Houston describes himself as 'an intelligent member of the Otago Provincial Council viz A miners representative & practical digger & storekeeper at Gabriel's Gully'
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].
Dessiné par L. Le Breton. Lith.é par P. Blanchard. Lith de Thierry frères Paris. Gide Editeur. Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l’Océanie. Atlas pittoresque. pl 181 [1846]
Upper centre (u.c.) - u.r. of b in pencil: Mouth of Otago - from the Settlement May 1/44; u.c. of b in blue-black ink: 9 Entrance to Otago harbour - May 1 1844; verso a in pencil: Entrance to Otago Ap.l 1844
Through image in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: Key plan to Kettleís picture of Lower Harbour & Port Chalmers. T.M.H. March 23/98 [numerals] 1. Deborah Bay where Mr Tuckettís Deborah anchored in 1844. 2. Alex.r McKayís cot & garden brought from one of…
On mount in ink in unknown hand: Drawn by W. Hodgkins 1860 Otakia, East Taieri, Otago, New Zealand. The Reliance Hotel, Otokia, (on the left) was built in the early sixties, upon the discovery of the Otago Goldfields, for the convenience of…
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: J. Brown; through image in pencil: Superintendency, Separation, Otago Province, Mataura; u.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Refers to the disastrous separation of Southland from the Province of Otago of which it formed…
Lower left (l.l.) each image with brush: JTT 1879; on mount in pencil: J.T. Thomson Del.t 1879.Three Otago worthies: His Honour Captain Cargill; Sir John Richardson; Rev.d Dr Burns, D.D.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: G. O'Brien 1867; on mount in ink in Dr Hocken's hand: The Taieri Plains, 1867. Taken from the the Upper or Halfway Bush Road leading down to the North Taieri. Saddle Hill. T.M. Hocken; label in ink in Dr Hocken's hand:…
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: View of Otago Heads, Port Chalmers, Mount Cargill & Blueskin from the Portobello Road - six miles from Dunedin, sketched from nature by George O’Brien, Civil Engineer &c 1866
Lower right (l.r.) with brush in red paint: G.P. [ligated, vertical] Nerli; label: St Clair Beach, Dunedin, N.Z. [undated press clipping about Nerli]; label: Fisher & Son, Christchurch; label: 146
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]