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Corner of the library, Domain House, Hobart. Showing staff and students. Registrar in doorway

Entrance to physical laboratory and registrars office at the rear of Domain House, Hobart.

Black and white ppostcard of Scottsdale Waterworks, addressed to Miss K. Leech, dated December 1907

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

In 1894 William Henry Williams became a lecturer and in 1896 the foundation professor of Classics and English Literature at the newly established University of Tasmania. He occupied the chair until his retirement in 1925. During part of that time he was dean of the faculty of arts and chairman of the professorial board. In March 1926 he was made professor emeritus. He was also a trustee of the State Library of Tasmania from 1921 to 1936. Copy of indenture of Professor Williams to the position of Professor of Classics and English literature, dated 1902. Appointment Indenture for William Henry Williams, dated 1901, 1902 &1904. Professor of Classics and English Literature (1901 draft); Professor of Classics and English Literature (17 February 1902); Supplement to agreement (2 February 1904); Professor of Classics and English Literature (19 August1904 and draft).

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

Confirmation certificate for Olive Muriel Pink issued by Holy Trinity Church Hobart dated 12.12.1902

Postcard showing a view of the ruins of the Port Arthur penitentiary with a two pence Tasmanian stamp depicting Queen Victoria's head

Sarah Island was also known by many in the late twentieth century as Settlement Island and the brick and stone penitentiary building was thought to have been constructed in 1828. Cabinet card

Black and white photograph of the town of Branxholm, looking east .

Photograph of luncheon at W.W. Reads, New Norfolk, Salmon Ponds.

Black and white photograph of a view of a street in Scottsdale from Grenda's

Black and white photograph of Edward's Hotel, King Street, Scottsdale, children, horse and four wheeled buggy outside

Black and white photograph of Wheelwright Department of E. Williams' Workshop, Scottsdale

H.H. Baily postcard of the Shot Tower, Browns River Road, showing the telegraph lines

Photograph of Hobart wharves showing steam sail boats taken by J.W. Beattie. The photograph does have some marks on it.

Sarah Island was also known by many in the late twentieth century as Settlement Island and the brick and stone penitentiary building was thought to have been constructed in 1828. Cabinet card

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.

Black and white photograph of the state school at Scottsdale

Black and white postcard of the opening Scottsdale Waterworks. Showing dam bank and crowd of spectators.
Addressed to Miss K. Leech, dated December 1907

Black and white photograph of the Arba Tin Mine at Branxholm. Showing workings.

Black and white photograph of the lift at Briseis (spelt 'Brisies') Tin Mine, Derby

Bullock team carting timber, "Wynphotoprint" ND.
''Wynphotoprint" hand colored series published by Selwyn Cox, Launceston', titled:· "Amongst the big logs" Lebriwa, (Lebrina) near Scottsdale' showing bullock teams; logs and wooden waggon way rails.

Sarah Island was also known by many in the late twentieth century as Settlement Island and the brick and stone penitentiary building was thought to have been constructed in 1828

Photograph by J. Mills, Zeehan. John Mills worked as a photographer in Zeehan from 1896-1900

Black and white photograph of the Railway Station, Ellenor Street, Scottsdale

Black and white photograph of the lift at Briseis (spelt 'Brisies') Tin Mine, Derby

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

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

Anson photo

Black and white, 35mm slide of the first library at Domain House, located in the Great Hall, c 1905. Registrar, JHR Cruickshank stands in doorway with students

The University's Common Seal was originally the seal of the Tasmanian Council of Education, which was
established in 1859 to hold university entrance examinations ‘in imitation of the Oxford and Cambridge
annual local examinations’. The TCE awarded scholarships for higher school education, an Associate of
Arts award (equivalent to matriculation) and two annual scholarships for study at a British university. Its
elaborate seal, bearing an open book, a star and a rose, was designed by Bishop of Tasmania F.R. Nixon.
When the University of Tasmania was established in 1890 it took over the functions of the TCE and the
TCE's seal became the University's seal until 1901 when the University commissioned its own seal
bearing the words "University of Tasmania Common Seal 1890". Seals were and are used on official legal documents such as property transfers and letters to the Monarch.
The seal design without the border and inscription was also used on letter heads.
Depicts an open book enscribed with "Floreat Tasmania' (May Tasmania Prosper) on a diamond pattern

Black and white, 35mm slide of teaching staff at Domain House, Hobart, Tasmania. Centre back Dugald Gordon McDougall, appointed as the Professor of Law and Modern History in the University of Tasmania and took up the appointment in the year 1901 (January); he held the post until June 1933 when, at an age of 65, he retired.

Black and white, 35mm slide of the University of Tasmania's Registrar, James Henry Robrert Cruickshank and his wife Mary.
Cruickshank was born on 24 May 1840 in Bombay, and he died on 26 January 1916 m Hobart. Cruickshank received his first commission in 1858, and served in the Bombay Presidency until he retired in 1885 when he immigrated to Tasmania, as one of the 'Non-Effective Officers . Cruickshank and his family arrived in Launceston on the Flinders on 15 May 1885.36 He was appointed Registrar of the University of Tasmania in succession to George Richardson on the 1 August 1892, and he held this post until his death on 26 January 1916. Cruickshank was given a land grant of 100 acres in the Parish of Wickham in the County of King Island on 13 June 1885 but he did not settle there. He had married Mary Emma Wright in 1865 in Bombay. Mary Emma was born on 24 May 1846 in Rochester Kent, and she died on 17 October 1940 at 'Burnside' Glenorchy Tasmania. The couple had nine children, the youngest of whom was Margaret Winifred Cruickshank. Margaret was born on 12 July 1888 in Hobart, and she died on 4 March 1980 in Hobart. She was married to Percy Hamilton Scott in 1922 in Hobart. Two years before her death Margaret was interviewed by John Roberts, as part of the University of Tasmania oral history recording program. Margaret told of her early life in the 1900s as the daughter of the Registrar of the new university. Her reminiscences are particularly valuable, as they provide a rare window into the early life of the university: interview available here https://sparc.utas.edu.au/index.php/interview-with-mrs-margaret-scott

Photograph of Edmund Morris Miller( second left) taken when he was in sixth form at Wesley, College Melbourne

Studio photograph dated 1885/6 of Edmund Morris Miller and ANR?

Photograph of the girls and staff of the Girls Industrial School when it was located at Barrack Square in 1883. Photograph shows part of the building with a group of girls and staff. (See the minutes of the GIS for 1883) Photographer was H. Bailey, Hobart.

Photograph of Edmund Morris Miller as an infant taken with his parents in Natal, South Africa by photographer J.H. Murray in c1882

Photograph titled First Friends' Meeting House: The first Quaker Meeting House in Hobart. A cottage at 39 Murray Street which was bought by James Backhouse in 1837 with a loan from Meeting for Sufferings, London. The cost was £400 including alterations. Shows Mr Cheverton and Mr Shields and uniformed police constable in front, Holy Trinity Church on hill in background. From 12 February 1832 the visiting Quakers James Backhouse and George Washington Walker held periods of worship in the Quaker manner and others sought leave to join them. These included ex-English Friends who had been transported, some of whom were still prisoners, other convicts and ‘locals’, together with four current members. The gatherings were held in private homes and various rented rooms. The Hobart Meeting began in 1833 when the first Meeting for Discipline was held on 20 September 1833 at the home of Thomas Crouch, Bathurst Street. Members present were Thomas Squire, Ann Pollard (minor), James Backhouse and George Washington Walker. Photograph (mounted) J. Bishop, Osborne (& copy neg)

Stereoscopic photograph of the Post Office, Murray Street, Hobart, with horse drawn cabs by Samuel Clifford, photographer, Hobart Town, Tasmania

Photograph of Westcott's Bookshop and circulating library, Collins Street, Hobart. Standing outside are Mr Westcott and a little girl, Till, wearing a pinafore. The photograph shows the shop of John Andrew, Bellhanger. The photograph was made by the University photographer from an original 'stereoscopic' photograph (i.e two adjacent photographs mounted on card to be viewed through a special viewer), made by S. Clifford, Hobart Town. The original was endorsed 'The little girl with pinafore Auntie Till, Dad in his
shirt sleeves standing next to her. Fitzgerald's building now; M. Westcott 4.7.32'.
In this photograph street numbers are not visible. Westcott's circulating library sign is shown on the middle shop in a two-storey brick building, with three shops. The shop on the right has the sign 'Depot Christian Knowledge Society'. The shop on the left has a sign, part of which can be read under a magnifying glass as 'wool warehouse', and underneath on the shop lintel is a faint sign which may include the word 'bookseller" On the right of the photograph a small weatherboard shop bears the sign 'Andrew, Bellhanger'. - W. Westcott of 63 Collins Street, advertised new and second-hand books and a circulating library in Wood's Tasmanian Almanac, 1856 (p.126). The same advertisement appears in Walch's Tasmanian Almanac, 1864, but in the 1865 Almanac the address is given as 63 & 65 Collins Street. However, Hull's Hobart Town Directory, 1859 lists W. Westcott as 65 Collins Street', (65 being apparently the middle shop), so possibly both premises were already occupied by Westcott. By 1871 it had become Westcott's Circulating Library, 63, 65 &67 Collins Street. In 1879 the advertisement read (Westcott, Beedham & Co. circulating library and importers of books, stationery and music', The last advertisement in Walch's almanac appeared in 1881. The Christian Knowledge Society (Tasmanian Auxiliary, President the Lord Bishop of Tasmania}, for which Westcott acted as depository was first listed in Walch's Almanac under (Societies and Institutions) in 1869 (p. 132). John Andrew, Bellhanger, Collins Street, advertised in Wood's Almanac in 1856 (p. 148L and is listed in HuWs Hobart Town Directory of 1859 at 61 Colllns Street. He does not appear in Walch's Almanac of 1863 or any later date, nor was he listed in Macphail's National Directory of Tasmania, 1867-68. S. Clifford, photographer, Liverpool Street, Hobart Town (photographer of album and stereographic portraits, private buildings, shipping, monuments....L advertised in Walch's Almanac of 1864 (p. 43) and again annually up to 1869. It would seem, therefore, that the photograph was probably taken between 1863 and 1869. It is a clear photograph of exceptional quality.

Address from House of Assembly to thank Lady Franklin for her gift of Betsy Island to Tasmania. Dated 11 September 1868.

Diploma of degree of Associate of Arts awarded to Henry Lewis Garrett of Hobart Town, who passed in English, Latin(with credit and prize) Greek, French (with credit) and pure mathematics and was placed in the second class Signed by H. Officer, president of the Tasmanian Council of Education. Diploma has decorative border of oak leaves and acorns designed by Henry Hunter and engraved by Alfred Bock.

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.

Watercolour of Christ's College at Bishopbourne, Tasmania by Bishop Francis Russell Nixon founder of the College.
Modern typed note accompany painting.
Inscription on the back of the watercolour (in Gell's handwriting)
"The little pointed roof to the extreme left is the stand in the cricket ground. In the centre the Coll: Warden's rooms the left end, then the library, then the North buildings in which re the Sub-warden's rooms, terminated by the bell-tower.
To the right, barns, stables and out-houses.
The Western Mountains with Christ's College Jan .24th 1854"

Two pen sketches of Rosedale showing tower and weather vane, porticos and terraces, conservatory, stables etc, gardens. Drawn by John Travis Leake, c1850 - 1854

Coloured pencil on card sketched by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek, South Australia (no date). Identified by Olive Pink as Tribulus (Bindii)

Coloured pencil on dark card sketched by Olive Pink, (place and date unknown) Northern Territory. Identified by Olive Pink as Nicotiana suaveolens

Water colour and pencil on dark card sketched by Olive Pink, (no place or date) Northern Territory. Identified by Olive Pink as Convolvulus erubescen.

Postcard of prisoner's pass for William Rogers

Beattie photograph of painting.

Walch postcard of Tessellated Pavement

Photograph of Orford Bridge. Ash Bester photograph Tas. A.B. Series No.34

Spurling postcard [late 19th cent]

Mrs Mitchell photo

Photograph, thought to have been taken in the 1930's, of the rear of the rebuilt Milton Farm house. In 1826, young John Allen applied for and received a grant of land on Tasmania's east coast: four hundred acres on the west bank of Cygnet River. He named the property Milton, after his home village in England. In February 1828, he reaped his first harvest, but in that same month, an Aboriginal raiding party attacked the (undefended) property, after previously harassing Allen's neighbours John Lyne and George Meredith. Allen's house was robbed and torched and his wheat stack burnt; damage was estimated at £300. Subsequently awarded a two hundred acre extension to his land grant 'as a remuneration for the Aforesaid Loss', he set to work rebuilding, this time a two-storey house of stone

Postcard produced by Swansea photographer, Miss F.M. Kennedy, (c1880-c1950s) of titled Harbottle's at Swansea, Tasmania.
This Cottage has also been know as Harbottle's Cottage and Caulfield Cottage. This single storey, sandstone rubble building with a corrugated iron hipped roof was listed by the National Trust in 1976 as it demonstrated the principal characteristics of a single storey, sandstone Victorian Georgian domestic building . Located at 45 Shaw Street, Swansea, Tasmania

Photograph taken from Swanick looking up the Swan River. Near Swansea, Tasmania

Photograph of Apsley original log cabin dating from 1826 on the property granted to William Lyne by Governor Arthur on order from Lord Apsley, eldest son of Lord Bathurst. Copy made by J.W. Beattie of an original of J. Lyne

One of eight annotated black and white photographs of the site of the Arid Regions Native Flora Reserve.

One of eight annotated black and white photographs of the site of the Arid Regions Native Flora Reserve. Noting location of Mt Gillen, part of MacDonnell Range, entrance gate and driveway to hut, driveway for sanitary truck

Black and white photograph of view of valley with palms

Painting of a Tasmanian Waratah

Cover of sketchbook (possibly the one held at P6/

Sketch of White Mountain berries, Hobart

Pencil sketch of a Tasmanian Waratah, Telopea truncata

Sketch of an Eriostomon, NSW

Sketch of a purple flower

Letter to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) regarding donation of her Albert Namatjira paintings – copy of typed letter

1 cream lace short sleeved blouse, square neck and button front with the label "Charming Blouses Sydney"

Cream lace over-dress

1 cream lace dress with gathered shoulders and collar

1 cream satin sash

Watercolour on card sketched by Olive Pink, (date and location unknown)

Pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, (location and date unknown) "rough, quick sketches of opening blossoms of Capparis"

Watercolour on paper sketched by Olive Pink, (location and date unknown)

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’s father’s leather Masonic pouch –Robert Stuart Pink –801 E. C.

Black and white postcard of Native Cherry Exocarpos cupressiformis, Tasmania

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

Five negatives thought to be of the Arid Regions Native Flora Reserve site. Wrapped in paper with aboriginal sketch in blue biro

Framed caricature of a messenger in the government resting.

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.

Framed caricature of Buff Scott, a very popular gentleman of Hobart.

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

Framed caricature of William Grubb. Wood and coal merchant known to Hobart as Billy. A keen yachtsman and fisherman.

Framed caricature of Mr. H. Steinbach. A popular vocalist of early Hobart. He often appeared at the Hobart Town Hall; his favourite
song was "Alice Where Art Thou "

Black and white photographic print of a small stone house at Bridgewater, Tasmania. Endorsed "J. Earle's birthplace"

Black and white 35mm slides of Sarah Dunbabin an early graduate of the University of Tasmania. B.A. March 1909 & M.A. April 1912. One of 11 chidren of Thomas Dunbabin, farmer, and his wife Sarah Ada, née Murdoch of Marchwiel, Bream Creek. Prior to entering university she won prizes for English, Latin, History & German and a scholarship to the University.