Colour photograph shows a Chas Burrell and Sons steam engine, abandoned and rusting, in a paddock, partially overgrown by runaway hawthorn hedge, in fruit, at Bridgewater. The maker’s name plate is partially visible on the front of the boiler. Visible at top right of photograph is western gantry of vertical lift roadway of Bridgewater bridge on eastern shore of Derwent River, where Bridgewater bridge and causeway joins towns of Bridgewater and Granton.
Colour photograph of red diesel locomotives pulling cargo wagons and passenger train carriages being pulled by two black steam locomotives at Hobart railway station, 1960s.
Colour photograph of bank of Buxton River at Mayfield; substantial double-storey freestone building in background. Title of photograph erroneously refers to Buxton Creek.
Colour photograph shows a child sailor at the rudder of a cadet dinghy on Derwent River sailing upstream, while another pleasure craft is travelling in opposite direction; both are sailing past the Royal Australian Navy ship, the Destroyer Escort, HMAS Torrens, (No. 53 emblazoned on the side) is berthed just off Port of Hobart.
Colour photograph of the stone base of the Callington Mill at Oatlands, a windmill originally built 1837, which fell into disuse through 20th century and was partially dismantled.
Colour photograph of red painted railway carriage hooked up behind wagon laden with cut and split timber in a railway siding at Deloraine. Two men standing beside the carriage (with DB10 painted on the side), one man wearing hat, studying a viewfinder camera, the other is looking up the track.
Colour photograph of a railway worker filling the coal car of the Centenary steam locomotive loading coal at a railway siding during the Tasmanian Government Railway centenary tours of 1971.
Colour photograph of schoolchildren and sightseers crowding onto the track and climbing onto another train to look at the passing Centenary Train, pulled by two steam locomotives on the Tasmanian Government Railways line, at Westbury Station.
Colour photograph of schoolchildren and sightseers watching the arrival of the Centenary Train, pulled by two steam locomotives on the Tasmanian Government Railways line, at Westbury Station.
Colour photograph shows a farmer and sheepdog in a paddock, watching the Centenary Train, pulled by two Tasmanian Government Railways steam locomotives.
Colour photograph of a church building, constructed in greying sand stone, with ivy climbing up wall on attached building; originally the Chalmer’s Free Church and Manse, in Hobart, on the corner of Harrington and Bathurst streets, later the Chalmer’s Presbyterian Church; congregation merged with St Andrew’s in Hobart to form, Scots Church; Chalmers church building sold in 1954 to Neptune Oil Company, which demolished it to construct a fuel station.
Colour photograph of Cleburne Homestead, also known as the Mount Direction Homestead, a dwelling built in the 1830s at Risdon and threatened with demolition during the construction of the nearby Bowen Bridge.
Colour photograph shows street view of Commercial Hotel, Richmond, a double-storey sandstone structure with decorative ironwork on the veranda posts, taken in 1970
Colour photograph of boats moored at Constitution Dock, Hobart, early 1970s, with distinctive 11-storey brown clad Marine Board of Hobart building, visible in background. Image was erroneously labelled as being taken in 1954, but Marine Board of Hobart building was constructed between 1970 and 1972.
Colour photograph shows reflections in the water, of masts and sailing boats moored at Constitution Dock, Hobart, with State Library of Tasmania and Hobart GPO clocktower in background.
Colour photograph shows front of sandstone cottage with red painted corrugated iron roof and decorative front porch, established flower garden, at Ross.
Colour photograph shows a person and two motor vehicles on the span of steel truss bridge built for the North Mount Lyell railway to cross the King River, near Crotty, taken in 1970; bridge later submerged by Lake Burbury.
Colour photograph shows three people standing on a former industrial site at Crotty, in front of Mount Jukes, a rocky mountaintop with heavily timbered foothills.
Colour photograph shows schoolchildren and adults gathered to watch steam locomotive at Westbury, 1972, with “Centenary Train 1872-1972” emblazoned on front boiler of locomotive.
Colour photograph shows people in railyard standing near switch equipment and stationary steam locomotive. Piles of several dozen railway sleepers stacked on side of rail line excavation.
Colour photograph of small, two masted sailing boat, with green painted hull, and a sign Onrust, Holland, pinned to mast, Onrust also painted onto side of boat.
Colour photograph of beam engine in Hobart, purportedly the oldest McNaught Beam Engine in existence, originally built 1854 in Paisley Scotland, by A.W. Smith and used by Risby’s Sawmill in Hobart until 1955; photograph possibly taken at Moonah public works depot
Colour photograph of beam engine in Hobart, purportedly the oldest McNaught Beam Engine in existence, originally built 1854 in Paisley Scotland, by A.W. Smith and used by Risby’s Sawmill in Hobart until 1955; photograph taken at Moonah public works depot 1967
Colour photograph of snow on Mount Wellington, taken from eastern shore of Derwent River, overlooking Bellerive and Rosny; woman in dark blue overcoat, standing on path in foreground
Colour photograph of stone house at Bellerive, rendered or painted white, with flowers in bloom in front garden, in front of verandah, house old tin roof, on corner block, street pillar for PMG telephone cabling near letterbox
Colour photograph of three steam engines in Best’s yard, Devonport, taken 1959; depicts three steam engines in a clearing in a eucalyptus bush setting with pile of scrap timber suitable for fuel and green motor vehicle.
Colour photograph of abandoned farmhouse, with only a rickety timber roof frame, some internal walls and floors, three dormer windows and two orange brick chimneys intact; external brickwork has collapsed entirely into to piles of rubble; mature European trees planted surrounding house; electricity poles erected through property and roadside cutting across hillside shows line of road, possibly Midland Hwy, featuring white guide posts. Photograph file is named Bishton, possibly referring to Bishton Creek, near Jericho.