The Hocken Library (now known as Hocken Collections) was first housed in a wing of the Otago Museum. The text on the back of the photo states that it is a - 'View of the Hocken Library from Great King Street'.
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…
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
On stone below image: Horsburgh Lighthouse. October 1851. T. Picken lith. Day & Son Lith.rs to the Queen. Singapore straits Barbukit hill false Barbukit China Sea. J.M. Richardson 23 Cornhill London; on mount in ink: Pharos ego cum nomen prÊbunt…
A novel by one of the best-known modern travel writers, Hotel Honolulu exploits the tension between fact and fiction in travel accounts. The dust jacket claims that Theroux presents 'the essence of Hawaii as it has never been depicted', combining the…
Verso in ink: W. Fox. House at the Haven Nelson, formerly Cap.n Wakefields; in pencil 23; on sketchbook mount in ink: House of late Capt. Arthur Wakefield R.N. Nelson 1843. (Brought out from England); on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland…
Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil: How Otago is being settled; through image in pencil: Ye diggers cutting away, Ye bullocks charging them, Ye squatters flourishing stock whip; margin left in pencil: 12; margin below image in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: A…