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Collection consists of photographs of the Scotsdale area, Tasmania. Most of these photographs of Scottsdale and district in the early 1900s were published as postcards with the imprint: Real photograph by T.R.G. Williams, Ararat", but two of the Scottsdale Waterworks with post mark date 1907 (1 O & 11) are stamped: T.R.G. Williams, photographer, Scottsdale. A handcoloured postcard by "Wynphotoprint" is also included in the collection.

Address c.1857 from members of the Church of England resident in Kingston to Francis Nixon, Bishop of Tasmania, concerning their pastor, Rev. E. Freeman. Call upon Your Lordship to exercise the authority vested in you as Bishop of the Diocese, to remove the Rev. E. Freeman from this parish, and to nominate as his successor some discreet and faithful minister of God's Word, whose friendly counsels may advise them in the time of health and prosperity, and whose prayers and affectionate sympathies may console, comfort, and support them in the hour of adversity, sorrow, anguish, and of death.
Signed by Robert Williams and 21 others.

Address c.1857 from members of the Church of England resident in Kingston to Francis Nixon, Bishop of Tasmania, concerning their pastor, Rev. E. Freeman. Call upon Your Lordship to exercise the authority vested in you as Bishop of the Diocese, to remove the Rev. E. Freeman from this parish, and to nominate as his successor some discreet and faithful minister of God's Word, whose friendly counsels may advise them in the time of health and prosperity, and whose prayers and affectionate sympathies may console, comfort, and support them in the hour of adversity, sorrow, anguish, and of death.
Signed by Robert Williams and 21 others.

Letters from Mary Quinn to Mrs [Delia] Waldie dated 4 February 1883, and 7 July 188?
Written from Gawler - her new appointment at North Motton Public School (near Ulverstone, Tas.), railway to Formby opened.

Letter from William C. Blyth, of Plenty, to J. Waldie dated 5 September 1869.
Hops likely to be a remunerative speculation as they had failed in England, but there was no blight in the Huon which was likely to be the future hop garden of Tasmania and he urged J . Waldie and Frank Tappes to try. His father had sent a load of hop sets to Victoria. Blyth had received the apple trees from Frank Tappes. His school was giving him a comfortable living - he had all the children of the neighbourhood except some of the very lowest and dirtiest he had got rid of and the Read children who had a governess.

Collection consists of photocopies of three letters and two pamphlets bound into four volumes. The family papers remain in the possession of the family and include diaries and work notebooks of John Waldie, jun. c.1854-1896; agreements over timber and land, accounts and receipts 1856-1892, letter from W.C.Blyth 1869, letter to his mother 184S, letters from John Waldie senior 1822, 1832, 1833 and letters to Delia Waldie from Mary Quinn 1883.

List of Australians who graduated at Cambridge from 1811-1948. Manuscript list in chronological order. Compiled by Hilary Webster from the publication - Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900 . Edited by John Venn (1834–1923) and his son John Archibald Venn (1883–1958) supplemented by records of some colleges.

Copy of The Journal of William R Wade, missionary, New Zealand, 1834-1839. Presented by his son Thomas N Wade to Leonard Wade and his wife Dora I Wade, Brighton, July 1917.

Journal commences 18th June 1834 at the beginning of a voyage to New South Wales and on to the Bay of Islands New Zealand. Continues unbroken to September 1836. Resumes with Journey to the Waikato, Rotorua etc. January to April 1838, Visit to the Reinga &c. March to April 1839. Final entry (one page) April 25, 1871

Caricature of Professor Alexander Leicester McAulay (1895-1969) who was professor of Physics at the University of Tasmania from 1927-1959. Ink drawing, full figure, side view, holding glass tube and physics paper, Untitled.

Concert programme, Middle Temple Hall, 16 May 1912, including words of traditional songs.

Pass in Barristers' exam, Lincolns Inn, London dated 13th June 1911

Certificate : Admission to the Utter Bar, Middle Temple, London dated 1st of October 1909

Legal practioners' examination certificate dated 25th June 1909

Law Degree awarded to Erskine Clarence Watchorn from the University of Tasmania, dated 7 April 1909

Collection consists of certificates of degrees gained by Watchorn, Middle Temple Hall concert program and ink caricature of Professor A.L. McAuley

Collection consists of four small handwritten notes. Agreements by John Wood to pay Kemp & Co. various sums at a later date.

Consists of a copy of Alexander Maconochie's report on convict discipline made by George Washington Walker and sent by him to Margaret Bragg, in a volume titled: "Original Essays on convict discipline by Capt. Alexander Maconochie R.N. 1837 with some letters etc in further illustration of the same subject by James Backhouse and George W. Walker 1837".
Contents include Maconochies's report to Sir John Franklin, further observations, summary of papers addressed to British Government, Dr. Turnbull's objections to changes in convict discipline and observations by James Backhouse and George Washington Walker and index. The volume is in George Washington Walker’s handwriting.
At the front is a note on the origin of the manuscript and its presentation to Friends' School by descendants of Margaret Bragg, Roger Clark and John Bright Clark who visited the School in 1898.

Collection consists of copies of the Van Diemen's Land Company annual report 1827-1964 made to the yearly meeting held at the Company's offices, London.
Held from second report 1827, printed.
Some reports include maps:
• 1833 Map of north West quarter, with proposals for tenants.
• 1844 Plan of Circular Head by John Cannon Stanley, Circular Head by John Lee Archer
• Forest Farms at Circular Head, showing tenants names, by John Lee Archer & N Kentish, 1842.
• Also 105 printed pamphlets. - 1827, 1831-1850, 1852,1854-1855,1857-1861,1863, 1866, 1868-1892, 1894-1898, 1900-1909, 1911-1920, 1923,-1964

Theatre Programmes dated 1950 - 1968, mainly Theatre Royal, Hobart, also concerts and exhibitions.

Miscellaneous programmes and printed material mainly relating to Returned Soldiers' activities dated c1915 -1956

Collection of photographs dated 1899 to 1953

1. Photograph album of scenes and people taken in South Africa during the Boer War including soldiers on board ship, scenery and settlers, c1899-1902 (also copy prints of 9 photos in album (ticked in album).
2. Scenes of South Africa reprinted from Natal Mercury, no date c1902-1910.
3. First Imperial Bushmen (mounted) in Hobart, c1899-1902.
   4-5. Soldiers on board ship, wearing forage caps or helmuts, no date.
4. Boer War veterans by War Memorial, Hobart, c1948-1952.
   7-8. Boer War veterans by train on way to reunion, 31 May 1952.
5. Reunion group, Hillwood, 8 March 1953.
6. Opening R.S.L. Smithton, no date.

Programmes and badges -reunions dated 1950-1952, 1954-1956 & 1959-1960

Annual reports for:

1. T.S.A.R.S.A. (Northern Branch) 1948, 1957-1961.
2. South African Returned Soldiers Association (Tas.) 1946 (no date).

Nine undated T.S.A.R.S.A. subscription receipt books.

Minutes, including lists of subscribers.

Correspondence relating to Hobart reunions of T.S.A.R.S.A. for the period 1957 to 1959

Published book entitled Heroes all : Tasmanian casualties in the Anglo-Boer War by Reg A. Watson
Anglo-Saxon Keltic Society, 1994
Donated by the author in 1995.

Published Works on the Boer War. Donated by the author in 1995.

Types document donated by the author Reg A. Watson in 1983 entitled "A Tasmanian's participation in the 'Forgotten War' (The Boer War)"

Minute Book :T.S.A.R.S.A. Northern Branch/State for the period 27 February 1948 to 8 February 1970. From 1963 it took over the affairs of the State Association. At the last meeting in 1970 it was resolved that: "we continue as an association but all social activities be dropped". News clippings at back of volume.

Minute book of the T.S.A.R.S.A. for the period 15 February 1952 to 10 October 1963. Includes Benevolent Fund, social reunions, wreaths, etc. At the last meeting affairs were handed over to the Northern Branch to be administered by that branch as State Branch.

Postcard and letter to Stanley H. Drake, from his father T.P. Drake on board SS. Geelong. Dated 27 October 1914

List of members at Reunion August 1958; statement of Receipts and Expenditure for period ending 19 August 1959.

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to reunions of the T.S.A.R.S.A. (Northern Branch), mainly addressed to T.P. Drake and P.J. Fleming including letters from Col. Burford Sampson (1882-1959).

Collection consists of correspondence, accounts and photographs

Collection consists of correspondence, accounts and annual reports of the Tasmanian Caledonian Society.

Collection consists of xeroxed minutes of committees and council

Bills and papers concerning purchase of roses, books and photographic equipment dated 1916-1917

Hobart City Clerk, 5 July 1916. Fred R. Battle had been appointed City Treasurer and Accounting, but Tapping with third in ballot.

Photographs c1919

35. Boy & girl (teenage) sitting on fence (3 prints and glass negative)
36. Girl sitting on fence (and glass negative)
37. Boy sitting on fence by river
38. Boy sitting between two ladies (mother and sister?)
39. Boy and girl standing together (negative only)

Christmas card ND [1919?] "To Pryor from E.K."

Letters from "Edna", Sandy Bay 23 December 1919; ND [1920?]
Hoping to see each other after school, addressed to Master Pryor Tapping, 29 High Street, North Hobart (1919); explaining reason for breaking off friendship (ND).

Humorous postcard, Tasmania 1d stamp showing Mount Wellington ND.

Photograph of the flags of Verdun c1918. Verdun was the site of a major battle, the longest-lasting of the First World War

Photograph of the the Huon, Channel, and Peninsula Company's river steamer SS Breone taken at Margate ND

Photograph of Parliament House and War Memorial. Woman with girl and little boy (Pryor Tapping?) standing in front. c1918

Membership of Australian Institute of Secretaries and Federal Institute of Accountants dated 1917

H.P. Talbot car: letters concerning repair and sale dated 1917

Testimonials dated May-June 1906 and March 1917 from Messrs. Patterson, Laing & Bruce of Melbourne: Tapping was employed as manager of their Hobart counting house which was shortly to be closed (1906); testimonial from N.E. Lewis: Tapping had entered the employ of R. Lewis & Sons in 1889 at the age of 16, Lewis & Sons transferring to Patterson, Laing & Bruce in 1889. Also note of "organisation work".

Collection consists of correcpondene, accounts and photographic images relating to the Tapping family

Biological publications

Ledger book of specimens sent away for identification

(a) Reptilia
(b) Entomology
(c) Spiders
(d) Diptera
(e) Coleoptera
(f) Hemiptera
(g) Lepidoptera

Survey reports, annual reports, newspaper articles.

Material relating to the collectors of specimens - (a) Letters, 1938-1940. (b) Record of equipment used and returned.

Grants 1936-1942.

General correspondence file - letters inward and outward dated (a) 1937-1940 (b) 1940-1951

Correspondence file (a) Replies to circular letters, requesting contributions/help for the survey.
(b) Booklet containing list of letters sent June 1937 - September 1952.

Folder of finance related material:
(a) Receipt book local orders
(b) Bank books
(c) Petty cash books
(d) Accounts book (record of inward and outward monies)
(e) Accounts (receipts for payments for books, subscriptions, material, etc.
(f) Booklets for - general accounts, research projects, gear for collectors.

Draft of article by Eric Guiler for the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 43, no.3, September 1996 on the history of the Tasmanian Biological Survey. Titled 'Half a century before its time: the Tasmanian Biological Survey, 1936/ 83'

Scientific survey expedition to Lake St. Clair, February 1941.

File containing (a) Stock orders, 1937-1940 (for books, tubes, jars, etc.) (b) Stock book

File containing the Objectives of the Survey and the Minutes of the Executive Committee dated 18 June 1937 to 6 August 1953.

Collection consists of minutes, correspondence and records and reports of the Tasmanian finding of an Australia wide biological survey conducted by Biological Club. A committee was established consisting of Pearson (chair); Prof. V V Hickman (University - Spiders); Dr 0 Martin (CSIRO- Botany); J W Evans (Dept. of Agriculture - Entomology); 0 Colbrum Pearson (Museum - as secretary).
Later others joined: Dr H Gordon (University - Botany); Prof. H N Barber (University - Botany); Mr L Miller (Dept. of Agriculture - Entomology) & Dr E Guiler (University - Mammals).

Letter from Thomas Soltit of Goulburn Street, Sydney, to Isaac Stickney, Scarborough, England, reporting the death of his nephew when his vessel ran on shore and was swamped near the Manning River about 8 November, when he was employed by a Mr Steele sailing about the coast for cedar for about £2 per month (4 Dec. 1834); letter from Isaac Stickney to Governor Burke of N.S.W. (and official copy of letter) asking for information about the death of the young man (22 May 1835); letter addressed to T. C. Harrington to inform Mr Backhouse about Isaac Stickney's letter, result of enquiries and papers received from the Port Officer; memo that Mr Steel had Stickney's watch.

Discharge papers etc. dated 1832. Certificates that Robert Smith [ie. Richard Stickney] served on board the "Parmela" transport
No.8 as clerk from 4 April 1831 to May 1832 and kept the accounts correctly, signed by John Sanders Lt. R.N. (2 copies) and another signed by Philip Jones Master; discharge of Robert Smith ship's steward "Damigar Castle" Novovember 1832; receipt for £6 . 6s for a silver watch.

Letter from his sister Mary dated 25 January 1835 regarding family news, living at Chester, sister Sarah at Scarborough. Written from Beverley Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Transcripts of letters (incomplete), probably made by Amy Rowntree.

Letters written by George Washington Walker to Esther Stickney dated April 1834 and November 1835 regarding : Journal writing, Esther's afflictions, parental discipline, plant specimens, glad to hear her brother had given "proofs of his best feelings being exercised towards his family, Barclay's Apology, Backhouse's health (26 April 1834, also copy "per favour T. Mather"); thank for journal; search for Richard and information about his death, his job with Thomas Steel and lodging with Thomas Soltit and wife who kept the "Jolly Tar" public house. his property; the Meeting House in Sydney (November 1835)

Letter written by Richard Stickney to his sister, Sarah dated 21 June 1834. Sorry he had not written more often but he was ashamed of his flight and past errors, description of Colony and Sydney life.

Collection consists of family and legal correspondence and transcripts of letters

Microfilm copies of letters to James Smith from Sir Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon (1829-1904) (82 letters) and John Henry (1834-1912), politician and merchant (72 letters).

Scrip certificate of The North Bischoff Valley Tin Mining Company. Number of issue 68 to James Smith of Westwood, River Forth, member of this company and holds 10 shares therin, on each of which the sum of five pounds has been paid, dated 7th day of May 1878.

Insurance policy on Smiths property "Westwood", River Forth, with Mutual Fire Insurance Company (parchment paper) dated 14 December 1876.
Insuring furniture and household goods, chemicals and library contained in a detached building erected of wood and shingles situated at Westwood, Forth River and occupied by the insured. Insured 200 pounds for goods and chattels and 100 pounds for the library. In 1853 Smith took up one square mile (2.6 km²) of forested land at Westwood between the Forth River and Leven River, making this his headquarters for exploring and prospecting.

Typed copy of transcript made by Ronald E. Smith. This is a very detailed diary, noting daily work on the farm, seeds received and planted, stock sold or bought, orchard apples and other fruit, water wheel, water and drainage, trial of triangular troughs, seed drill, mowing machine. He tried a salt solution to treat the destructive parasite dodder on lucerne. As well as sheep, feed crops and orchard fruit, he tried angora goats. James Smith also noted daily payments made or received, letters sent, visits and visitors, including neighbours, E. N. C. Braddon and family, John Henry, Rev. Fairey, Col. Crawford and many others, and he even noted books or periodicals and other items borrowed or lent. His regular attendance at chapel on Sundays, usually the Congregational Chapel but sometimes the Independent or Wesleyan Methodist Churches or occasionally the Church of England, was recorded with the name of the preacher.
Prospecting trips and visits to mines are frequently mentioned and he had a laboratory built at his home. Other miners and prospectors visited to consult him, including Capt. L. Herbert Noyes of Mt. Bischoff, James Hancock and another James Smith from the Barrington Copper Mine.
James Smith took part in local activities and politics, including the School Board and the North West Railway League. He resigned from the Town Hall Committee over a proposal to establish a museum and open it on Sundays. He liberated salmon trout fry in the Forth and other rivers between 1887 and 1890. He "counselled Braddon not to be too extreme in advocating reform of the Legislative Council" (Dec. 1880).
There are occasional references to his wife and family: his wife was "delivered of a daughter about noon" on 23 September 1878, his wife and the children drove to Leven beach, the boys helped with farm work and in February 1891 Mrs Smith and her daughters went to a demonstration at the Town Hall on fixing photographs on glass by a Mrs Abrams.

Collection consists of copies of a diary, letters and official documents relating to James Smith.

Articles and notes on Tasmanian forest and timber resources, including: conservation, paper making, firewood, the relation of forests to water supply, wood distillation, forest fires, report of address by W.E.S. to the Australian Natives Association (November 1910 see also Australian Natives' Association: arousing public interest in timber industry August 1911, S.3/56), paper by L. Rodway "Afforestation: the moral for Tasmania" written for the Forest League (1913).

Tobacco growing in Tasmania: letter to Premier of Tasmania, John C. McPhee suggesting the growing of tobacco and notes.

Statement copied from Mercury of yields of sugar beet tried in 1896, papers and letters to press, 1919-1920 & 1931-1932 relating to the sugar industry in Tasmania.

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]

Miscellaneous (mainly printed) papers, including: resolutions of Fruitgrowers' Conference 1917 and manuscript notes (1917), wages in the fruit industry, list of Central Fruit Committee, Sir Henry Jones in London - meeting with fruit importers, reports of Australasian fruit market, annual report of State Fruit Advisory Board 1932.

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.

Congratulations on William Ebenezer Shoobridge's record as preacher of the Gospel, from H.G. Pitt.

Correspondence, President's Report 1916, 1934 (4 documents)

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)

Balance sheets, comparative statements and related correspondence and address to shareholders' meeting on the takeover by Labor Papers Ltd.

Letter to Daily Post on the freedom of the press and the withdrawal of stock advertisements (typescript)

Including notice of takeover by Labor Papers Ltd., Hobart, publishers of The World (1918).

8 documents.

William Ebenezer Shoobridge's share certificates in Daily Post Ltd.

"Shock bowling", "The new cricket"

Articles and reports, including: "marketing of fruit" read to Agricultural Conference, Launceston 16 June 1911, lemon curing (1911-1912), co-operation (1913), packing sheds (1913), fruit export (1913), fruit pickers' wages (1916), apples in England (1929), organisation of fruitgrowers, storage of apples (1931-1932), carriage of apples (1932-1933), fruit drying methods, lemon production (1932).

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

"A trip to Papua"; "Papua and its possibilities" (typescript)

Letters to newspapers on temperance reform (1917-18); the Licensing Act (1931); six o'clock closing (1934).

Letter and draft reply on "Children of the State Bill" (1918); letter to Chief Health Officer, Hobart, on quarantine on ships.

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

Letters to newspapers on housing and miscellaneous notes and extracts on housing.