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Reference NumberARC-0556Date1887-2022CreatorHocken CollectionsDescriptionThe collection contains records relating to the founding of the Hocken Library, including Trustees' papers and letters from Dr Hocken and his wife Bessie Hocken. The original Deed of Trust is also included. Other records include annual reports, Hocken Committee records, Hocken Librarians' correspondence and related papers, correspondence registers, correspondence, registered files, exhibition catalogues, Hocken lectures, financial records, readers' registers, production registers, accession registers, collection receipts, loan books, publications and plans. There is also a series of obituaries and other papers relating to David McDonald, long-serving Reference Librarian.
Only a small part of this collection is digitised and available through Digital Collections. Information about other items can be found on the Hākena catalogue, through the Library Catalogues link above.History / BiographyThe Hocken Collections owes its existence to the vigorous collecting and subsequent generosity of a Dunedin doctor, Thomas Morland Hocken (1836-1910). Hocken applied his drive and talent to the acquisition of books, newspapers, maps, pamphlets, photographs, pictures and artifacts relating to New Zealand, the Pacific and early Australia. He shared his knowledge widely through lectures, exhibitions, his own books and writings and the important 'Bibliography of the Literature' relating to New Zealand, published in 1909. In 1897, Dr Hocken offered his fine collection to Dunedin and the people of New Zealand. Public subscription lists opened in 1906, and a Deed of Trust was drawn up by which the Hocken Collection was housed in a special wing added to the Otago Museum, and managed by the University of Otago in trust for the nation. Too ill to attend the opening on 23 March 1910, Dr Hocken died two months later. The Hocken now collects widely in relation to the history and culture of New Zealand, the Pacific and Antarctica, with a special emphasis on the Otago and Southland regions of New Zealand. The collections include books, ephemera, posters, newspapers, journals, music, maps, archives, manuscripts, photographs, paintings, drawings and film. In date, they range from the seventeenth century to the present day.

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Hocken Library development, Anzac Avenue

The Otago Co-operative Dairy Company buildings, Anzac Avenue

Hocken Library development, Anzac Avenue

The Otago Co-operative Dairy Company buildings, Anzac Avenue

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A.H. Reed letterhead

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