Houston describes himself as 'an intelligent member of the Otago Provincial Council viz A miners representative & practical digger & storekeeper at Gabriel's Gully'
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: After G.B. Shaw 1851; on original mount in ink (in Dr Hocken’ hand: View of part of Dunedin from Stafford St with the upper harbour November 1851 by Geo B. Shaw copied from the original in the possession of Gilbert…
Margin above image in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Key plan to Mr G.B. Shaw’s View of part of Dunedin &c from Stafford St. Nov 1851; through image in ink: [numerals] 1. Rev. T. Burns’ farm, Grant Braes (now Waverley.) 2. Anderson’s Bay, figure…
Margin below image in ink: Key plan to Mr G.B. Shaw’s picture of Dunedin in 1851. Drawn by Mrs Hocken in 1892. Original in Dr Hocken’s possession. Full account of this picture, & of one of Port Chalmers by same artist is written in copybook and…
Margin below image in ink: Otago Witness Office, 1851, Bond St, being W.H. Cuttenís store on the presnt site of the back portion of MacKerras & Hazlettís Store. Adjoining is part of Mr Parkís (NZ Co Surveyor) house, near Liverpool St. Enlarged by…
Lower left (l.l.) - l.r. in ink: Back of Cap Cargillís old house in Princes St to which Otago Witness office was removed in 1861 & where first number of Daily Times was printed. Looking across to Waverley, section at back occupied in the sixties by…
Lower centre (l.c.) in ink: RTR [monogram first R reversed] pinx 7/11/76; l.r. in ink: phot. 1858; on mount in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Royal Hotel, Dunedin. T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; verso mount in ink: First hotel in Dunedin.…
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: RTR [monogram, first R reversed]; l.r. in pencil: TR Redmayne Aug 1864; margin below image in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: View of Dunedin &c. from the Anderson’s Bay Road T.M. Hocken; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand:…
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: G. O’Brien 1865; l.l. in pencil: Flagstaff from Clifford’s house. Acclimatisation grounds. (Present Botanical gardens); through image in pencil: [gridlines].
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: James M. Nairn; verso frame in pencil in Brasch’s hand: J.M. Nairn; verso frame in ballpoint pen: Nisbet [framing instructions]
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Otago Peninsula landscapes. Colin McCahon; through image in pencil: [gridlines]; on mount: Rodney, I promised you these quite some time ago as they really belong with your painting. I don’t think they are of particular…
Margin u.r. in pencil: 1947; margin l.r. in pencil: Colin McCahon; on mount: Rodney, I promised you these quite some time ago as they really belong with your painting. I don’t think they are of particular value as works of art but possibly are of…
12 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Landscape from North end of Tomahawk beach, Dunedin. 9 3/4 x 11 1/2. watercolour. Signal hill in distance. These two date mid 30s - the bottom one I like-"
05 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "on right. 4YA. Highcliffe [sic] Otago Peninsular [sic] c. 9 x 11 1/2. (Varnished with theatrical spirit gum (for sliding on boards etc) C.McC" Dated by Luit Bieringa.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: R.S. Kelly; on old mount in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Dunedin 1862, taken from the descent of Graham into McLaggan Street, down which the picture looks. T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: R.S. Kelly; on old mount: T.M. Hocken; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: The road above the quarry conceals the present road to Canongate St. Beyond is Victoria PArk, to the right of Serpentine Avenue. The solitary…
Lower left (l.l.) on stone: F. Johns; on mount in ink: North East Valley, from View Street 1862; on mount in Dr Hocken’s hand: Dunedin about December 1861 (Taken from View St); label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: In the foreground & running up to…
Margin below image in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Key to “View of Dunedin &c” by C.H. Kettle, 1849. T.M. Hocken 1. Looking down Stafford St. 1+ Near site of St Matthew’s Church. 2. Cap. Cargill’s residence, Princes St. 3. 4. Robert Chapman…
On mount in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Rev. J.A. Fenton’s house, Dunedin. 1850. On site of Boys’ High School boarding house and adjoining Littlebourne house. House purchased from Robertson the grocer. Built about 1850 by Mr Tho.s [crossed out]…
Margin below image in Dr Hocken’s hand: Pelichet Bay, Dunedin. Site of Mr Pelichet’s house, afterwards, (1849) occupied by Mr A.C. Strode, R.M., & then by the Rev. J.A. Fenton, 1852, the first Anglican clergyman in Dunedin. Bottom of Hanover St &…