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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: ca 1880s

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

Reference: PAColl-3039-1-033

Description: Train on Ladle Bend, Rimutaka Incline, circa 1880s. Shows an S class Fairlie steam locomotive, wagons, and carriages, crossing a viaduct. Photographer unidentified. Note on back of file print reads: "Bridges on Kaitoke side of Rimutaka Range. Wgton-Woodville Rly" Inscriptions: Verso - [Written in A P Godber's handwriting] Ladle Bend 2 "C" cars and 4 wheelvan; Verso - Stamped in ink - A P Godber Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 8.8.x 14 cm Processing information: Formerly filed in Turnbull Library Pictures at 385. Railways. Lines. Wairarapa

Date: 1849

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: G-001-1

Description: A view of Wellington hills and gullies, with evidence of bush clearing in the foreground. The Rimutakas are visible in the centre distance. Title supplied by vendor. The artist arrived in Wellington in August 1849, the year this painting was done. He and his family lived at the property Homewood in Karori while waiting for his house to be built. This painting may show a view from the Karori area, possibly from Johnston Hill, above Homewood Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C D Barraud 1849 Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 205 x 280 mm (sight 190 x 265 mm)

Date: ca 1880s

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025844-G

Description: Scene in the Rimutaka Range, Wellington region, New Zealand, circa 1880s. Looks along an unidentified creek, towards a railway bridge and deforested hillsides. Photograph taken by William Williams. Inscriptions: from neg bag: No 442 "Rimutaka, Bridge o'er creek" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1882

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: C-096-014

Description: Lake Wairarapa in the background, the railway line with a train (the Fell engine) in a cleared area, with hills and bush on either side. Inscriptions: Signed: John Gully, 1882 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 360 x 300 mm

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/2-096192-G

Description: Totara Flat, Rimutaka Range, photographed circa 1880s by Daniel Manders Beere. Looks along a valley, showing hills, many covered in bare tree trunks. A small wooden dwelling with a pitched shingle roof is on a flat area in the foreground, by a river. Railway tracks run along on the right. Source of title and descriptive information - Entry in Daniel Manders Beere's photographers register which reads: "Rimutaka. Totara Flat" Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 51; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 51 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

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: 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: 1840

By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: C-011-005

Description: View from inside Pipitea Pa, looking north up the harbour towards the Hutt Valley and the Rimutaka Ranges. In the left foreground, two people sit, wrapped in blankets on bare ground. The edges of the site are defined with palisades of varying heights. On lower ground to the right are a wharenui, a long low building with a single door in the side, and two whata or food storage buildings on poles. Note on verso: Selected to be exhibited in the Academy Gallery for the Chamber of Commerce centennial June 1956, but not shown because of lack of space. Other Titles - Wellington Harbour, December Other Titles - Pa Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and brown ink drawing 205 x 284 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, London, 1915, as part of the New Zealand Company collection.

Date: [187-?]

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: 1/1-017544-F

Description: Photograph taken by James Bragge. Bragge (copy negs) Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1877

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The illustrations by C. D. Barraud. Edited by W. T. L. Travers. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1877

By: Picken, T (Mr), active 1870s; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: PUBL-0016-04

Description: View from the outskirts of Featherston, with the Lake in the distance and pasture land surrounding it, a few of the houses of Featherston in the middle distance beyond Abbots Stream, and the bush-clad foot of the Rimutaka Range in the left foreground. A man on horseback and four cows are in the right foreground. Copy reproduced in New Zealand's heritage, part 16, p. 426, published 1970. Other Titles - Wairarapa Lake from Featherston [title on associated text] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 246 x 345 mm

Date: 1885

From: [Doubleday, William and John], fl 1880s :[Twenty-three watercolours of New Zealand and the Pacific. 1884-1885]

Reference: C-150-013

Description: Shows a view of Wellington and the harbour looking up the harbour towards the Hutt Valley. In the left foreground are a tree fern, cabbage tree and rata in flower. There is a square-towered church in the city in the middle distance (likely to be St Mary's Hill Street). Other Titles - December, February Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 122 x 186 mm.

Date: Between 1880s and 1890s

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

Reference: APG-1187-1/2-F

Description: View of a railway bridge across the Pakuratahi River in the Rimutaka Hills, on the Wairarapa railway line. Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer. This image is a film copy negative taken by Albert Percy Godber from an original print in Godber Album Vol 102, p 76 (PA1-f-025). Inscriptions: Album page - In the Pakuratahi. There is an original print in Godber Album Vol 102, p 76 (PA1-f-025) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 17.25 x 11.75 cm

Date: [188-?]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025499-G

Description: Scene in the Rimutaka Range, Wellington region, with Incline on right, and gully with stream on left. Photographed 1880s by William Williams. Other - From neg bag: "Rimutaka Incline Down Valley - 3rd rail" Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1853

Reference: A-034-012

Description: Shows Hutt River estuary with Rimutaka Range in background and the dense forest of the original Petone landscape Reproduced as one of the "Turnbull Library Prints" in 1972. The forest shown is likely to be predominantly kahikitea trees Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 165 x 254 mm

Date: 1860 - 1869

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-188-022

Description: Two small cottages with thatched roofs and single windows visible, the one on the right with a lean-to. A path leads down from the left-hand cottage and a woman and small child are in the foreground. Steep bush-clad hills rise behind the huts. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - E S S; Verso - (in artist's hand) A little sketch of mine Edith; Verso - (in another hand) Halcombe, Urinui, New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 59 x 99 mm

Date: 1863

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-169-004

Description: An autumnal river view with two men on horseback on the left bank at the water's edge. Cattle can be seen on the right bank, which is substantially higher. The Rimutaka mountains can be seen in the distance. Toetoe bushes feature prominently in the foreground Dunbar Sloane catalogue shows title as 'Surveyors crossing the Waikato River'; however, given Barraud's whereabouts at the time the watercolour was painted, it is more likely to be the Hutt River. There is also no evidence that the men are surveyors Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D. Barraud / N.Z. 1863 [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 380 x 525 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: 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