{"id":923,"date":"2016-02-24T01:41:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T01:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/?p=923"},"modified":"2016-02-24T01:41:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T01:41:58","slug":"on-the-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/on-the-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"On the cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

Post by Dr Ali Clarke, Library Assistant – Reference<\/p>\n

We\u2019re always pleased to see images from our collections featuring on the cover of new books! Each year we put together a list of published items \u2013 from books to theses, blogs to journals, television series to exhibitions \u2013 which have made use of Hocken resources. Some of them relate to research carried out on our archives or publications, others have used our pictorial collections, and some have done both. So far we have tracked down over 200 items published in 2015 for our list, including 69 books. The variety of topics covered is remarkable, as demonstrated by the few examples featured here.<\/p>\n

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The very handsome 4-volume set of James K. Baxter\u2019s complete prose, edited by John Weir, involved lots of digging through Baxter\u2019s archives, which are held here. The cover of the first volume features an amusing photo of Baxter with his coat on backwards in Cathedral Square, Christchurch in 1948, sourced from his archives. Another particularly handsome book that has drawn heavily on the Hocken Collections is John Wilson\u2019s New Zealand mountaineering: a history in photographs<\/em>. including many from our holdings of the New Zealand Alpine Club\u2019s archives. Among them is the great cover shot of Syd Brookes and Bernie McLelland descending North Peak in the Arrowsmith Range in 1939, from an album compiled by Stan Conway.<\/p>\n

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We can\u2019t claim the splendid cover picture for Simon Nathan\u2019s biography James Hector: explorer, scientist leader<\/em> \u2013 that comes from the Alexander Turnbull Library \u2013 but he has made very good use of Hector\u2019s papers, held at the Hocken. Hector\u2019s notebooks are notoriously difficult to read, thanks to faint pencil combined with illegible handwriting, but some of the sketches in them make very effective illustrations in the book. Simon has also done splendid work transcribing various Hector letters in recent years, making them accessible to others.<\/p>\n

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Hector’s sketches of Parengarenga Harbour and his Maori campanion, January 1866<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Another 2015 book which brings previously unpublished work to light is New country<\/em>, a collection of plays and stories by James Courage, with an introduction by Christopher Burke. Some have been previously published, but one comes straight from Courage\u2019s papers at the Hocken. The book also features some fascinating photographs from Courage\u2019s papers. Genre Books, the publisher, also made good use of Hocken material in a 2014 book, Chris Brickell\u2019s Southern men: gay lives in pictures<\/em>. This includes numerous photographs from the archives of David Wildey, held in the Hocken largely thanks to Chris. On the cover is one of Wildey\u2019s photographs, recording a visit to Waimairi Beach, Christchurch in 1960.<\/p>\n

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Lest we leave you with the impression that all material from our collection is about recreation and enjoyment, another cover from 2014 shows a sober purpose. Presbyterian Support Otago\u2019s report Out in the cold: a survey of low income private rental housing in Dunedin<\/em> features one of our old photographs of the crowded suburbs of southern Dunedin. The Hocken really does have material for all sorts of purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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