With the 150th anniversary celebration of the Otago Medical School not far away, we have brought some related historical images to life with colour for you.
Did you know that the first iteration of Dunedin Hospital on Great King Street was once home to New Zealand’s first world’s fair? Dunedin was the host of the New Zealand Exhibition in 1865, and a grand Italianate building designed by local architects William Mason and William Clayton was constructed to house the exhibition. This building became the city's hospital after the exhibition concluded. The exhibition building was eventually demolished in 1933.
New Zealand Exhibition Building, Dunedin, 1865. The illustrated London News, Vol 46, 1865, https://archive.org/details/illustratedlondov46lond/page/456.
Our photo gallery features some photos of Dunedin hospital building from the turn of the twentieth century, and third-year medical students from 1923 who studied whilst the building was in use.
Third-year medical students 1923 (black and white). MS-1537/704, University of Otago Medical School, Alumnus Association Inc records, Hocken Collections - Uare Taoka o Hākena.
Third-year medical students 1923 (colour). MS-1537/704, University of Otago Medical School, Alumnus Association Inc records, Hocken Collections - Uare Taoka o Hākena.
Dunedin Hospital buildings and garden 1899-1900 (black and white). MS-1537_721, University of Otago Medical School, Alumnus Association Inc records, Hocken Collections - Uare Taoka o Hākena.
Dunedin Hospital buildings and garden 1899-1900 (colour). MS-1537_721, University of Otago Medical School, Alumnus Association Inc records, Hocken Collections - Uare Taoka o Hākena.
Patient being admitted to Dunedin Hospital (black and white). MS-1537/313, University of Otago Medical School, Alumnus Association Inc records, Hocken Collections - Uare Taoka o Hākena.
Patient being admitted to Dunedin Hospital (colours). MS-1537/313, University of Otago Medical School, Alumnus Association Inc records, Hocken Collections - Uare Taoka o Hākena.
Third-year medical students 1923 (black and white). MS-1537/704, University of Otago Medical School, Alumnus Association Inc records, Hocken Collections - Uare Taoka o Hākena.
Third-year medical students 1923 (colour). MS-1537/704, University of Otago Medical School, Alumnus Association Inc records, Hocken Collections - Uare Taoka o Hākena.
Dunedin Hospital buildings and garden 1899-1900 (black and white). MS-1537_721, University of Otago Medical School, Alumnus Association Inc records, Hocken Collections - Uare Taoka o Hākena.
Dunedin Hospital buildings and garden 1899-1900 (colour). MS-1537_721, University of Otago Medical School, Alumnus Association Inc records, Hocken Collections - Uare Taoka o Hākena.
