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Date: 1924

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

Reference: APG-1306-1/2-G

Description: Improvements to the Rimutaka Road showing the old road to the left, with a new cutting straightening the route. A Ford motor car is rounding the bend. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in 1924. A print of this image is in Godber album Vol 109, p 209 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - Improvements to Rimutaka Road. Old road on left. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [187-?]

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PA7-30-05

Description: Photograph of Wairarapa from Rimutaka Range, taken ca 1870s by James Bragge. The Rimutaka Hill Road runs through the centre of the image. Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Looking down upon the Wairarapa Plain from the Rimutaka; Mount verso - top centre - Bragge Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 21.8 x 29.2 cm, mounted on paper

Date: 1924

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

Reference: APG-1307-1/2-G

Description: View of the Rimutaka Hill Road from near the top showing the Hutt Valley side. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in 1924. A print of this image is in Godber album Vol 109, p 209 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - Road over Rimutaka. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: ca 1910

From: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-006668-G

Description: Rimutaka Valley, and Hill Road, at sunset, circa 1910. Photograph taken by (Allen M)?. This is a copy negative of a postcard Inscriptions: On original postcard: The Long [?]. Sunset Rimutaka Valley. Tourist Series 157. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: B-049-018

Description: 'Otiwera Pass' the valley leading down the Rimutaka Road towards the Wairarapa, with the plain in the distance In the text accompanying this illustration, Brees writes: 'This represents a low part of the Remutaka mountains and the valley of the Otiwera, with the plains of the Wairarapa in the distance. The author passed down this ravine on the 7th and 8th February 1843, accompanied by A Kuri and party, while exploring the road from Port Nicholson.' The name Otiwera, no longer in use, may refer either to Abbot's Stream, near the base of the Rimutaka Road, or to Cross Creek, or another small stream on the Wairarapa side of the Rimutaka Hill Other Titles - Rimutaka Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 55 x 90 mm

Date: 1915

From: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-005959-G

Description: Featherston, with Rimutaka Road on the left. Photograph taken by Frederick George Radcliffe, circa 1915. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Featherston. F G R 4340 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1870]

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: 1/1-000805-F

Description: Rimutaka Range landscape, circa 1870, showing evidence of land clearance in the foreground and the Hill Road on the left. Photograph taken by James Bragge. Note on back of file print reads "Halfway up on the Wellington side. c 1870s" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1877 - 1880

By: Lyndon, Edward, active 1860s-1890s; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Beauchamp, Heather Elizabeth, active 1970s

Reference: A-113-026

Description: View from the foot of the Rimutaka Road, visible amongst bush on the right, across a stream to a large house with several outbuildings, to the lake and hills in the distance. Copied from a chromolithograph by C D Barraud, first published in 1877 A copy of a chromolithograph 'Wairarapa Lake' by C D Barraud published in New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive (London, Sampson Low, 1877), opp. p. 2. Lyndon has removed a man on horseback and four cows from the left foreground, and a cabbage tree from the right foreground, but otherwise the details are very similar Other Titles - Barraud, Charles Decimus Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [in ink, in italic capitals] E. LYNDON.; Backing board recto - beneath image - Wairarapa Lake [in pencil, in cursive script] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour over pencil 230 x 352 mm

Date: 1854 - 1856

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

Reference: E-455-f-073-1

Description: A cutting, shortly after the formation of the Rimutaka Hill Road, with cleared tree trunks and the road curving. A Maori family are walking a horse along the road and a steep, heavily bushed hill rises behind the road. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & ink, 255 x 160 mm

Date: [between 1915-1916]

From: Daroux, James Henry, 1870-1943 :Collection of negatives and prints

Reference: 1/2-101093-G

Description: The Rimutaka Range, showing World War I troops marching southward, from Tauherenikau Camp to Trentham camp, along the Rimutaka Hill Road. Photographed by James Henry Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1916

From: Grant, G T (Miss): Photographs of Shackleton and Harry Lauder's visits to Wellington

Reference: 1/2-029477-F

Description: Group standing alongside their Dodge car, near Featherston, after a drive over the Rimutaka Hill Road, in 1916. From left to right: Captain Mullineux, Ernest Henry Shackleton, Mrs C Gray and Mr Gray. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-029-064

Description: The Rimutaka Road with a bridge and a ford over the stream, bush-clad hills and the hills of the Rimutaka Range in the background The name Torohonga Creek is no longer used, but may be Abbot's Stream on the South Wairarapa side of the hill. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title and date Compare an almost identical view in E-297-007, with the additional information in the title "at foot of Rimutaka Hill". Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 210 x 315 mm

Date: 1854 - 1856

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

Reference: E-455-f-073-2

Description: A view from the top of the Rimutaka Hill, looking down over the road winding through dense bush towards the plains of the Wairarapa. A Maori family is leading a horse down the road. One tree to the left in the foreground is a rata in flower and there is a tree-fern on the right. The artist is incorrect in his statement about the Rimutaka Range being part of the Ruahine Range. It is part of the Tararua Range. The phrase 'anglice Waidrop' refers to the common nineteenth century English version of the Maori word Wairarapa. Other Titles - English Waidrop Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & ink, 155 x 240 mm

Date: 2012

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0021560

Description: The Rimutaka Hill Road is represented as a winding track running over the caricatured features of Robert Muldoon. Muldoon's Corner is sign-posted. A construction worker remarks 'Once that's done there's a wide, slippery bit we could look at...' Below him is another sign-post labelled 'Key's Mile'. The cartoon is titled 'News: State Highway 2 over the Rimutakas is being made safer'. Muldoon's Corner, not named after Sir Robert Muldoon, is one of the dangerous bends. 'Key's Mile', an invented name, refers to John Key's reputation for slipperiness, as well as to his habitual grin. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 3 October 2007 - 23 February 2012

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000794

Description: Comprises wide landscape views taken between 3 October 2007 and 23 February 2012 by Dylan Owen. Views show cabbage trees beside estuary and pa site at Marokopa, snowy Mount Taranaki floating above green farmland, gravel country road through grassy hills, West Waitomo, rugged hill country near Hunterville, pink sunset reflected in river between hilly country on Kauroa to Kawhia road. Includes views of bare cliffs above coastal road and red coloured rocks by sea, Cape Palliser, beach at Riversale looking south, large southerly storm cloud brewing over West Carteron farms, campers at carpark on beach, looking towards Castlepoint in distance, area of tilted rock strata (eroded sandstone and mudstone) at Whakataki, Wairarapa. Includes views of Deadman Stream wooden bridge, cows walking over dry farmland hills, inland near Kaikoura, power pole on Summit Road, tyre marks on Sumner road, Christchurch Includes views taken of toitoi and graases at Hokio Beach, East Horowhenua. Includes views of farm fence along coastline cliifs, Plimmerton, light snow on Rimutaka Hill road. Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Landscapes" Quantity: 20 digital photograph(s).

Date: 1869

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-172-002

Description: Shows the Rimutaka Road with a bridge and a ford over the stream, bush-clad hills and the hills of the Rimutaka Range in the background. In the left foreground are two men on horseback, with dogs, herding cows Sale catalogue gives title as 'Abbotts [sic] Creek crossing'. The name Torohonga Creek is no longer used, but may be Abbots Stream (or Creek) on the South Wairarapa side of the hill, near Featherston Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C D Barraud / NZ 1869 [in brushpoint] See also A-029-064 and E-297-007 for similar views from almost the same aspect Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 385 x 523 mm

Date: July - November 2013

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000926

Description: Comprises photographs of scenery around the Wellington region, taken by Dylan Owen between July and November 2013. Photographs include images of Bartons Bush in Upper Hutt; Eastbourne; Moonshine Forest, Upper Hutt; a signpost for Okautete Reserve in the Wairarapa; the Orongorongo valley and range; the Petone foreshore; Rimutaka Hill Road (State Highway 2) and the Rimutaka range; and Round Bush in Foxton, Manawatu. Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Landscape" Quantity: 15 digital photograph(s).