Letter from Matt Seal: April 29 1895
Part of Leake Papers
Humorous illustrated letter to Miss Dolly from a young friend, Matt. Seal, written from Dunrobin, Casterton, Victoria, dated April 26, 1895, telling of fighting bushfires at Dunrobin and fly fishing and camping up and down the Glenelg River
John Leake
Part of Midwood Collection
Framed caricature of Bruce Hood. Very fond of singing songs at parties, his favourite being Egypt. Could not stop him once he began.
Thomas Claude Wade Midwood
The Mercury, Hobart, 26 April 1892
Part of Marshall and Terry Family Papers
The Mercury, 26 April 1892, including notice of the death of Ralph Terry of Lachlan Mills, New Norfolk, on the 25 April 1892.
John Terry
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Watercolour on card sketched by Olive Pink, (date and location unknown)
Olive Pink
Card written by Olive Pink to John Hargrave, 30 April 1962
Photograph of the Chemical Laboratory at Ackworth School
Part of Miscellaneous Quaker Papers
Photograph of the Chemical Laboratory and pupils at the Ackworth School. Presented in a folder of images produced by E.T.W. Dennis & Sons Ltd. Art Printers, 42 Holborn Viaduct. London E.C. Works, Scarborough
Ackworth School
Large cement tank being sprayed with water by man holding high pressure fire hose.
View of snow on Mount Wellington from Huon Road
Part of Photographs of Edward Verrell
Black-and-white photograph shows snow on Mount Wellington viewed from the verge of the Huon Road, South Hobart, with post-and-rail fence alongside roadway.
Mt Lyell Smelters & Converters (copper), WC
Part of Images of West Coast Tasmania
The image appears on a printed playing card (4 of Diamonds) with legend in text at the bottom. Image shows significant industrial buildings in operation.
Concrete framework of new building at E.Z. Co. Zinc Works
Black-and-white photograph depicts workman kneeling at base of partially constructed concrete-framed building and man straddling the roof beams on site of E.Z. Co. Zinc Works at Risdon
Part of Hal Wyatt Collection
Colour photograph of snow-capped mountains beside Lake St Clair
View of Crater Lake, near Cradle Mountain
Colour photograph shows Crater Lake, near Cradle Mountain
Decoration on Tasmanian Parliament House
Parliament House Hobart. Flags being placed on front of building as decoration.
Graeme Raphael
View of Cloudy Bay from East Cloudy Head
Part of Arthur Knight Slides
Colour photograph of Cloudy Bay from East Cloudy Head
Part of Mitchell Papers
Diary of Sarah E.E. Mitchell of Lisdillon on the East Coast of Tasmania - 1882. From the age of thirteen she daily noted in her journal the state of the weather, her routine activities about the house and property and visits of friends.
Sarah E.E. Mitchell
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Water colour on card sketched by Olive Pink, 1944. "Violet". May be Superb Fairy-wrens
Olive Pink
Part of Leake Papers
Letter written by William Wood from Hawkridge dated 15 August 1841 regarding no chance of his sons being able to raise any of the money which I borrowed and advanced to them for Port Philip – Idetermined on selling his land at the Windfalls or part of the Estate
John Leake
Photograph of Rolleston House, Canterbury University College, 1926
Part of George Wilson Collection
Black and white, mounted photograph. 'Canterbury University College, Rolleston House, 1926'. By Standish & Preece, Photographers, 244 High Street, Christchurch
George Thomas Jamieson Wilson
An interesting aerial view of Burnie
Part of De La Haye Postcard Collection
Copy of circular addressed to candidates at elections
Part of Walker Family Papers
Copy of circular addressed to candidates at elections. Letter to Arthur Perry (Member of the Legislative Council) dated 5 March 1855 from the committee of the Tasmanian Temperance and Total Abstinence Association bringing to his consideration the very demoralising effect of treating Electors with intoxicating drinks and the vile system of supplying the means of drunkenness and debauchery at elections
George Washington Walker
Photograph showing the construction of the Chemistry Building on the University Campus at Sandy Bay.
University of Tasmania
Storm approaches Mount Solitary
Part of Arthur Knight Slides
Colour photograph shows storm approaching Mount Solitary
Mural in Hobart Walking Club hut
Part of Arthur Knight Slides
Colour photograph shows a mural in the Hobart Walking Club hut at Lake Dobson Source
Part of Arthur Knight Slides
Colour photograph shows two snow skiiers navigating patchy snow at National Park, a location in Mount Field National Park
Vehicle on road at National Park
Part of Arthur Knight Slides
Colour photograph shows two-tone green vehicle with driver's fingers visible on steering wheel, on the unsealed road at National Park, with snow covering the higher ground. Tasmanian number plate reads WLA 189 - 19 TAS 56.
Walker sits on snow near Naturalist Peak
Part of Arthur Knight Slides
Colour photograph shows person sitting on the snow near Naturalist Peak
Part of Arthur Knight Slides
Colour photograph shows Lake Newdegate
Part of Arthur Knight Slides
Colour photograph shows three people resting at Newdegate Pass in Mount Field National Park
Man and horse ploughing at Westerway
Part of Arthur Knight Slides
Colour photograph shows a farmer ploughing a paddock at Westerway in a field strung with trellis frames for hop cultivation with a draught horse and plough
Part of Arthur Knight Slides
Colour photograph shows leaves of Pandani covered by snowfall
Picnic hut near National Park entrance
Part of Arthur Knight Slides
Colour photograph shows picnic hut near road entrance of Mount Field National Park
1 photograph showing uniformed men in a military parade [Hobart?]
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink at Horseshoe Bend, Central Australia 13/9/30. "everlasting leaves drawn from faded specimen and from memory, flowers from nature" P6-5-1 drawn on other side of paper
Olive Pink
Men on verandah of Camp Commandant Cottage
Black and white photograph of Camp Commandant's hut with men in uniform seated outside, part of the Claremont military camp.
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Watercolour and pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink at the The Finke, Northern Territory 4/9/30. "natural size"
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Pencil and crayon on card, sketched by Olive Pink at Rodinga, Northern Territory 28/9/30. "from nature (exactly) but most often a creeper and therefore simple petal at top)+ sometimes 4 below - trails of it are feet long in every direction" "normal position of blossom (1 petal at top 3 below)"
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, 50 miles from Darwin, Northern Territory 26/10/30. Identified by Olive Pink as a creeper Convolvulus? "from an almost dead specimen when brought to me"
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Black and white photograph of view of valley with palms
Olive Pink
Photograph of aboriginal children swimming in a waterhole
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Black and white photograph by Olive Pink of a group of aboriginal children swimming in a waterhole in Central Australia, 1934, with inscription on the back by Olive Pink, 'Native children playing in water-hole - Central Australia.' Photographs sent with a letter to her friend Joan Walker in Hobart, Tasmania.
Olive Pink
Photograph of Olive Pink and friends
Part of Olive Pink Collection
1 sepia photograph of camp at Professor Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin's Farm - Cobbler's End, Tasmania. Picturing Olive Pink, Florence Rodway, with mop and basin, Mildred Lovett with grid iron as harp, and Ursula Walker
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Post card of horse drawn carriage with passengers. On the back Huon Road Tasmania - a packed coach of four - in mothers things at death, Olive Pink
Photograph of the schoolhouse, Broadmarsh, Tasmania. Taken April 1960
Stretcher bearers at Gallipoli
Black and white photograph depicting stretcher bearers at Gallipoli
View from the right of the University of Tasmania building, Domain House, located on the Queen's Domain, Hobart.
John Watt Beattie
Part of Knopwood Sermons
Manuscript of sermon preached by Rev. Knopwood entitles "On the love of our country"
Preached before the Honble Allen Hyde Gardner Cap HM ship Resolution of [illegible] – June 1801, Camp Sullivan Cove Van Diemen’s Land May 13 - 1804
137 Psalm – 5 verse If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
Robert Knopwood
Part of De La Haye Postcard Collection
Brisbane Street, looking west. Launceston, Tasmania
Part of De La Haye Postcard Collection
Part of George Wilson Collection
Mounted wooden wall shield from A W Crisp & Co., 16 King's Parade, Cambridge. Unidentified. Four lions on red background
George Thomas Jamieson Wilson
Part of De La Haye Postcard Collection
Photograph showing aerial view of the undeveloped site of the University Campus at Sandy Bay
University of Tasmania
Medal commemorating The University of Glasgow 1451 - 1951
Obverse description: Glasgow University arms, inscription above: UNIV. GLASG. MCCCCLI - MDCCCCLI
Reverse description: head of Pope crowned. Legend round: NICOLAUS PONT, MAX. UNIV. GLASG. CONDIT. A.D. VII 10 JAN. A.S. MCCCCLI
Electoral Roll for the district of Cumberland, Tasmania
Part of Bothwell Papers
Electoral Roll for the district of Cumberland, Tasmania, 1860 which includes Bothwell, Hamilton, Ouse and Macquarie Plains. It records the name, place of abode, nature of qualification, particulars of qualification and polling places.
Part of Mitchell Papers
Diary of Sarah E.E. Mitchell of Lisdillon on the East Coast of Tasmania from June 1st 1870 to January 19th 1872. From the age of thirteen she daily noted in her journal the state of the weather, her routine activities about the house and property and visits of friends.
Sarah E.E. Mitchell
Part of Chemistry Collection
Glass coiled condenser is used to cool and condense a gas back to a liquid, often as part of the process of chemical distillation
Part of Chemistry Collection
A Soxhlet extractor is laboratory equipment made of glass. Invented by Franz von Soxhlet in 1879. It has a flask, an extraction chamber, and a condenser. It can be used for solid-liquid extractions.
Seal of Degree of Associate of Arts
Seal of Tasmanian Council of Education 1859, red wax, lozenge shaped, backed paper: open book "Floreat Tasmania' on diamond pattern, in tin with document Diploma of degree of Associate of Arts awarded to Henry Lewis Garrett of Hobart Town.
Henry Lewis Garrett
Part of Lane Papers
View of the brig 'Harriot', Benjamin Lane commander chased onshore near Calais at 6am by his BMS the 'Misqueter' of 18 guns on 30 January 1806. Water colour sketch showing two ships sailing; one carrying guns and flying the British blue ensign, and the other unarmed nearer the shore and some of the crew apparently about to land by rowing boat. Harbour and gun battery and houses in the background. Signed 'B. Lane, Great Yarmouth'. Note in corner: Verdun.
Benjamin Lane
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Pencil drawing sketched by Olive Pink at Beltana, South Australia 18/7/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Portulaca oleracea
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Water colour and pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Jay Creek, Northern Territory 26/12/30. Not identified by Olive Pink but thought to be Capparis spinosa
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Watercolour and pencil on card sketched by Olive Pink, Western Australia, 1912. Not identified by Olive Pink
Olive Pink
My camp- distant view looking south
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Black and white photograph of Olive Pinks camp at Thompsons Rock Hole. Distant view looking south of tent and car.
Olive Pink
Papers and Proceedings of The Royal Society of Tasmania
Papers and Proceedings of The Royal Society of Tasmania
Full text of volumes is available at : https://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/collections/PapersProceedingsRoyalSociety.html
The Royal Society of Tasmania
Part of De La Haye Postcard Collection
Part of Ralph Middenway Collection
A typical scene on the Tasman Highway
Part of De La Haye Postcard Collection
View of Bothwell in winter, 1981
Colour landscape photograph showing township of Bothwell, looking east across the willows on the banks of the River Clyde, taken in winter 1981.
Part of Hal Wyatt Collection
Colour photograph shows patchy snow covering Barn Bluff and Cradle Mountain, photograph taken 1970.
Part of McDonell Watkyn Woods Collection
Group photograph of Tasmanian and Sydney teams at the Australian Universities match Melbourne, 1932. Photo mounted and signed.
McDonell Watkyn Woods
Part of Hytten Hall Crockery
View of Mount Lyell Co's Electric Power Station, Queenstown Tasmania
Part of Images of West Coast Tasmania
Image is slightly out of focus and contains text identifying the subject. Possibly originally a post card.
Part of Leake Papers
Letter written by William Wood dated 24 February 1834 regarding tickets of leave
John Leake
Part of Midwood Collection
Framed caricature of John Turner, father of J.G. Turner and grandfather of Col. Turner. In the early days of Hobart he had a woodyard on the land in front of Parliament House. It was then the Customs House.
Thomas Claude Wade Midwood
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek , South Australia. (no date) notes on page "five long ones underneath five short on top then smaller leaves on to of these - rough sketch from nature (as far as arrangement went) five long 3 short and one almost long. Root about 3 inches long, white with little roots. Sunset shades (in mesembrianthemum foilage) and puce-petunia flowers" Identified by Olive Pink as Parachylia
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Tortungah Quadtcha, Northern Territory 4/12/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Stemodia viscosa
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Mt. Tambourine, Queensland, 1926. Not identified by Olive Pink
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, 17/1/41. Identified by Olive Pink as Capparis
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Watercolour on card sketched by Olive Pink, (date and location unknown)
Olive Pink
Arid Regions Native Flora Reserve - photograph
Part of Olive Pink Collection
One of eight annotated black and white photographs of the site of the Arid Regions Native Flora Reserve.
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Indian ink sketch on card made by Olive Pink between 1940 and 1941. From a collection of sketches made in New South Wales, Tasmania and a few in Queensland. Captioned (Charlton Ed) for Sydney Mail
Olive Pink
Part of George Musgrave Parker : Correspondence and research records
Photograph of the lighthouse on Betsey Island at the mouth of the Derwent River taken from South Arm, Tasmania. Photograph may have been taken by George Musgrave Parker.
George Musgrave Parker
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Postcard of Bedford College, Sydney – from Dorothy M. Barr to Olive Pink.
Postcard of Pillinger's Drive, Mt. Wellington
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Postcard of Pillinger's Drive, Mt. Wellington, Hobart Tasmania - showing tyre tracks and snow with a view to the Organ Pipes. Beattie postcard
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Four newspaper cuttings referring to Albert Namatjira
North Tasman Gold Mining Company
One scrip certificate issued by the North Tasman Gold Mining Company Registered, North Mount Cameron, Tasmania. Registered under "The mining Companies Limited Liability Act", 1869. The certificate certified that Edward le Rossignold is a member of the above named company and hold ten shares on each of which the sum of eleven shillings and threepence has been paid. Progressive number of shares 15242-15251. Number of issue 1014 . Three stamp duty stamps affixed. Blue one penny, red threepence and purple sixpence. All with an image of a platypus.
Part of De La Haye Postcard Collection
Letter written by Olive Pink to John Hargrave, dated 24 January 1957
Transcript : Journal of Walter Robson's voyage to Australia
King Street, Scottsdale from the National Bank
Black and white photograph of a view of King Street, Scottsdale from the National Bank. Showing the businesses of A.W. Loone and A.A. Orchard.
Thomas G. R. Williams
Marjorie Blackwell riding a horse, Campbelltown
Photograph of Marjorie Blackwell with some of her home cooked cakes and biscuits, Tasmania - from the Marjorie Bligh family photograph collection.
Gillian Ward
Part of De La Haye Postcard Collection
The Town Hall, Devonport, Tas.
Part of De La Haye Postcard Collection
Detail Camp under construction
A collection of buildings identified as Detail Camp, part of the Claremont military camp.
Part of Belbin Papers
Copy of victualling order dated 29 April 1814.
Victualling from Government stores for James Belbin "a new settler' and his wife and son, for 18 months.
James Belbin
Manuscript notes on gold digging
Part of Gold digging Victoria
Manuscript notes on gold digging, written around [c.1858] author unknown, may have been George Elliot. Includes on the front page a coloured drawing of 'The Diggings, designed and drawn by William Strutt, and published by D. Urquhart, Collins Street, Melbourne.
William Strutt
Excavation and construction below railway line at Risdon
Black-and-white photograph shows excavation and construction of retaining walls at E.Z. Co. Zinc Works at Risdon below the level of the railway line
Extracts of officers' logs: part 2
Part of Extracts of officers' logs - French naval vessel Mascarin
Extracts of the officers' logs of the French naval vessel Mascarin's voyage of exploration led by Captain Nicholas Marion Du Fresne -Tasmanian part of voyage, March 1772.
'Journal du voyage fait sur le vaisseau du Roy Le Mascarin, commande par Mr. Marion, Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal et Militaire de st.
Louis, Capitaine de Brulot, accompagne de la Flutte Le Margqis de Castries, pour faire le voyage de l'Isle Taity ou de Cythere, en faissant la decouverte des terrae Australae passant a la Nouvelle Hollande, a la Nouvelle Zelande etc.
Photographs of Archives Nationales, Marine 4 JJ, 192, no. 19, pp. 1, 12-18
Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Pencil some coloured on card sketched by Olive Pink at Callanna Reservoir South Australia 20-21/7/30
Olive Pink
Part of Olive Pink Collection
Water colour on textured card sketched by Olive Pink, (place and date unknown) Northern Territory. Identified by Olive Pink as Dodonea. Thought to be Dodonaea microzyga
Olive Pink