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Collection consists of a series of glass lantern slides produced by Beattie of various locations around the University of Tasmania at Domain House.

Collection consists of one folio leather bound minute book and other material relating to the Chamber of Commerce including annual reports and handbooks and directories.
Minutes are incomplete, but annual reports or annual handbooks are complete from 1910 -1984.

Minutes of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce for the period 14 November 1938 to 14 September 1939. Signed minutes, typed, formerly in ring binder.

Annual Reports of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce for the period 1947 to 1981. Reports only, although 1949 is included with a handbook, with list of members, rules as general information and from 1955 names of officers. Reports missing for years 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957.

36. 1947
37. 1948
38. 1949
39. 1950
40. 1951
41. 1952
42. 1955
43. 1958
44. 1959
45. 1960
46. 1961
47. 1962
48. 1963
49. 1964
50. 1965
51. 1966
52. 1967
53. 1968
54. 1969
55. 1970
56. 1971
57. 1972
58. 1973
59. 1974
60. 1975
61. 1976
62. 1977
63. 1978
64. 1979
65. 1980
66. 1981

Handbooks of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce for the period 1921-1941. Official handbooks including annual report, names of officers, classified list of members, report on trade and industry in Tasmania (eg. 1923-1924 report on new Cadbury's works at Claremont), imports and exports, forestry, agriculture, soldiers' settlements. Also includes illustrations and advertisements.

• 11. 1921
• 12. 1922
• 13. 1923
• 14. 1923-1924
• 15. 1924-1925
• 16. 1925-1926
• 17. 1926-1927
• 18. 1927-1928
• 19. 1929-1930
• 20. 1930-1931
• 21. 1931-1932
• 22. 1932-1933
• 23. 1933-1934
• 24. 1934-1935
• 25. 1935-1936
• 26. 1936-1937
• 27. 1937-1938
• 28. 1938-1939
• 29. 1939-1940
• 30. 1940-1941

Includes the history of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce by Basil Rait, list of presidents 1851-1951, officers for 1950-51, list of members (classified by type of trade), reports on Tasmania's education, trade, industry, Hobart Port, agriculture, mining, the City of Hobart, and "Romance of G.P. Fitzgerald & Co." by Basil Rait. Also includes another copy of the 99th Report (1950). Illustrated.

Publication entitled "Information for school leavers Who can help? : there are many people who can help you find your way". A joint project with the Tasmanian Education Department, Hobart Chamber of Commerce and Apex Clubs of Tasmania. Undated.

Rough notes and sketches made by Johnston and newspaper cuttings relating to the fishes of Tasmania

Sketchbook of sea shells drawn by Robert Mackenzie Johnston, date unknown

Letters from Laura Allison, Hugh Synnot Hull's fiancee who he married in January 1880; mainly affectionate notes with occasional references to music; some addressed to Hughie of 'Shughie' and some addressed 'darling husband' and signed 'wifie' even before the date of the marriage. Most written from 48 Patrick Street.

Hugh Synnot Hull's correspondence relating to his job, prospects, promotion, accommodation, etc., with the Treasury Department, suppliers and others, including pressed copies and replies and other letters received.
Including:
• 82. Request for increase of salary as he intended to be married, 17 July 1879.
• 90. Copy of W.R. Aitkin's proposed request to his mother, 1892.
• 92-95, 97, 98, 100, 101. Estimates and suggestions for the store and some correspondence relating to orders placed including thanks from suppliers for selecting them.
• 102, 103. Congratulations on appointment as Government Storekeeper, July 1893.
• 96, 108, 109. Request for better accommodation (eg. 20 November 1893), pointing out that the cottage only had three rooms for a family of seven and that three children with croup had to occupy the same room as their parents, addressed to J.E. Packer [Edward John Packer. Under Treasurer] with replies.
• 111, 112. Letters from 'The Clipper' about his articles on heads of departments, 20 February and 21 March 1894.

Some papers referring to the execution of the estate of Captain Francis Allison (c1796-1857) of 'Streanshalh' (Macquarie River) Tas., grandfather of Laura Hull; including sheet of estate, 1885, and some letters to H.S. Hull from A.F.W. and F.T. Allison and others. Also recognizance binding Francis Thomas Allison of Sorell to keep the peace, especially towards Alfred Nichols, 27 February 1871.

Poems, music, and miscellaneous printed items.

The papers of William Johnstone consists a copy of his diary of the voyage to Launceston on board the "Arab" November 1841 - March 1842 and of material in relation to the business of Johnstone & Wilmot, general merchant, importer of wines, spirits & cigars established in Launceston in 1842

William Johnstone's pass book with the Bank of Australasia dated 1842-1847.

Notes and cuttings relating to the Brownell, Judd, Barnett and Propsting families, made by Nancie Hewitt, including:-

Brownell: notes by Mrs Hewitt including extracts from an account of Thomas Coke Brownell by his son John Beecham Brownell, photograph of T.C. Brownell.
Barnett: news cutting on Archdeacon Ernest Judd Barnett (died 1955) and copy of memorial address, notes, photograph of Grace Hannah Barnett, obituary of Barbara Burnett (1946).
Patricia Hewitt to serve in India news cutting 1961.
Judd: notes on Judd family; copy of letter from Elizabeth Judd to her aunt, H. Cane, London, on arrival in Hobart describing their voyage, Father being schoolmaster for the voyage in an emigrant ship, and describing Hobart - many things cheaper than in England 1 December 1842 (typed and manuscript copy).
Propsting: marriage declaration of no impediment to the marriage of Alfred Henry Barnett to Elizabeth Georgina Propsting no date; notes on the Propsting (or Probstein) family; extract from minutes of Friends Meeting concerning Henry Propsting 1878, 1901; photographs of Ann and Hannah, first and second wives of Henry Propsting.
Family tree showing connection of Brownell, Barnett, Judd and Propsting families.
News cuttings: Friends School painting of Matthinna, Arthur Circus, Fern Tree Hotel.

Letter to Francis Cotton from Abraham Davy dated 7 November 1844. Davy remembered his visit to the Cottons and the Cottons visit to NSW. He also mentioned his family - Helen making progress at school, Meetings, Quakers Ruth Allen and J.P. Robinson, plainness of speech, T. Pollard's children, second marriage.

Miscellaneous papers relating to the Barnett family. Barbara Barnett, the grand-daughter of Henry Propsting, established the first ‘rest home’ for old people in Hobart in 1922.

Nancie Hewitt's notes on the Society of Friends (Quakers), including drafts of talks, "James Backhouse and George Washington Walker, adapted and summaries from 'a narrative of a voyage to the Australian Colonies by James Backhouse' for young friends by Nancie Hewitt" (typescript), photographs of pages of F. Mackie's "Journal" including sketch of Hobart Town 1852.

Notes compiled on Frederick and Henry Propsting

Cabinet portrait of James Backhouse undate.

Standing, carte de visite photograph of Esther A. Mather dated 24 April 1868 taken by H.H. Baily, Hobart.

Head and shoulders, carte de visite photograph of an elderly Frederick Mackie. Photograph by Samuel Fry, Surbiton [Surrey, England]

Carte de visite photograph of Rachel Mackie by Charles A. Gandy, London.

Carte de visite photograph of Sarah Bell by W.P. Dowling, Launceston.

Photograph album presented on 23 November 1897 to Henrietta Pierce, secretary of the Missionary Helpers Union, Hobart. She had taught at Friends School for eleven years and was leaving Hobart to teach at her aunt's school in Colchester, England. Letter enclosed signed by members of the Missionary Helpers' Union.
Photographs (as identified by Nancie Hewitt):

1. Pierce family - Alice, Henrietta, John, Margaret (9 yrs)
2. Friends School party (group of girls and boys seated on ground with tennis racquets)
3. May Gould - first cousin of Henrietta Pierce
4. Gould boys left to right: Jack, Arthur, Cecil, Alan
5. Mrs W.E. Shoobridge (nee Mather)
6. Edith Shoobridge, daughter of above and missionary wife
7. Ada Gatchell, Irish Friend (blind and deaf 40 years)
8. Frank Mather, Margaret and Henrietta Pierce before Henrietta went to England 1897
9. Charles Sowden
10. Henry Propsting
11. Hannah Propsting
12. Sarah Pumphrey and Mary (daughter)
13. Elinor and Margerita Robey [as children with doll]
14. Miss Wilson (LeTall), housekeeper Friends School
15. Margaret Pierce
16. Alice Pierce - taken at Lawson by William Allen [elderly woman with stick and bundle of firewood]
17. Shoobridge family - Edith's wedding
18. Samuel Clemes - first head of Friends School
19. Isabella Jane Clemes (1840-1903) first [woman] senior wrangler of Cambridge University, Newham College
20. Ferdinand Grone, husband of Lizzie Pierce
21. Aunt Lizzie Pierce, John Pierce's sister
    24 Thomas Pierce (grandfather of Mary) "(John youngest son): and Mary Anne
22. Pierce cousin (boy) (carte de visite by G. & J. Hall, Wakefield, England]
23. Woman, spectacles, head & shoulders by William Gill of Colchester [aunt? or other relative]
24. Henrietta Pierce [Later photograph, head & shoulders by Whitfield Crosse & Co., Salisbury, Devizes & Southampton]
25. John Pierce and Elizabeth - first wife ("Gould. Her brother a Hobart chemist, grandfather of present ones")
26. John & Elizabeth Pierce [carte de visite photos by G. & J. Long, Newport Isle of Wight and Brading]
27. Friends of Ettie's in England [two young men, spectacles, 1920s or 1930s, photo by Edges Ltd., Llandudno]
28. [Young man, rustic boots and breeches no date]

Collection consists of leather bound octavo note book prepared while Lane was a prisoner of war of the French also a watercolour sketch of the brig Harriot and some notes on Lane.

Collection consists of newspaper cuttings and postcards

Cash book dated 1813-1817 noting expenses of travelling in Sweden, Prussia and Hull, including carriage, inn, servants, etc.; also accounts with various firms and receipts.

Letter Book dated 1818 -1822. Copies of business letters written from Hamburg between 1818 and 1820 to English business firms such as Thomas Richardson & Son of Hull; John Beadle & Co. of London; Swallow & Laycock of Wakefield; Ledgard & Hopkinson of Mirfield; Thomas Bell of Hull; Henry Coates of Hull; and a few German firms (usually written in English but some in German) about purchases,sales and shipping of agricultural produce such as barley,rapeseed, wheat, onions, hides.
In 1822 some letters were written from Leith, Scotland, apparently concluding some business before departure for Australia.
Note: the volume was later used in V.D.L.(Tasmania) for letters 1837-1847.

Account book dated 1820 detailing cash received and expenses, including duty, postage, carriage, wages, brokerage,
warehouse rents, "drink money" on commodities such as oil, candles, whitelead, rapeseed, oats, turmeric. Also "subscription: Freemason". Rough draft of letter, 1838, partly illegible, at front.

Journal of William Bell Leake dated November 1820. Detailing accounts for shipments handled by William Bell Leake in Hull, U.K. for various firms, carrying flax, whale oil, tallow, linseed cakes, etc. William Bell Leake was John Leake's eldest son, born 1806.

Series contains letter books of business correspondence, letters of introduction and correspondence with family, friends, neighbours, societies and charities

Letter Book dated 1850 -1868, and 1871. Includes copies or extracts of business letters, including also letters as Churchwarden of St. Luke's Church, Campbell Town (1858). Entries continued, probably by C.H. Leake, after John Leake's death

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Papers concerning the children and grandchildren of John and Elizabeth Leake

Papers of Helen Letitia Constance Leake, known as Dolly or occasionally Nellie. Dolly was the third and youngest daughter of C.H. and C.J. Leake, born 27 June 1874, died 11 December 1961.

Collection consists of a photocopy of Mackie's diary dated 1852 - 1855 bound into two volumes with accompanying photographic prints and 35 mm. negatives of some illustrations contained in the diaries.
The diaries (except for the South African portion), with most of the sketches, were published in 1973 as Traveller underconcern, transcribed and edited by Mary Nicholls for the History Department of the University of Tasmania.

Index to W10 - Maconochie : Convict System

Series consists of material relating to George Marshall including farm accounts and school book

1972 diary, red

1974 Collins Australian diary, black

Collins 1975 diary, blue

Letts diary 1976, red

1 folder of loose papers: letters, lists of patrons, appeals, photos, pamphlets, newspaper cuttings

Personal book of inspirational quotations, in poor condition - loose pages and inserts, stained edges.
Inscription in front cover: 'Margaret S. Thorp, with loving wishes for June 12.1906. from E.B. Emmott'.
Miscellaneous writings and notes, inspirational verses.
Interfiled is letter from ABC Chairman, March 14, 61 re compensation cheque for eight pounds - money stolen at Canberra hotel

Folder of items (photos, certificates, credential from Premier of NSW, newspaper cuttings, etc used by Eileen Barnard-Kettle in compiling her obituary of the late Margaret Watts.
Folder includes photo of Margaret dancing with the Sydney Lord Mayor at the Wattle Day Tea Dance, tributes, newspaper cuttings.
It also includes a photocopy of Raymond Evans' article 'All the passion of our womanhood: Margaret Thorp and the 'Battle of the Brisbane School of Arts', July 1917' (published as chapter 14 in Gender and war: Australians at war in the twentieth century, edited by Joy Damousi and Marilyn Lake).
Also correspondence with Margaret's brother, Dr J Thorp.
It also includes correspondence with Leonard S Kenworthy, editor of Living in the light: some Quaker pioneers of the twentieth century, vol.II which has a chapter on MSW written by Eileen Barnard-Kettle (held in Morris Miller Quaker BX 7791 .L53 1984)

Copy of K M Dallas "The commercial origin of Australia"
Includes 'the commercial importance of Cook's voyages', Australia a mercantilist plantation, American whaling, fur trade of N W America, Pacific trade, transportation, etc.

Press cutting enclosed with letter dated 24 June 1904. The cutting deals with a recital performed by Mdlle. Antonia Dolores at St. James' Hall. The article deals initially with the reaction of the audience over the first half of the programme, and then goes on to list many of the tunes she sang during the evening.

Letter from Samuel Haywood, from London dated 1 September, 1852 to William Dean referring to transportation

Drawings and writing exercises of young child

Correspondence with G. Mackaness, Mrs. Calder, Mitchell Library, Latrobe Library and other libraries on Calder and other historical queries.

Copy of article by J. Moore Robinson on old Hobart, St. David's Cemetery and Collins.

Copies of obituaries of John Foster (1875) Tasmanian politician, H.M. Hull and Calder

Photograph of Governor John Stephen Hampton comptroller-general of convicts in V.D.L 1846 & Governor of Western Australia 1862

Photograph of an unidentified man and woman in doorway of W. Le Grand, Antiquarian Bookseller, 7 Elizabeh Street, Hobart

Photograph of Captain Philip Parker King

Eight portrait photographs - Unknown - Hull, Denison? all males . 4 from Allport Library & 2 from Don Stephens Lindisfarnes (Repro)

Miscellaneous photographs - 19 negatives ,13 in MSS, 2 standing portraits 'Postcard' set., 11 views of Entally House internal and external x 2.

Christmas card issued by the Hobart Bureau of Meterology in 1966 of the Rossbank Observatory, Hobarton,1840.