For this last #FlashbackFriday before the summer holiday break I'd like to turn the tables on Doc! On behalf of Readers... Merry Christmas Hocken Collections🎄 Ref: McCahon, Colin, 1919-1987 (Colin John), Merry Christmas Hocken (1974). Hocken Digital Collections, hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/563…

Double Bangs… Bamboo Thunders… Catherine Wheels… some of the fireworks listed in a 1916 invoice found in the collections. Choie Sew Hoy opened his Dunedin store in 1869. He became a prominent merchant and a leader within the Otago Chinese community (teara.govt.nz/en/biographies…).

Have you been camping or glamping this summer? One of the age-old obstacles to a camping holiday is its lack of creature comforts. Alex Thompson & Son's 1939 catalogue includes the Kia ora Tent, claimed to be ‘scientifically designed to give roominess’. #FlashbackFriday

If you were ‘trans-island’ this summer, did you take a Cook Strait ferry (aka ‘floating bridge’) to get to your destination? “Drive on Drive off….. New Zealand Railways Cook Strait Ferries”. Wellington: [NZ Railways Publicity Branch], 1966. Ephemera Collection. #FlashbackFriday

Our new Digital Collections site launched last October and we continue to add new things. Here are just a few of the hundreds of items added over the past few months. If you go to hocken.recollect.co.nz and click on 'Show All', the recent additions display first.

#FlashbackFriday. Dunedin's George Street, Octagon, and Princes Street, captured by the same unidentified photographer about 1927. What's familiar and what's not?

#FlashbackFriday Orientation at Otago 30 years ago. hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/640…

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