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Rita Cook [Rita Angus].
Lower right (l.r.): D.K. MacDiarmid ’45
Sketch for Window.
McCahon felt that the design was: 'a bit too easy'. McCahon gave this sketch to Brown when helping him in his Crummer Road studio during 1979.
The Blessed Virgin compared to a jug of pure water and the infant Jesus to a lamp.
Married and living with his wife and young son near Nelson in 1946-48, McCahon turned from depicting landscapes to Christian imagery. By synthesizing disparate elements - portraiture, still life and symbolism (the lamp and jug) with words McCahon…
Kauri trees.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: McCahon April 54; verso in ballpoint: [framing instructions].
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.
Smiling woman.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: James M. Nairn; verso frame in pencil in Brasch’s hand: J.M. Nairn; verso frame in ballpoint pen: Nisbet [framing instructions]
Otago University Students' Capping Carnival.
A photograph of the crowd in the Octagon watching a capping parade. Male students dressed in women’s clothing can be seen at the bottom of the photo.
Photograph published in the Otago Witness, date currently unknown.
Photograph published in the Otago Witness, date currently unknown.
Queenstown.
Verso in pencil: No 3 Queenstown no 3 £11-11-0 Evelyn Page; verso in ink in Dr Brasch’s hand: Charles Brasch
Lyttelton Harbour.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: E. Polson; verso in pencil in Brasch
Game of chess, Ralph Hotere.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: JP 70 [circled] ; verso in pencil: XVI (V) 10 x 8
Game of chess, Ralph Hotere.
Upper right (u.r.) in pencil: JP 70 [circled] ; verso in pencil: XVI (VI) 14 x 10
Seated figure.
Margin below image in Dr Brasch’s hand: Joanna Paul 1969
Jeffrey.
Verso in chalk: Jeffrey 72n
George Samuel Sale, M.A., professor of classics 1870-1907.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: M.D. Sale 1902.
Portrait of Alan Pearson in his Lyttelton abode.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: M.D.S. 91; verso in crayon in Alan Pearson’s hand: Portrait of Alan Pearson in his Lyttelton abode 1991 by M. Smithers
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.
Cataloguing Department, University of Otago Central Library.
Cataloguing staff in the Central Library using typewriters to create labels and entries for the card catalogue. Newly purchased books are stacked on the shelves waiting to be processed.
First Dental School.
A view of the first Dental School building that would later house the Law Library and then the University Staff Club. The photograph shows the position of the building in relation to the Clocktower and Registry buildings.