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Remittance man

Framed caricature of an Englishman living at Hobart on his regular remittance from "Home" which he at once spent on alcohol etc.

Thomas Claude Wade Midwood

Grumbleene

Framed coloured drawing of a bottle of Grumbleene. My father (T.C.W. Midwood) did not like any grumbling at meal time hence this medicine for it.

Thomas Claude Wade Midwood

Nicholas J. Brown

Framed caricature of Nicholas J. Brown Speaker, House of Assembly. 1903

Thomas Claude Wade Midwood

Mr. Barnett

Framed caricature of Mr. Barnett, Civil Servant and cribbage expert.

Thomas Claude Wade Midwood

Captain Harold

Framed caricature of Captain Harold. Retired Indian Army Officer. An eccentric who lived at Bellerive. Had a mania for water tanks and
ended his life by drowning himself in one.

Thomas Claude Wade Midwood

Mr. James

Framed caricature of Mr. James, retired wharfie.

Thomas Claude Wade Midwood

James White

Framed caricature of James White, Recorder of Titles, Hobart.

Thomas Claude Wade Midwood

Government Clerk

Framed caricature of a very highly respected Government Clerk at Hobart.

Thomas Claude Wade Midwood

Miss Sarah Bignell

Framed caricature of Miss Sarah Bignell. School teacher at a school (Hobart Ladies College - in Anglesea Barracks) near Anglesea Barracks. On the school wall was a text framed "Follow after Truth".

Thomas Claude Wade Midwood

George Wright

Framed caricature of George Wright. An officer in the Public Works Department, a martyr to flatulence and stomach trouble.

Thomas Claude Wade Midwood

John Turner

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

Miss Effie Milne

Framed caricature of Miss Effie Milne lady help and companion in the Midwood family.

Thomas Claude Wade Midwood

Civil Servant

Framed caricature of a civil servant at the Public Works Department.

Thomas Claude Wade Midwood

John Coverdale : obituary

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC X8
  • Collection
  • 1896

Hand written obituary of Dr. John Coverdale 1814-1896, author unknown, entitled "Death of Dr. J Coverdale, a Colonist of 60 years" an abridged version appeared in the Mercury, Wednesday 24 June 1896.

John Coverdale

Phrenologist's reading

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC G11
  • Collection
  • 1869

Phrenologist's character reading of Mrs Bilton dated 11 August, 1869. Signed by S. Sloper, Phrenologist.

S.Sloper

Notice of conditional assignment

Notice of conditional assignment of insurance policy on the Australian Mutual Provident Society, from Emma Augusta Gatehouse to Wiilliam Robert Giblin dated 17 December 1867

Australian Mutual Provident Society

Notice of absolute assignment

Notice of absolute assignment of insurance policy of imma Augusta Gatehouse on the Australian Mutual Provident Society, assigned to Rev. William Henry Browne by William Robert Giblin dated 16 October 1868

Australian Mutual Provident Society

Tasmanian Society of Honorary Justices : Honour Board

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC T7
  • Collection
  • 2001

Three photographs of the Honour Board of Tasmanian Society of Honorary Justices, located in hallway (Elizabeth Street entrance) Hobart Town Hall. Honour Board presented to Society by Mr F. G. Shepherd, QPM, JP. Historical notes : 1922 - 1994 dates/names confirmed by joint Society and University of Tasmania (History Department) research of available public records.
Photo credit. Mr. P. Baker. 12 December, 2000.

Tasmanian Society of Honorary Justices

John Earle

Material relating to John Earles parliamentary career including his appointment as attorney general, photographs and pamphlets

John Earle

Books transfered to the Library

Books of Mrs Earle transferred to Library:
• Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon, ed. F.M. Robb, Oxford V.P. (1912) (inscribed in pencil "S. Earle")
• Sagitta Says, Enid Moodie Heddle, Adelaide (Hassell Press, 1943)
• Vanity Fair, W.M. Thackery, London (Ward, Lock & Bowden 1895)
• Popular Verses, Henry Lawson, Sydney (1937)
• Kalevala, vol. 1, (Everyman 1907)

Susanna Jane Earle

Scrapbook

Personal scrapbook of Dorothy Mabel Ogilvie containing mainly social and personal notes, but including a few references to political matters.

Dorothy Mabel Ogilvie

Speech : Jane Franklin Hall

Copy of speech and programme for 'The dedication and opening of the Asten Wing of the Jane Franklin Hall' , 15 April 1967

Wilfred Asten

Frederick Mortimer Young Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC Y1
  • Collection
  • 1894-1921

Collection consists of lectures and papers delivered by Frederick Mortimer Young.

Frederick Mortimer Young

Miscellaneous advertisements and printed material

Including: Thomas Tyson of Melbourne: agricultural and mill machinery (1878); "Granny's household hints" (Sunset Drug Co. Sydney); Carry On No. 1 July 1925 issued by the Commonwealth Treasury (war loans and reinvestments). [The Wayfarer, a record of Quaker life and work, U.K., July, August 1925 transferred to Library]

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Biography

Copy of a biography of William Ebenezer Shoobridge published in serial form in the Examiner under the heading "Tasmanian Industries". It deals especially with his work in irrigating the hopfields on the Valleyfield and Bushy Park estates and later the orchards, the installation in 1908 of a hydro-electric plant for lighting and small electric appliances on the estate driven originally by an iron water wheel but later by a turbine, and his interest in the development of Hydro Electric Power in Tasmania and the first Hydro Electric Power station at Waddamana and the proposal for a Hydro-Electric Commission for Tasmania. It also refers to William Ebenezer Shoobridge's work in the development of orchard irrigation, pruning of fruit trees, export of apples and the Saaz drying process for hops and its use for drying or curing of lemons and other fruit (part 5, pages 10-11 missing). Also copy of brief biographical details sent to the Advocate.

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Australian Natives' Association

Correspondence: Australian Natives' Association 1911, 1916. Meetings; committee to consider means of arousing public interest in the timber trade (1911); congratulations on William Ebenezer Shoobridge's election as M.H.A. (5 documents)

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Religion

"God is a spirit", "Duty of the Church" (1920), "Christianity and unemployment" (1933) (tyepscript)

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Health and hospitals

Notes on "Hospitals and the State" (Napier Burnett, 1919); health and smoke (ventiliation); article for Mercury on "The Public Hospital" (1931).

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Correspondence

Public halls (1919); copies of letters to newspapers concerning copies of evidence William Ebenezer Shoobridge. gave before the Public Works Committee (1920); redefinition of municipalities (1920).

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Public Works : bridges, roads, railways

Series of articles or letters to newspapers on "Public Works" relating to the New Norfolk Bridge (1874), roads and road trusts, Derwent Valley Railway and bridge (1883-6), railway extension (1889) (typescript, 20 p.)

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Social and industrial

Articles and notes on social and industrial topics, such as ideals, the meaning of socialism, Saturday half holiday, power of churches, gambling, housing.

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Political articles - miscellaneous

Articles or letters to the press on political subjects, including local self government (1872), elections and the franchise, state politics, farmers' outlook (1912), labour, women in politics (1915), Labour Party, power of the state (1918), prime minister or president (1921), government (1935).

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

National Guilds

Articles on wages systems and the English suggestion for the establishment of National Guilds as explained by S.G. Hobson.

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

The Referendum

Articles on referenda, particularly the effect on wages, prices and industry (typescript, 14 p., draft and corrected typescript).

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Account book

Account book belonging to George Newton Levy for the years 1900 to 1917, recording sums owed to him for work done etc.

Duncan Loane Pty.

Correspondence

File of the correspondence of Duncan Loane Pty, General Merchants of Devonport, dated 1945-1954 . Mainly about the technical aspects of machinery

Duncan Loane Pty.

John Cockburn: Miscellaneous legal documents

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC C6
  • Collection
  • 1772-1773

Collection consists of a collection of miscellaneous legal documents relating to the property of John Cockburn, Berwick on Tweed, United Kingdom

John Cockburn

William Hudson

Photograph of William Hudson aged 76 years, taken in 1881 at Greenwich

Thomas Edgar Burns

Iron Pot Light House

Photograph of Iron Pot Lighthouse, located on an craggy island in the Derwent Estuary about 17.5 kilometres east of Hobart, Tasmania at the mouth of the Derwent River.

Lawrence John Hayns

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