the record of names.
Among the unidentified Upper Clutha people is a woman in a photograph called ''The bathing belles'', who is pictured with Sybil Hunt, in Lake Wanaka.
The identity of a well-dressed gentleman standing with his horses near a stone cottage on the Macetown route is also still a mystery, as is a group of 1950s ice skaters at Geordie Hill, in the Lindis Pass.
A photo published in Dunedin's Evening Star in 1939, of workers on the Haast road, also has local history buffs puzzled, as no names are available for the nine shovel-bearing men posing for the camera.
The Lions ladies were keen to hear from anyone who could shed some light on the unidentified people pictured in the calendar.
Mrs Kane had made inquiries with several long-time local families to see if anyone recognised their ancestors, but had failed to get a positive identification in many cases.
''I've been visiting people and they say yes or no, mostly no.''
The photographs used in the calendar have come mainly from private collections, but also museums, the Upper Clutha Historical Records Society and Otago Daily Times archives.
''The ones that are in the public arena are usually pretty good, but the ones in private collections do just give a glimpse into other people's lives and get those precious memories out there.''
The Lions group has 750 calendars to sell. Proceeds will go to the Upper Clutha Hospice Trust.
The same number of copies was printed of the 2012 edition, which sold out before Christmas 2011.
The calendar costs $15 and can be bought from Paper Plus Wanaka or the Wanaka Library.lucy.ibbotson@odt.co.nz
