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Dental air drill.
The first air drill purchased by the Dental School.
Main Reading Room, Clocktower Building.
A view of students working under the high gothic ceiling in the reading room when the first library facilities were housed in the Clocktower Building.
Montage of Medical School staff and Students, 1940.
A montage of various photographs relating to the Medical School, including images of professors, surgery scenes, and students listening to lectures.
Caricature of medical school professors.
A colour caricature by P. W. Eisdell Moore, depicting Professors from the School of Medicine. Left to right: Joseph Bernard Dawson, Eric F. D’Ath, Francis Gordon Bell, Charles Ernest Hercus, John Malcolm, William Percy Gowland, and Frederick Horace…
Professor William Percy Gowland, Medical School.
William Percy Gowland (1879-1965) was the Professor of Anatomy at the Otago Medical School between 1914 and 1943. He went on to become the Director of Medical Services at Wellington Hospital from 1944 to 1949.
Cover of the 1945 Digest Magazine.
The cover of the 1945 edition of the Medical School magazine, Digest. The image juxtaposes a soldier with a gun and a surgeon with a scalpel, both held at the same angle. Medical students were exempt from conscription during World War II. Due to a…
Carmalt Jones and Fitchett Memorial bookplate.
On the retirement of Professors D. W. Carmalt Jones and Professor F. Fitchett, a sum of 300 pounds was collected by graduates of the Medical School to commemorate the services of these two eminent teachers. The graduates stated that the sum was to be…
Central Otago landscape.
GH Brown says painted to show art school style fashion; Ron Brownson says painted to explore use of texture.
Landscape Tahunanui.
Lower left (l.l.) in black ink: McCahon ’48; l.r. in ink: Landscape Tahunanui.
Figure and cross.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: for Rodney, one of the drawings for your painting. McCahon
Drawing of Rodney Kennedy.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Portrait of R. Kennedy. C. McCahon 1940; l.r. in REK's hand: R. Kennedy; verso: C McCahon Drawing of RE Kennedy 1/-
Sketch of Ruby Bay house.
Titled by donor.
Unfinished study of male nude.
Centre (c.) in ink: oil, Maitai Valley landscape. Not for sale. C. McCahon; u.l. in pencil: 2… BW dk cream close up no glass, Mr Brasch, 11a Smith St; verso original card: [oil painting Maitai Valley landscape, acc. 20,922 also titled Nelson Hills…
Drawing for ‘Dear Wee June’. In loving memory of Our Dear Wee June who fell asleep… 1945.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Drawing for Dear Wee June McCahon; u.r. in pencil: Dec 27 1945 [Variously inscribed throughout]; on attached paper in pencil: This is from the Port Chalmers Cemetery looking at the Harbour mouth. The final painting was…
Mount Arthur Range, Nelson.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: McCahon ’46; l.r. on mount in ink: The Mount Arthur Range, Nelson.
Marge in the Maitai Valley, Nelson.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: McCahon ’47; verso in pencil: Marge in the Maitai Valley, Nelson.
Otago Peninsula landscapes - two drawings. 2.
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…
Otago Peninsula landscapes - two drawings. 1.
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…
Paintings by Colin McCahon - poster with text from the [New Zealand Listener], March 5 1948.
Originally used for the 1947 exhibition in Dunedin, but presumably modified with Listener text for the 1948 exhibition in the Wellington Public Library.
Ruby Bay.
07 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Left. Ruby Bay. c. 8 x 10 1/5 1936."
D’Urville Island from Ruby Bay. (2).
Margin above image u.l. - u.r. in pencil: D’Urville Island from Ruby Bay 1945; u.r. in pencil: Colin McCahon; l.r. in crayon: McCahon.
D’Urville Island from Ruby Bay. (1).
22 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Colin McCahon. on left. Durville island taken from Ruby bay. initialled C.M. lower l. c. 7 1/2 x 9 1/2. crayon".
4YA Highcliff, Otago Peninsula.
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.