Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink at Horseshoe Bend, Central Australia 13/9/30. "and Rodinga" Identified by Olive Pink as Warra Warra (3ft high in places and many on one plant) 6-5-1a drawn on other side of paper
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"
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"
Watercolour and coloured pencil on paper painted by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek, South Australia 6/8/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Helichrysum semi-papisum
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.
Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek, South Australia, 26/7/30. Identified by Olive pink as Solanum helipticum (ellipticum)
Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek, South Australia, 25/7/30 ( shrub about 4ft high) Identified by Olive Pink as Eremophila - medicinal. Attached - paper, small watercolour painted at Rodinga, Northern Territory, 18/9/30
Coloured pencil on dark card sketched by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek, South Australia 25/7/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Seed pods of Crolataria cunninghammi. Attached - on white paper watercolour of leaves and bud 10 x 7.5 cm
Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek, South Australia, 25/7/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Billy Buttons, Myriocephalus stuartii
Pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink at Callanna, South Australia, 20-21/7/30 - identified by Olive Pink as "plant about 2 to 3 inches high both at Beltana and Callanna"
Water colour on card painted by Olive Pink at Beltana, South Australia, 19/7/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Fusanus acuminatum - Quandong (Santulum acuminatum)
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.
Watercolour and colured pencil on paper painted by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek, South Australia ?/7/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Trichodesma zeylanicum
Hand written notice describing drawings made between June and December 1930 after five years of drought had ended at beginning that year in Central Australia......" They were merely my own pencil records of one section of the many wonders of nature in the interior of this continent "
Watercolour and pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink at Horseshoe Bend, Central Australia, 1930. Identified by Olive Pink as Lidiosus glaucifolius (?)
Pencil, some coloured on paper sketched by Olive Pink, 58 miles from Darwin, Northern Territory 26/10/30. Identified by Olive Pink as native cotton - " lemon hybiscus like flowers- naturalised cotton - thought not indigenous?"
Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Near Granites, Northern Territory, no date. Identified by Olive Pink as Petalostylis labicheoides "Mulga Plain Country"
Pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Darwin, Northern Territory 1930. Not identified by Olive Pink pinned to drawing 6-7-6a "mauve and cream thick textured flowers"
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
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’
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
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
Three black and white floral postcards of Tasmanian native plants. From Olive Pink to Violet Bartlett, Hobart, 28.3.1919 – one with a letter from Olive Pink
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.