Watercolour on paper painted by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek, South Australia, 5/8/30. Notes on paper - "plants grow to about 4ft high". note on flower details "twice actual size or more" Identified by Olive Pink as Psoralea patens.
a) 1 metal filigree belt b) 1 fabric red cross badge (shape of cross) c) 2 Metal Red Cross badges –one with navy embroidered badge attached d) 1 fabric Australian Red Cross Society VAD badge with metal VAD badge attached e) 1 fabric VAD stripes and small striped ribbon bow f) 2 white fabric epaulettes with metal numbers 15 (from the 15 Voluntary Aid Detachment) g) Postcard ‘It’s our flag Fight for it Work for it’. h) 1 New South Wales Division of the Australian Branch of the British Red Cross i) Certificate of Membership for 1915 NSW branch (Miss Olive Pink) j) 1 Voluntary Aid Detachment Darlinghurstmembership card (Miss Olive Pink) signed by Hon. Sec. Ethel A. Stephens
Above items contained in a Kodak photo envelope with annotations:-“Olive Pink’s VAD stripes etc 1st to register “15” Detachment. Miss Ethel Stevens then Mrs Marie Irvine Commandants. Vol. Aid from 1914 to after War –(about 1920)”
Legislative Council for the Northern Territory. Report from the Select Committee on the Native and Historical Objects and Areas Preservation Ordinance 1955 –1960.Presented by Mr D. D. Smith, MLC on 10th August, 1965 Includes a handwritten letter from Olive Pink to Mr D D Smith who presented this report.
Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Jila, Northern Territory, 24/9/34. Identified by Olive Pink as Scavola? "natural size, some 4 mostly 5 'fingers'", "flower whitish cream to buff"
Pencil and watercolur on card sketched by Olive Pink at The Finke, Northern Territory 31/8-4/9/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Camel Weed, Senecio. "near the Rock of Ages" "Scent like (garden) honeysuckle"
Pencil and watercolour on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Tortanga Quatcha, Macdonnel Range, Northern Territory, 28/11/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Sida?
Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek, South Australia, 26/7/30. Identified by Olive pink as Solanum helipticum (ellipticum)
Pencil, with some coloured pencil, on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Aileron Station, Northern Territory, November 1936. Identified by Olive Pink as Whitewood, Tallow wood "a little like May blossom in form"
Telegraph Message from C. Baker to Olive Pink dated 19.7.1930 Message to Olive Pink regarding her painting trip along the railway line between Adelaide and Alice Springs in 1930
Booklet : Hookey, M, The Edge of the Field with decorations by L. Dechaineux, Australia, Bookfellow, 1913. Inscribed “To Olive with loving greetings and wishes for the New Year 1914 from the old friend Hannah G Giblin. ‘OM Pink 1914’ written on front cover.
Crowther, W.E.L.H., The Halford Oration, 1803-1876 The Passing of the Tasmanian Race. Reprint from the Medical Journal of Australia, February, 3, 1934, page147. Inscribed ‘Miss Pink, with the writer’s warm regards, August 22 1934
Pink, Olive, The Landowners in the Northern Division of the Aranda Tribe, Central Australia. From Oceania Volume IV, No. 3 March 1936 p.275 –305 Cover signed by Dr. John Hargrave
Nixon, N. The Pioneer Bishop in V.D.L 1843 –1863, Hobart, 1953 Signed by Geoffrey Cranswick, Bishop of Tasmania, Sent to Olive Pink by M. Cecily Shoobridge Xmas 1953 and signed by her,and signed by Olive Pink,with notes on page preceding the introduction.
Bolam, A. G The Trans-Australian Wonderland. 4th ed 1924 Signed and annotated by Olive Pink. At Mrs Daisy Bates’s Native Camp, Ooldea, South Australia, September 2nd 1927
Water colour and pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, 20 miles from Darwin, Northern Territory, October 1930. Identified by Olive Pink as - thought not indigenous?
Coloured pencil on light card, sketched by Olive Pink, (place and date unknown) Northern Territory. Identified by Olive Pink as Trichinium obovatum "sage"
Watercolour and colured pencil on paper painted by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek, South Australia ?/7/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Trichodesma zeylanicum
Pencil and crayon on card, sketched by Olive Pink at Rodinga, Northern Territory 28/9/30. "from nature (exactly) but most often a creeper and therefore simple petal at top)+ sometimes 4 below - trails of it are feet long in every direction" "normal position of blossom (1 petal at top 3 below)"
Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Tortanga Quatcha, Northern Territory 4/12/30. Not identified by Olive Pink - some of original plant material attached - flower head
Pencil on card sketched by Olive Pink, Anzac Hill, Alice Springs, 1946. "Traced from rough sketch - matt surface pale cream blossom and stamens, leaves leathery greenish - mature "orange" (lemon)"
Pencil and watercolour on card sketched by Olive Pink 30/9/57 (location unknown). Described by Olive Pink as "mauve-green calyx looking down on blossom - a marvel of beauty when looked at closely"
Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink at Horseshoe Bend, Central Australia 13/9/30. "everlasting leaves drawn from faded specimen and from memory, flowers from nature" P6-5-1 drawn on other side of paper
Water colour and pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Jay Creek, Northern Territory 26/12/30. Not identified by Olive Pink but thought to be Capparis spinosa