Includes - Annotated envelope containing original printing plate of Olive Pink bookplate by Adrian Feint and letter from Feint to Olive Pink by the Society of Artists.
Copper etching plate of bookplate , “Simplicity, Beauty, Honesty, Trust –Olive Pink”. 2 .Letter from Adrian Feint to Olive Pink 28. 5. 1929
Envelope containing the above items -written on by Olive Pink
Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, 50 miles from Darwin, Northern Territory 26/10/30. Identified by Olive Pink as a creeper Convolvulus? "from an almost dead specimen when brought to me"
a. 1 Velvet beaded waistcoat/vest b. 1 Cream lace short sleeved blouse c. 1 Cream lace shawl d. 2 Cream lace dresses/over-dresses e. 1 Pair of cream gloves with fur trim f. 1 Cream satin scarf/cravat g. 1 Cream satin sash
Pencil, some coloured, on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Tortungah Quadtcha, Northern Territory 1/12/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Cleome viscosa "whole plant, even back of petals of flower and pod sticky - has pungent smell when broken - sticky glands"
Chippendale, G. M. Check List of Central AustralianPlants. Reprint from Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, vol 82 1959. Inscribed ‘With regards George Chippendale’ , and ‘Received on July 27th1959’ by Olive Pink.
Johnson, Robert Central Australia, Land of Colour as seen by Australian artist Robert Johnson. 1963 Olive Pink note on the back To Olive Pink (Alice Springs) from Olive and Robert Johnson (Sydney) 1963.
Pencil drawing on card with small water colour attached. Painted and sketched by Olive Pink at the Finke 31/8/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Cassia sturtii "usually 7 pairs of leaves on leaf stem - shrub about 3ft high"
Watercolour on card sketched by Olive Pink 30/9/57 (location unknown). Identified by Olive Pink as Cassia eremophila - "very hurried - looks like big storm"
Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Darwin, Northern Territory 27/10/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Careya australis (has quince like fruit)
Indian ink with some colour sketch on tracing paper made by Olive Pink between 1940 and 1941. From a collection of sketches made in New South Wales, Tasmania and a few in Queensland.
Indian ink sketch on card made by Olive Pink between 1940 and 1941. From a collection of sketches made in New South Wales, Tasmania and a few in Queensland. Captioned (Charlton Ed) for Sydney Mail
Indian ink with some colour sketch on tracing paper made by Olive Pink between 1940 and 1941. From a collection of sketches made in New South Wales, Tasmania and a few in Queensland.
Indian ink with some colour sketch on tracing paper made by Olive Pink between 1940 and 1941. From a collection of sketches made in New South Wales, Tasmania and a few in Queensland.
Water colour and pencil on card sketched by Olive Pink 16/8/58 (location unknown). Identified by Olive Pink as rough sketch of Capparis seedpod (back) "suede texture!"
Watercolour and pencil on dark card sketched by Olive Pink, Darwin, Northern Territory 29/9/30- on the way to 10 mile. Identified by Olive Pink as Calytrix "tall shrub (cyprus-like foliage) covered with blossom"
Indian ink with some colour sketch on tracing paper made by Olive Pink between 1940 and 1941. From a collection of sketches made in New South Wales, Tasmania and a few in Queensland.
Indian ink with some colour sketch on paper made by Olive Pink between 1940 and 1941. From a collection of sketches made in New South Wales, Tasmania and a few in Queensland.
Indian ink with some colour sketch on tracing paper made by Olive Pink between 1940 and 1941. From a collection of sketches made in New South Wales, Tasmania and a few in Queensland.
Indian ink with some colour sketch on tracing paper made by Olive Pink between 1940 and 1941. From a collection of sketches made in New South Wales, Tasmania and a few in Queensland.
Indian ink with some colour sketch on tracing paper made by Olive Pink between 1940 and 1941. From a collection of sketches made in New South Wales, Tasmania and a few in Queensland.
Watercolour and pencil on light green card sketched by Olive Pink at Rodinga, Northern Territory 13/9/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Brunonia australis (Goodeniaceae)
Watercolour on paper sketched by Olive Pink, beyond terminus Birdum, Northern Territory 29/10/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Brachychiton ramiflora (Kurrajong)
9 sketches in pencil and crayon, 3 of which are water coloured. Sketches made along the railway between Quorn and Alice Springs at places where railway workers reported flowers and in Darwin.
Copy of The Bedford Magazine–dated December 1913-Magazine of Bedford College, Strathfield, Sydney -girls school where Olive Pink taught art. On page 11 reference to Miss Pink taking a party of girls to the Art Gallery and on page 17 an article ‘Western Australian Flowers’ by Olive Pink
Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Aileron Station, Northern Territory, November 1937. Identified by Olive Pink as Bean Tree [Erythrina vespertilio]
Ayers Rock –Mt Olga National Park. NT Reserves Board, 1967 Inscribed ‘Miss Pink with compliment from the Chairman (Lionel Rose) who is also the Author. 1 Aug. 1969’
One of eight annotated black and white photographs of the site of the Arid Regions Native Flora Reserve. Noting location of Mt Gillen, part of MacDonnell Range, entrance gate and driveway to hut, driveway for sanitary truck
One of eight annotated black and white photographs of the site of the Arid Regions Native Flora Reserve. Noting location of (Elec) Power Stn Rd, MacDonnell Ranges, Todd River Eucalypts
Watercolour and pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink at Horseshoe Bend, Central Australia, 13/9/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Angianthus brachypappus
Berndt, R. M. Aboriginal Sleeping Customs and Dreams, Ooldea, South Australia. Reprint Oceania, March 1940, Vol. X No.3 Owned by Olive Pink and signed by the author for her
Pink, Olive (Abstract) ‘A few notes on the uses to which the Arunda and Arabanna tribes of Central Australia put their Indiginous Flora. P. 177 in Report of the 21st meeting of ANZAAS, Sydney, 1932, Volume XXI Abstract of a paper by Olive Pink presented at ANZAAS meeting in 1932. Inscribed by her ‘Olive Pink (erased), Dept of Anthropology, the University of Sydney, Sept, 1933