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Free emigration to New Zealand poster
Note in ink in Dr Hocken's hand on bottom left corner: Though the N.Z. Company in 184[?] set up an influential committee in Dublin including the Lord Mayor, Archbishop Whateley, and the Provost of Trinity College but little Irish emigration left for…
French Bay - night fishing.
Two editions of 30; one on white paper, one on blue. Ron Brownson suggested title: Night Fishing French Bay.
From the Club window at Wellington.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: From the Club window at Wellington 13 August 1865 EW [monogram]; verso in pencil: [unfinished sketch of ship]
From the Main North Road between the X and XI milestones looking north.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: G. O’Brien 1865. From the Main North Road between the X and XI milestones looking north; through image in pencil: [gridlines].
From the north end of Tomahawk Beach.
12 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Landscape from North end of Tomahawk beach, Dunedin. 9 3/4 x 11 1/2. watercolour. Signal hill in distance. These two date mid 30s - the bottom one I like-"
Fruit growing in New Zealand
Whitcombe and Tombs were New Zealand's leading publishers of household manuals, on both cooking and gardening. At the end of the 1st World War, they began a series of New Zealand Practical Handbooks. For amateur gardeners, the series provided advice…
G.P. tennis shoes.
Lantern slide used for cinema advertising.
Gabriel’s Gully, Tuapeka.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: J.T.T. 1879; on mount in pencil: Gabriel’s Gully. Sept 1861