Museums - New Zealand - Otago Region

Date: 1970-2012

By: Otago Early Settlers' Museum; Otago Museum; Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Reference: Eph-A-MUSEUM-Dunedin-1970/2012

Description: Comprises ephemera of octavo size relating to museums in Dunedin from 1970 to 2012. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 30 pieces of ephemera.

Date: 1987

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :[Original cartoons drawn in 1987, mainly for the New Zealand Listener].

Reference: C-133-159

Description: Shows a security guard standing outside Otago Museum, beside a sign reading "Admission $2". This cartoon was published in the New Zealand Listener on 1 August 1987, page 38. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing 325 x 500 mm, on sheet 460 x 640 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2003.

Date: 1967

From: Blumhardt, Doreen (Dame), 1914-2009 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8527

Description: Includes - Ancient pottery from the Mediterranean in Dunedin Museum. Larnach Castle, Dunedin. The piers of the old bridge, Alexandra, Central Otago. View of Alexandra from across the Clutha River. Arrowtown. Yellow flowered Maori onion (Bulbinella hookeri), Cromwell Gorge. Hill country, Dunback. Naseby. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1979 - 1989

By: Otago Early Settlers' Museum

Reference: Eph-A-MUSEUM-OESM-1970/1989-1

Description: Collection by Rose-Marie Tonk of the following: Entry ticket in the form of a Miner's Right ticket [1980s?] (2 copies) Sets of large cards from the Otago Early Settlers' Association collection 1979 set: No. 1. Locomotive 'Josephine' No. 2. Customhouse Square, about 1890 No. 3. Dunedin's first fire station No. 4. Mr John Cargill's home at Caversham, about 1870 No. 5. Jetty St double wharf ca 1880 No. 6. Yeend and Pope's Coach, 1874 1980 set: No. 1. The great McEwen No. 4. Loasby's Wahoo Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on postcards and ticket, sizes varying Provenance: Donated by Rose-Marie Tonk, Wellington, in 2017.

Date: 1971

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-0298

Description: Views of exhibitions inside the Otago Early Settlers' Museum (frames 1 to 6 and 12). People in streets around Otago University (frames 7 to 11). These include an image of two older women outside a single-storeyed house, one wearing an apron, the other carrying a shopping bag. A young couple are greeting a young woman pushing a pram in frames 9 to 11. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1971

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-0300

Description: All scenes show visitors viewing exhibitions inside the Otago Early Settlers' Museum. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 2012

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0021882

Description: Shows a group of babies in a playpen. They have discarded 'Toy 1' and are now playing with 'Toitu'. Context: Refers to debate over the newly redeveloped 'Toitu Early Settlers Museum' in Dunedin which is to open soon. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022231

Description: Two people walk past the newly redeveloped 'Toitu Early Settlers Museum' in Dunedin which is to open soon. The man is anxious about the possibility of donors wanting their gifts back again as with tattoed heads. Context: There was strong debate over the name for the museum. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: ca 1892

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025834-G

Description: Interior of the Otago Museum in Dunedin, photographed by William Williams in the early to mid 1890s. Looks over a balcony in the natural history section. The view includes a suspended whale skeleton, and a great blue shark. from neg bag: no 156 from file 6/1/41 "Dn Museum. Interior Scene. Early to mid 90" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative