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Pages from the Handbook that detail the site plan and floor plan of Domain House, University of Tasmania. As published in the 1947 University Orientation Handbook.

Pages from the Handbook that detail the site plan and floor plan of Domain House, University of Tasmania. As published in the 1949 University Orientation Handbook. Key to buildings and rooms provided by Peter Freeman, Heritage Architect

View of the addition to the rear of Hytten Hall, University campus, Sandy Bay.

Photograph showing a front view of the completed Administration Building at the University Campus, Sandy Bay.

Photograph showing aerial view of the undeveloped site of the University Campus at Sandy Bay

Aerial view of the University Campus at Sandy Bay with some of the buildings completed.

Aerial view of the completed University of Tasmania Sandy Bay Campus.

Photograph showing a front view of the completed Agricultural Science Building at the University Campus, Sandy Bay.

Photographic except taken from the Tasmanian Mail, 16 January 1897 showing graduating students : Mr W.A. Roberts (LLB), Mr W.J.T. Stops (LLB), Mr Herbert Nicholls (LLB), Mr J.H. Keating (LLB), Miss E.H Wilson, first lady graduate (BA) and Lieutenant -Colonel Cruickshank, Registrar

Anthologia Graeca.

Pr. Henricus Stephanus (Henri Estienne), ‘illustris uiri Huldrichi Fuggeri typographus’, [Geneva], 1566. Using a beautiful Greek typeface.

Inside the front board is the plate of Thornton & Son, Booksellers, 11 The Broad, Oxford. On the front flyleaf, in red ink, ‘E libris Marci Pattisonis, uiri doctissimi, Linc. Coll. Oxon. quondam rectoris – Univ. Oxon.’ Pattison (1813-1884) was rector of Lincoln College Oxford. Inside the front board is the bookplate of Mahinda College, Galle, Ceylon. On it is written, in the same red ink, ‘e libris F. L. Woodward Mahinda College, Galle, Ceylon’ and ‘e Sid. Coll. Cam. schol. 1890’. Given by his executors to the University Library in 1952.

Cent Rare PA 3458 .A2 1566.

Photograph showing the driving of steel piles during the initial stages of construction of the Arts Building on the University Campus at Sandy Bay

Photograph showing steel framework erected in the initial stages of the construction of the Arts Building on the University Campus at Sandy Bay

Photograph showing the Arts Lecture Theatre, University Campus, Sandy Bay.

Photograph showing the Arts, Education and Commerce Building on the University Campus at Sandy Bay with the Morris Miller Library in the background.

Photograph showing the Arts, Education and Commerce Building on the University Campus at Sandy Bay looking over the foundations of the Arts Lecture Theatre

Group photograph of Australian Universities rifle match, Hobart 1934. Tasmanian team and emergencies. Named : D.G. Rockliff, J.J. Graham, P.C. Tapping, T.L. Malone, H.M Nicholls, M.M. Bruce, D.J. Barclay, M.W. Woods (Captain), S.M. Seares, and J.A. Jillett

View of the campus from the Vice-Chancellor's Lodge, University campus, Sandy Bay.

This copy of the original twenty minute video tape was extracted from the 48 minute film written and directed by Mr John Honey as part of the University's 1990 Centenary Celebration. It features Professor David Green, Chairman of the Professorial Board and Professor Alec Lazenby, Vice Chancellor. It documents activities and research from University departments. The music for the video was performed by the Tasmanian Conservatorium Chorale, the Tasmanian University Music Society and the Conservatorium Chorale Orchestra and recorded at the Centenary Concert held 13th February 1990.

Photograph showing men at work on the construction of the Chemistry Building on the University Campus at Sandy Bay.

Photograph showing the construction of the Chemistry Building on the University Campus at Sandy Bay.

Photograph showing the Christ College building at the University Campus at Sandy Bay.

Photograph showing the construction of the intersection of Churchill Avenue and French Street on the University Campus at Sandy Bay with Hytten Hall and the Vice-Chancellor's Lodge in the background.

Photograph of the Clinical School Building , Collins Street, Hobart

College Prospectus, printed by Elliston, Collins Street, Hobart Town and dated 1848. Includes note of nature and advantages of a college, steps taken by Bishop, subscribers, trustees, Hutchins & Launceston Church Grammar schools, scholarships, Franklin Museum; Also bound into this volume is the Catalogue of the Christ's College Library, in the Diocese of Tasmania parts one & two.
Pat one lists books by subject, part two list books by author.

Terence, Comedies, with the commentary of Petrus Antesignanus Rapistagnensis.
Binding of blind-stamped pigskin over pasteboard. The pigskin presumably once extended over the whole of the boards, but has been cut back near the half-way point from the spine, and the remainder replaced with parts of leaves from a 15th-cent. manuscript liturgical book in gothic textura with red initials and rubric. That on the back is so rubbed as to be illegible.
Pr. Mathias Bonhome, Lyon, 1560. Heavily used, perhaps in a classroom.
Inside the front board are mottos in Greek and Latin with the monogram ‘CIC’. On the first flyleaf in carmine: ‘Iohannes Christianus Wes(?el) Magdeburgensis Saxo / Anno CID ID CCVII Symbol’/ Iesus Crucifixi Vulnera Me Salvant’. The date is 1707. A similar inscription appears to have been washed off the inside of the back board. Lower down, less formally, ‘Jo: Ch: Wapsa / Anno 1702 & 7 Aprilis’. Also, perhaps in the same hand, 22 gl. On the title page ‘Iohannes Christianus Wapsa / Anno 1702 / & 6 Aprilis.’ Below is ‘Henricus Sebast. Wapsa Iur. Pract. [blank] comp. sibi Halae Saxon. Prid. Cal. Maii anno CID IC CLXVIII’. Further down again is ‘[erased] gyl’. Near the head ‘F. 3’ and ‘Ch: Coll: Tasm:’; probably given by Rev. R. R. Davies in 1852. Inside the front board are penciled 2228 and No. 200.

Cent Coll Rare PA 6755 .A2 1560.

Photograph showing the construction of the foundations for the Engineering workshop on the University Campus at Sandy Bay

Photograph of the council room, Administration Building, University campus, Sandy Bay.

Photographic except taken from the Illustrated Tasmanian Mail, 22 May, 1929 - "Councils Funeral" - Undergraduates macabre revel

Digital footage from University CCTV camera during the flood event of May 2018

Photograph showing site preparation for the engineering workshop on the University Campus at Sandy Bay

Photograph showing the foundations of the Enginnering workshop on the University Campus at Sandy Bay

Photograph showing the excavation of the site of the Morris Miller Library on the University Campus at Sandy Bay. Steel frame of the Arts Building in the background.

Photograph showing the construction of the foundations for the Morris Miller Library on the University Campus at Sandy Bay.

Geoffrey Chaucer, Works.
Printed in London by John Kyngston for John Wyght, in 1561.
This is the fourth printed edition of Chaucer’s collected works, effectively a reprint of the 1532 edition, with fourteen leaves of additional verse, and the long poem The Siege of Thebes by John Lydgate, monk of Bury.
The text is in ‘black-letter’, i.e. gothic type, with many decorated initials and several engraved illustrations.
On the second flyleaf is pencilled ‘No. 68 in Arch’s Catalogue of 1814’. John and Arthur Arch (fl. 1792-1838) were London booksellers. Bookplate of Edgar Atheling Drummond (1825-1893). Acquired by the University Library from the bookseller Bernard Quaritch, London, in 1930.

Cent Rare Folio PR 1850 1561.

Photograph taken from the gates at Earle Street showing front view of the Geology-Geography Building under construction on the University Campus at Sandy Bay. Engineering Building in the background.

Photograph showing front view of the Geology-Geography Building under construction on the University Campus at Sandy Bay.

Photograph showing a view of the Geology-Geography building under construction on the University Campus at Sandy Bay.

Photograph showing the groundworks for the Arts Building on the University Campus at Sandy Bay

Group photograph of team members and others taken at the Springs, Mt. Wellington, Hobart during the 1934 Australian Universities Rifle Match

Group photograph of the T.U.R.C. team, winners of the Hobart and Suburban Cup. Photograph signed and dated 11 March, 1933.

Paper scrolls displayed on the walls of the Hobart penitentiary depicting the average face of 19th century convict created from archival records.

Photograph showing the greenhouse at the Horticultural Research Centre, University Campus, Sandy Bay.

Photograph showing the early construction stage of Hytten Hall on the University Campus at Sandy Bay

Photograph showing the construction of Hytten Hall on the University Campus at Sandy Bay with the brickwork completed .

Photograph showing the construction of Hytten Hall on the University Campus at Sandy Bay

Index to volume 1 of University of Tasmania Roll Book of Graduates, 25 June 1890 to 23 April 1959

Index to volume 2 of University of Tasmania Roll Book of Graduates 07 May 1959 to 11 December 1970

Group photograph of T.U.R.C. team: Inver-varsity match at Adelaide 1930. Photo mounted and signed.

Group photograph of Inter-varsity rifle match, Liverpool, New South Wales. Named and signed. P.C. Tapping, D.J. Barclay, D.E. Webster, M.W. Woods ( Vice Captain), D.G. Rockliff, B.B. Smith, J.A. Jillett (Captain) and S.M. Seares.

Interview with Claudio Alcorso. This recording forms part of a collection of interviews with UTAS staff, former staff and alumni students. The interviews were conducted by Mrs Hilary Webster, John Roberts and others as part of the University of Tasmania Centenary Committee Oral History Project chaired by Prof. Michael Roe, School of History 1978 - 1983

Interview with Dr Geoffrey Cheeseman, lecturer in Chemistry at UTAS. This recording forms part of a collection of interviews with UTAS staff, former staff and alumni students. The interviews were conducted by Mrs Hilary Webster, John Roberts and others as part of the University of Tasmania Centenary Committee Oral History Project chaired by Prof. Michael Roe, School of History 1978 - 1983

Interview with Mr Ken Dallas , lecturer in Commerce at UTAS. This recording forms part of a collection of interviews with UTAS staff, former staff and alumni students. The interviews were conducted by Mrs Hilary Webster, John Roberts and others as part of the University of Tasmania Centenary Committee Oral History Project chaired by Prof. Michael Roe, School of History 1978 - 1983

Interview with Mrs Margaret Scott. This recording forms part of a collection of interviews with UTAS staff, former staff and alumni students. The interviews were conducted by Mrs Hilary Webster, John Roberts and others as part of the University of Tasmania Centenary Committee Oral History Project chaired by Prof. Michael Roe, School of History 1978 - 1983

Interview with Professor J.A. Cardno, Psychology, UTAS. This recording forms part of a collection of interviews with UTAS staff, former staff and alumni students. The interviews were conducted by Mrs Hilary Webster, John Roberts and others as part of the University of Tasmania Centenary Committee Oral History Project chaired by Prof. Michael Roe, School of History 1978 - 1983

Bartolomeo Taegio, La Villa. Dialogo.
Pr. Francesco Moscheni, Milan, 30 May 1559.
Bound in its original limp vellum wrappers; remains of two ties of the same. Fine title page; on the verso the author’s portrait; woodcuts showing surveying at pp. 162 and 164.
Inside the front cover is written ‘1560 Francoforti I. A. à S’. On the verso of the last leaf of text (Cciii) and the following flyleaf are herbal remedies in German, signed ‘Frater Mercurius ordinis S. Basilii in Monte Sinai uel S. Catharina co(mmun)icabat Praga Anno 1570.’ The same hand has annotated the text. On the verso of the first flyleaf is ‘Duplum Bibliothecae regiae Monacensis’, 18th-cent. From the Library of Christ College; given by Rev. R.R. Davies in 1852.

Morris Miller-Christ College Rare-Book SB 471 .T34 1559

Digital footage from University CCTV camera during the flood event of May 2018

Digital footage from University CCTV camera during the flood event of May 2018

Handwritten letter from Adam Taylor to his brother William dated 9th November, Valleyfield.
Transcribed :
My dear Willie
We have got three turkeys out and two chickens beside, there are four hens and one turkey sitting. We have had four or five gooseberry pies. Robert went to Melbourne last Saturday with uncle and Jamie and aunt Buist. Old Joe was out getting some wood and someone broke his window, got in and stole all his things. A beautiful owl came into the garden. Robert caught it in the laundry and we sent it to Mr Whitcomb. Miss ??? sends her love to you. I am your affectionate Adam Taylor

Photograph of the entrance area and cloakroom of the Library, Domain, House.

One small black and white photograph of Library staff taken outside the entrance to Domain House, Christmas 1956.

One small black and white photograph of Library workroom at Domain House taken in November 1960. Staff identified as M. McClymont, Dr. Wojtowitz, Mr S. Flood

One small black and white photograph of Library workroom at Domain House taken in November 1960. Staff identified as J. Reynolds

Photograph showing a front view of the completed Life Sciences Building at the University Campus, Sandy Bay.

Photograph of the Librarian, D H Borchardt at Loans desk with Mrs Kemp 1960

Photograph of the Librarian, D H Borchardt at Loans desk with Mrs Kemp 1960

Pamphlet produced by the Optics Research Group, Physics Department, University of Tasmania in May 1975, entitled Long Focal Length Photographic Objectives : Photographic Performance of 100 inch telephoto objective.

Photograph of the main reading area of the Library, Domain, House . Taken in November 1960 showing students working at desks. Fire place and mantel on rear wall.

Photograph of the main reading area of the University library at Domain House

Photograph of the main reading area of the Library, Domain, House . Taken in November 1960 showing students working at desks. Honour board on wall.

Photograph showing the main south west channel excavations on the site of the University Campus at Sandy Bay

Photograph showing a front view of the completed Maintenance Building at the University Campus, Sandy Bay.

Photograph showing the Mathematics Building on the site of the University Campus at Sandy Bay

Photograph showing the completed Mathematics Building at the University Campus, Sandy Bay. Physics Building in the background.

Photograph of the Medical Sciences Building, University campus, Sandy Bay.

Photograph of a microfilm reader in the University library at Domain House

Photograph showing level one and two of the Morris Miller Library, University Campus, Sandy Bay before additional levels were added 1969-1970.

Photograph of the Morris Miller Library after the addition of levels four and five, University campus, Sandy Bay.

Entry numbers 1230 - 2588 in volume 1 of University of Tasmania Roll Book of Graduates, 25 June 1890 to 23 April 1959.

Entry numbers 1- to 415 in volume 1 of University of Tasmania Roll Book of Graduates, 25 June 1890 to 23 April 1959. Includes graduates from other universities in the Empire whose degrees were conferred at the University of Tasmania as ad eundem gradum degrees.

Entry numbers 2589 - 4669 in volume 2 of University of Tasmania Roll Book of Graduates 07 May 1959 to 11 December 1970

Entry numbers 416 - 1229 in volume 1 of University of Tasmania Roll Book of Graduates, 25 June 1890 to 23 April 1959. Includes graduates from other universities in the Empire whose degrees were conferred at the University of Tasmania as ad eundem gradum degrees.

Bede, Opera.

Pr. in 8 vols. by Ioannes Hervagius (Iohann Herwegen), Basel, 1563.

The first printed edition (editio princeps) of the works of the Venerable Bede (d. 734), and the last until the nineteenth century. The illustrations are from his works on chronology and from some of the many pieces wrongly ascribed to him by the editor.

On the title page of vols. 5 and 7 is ‘Conventus Leod’ fratrum minorum Recoll’’, on that of vol. 2 ‘Conventus PP Recollect Leod’’; i.e. withdrawn from the library of the Franciscan convent at Liège. From the Library of Christ College.

Christ College Rare PA 8260 .O64 1563

Virgil, Opera, incl. Appendix Vergiliana, with the notes of Iohannes Frisius, Philip Melancthon et al.
Binding 16th- or 17th-cent., the leather lost, only the pasteboard, damaged by damp, remaining.
Pr. Weigand Han Erb., Sigmund Feierabent, Georg Rab, [Frankfurt], 1563.
Fine full-page engravings, verso of a8, c4, i8, l5, n4 verso, p2 verso, q8 verso, x3, z3, B1 verso, D1 verso, F3, H4 verso, K7.
Inside the front board ‘T. Blyth’s’. The first flyleaf is filled with pen-trials, the verso and following recto with a draft letter, 16th-cent., in English. The same hand writes more of the same on the innermost end flyleaf. At the head of the verso of the title page a 16th-cent. name, ‘Richardus Lath[?]nage’, has been cropped by the binder. The same name is written lower down, inked over. On the verso before b1 is ‘Thomas Tatham 1717’. On the verso of the last flyleaf ‘Mr William Radcliffe’, presumably the Derbyshire cotton weaver of this name (1761-1842). From the Library of Christ College.

Uncatalogued.

A photograph of Professor Albert Gordon Baikie (date unknown), foundation Professor of Medicine

Sepia photograph of a group of boys and masters outside the college door, including small boys, some in sailor suits holding straw "boater" hats.
Photo by Wherrett & McGuffie, mounted.
Some names written on back, including Alic Cruickshank, Cyril James, A Murray, B. Hunt (master), Max Stephens, Reynolds, Gosnell (master), R. Stourton, Lilley.

A photograph of Professor Horace Newton Barber (date unknown, Department of Botany 1947-1963.

Photograph showing a front view of the completed Physics Building at the University Campus, Sandy Bay.

Photograph showing the Physics Building under construction on the University Campus at Sandy Bay.

Photograph showing early groundworks for the Physics Building on the University Campus at Sandy Bay. Morris Miller Library and Engineering Building in the background.

Photograph showing a front view of the Physics Building under construction on the University Campus at Sandy Bay.

Photograph showing the completed Physics and Arts and Education Buildings with cars in the carpark at the University Campus, Sandy Bay.

Photograph showing the initial groundworks for the playing fields on the University Campus at Sandy Bay

Photographic except taken from the Illustrated Tasmanian Mail, 19 April, 1923 - Photographs of Professors and candidates for degrees 1923. Professor Williams, Professor McAulay, Professor Dunbabin, Professor McDougall, Professor Copland, Professor Flynn, Professor Burn. Students Mr. C. K. Wilkins, (B.A.), Miss Erica G. Headlam, (M.A.), Mr. W. Parker Listner, (M.A.) 1919, (LL.B) 1923, Mr. B. Telford, (LL.B.), Mr. G. L. Doyle, (LL.B.), Mr. H. Guy, (LL.B.) Miss A. M. Wherrett, (B.A.) Miss B. J. Miller, (B.A.)
Miss B. White-Parsons, (B.A.) Mr. H. G. Harris, (B.A.) Mr. D. G. Salier, (B.Sc) Mr, L. F. Briggs, (B.A.) Mr. M. E .W. Stump, (B.Sc.) Miss J. L. Hurst, (B.A), Mr. T. Hytten, (B.A.) Mr. Bryan W. S. Page, (B.Sc.)

Charles de l’Ecluse (Clusius), Rariorum aliquot Stirpium per Hispanias Obseruatarum Historia.

Pr. Christopher Plantin, Antwerp, 1576. With numerous engravings by one of Plantin’s best artists, Pieter van der Borcht. The famous press founded by Plantin (c. 1520-1589) was to remain in business until 1867.

Charles de l’Ecluse (1526-1609), professor at the University of Leiden, established Europe’s first botanical garden there (still in existence), and laid the foundations of the Dutch bulb industry. This book is one of the earliest treatises on the flora of Spain.

Inside the front cover is ‘duplicato’, an old shelfmark C. 64, and 12/- in pencil. At the end is ‘Perlegi Tag ij 1580. mense Februario / Laus Deo.’ On the verso of the title page is ‘Will: Forsyth 1825’. From the Library of Christ College; given by Rev. R. R. Davies in 1852.

Morris Miller-Christ College Rare-Book QK 41 .C58 1576

Photographic except taken from the Illustrated Tasmanian Mail, 22 May, 1929 - Recipients of University of Tasmania Degrees at Commemoration, Mr A.K. Fulton (B.A), Mr T. Hytten (MA), Miss F. Stops (B.A), Mr D.S. Smith (B.E), Miss Y.I. Guilbert (B.A), Mr O.H. Biggs (B.Sc)

Silver medal commemorating 150th Anniversary of the Death of Friedrich von Schiller 1955. Engraved by Alfons Feuerle. Minted in Stuttgart, Germany.
Obverse Lettering: BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND 5 DEUTSCHE MARK F
Reverse Lettering: FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER 9.V.1955 ZUM 150. TODES TAG
Edge Smooth with inscriptions. Lettering: SEID EINIG EINIG EINIG

Photographic except taken from the Tasmanian Mail, 16 January, 1897 of Senior Public Examination Prize-takers, December 1896. Left to right T.C Brammall, W.F.D. Butler, H.A. Ansell, E.L Piesse, Osric Oberlin-Harris

Photograph showing the ceremony for the laying of the foundation stone for St John Fisher College at the University Campus, Sandy Bay.