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Thursday 23 March 2023 9:02am

To celebrate 150 years of Law at Otago, we thought we'd bring a well-known face from the past back to life with colour. In 1893 Ethel Benjamin was the first woman to be admitted to law school in Australasia and in 1897 became the first female lawyer to appear as counsel in any case in the British Empire. Below are some photographs of Ethel Benjamin that we have colourised using a wee bit of technical magic.

Ethel Rebecca Benjamin, 1897. Box-005-001. Hocken Collections – Uare Taoka o Hākena bw V2
Ethel Benjamin, 1897, Box-005-001. Hocken Collections – Uare Taoka o Hākena, Black and White

Ethel Rebecca Benjamin, 1897. Box-005-001. Hocken Collections – Uare Taoka o Hākena colour v2
Ethel Benjamin, 1897, Box-005-001. Hocken Collections – Uare Taoka o Hākena, Colour

Ethel_Benjamin_at_opening_Dunedin_Law_Courts_1902 bw V2
Ethel Benjamin at the opening of the Dunedin Law Courts, 1902, Wikimedia Commons, Black and White

Ethel_Benjamin_at_opening_Dunedin_Law_Courts_1902 colour V2
Ethel Benjamin at the opening of the Dunedin Law Courts, 1902, Wikimedia Commons, Colour

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