Black-and-white photograph depicts Miller’s Corner on the intersection of Liverpool Street and Murray streets, Hobart, looking towards waterfront down Murray Street. A.P. Miller, dispensing chemist, died 1904
Black-and-white photograph shows elevated view of ruined church at Port Arthur, including charred timber roof framework; with view of waterfront and other buildings on Port Arthur site; cut hay is drying in paddock at front of church.
Black-and-white photograph taken from foothills of Mount Wellington shows settlement of Hobart and upper end of Liverpool Street, now called Liverpool Crescent
Black-and-white photograph shows three men sitting on a fence railing outside the entry to Watermen’s Wharf, with horse-drawn carriages pulled up near the Franklin Pier and Brooke Street Pier
The collection features photographs taken by Hobart photographic studio Beattie’s Studio, also known as J.W. Beattie, for the Electrolytic Zinc Co. at the company’s Risdon smelter between 1920 and 1940. The collection depicts construction of new facilities at the factory complex. The first sod was turned on the zinc smeltering plant at Risdon on the western shore of the Derwent River on 16 November 1916, and a test smelter called the 250 lb plant was opened in 1917 to produce 250 lb of zinc a day using the recently developed Roast-Leach-Electrowin (RLE) process of extracting zinc through electrolysis. Electrolytic Zinc’s office occupied the former Derwent Inn. The larger 10-ton plant opened in January 1918 and the 100-ton plant opened in November, 1921. This collection of photographs depicts the phases of construction of the 100-Ton Plant, further expansion of the smelter and decomissioning of some of the older equipment at the zinc works. Beattie’s Studio was a photographic studio founded by Scotsman John Watt Beattie (1859-1930), who began exhibiting photographs soon after his arrival in Tasmania in 1878.
Black-and-white photograph depicts man working on the concrete pouring tower for construction of the power house 4th unit at E.Z. Co. Zinc Works at Risdon
Black-and-white photograph shows horse and cart positioned in pit while men excavate the site of the Derwent Prime furnace by hand at the E.Z. Co Zinc Works 1930
Black-and-white photograph shows view looking east of the framework of the newly constructed leaching division buildings below the level of the train line at E.Z. Co. Zinc Works 1921
Black-and-white photograph shows piles of bricks, timber trusses and timber framework of new building under construction at E.Z. Co. Zinc Works at Risdon 1924
Black-and-white photograph shows two workers atop a partially assembled crane on riverside wharf at E.Z. Co. Zinc Works at Risdon, with words “Babcock and Wilcox”, “London and Renfrew” on the nameplate.
Black-and-white photograph depicts stone foundations and timber bearers inside a pit excavated into a hillside at E.Z. Co. Zinc Works in front of substantial corrugated iron-clad sheds also under construction