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Camps and trails in China [front cover].
Roy Andrews (1884-1960) was an explorer, and long-time curator and director of the American Museum of Natural History. His Asiatic Zoological Expedition of 1916-17 was written up in his "Camps and Trails in China". The pagoda on the cover is found at…
Capping - Selwyn College.
Eleven male students from Selwyn College holding signs saying "Closed on account of fire" and "No license - a bar to progress". One student has his head through a large sign that has the word "Booth".
Capping band.
A photograph of the 1910 capping band members. Several of the male students are dressed in women’s clothing while another is dressed as a clown. It was not until 1947 that female students appeared in the capping show.
Captain Bellairs’ house at corner of Frederick & Leith Streets.
Upper right (u.r.) in pencil: 13; on original mount in ink: Reproduced from a sketch painted in 1853-54 by Capt.n the Hon.ble E.H.W. Bellairs by T.W. Eyton; on original mount (in Dr Hocken’s hand: Cap. Bellair’s house at corner of Frederick &…
Captain Billy Williams.
Margin below image in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Captain Billy Williams, an old whaler of Preservation Inlet in 1827. Died in Dunedin leaving a son, Peter W. & daughter married to W.H.S. Roberts of Oamaru; verso in ink [section of book-keeping book].
Captain Flinders, R.N.
(Autograph copy of parole on his release from 6 years captivity in the Isle of Mauritius). Port Napoleon, Isle de France, 7th June 1810 (Signed) Matt.as Flinders. Litho-Photographed from the original miniature painted 1801, age 27. Published by…
Cataloguing Department, University of Otago Central Library.
Cataloguing staff in the Central Library using typewriters to create labels and entries for the card catalogue. Newly purchased books are stacked on the shelves waiting to be processed.
Chinese Vessels.
This detail shows "two of the vessels made use of by the Chinese. The first of these marked (A), is a junk of about a hundred and twenty tons burthen, and was what the Centurion hove down by; these are most in the great rivers, though they sometimes…
Church & parsonage at Waikouaiti. Rev J.A. Fenton’s cure. 1860.
On mount in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Church & parsonage at Waikouaiti. Rev J.A. Fenton’s cure. By Mrs Fenton 1860; label: Church and Parsonage at Waikouaiti, the Cure of Rev J. Fenton who was the first Anglican Clergyman in Dunedin. Painted by…
City of Auckland. The capital of New Zealand.
[Dedicated to the Right Hon. Lord Stanley. N.B. The objects immediately over the figures are those indicated]. Clark & C.o. Colonial Booksellers, 20, Fenchurch Street. [31st March 1843].
City of Wellington, New Zealand.
Margin below image in ink in Dr Hocken's hand: City of Wellington, New Zealand. W. Richardson lith from a sketch by L. Nattrass. Published for the proprietor at Huggins' Marine Mart 105 Leadenhall St London. Printed by Dean and Munday Threadneedle St…
Cormorants Fishing
"The Chinese fishermen take out with them in the morning ten or twelve of these birds, still fasting, either in light boats, or on bamboo rafts. They make them dive one or two at a time: the cormorant seldom comes up without having taken a fish, and…
Corner of Rattray & Princes Streets, 1862
Now site of Government Insurance Buildings Harnett & Co.
Cover of the House & Garden capping magazine, 1987.
The OUSA capping magazine cover from 1987. The magazine is entitled "House & Garden" in jest and the cover depicts a burnt-out student flat.
D. Ioh. Reinhold Forster.
Label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Dr Johann Reinhold Forster 1729-1798. Naturalist, with his son on Cook’s second expedition, described the natural history of the voyage. The genus Forstera is named after him. T.M. Hocken; label: Na te Hakena…
Dental operating theatre.
A 1920s operating theatre in the second Dental School. For its time, the equipment displayed was state of the art.
Dr Hawkesworth.
Label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Dr John Hawkesworth, L.L.D. 1715-1773, Edited Voyages to the Southern Hemisphere including Captain Cook’s First Voyage. T.M. Hocken; label: Na te Hakena Tenei Tiki.
