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Preliminary drawings for Black Paintings.
Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil: Preliminary drawings for Black Paintings. Hotere; through image in pencil: [numerals]; verso in ink: [unfinished sketch].
Preliminary study for portrait of Gordon H. Brown.
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: Colin McCahon 1968.
Pressed flowers
This handbook is included as evidence of other uses to which travel guides may be put. One can easily imagine a character in A Room with a View placing a favourite flower into his or her Baedeker. Someone certainly did so with this volume, though we…
Prince Charles in the University Library, royal visit, March 1970.
On 16 March 1970, Prince Charles visited the University of Otago campus with Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Anne. Prince Charles toured the Central Library and was photographed talking to students seated in the library study spaces.
Princes Street South, Dunedin, 1853.
Margin below image in ink: Copy of old drawing (… [illeg] 1853) of Princes St South just past Anderson’s Bay Road showing early settlers’ struggles with the swampy conditions of the road at the beginning of winter. The fences bound the Southern…
Princes Street, Auckland, N.Z. ca 1845 (copied from a sketch by an officer who fought in Heke
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: E.M.H.; l.l. in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: Princes St Auckland N.Z. circa 1845 (copied from a sketch by an officer who fought in Hekeís war) T.M. Hocken; through image in ink: Woods Hotel. Passage leading to Surveyor…
Principal tombstone at Kotah Tingi, Johore.
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1849; on mount in ink: Principal tombstone at Kotah Tingi, Johore; through image in pencil: [illegible descriptive notes]
