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Rakihuri - Ashley River (Taylor p. 29) Trip with Capt Thomas in Fly landed Port Cooper 15 Dec 1848. Fox spent 2 weeks exploring then went to Otago. Returned to P Cooper 22 Jan, and to P Nicholson, 23 Jan 1849.

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Lower right (l.r.) in ink: Camp Te Papa, Tauranga 23 April 64 5; verso in ink: My tent has a black patch. The general’s quarters in the left hand house I have nothing to colour with and have done what I could with a steel & quill pen. I hope…

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Lower left (l.l.) in ink: Camp. Alexander’s farm. Jan.y 20 65

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Lower right (l.r.) with brush: W Fox Camping out, Lyttelton. Jany 11th 1851 W. Fox; verso: 10. 26; on sketchbook mount: Part of town site of Port Lyttelton. First immigrants arrived January 1851; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland Hocken…

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Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1846; on mount in ink: Campong Rochor, Singapore; in pencil: my second attempt at landscape from nature

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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…

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This image of Canongate during a royal procession highlights Edinburgh's loyalty to the monarch as well as its impressive modernity. Scotland was no longer the potentially rebellious or poverty-stricken northern neighbour of earlier accounts.

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Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil: Canterbury Pilgrims; l.r. in pencil: 18 December 1848; verso: 37 31 bis; on sketchbook mount: Exploring party Encamping Canterbury Plains January 1849. C. Torlesse. Cap.t Thomas; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas…

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Margin below image in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: Southern Alps. Riccarton Bush. Christchurch. Papanui. Harewood Forest. Sandhills. Heathcote river. Road to Lyttelton. Christchurch. Townsendís house. Swamps.

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Margin below image in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: The Canterbury Plains. March 1851 (Taken from the Bridle Road) T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; note by W. Holmes transcribed in ink by Dr Hocken: IV. Snowy mountains, distant 100 miles.…

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Lower left (l.l.) with brush: J.T.T. 1856; on mount in pencil: Canterbury Plains 28 Feb 1856

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Lower left (l.l.) with brush: J.T.T. 1877; on mount in pencil: Canterbury Plains 28 Jany. 1877

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Lower right (l.r.) in cartouche with pen: WFox [WF ligated] May 1849; l.l. with pen: Cap.n King’s house New Plymouth; on sketchbook mount: New Plymouth, Cap.n King’s house Mount Egmont 1849; pasted to back of paper mount: [2 woodengravings after…

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Lower left (l.l.) with brush: J.T.T. 1878; on mount in pencil: Cape Pigeon. Off Amsterdam Island 6 Oct 78

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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".

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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.

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A montage of early capping parade photographs. The title on the photograph reads "A snap of the procession of students in varied costumes as it passed through the Octagon".

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