On mount below image: Okarita; on label: Okarita, Mount Cook bearing south from a sketch by W.M. Cooper; Dr Hocken’s collector’s chop: Hoc in Loco Deus Rupes.
Margin below image in blue ink: M.T. Woollaston; on mount below image in blue ink: M.t Barron, Otira; on mount alongside image in blue ink: greetings to you all from Edith, Philip, Toss - the others not at home to include theirs
Lower left (l.l.) with brown crayon: Woollaston, 1952; l.r. with brown crayon: Hokitika; verso in brown crayon: Hokitika; in ballpoint pen in Charles Brasch’s hand: Charles Brasch. MT Woollaston 1952
Given by the Hall-Jones family, Invercargill, 1992 [Given by Geoffrey Hall-Jones, John Hall-Jones & Gerard Hall-Jones, sons of the late Marjorie Hall-Jones, a granddaughter of John Turnbull Thomson].
Given by the Hall-Jones family, Invercargill, 1992 [Given by Geoffrey Hall-Jones, John Hall-Jones & Gerard Hall-Jones, sons of the late Marjorie Hall-Jones, a granddaughter of John Turnbull Thomson].
Given by the Hall-Jones family, Invercargill, 1992 [Given by Geoffrey Hall-Jones, John Hall-Jones & Gerard Hall-Jones, sons of the late Marjorie Hall-Jones, a granddaughter of John Turnbull Thomson].
On mount in letterpress: Hokitika River; label in letterpress: Hokitika River from an original sketch by J.D. Schmidt; on mount in ink: T.M. Hocken; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: These four views, dating about 1866-71, have the merit of being the earliest depicting the West Coast diggings & sea. Cobb’s Coach ran to them via the Bealey about 1871. The first calico tent at Hokitika was erected in 1864. Greymouth is shown before before the disastrous flood which swept away a large portion of the young township. Mount Cook is in the distance. T.M.H.; Dr Hocken’s collector’s chop: Hoc in Loco Deus Rupes.