Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Maroon/olive drawing for Black Paintings 69 Hotere; verso original mount in pencil: Maroon & olive drawing for Black Painting Hotere; verso in red crayon: 34.
Lower right (l.r.) in ballpoint pen: Hotere 3-69; l.l. in ink: A day at Murdering Beach with Dibble and Maree; verso labelled: Reserved Rodney Kennedy.
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'.