Remutaka

Date: [Between 1870s and 1890s]

By: Erskine & Whitmore (Firm); Coxhead & Le Sueur (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: PA1-o-151

Description: Views of New Zealand collected by Invercargill firm Erskine & Whitmore. Scenes taken by various photographers including Hart, Campbell & Co., and Coxhead & Le Sueur. Several views show Queenstown under floods in 1878; others of the Queenstown-Lakes Region, Waitati, Gore and Dunedin in the South Island. In the North Island, one shows a large picnic party travelling in three horse-drawn coaches, stopped at Ngauranga; many show a range of steam locomotives including J Class, K Class, F43, E22, H Class and A Class, in the Upper Hutt area, the Wairarapa, and on the Rimutaka line. Several at the end of the album show the effects of a major slip which blocked the mouth of the Summit Tunnel at the top of the Rimutaka Incline. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Erkine & Whitmore Inscriptions: Album page - `A choice collection of New Zealand views carefully selected from the best artists'. Erskine & Whitmore, Invercargill Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue buckram cover, 24.5 x 35.0 cm Provenance: Part of Alexander H Turnbull's collection

Date: [Between 1870s and 1890s]

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

By: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909; Hart, Campbell & Company; New Zealand Railways; Ring, James, 1856-1939; Travers, William Thomas Locke, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-f-025

Description: Album of photographs collected by Albert Percy Godber which related to his interests. Photographers include Daniel Manders Beere, William Thomas Locke Travers and James Ring. Scenes in Australia include Adelaide waterworks, Currency Creek, the Murray River Bridge, the Thorndon Park Reservoir, and Port Adelaide River road & rail bridge. New Zealand scenes are chiefly in the South island, many relating to early railway construction, particularly areas involved in working on the Dunedin to Balclutha railway along the Waimakariri River, and around the Purakanui Cliffs. Of particular interest throughout the album are the construction and design of railway features such as bridges, viaducts and tunnels. North Island railway scenes include the Rimutaka Incline, the bend known as `Siberia', the Summit, and Pakuratahi. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 4 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 42 x 33 cm

Date: [ca 1890-1950]

From: Smytheman, V :Photographs from World War II and an album of New Zealand scenes

By: Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970

Reference: PAColl-0531-1

Description: Scenic views of New Zealand including a number of the glass houses and parks of Wanganui and New Plymouth. There are also an old photograph of W Stack's Hotel in Hastings with men and horses outside (in poor condition); a woman in what may be a 1930 Chrysler Plymouth with another snow away from the tyres; the gravestone of Julius von Haast; Queen's Wharf, Wellington showing a recently returned troop transport ship; an orchestra performing at the 1907 Christchurch exhibition; men of the No. 19 Platoon with a car at the summit of the Rimutakas; postcard from P B Davis to Mr A French showing a group of First World War soldiers with the message that they are about to leave for France; and six children at the base of a large Maori carving with a bell attached at Ohinemutu. Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-053380 Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s).

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-045313-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-045314-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Dates flown: 1942,1943,1944

From: NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd: Mosaic aerial negatives, prints, transparencies, and index

Reference: NZAM-C/251-F

Description: Aerial mosaic made by NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd in 1940's showing Rimutaka - Featherston in Wellington region, an inset index to adjoining sheets is included Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - N 161 C82 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, approx 59.4 x 84.1 cm (A1 size) approximate scale 20 chains to one inch

Date: Mosaiced July 1943

From: NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd: Mosaic aerial negatives, prints, transparencies, and index

Reference: NZAM-C/131-F

Description: Aerial mosaic made by NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd in 1943 showing Rimutaka Hill Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - WN 75, 6, 77, 84 B 69 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, approx 59.4 x 84.1 cm (A1 size) approximate scale: 20 chains to one inch

Date: [1940s-1990s]

From: NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd: Mosaic aerial negatives, prints, transparencies, and index

Reference: NZAM-C/132-F

Description: Aerial mosaic made by NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd showing Rimutaka Hill Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, approx 59.4 x 84.1 cm (A1 size)

Date: Dates flown: 1942,1943,1944

From: NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd: Mosaic aerial negatives, prints, transparencies, and index

Reference: NZAM-C/250-F

Description: Aerial mosaic made by NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd in 1940's showing Upper Hutt - Rimutaka in Wellington region, an inset index to adjoining sheets is included Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - N 161 C81 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, approx 59.4 x 84.1 cm (A1 size) approximate scale 20 chains to one inch

Date: 17 October 1847

From: Parr, Christopher, 1931-: Collection of early New Zealand material

Reference: MS-Papers-12432-1-006

Description: Letter from Hamuera Pakaiahi to William Colenso addressed "Ki te Kopi Kia te Koreneho Minita", dated "Okotopa 17 1847" writing from Hurunuiorangi in the Wairarapa. He says he cannot go to Te Kopi, as he is too busy with "mahi oranga". Also mentions the surveying of land in the Remutaka area, and that Te Aukarere was going to hunt birds. Tamati is also mentioned, saying he will take food to the Pākehā. For further details on Hamuera Pakaiahi, the author of this letter, see EATS (Entity Authority Tool Set) database: http://wtap.vuw.ac.nz/eats/entity/80085/ Title supplied by Library. Physical Description: Manuscript letter, ink on watermarked laid paper, ruled in pencil, 20 x 16 cm.

Date: 1937-1940

From: Kelly, Raymond Alwyn, 1917-1998 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-1634

Description: Album relating to radio stations (2YA and ZLW), radio engineers, embarkation of troops, ships, Byrd's Antarctic Expedition, Bonds and Prestiege employee tournment, textile workers, textile machinery, construction of Bonds factory additions, motion picture theatres, Hutt railway workshops, funeral of Prime Minister Michal Savage. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album 19.5 x 28 cm

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1901]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-296

Description: Photographs, probably taken by G W Barltrop. Scenes in the first part of the album are of the South Island, mostly around the Dunedin area, and further south, in Invercargill and Bluff. There are two panoramas, one of Port Chalmers and one of Lumsden. Most are landscapes, but a few show groups of people, including five young girls in the Dunedin Botanical Gardens, and a man driving a horse and buggy at Manuka Creek, with two young women sitting beside him, and a third woman standing by the horse's head. A graveyard scene is a close-up view of two headstones, one for Catherine Louisa Schaw (widow of John S Schaw), who died in 1874 aged 71. North Island scenes show a church at Levin; and views of the countryside, a bullock pulling a laden cart, and at the Rimutaka Summit all taken on a train journey. Group portraits include one of a large family group, with two young boys in the foreground with a cricket bat and cricket pads; and two large groups of men and women associated with the Missions to Seamen. One image show a plaque erected `In memory of twelve officers and seamen who were drowned or died from exposure, by the wreck of the Barque Lizzie Bell near the Oeo River, July 24 1901, erected by members and friends of the Missions to seamen, Wellington, New Zealand'. There is also a photograph of the wreck of the ship Antiocco Accame, which was stranded at Katiki Beach, Otago, on 31 October 1901. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

Date: [Between 1860s and 1910s]

From: McCormack, Leonora, 1925-: Albums and photographic prints of the Harding family

By: Mason, Frederick W, active 1899-1915

Reference: PA1-o-285

Description: Album related to the Harding family of Mount Vernon Station near Waipukurau. Family scenes include views of the Mount Vernon Homestead, with individual and group portraits, many taken at the house. Other houses and farms include Raukawa farm, the Sommerville house in Khandallah, Wellington, and W.H. Smith's house in Hastings. Most of the people are identified, but many have only initials with surnames. Holidays at Lake Waikaremoana, New South Wales, Milford track; a drive over the Rimutaka Road. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, maroon spine and corners; 24.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-064-2

Description: Looking north up the Hutt Valley with snow marked on the Rimutaka Range in the background. Cleared forest, with tree stumps, three houses and a windmill are in the foreground The mill may be that of Molesworth and Ludlam, built 1845 Dating: the date March 1853 is suggested because two drawings of the Hutt on the following page (E-455-f-065-1 and E-455-f-065-2) are dated March 1853. They are both pencil and on identical buff-coloured paper Other Titles - Rimutaka Inscriptions: Album page - bottom centre - Title in ink; also title in pencil on reverse of the drawing Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and Chinese white on buff paper, 181 x 245 mm

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-045312-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1928 - 1938

By: Duncan, W C, active 1900-1940

Reference: MapColl-832.4gmbh/[ca.1933]/Acc.22971

Description: Manuscript map of the Tararua Range depicting bush tracks, rivers and creeks, roads, huts, mountain peaks with trigs, gorges, the bush line and slips, as per reference key. Map verso contains English translations of Maori place names and trees. Map is signed WC Duncan (twice). Map states: 'Compiled from Forestry and SO Lithographs'. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, part coloured, 30.7 x 23.5 cm.