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North Otago. No 1, Ed. Zonta print.
Margin below image in pencil: Colin McCahon. ’73; No 1. Ed 2.
North Otago. Ed 50 No 18.
Margin below image in pencil: North Otago Colin McCahon. Ed 50 No 18 73; in charcoal: [fingerprint].
Professor F. Sinclaire. Medusa Studio.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Professor F. Sinclaire; l.r. in pencil: Jas Fitzgerald; on mount: 2/2/- drypoint from life; label verso: Medusa Studio.
The whalers of the deep deep sea.
Notes on cover: "Owned by M.E. Hodgkinson of Riverton in 1857"
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…
Textile patterns.
This book contains 64 colourful printed textile patterns produced by the Japanese artist Keika Hasegawa, who flourished c. 1893-1905. The pages are double folded in the Japanese style. Kyoka zuan is one of the important collections of textile…
The city of Yedo or Edo (now Tokyo) [detail].
Between 1630 and 1830 Japan's borders were virtually closed to western visitors. The only Europeans allowed into Japan were the Dutch. Atlas Japannensis: being remarkable addresses by way of embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces…
J. Lort Stokes.
Margin below image in ink: T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; label in ink in Dr Hocken's hand: Captain (Admiral) John Lort Stokes, R.N. was born st Scotchwell House, Pembrokeshire, in 1806 (?). Entered the Navy as a volunteer in 1824 on…
Horsburgh Lighthouse.
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…
Pedra Branca.
On stone below image: Pedra Branca. April 1850. T. Picken lith. Day & Son Lith.rs to the Queen. Singapore strait Barbukit hill false Barbukit China Sea. J.M. Richardson 23 Cornhill London.
Port Otago (Nouvelle Zélande).
Dessiné par L. LeBreton. Lith. par Sabatier. Imp. par Lemercier à Paris. Gide Editeur. Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l’Océanie. Atlas pittoresque. pl 180 [1846]
Lambton Harbour and Mount Victoria from the Tinakore.
Ray Hargreaves disputes that this is the first litho & Ellis notes: see Park, The village of Richmond 2/11/04: A NOTE RE: THE LITHOGRAPHERS An article in the New Zealand Gazette dated June 12, 1841 on page 3, column 1 reads: 'A plan of the…
Rectangle.
Margin below image l. - r. in pencil: 1/10/73 Rectangle MDS
In memoriam.
Margin below image l. - r. in pencil: 1/2/19/73 In Memoriam MDS
Speight’s advertisement, Capping Carnival Magazine.
An early advertisement for the Speight’s Brewery in Dunedin printed in the Capping Carnival Magazine from August 1919. The consumption of vast quantities of beer has always been an activity associated with student life.
Hindoo of Co-org, Madras Presidency. J.T.T. del. London Miss. Press.
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1847; on stone below image: Hindoo of Co-org, Madras Presidency. J.T.T. del. London Miss. Press
Eye of the Needle caricature.
A caricature showing the various obstacles that face medical students during their metaphorical climb up the 'mountain of life'. After encountering exams, financial difficulties and illness, they reach their ultimate goal - a degree as depicted by a…
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.
Queen Mary Maternity Hospital, medical school students.
Two photographs from a photo series on the Queen Mary Maternity Hospital. Upper: Two students in their accommodation playing a board game. Lower: A male student removing the nappy of a newborn baby. The captions read: "The students’ living room,…
Cover of the House & Garden capping magazine, 1987.
The OUSA capping magazine cover from 1987. The magazine is entitled "House & Garden" in jest and the cover depicts a burnt-out student flat.
The Shogun's audience.
A. Is the throne or Audience-seat of his majesty, where he shows himself to his Princes and Nobles.
B. Are the buildings in which his Majesty is housed, consisting of more than seventy dwelling-places.
C. Are the buildings in which his majesty…
B. Are the buildings in which his Majesty is housed, consisting of more than seventy dwelling-places.
C. Are the buildings in which his majesty…
The Silk Cord Makers.
"The figures represented ... are engaged in manufacturing silk-twist by a very different mode to that adopted by Europeans. Their machinery is not horizontal, but vertical. The threads are extended round a truncated cone. The females who twist…
Settling debts at a merchants house.
A typical scene at a merchant's house during the year-end when all outstanding bills must be settled. One clerk works the abacus, another weighs the silver and a third makes entries in the ledger. Three tradesmen have arrived to present their final…