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Hop harvest

Black-and-white photograph shows men, women and children stripping hop cones into hessian-covered troughs, carrying baskets and sacks of harvested hops on the extensive hop grounds. The plant was cultivated widely at Glenorchy, Margate, Kingston and the Upper Derwent Valley area.

Icicles near the Springs 1986

Colour photograph taken near the Springs of man dressed in red beside road to Mount Wellington, with icicles dangling from the vegetation after a snowstorm

Trichodesma zeylanicum

Coloured pencil on card sketched by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek, South Australia ?/7/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Trichodesma zeylanicum

Olive Pink

Photograph of stables at Strathelie

Photograph of stables at Strathelie, Broadmarsh. Taken April 1960. Located at 974 Elderslie Road Broadmarsh. Strathelie is a very impressive late Georgian house thought to be built by Thomas Johnston in 1851. Constructed of silver grey sandstone, featuring a parapeted facade, enclosed rear courtyard, fine front door and front verandah with slender iron columns. The house is complemented by particularly fine outbuildings comprising stone barn with arched openings and brick stable forming a u-shape about a central yard.

Mt Solitary and Lake Pedder

Colour photograph taken from elevated mountain ridge, shows valley floor looking west to Mount Solitary and original shoreline of Lake Pedder

Evening Primrose

Water colour and pencil on card. Sketched by Olive Pink at Thompsons Rockhole 16/7/45. Identified by Olive Pink as Evening Primrose "Yuggilli Burinyu". Has unidentified sketch on the verso P6-15-18b

Olive Pink

Tribulus

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

Olive Pink

Photograph of stables at Strathelie

Photograph view of arches at the stables, Strathelie, Broadmarsh. Taken April 1960. Located at 974 Elderslie Road Broadmarsh. Strathelie is a very impressive late Georgian house thought to be built by Thomas Johnston in 1851. Constructed of silver grey sandstone, featuring a parapeted facade, enclosed rear courtyard, fine front door and front verandah with slender iron columns. The house is complemented by particularly fine outbuildings comprising stone barn with arched openings and brick stable forming a u-shape about a central yard.

Diary 1889

Diary of Sarah E.E. Mitchell of Lisdillon on the East Coast of Tasmania - 1882. From the age of thirteen she daily noted in her journal the state of the weather, her routine activities about the house and property and visits of friends.

Sarah E.E. Mitchell

Vehicle on road at National Park

Colour photograph shows two-tone green vehicle with driver's fingers visible on steering wheel, on the unsealed road at National Park, with snow covering the higher ground. Tasmanian number plate reads WLA 189 - 19 TAS 56.

Unidentified

Watercolour and pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink at the The Finke, Northern Territory 4/9/30. "natural size"

Olive Pink

Unidentified

Pencil and crayon on card, sketched by Olive Pink at Rodinga, Northern Territory 28/9/30. "from nature (exactly) but most often a creeper and therefore simple petal at top)+ sometimes 4 below - trails of it are feet long in every direction" "normal position of blossom (1 petal at top 3 below)"

Olive Pink

Convolvulus

Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, 50 miles from Darwin, Northern Territory 26/10/30. Identified by Olive Pink as a creeper Convolvulus? "from an almost dead specimen when brought to me"

Olive Pink

Photograph of aboriginal children swimming in a waterhole

Black and white photograph by Olive Pink of a group of aboriginal children swimming in a waterhole in Central Australia, 1934, with inscription on the back by Olive Pink, 'Native children playing in water-hole - Central Australia.' Photographs sent with a letter to her friend Joan Walker in Hobart, Tasmania.

Olive Pink

Photograph of Olive Pink and friends

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

Diary 1870-1872

Diary of Sarah E.E. Mitchell of Lisdillon on the East Coast of Tasmania from June 1st 1870 to January 19th 1872. From the age of thirteen she daily noted in her journal the state of the weather, her routine activities about the house and property and visits of friends.

Sarah E.E. Mitchell

Portulaca oleracea

Pencil drawing sketched by Olive Pink at Beltana, South Australia 18/7/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Portulaca oleracea

Olive Pink

Unidentified

Water colour and pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Jay Creek, Northern Territory 26/12/30. Not identified by Olive Pink but thought to be Capparis spinosa

Olive Pink

Unidentified

Watercolour and pencil on card sketched by Olive Pink, Western Australia, 1912. Not identified by Olive Pink

Olive Pink

Diaries of Jorgen Jorgensen

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC M11-3-2
  • Sub-item
  • 1826-1827
  • Part of Meston Papers

Copies of diaries of Jorgen Jorgensen, including Journey to Ouse Plateau, Repat of Jorgensen to V.D.L. Co. on route between Hobart and Circular Head, and Journal kept while exploring from Circular Head to the Pieman River, 1826-7.

Archibald Lawrence Meston

Parachylia

Pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek , South Australia. (no date) notes on page "five long ones underneath five short on top then smaller leaves on to of these - rough sketch from nature (as far as arrangement went) five long 3 short and one almost long. Root about 3 inches long, white with little roots. Sunset shades (in mesembrianthemum foilage) and puce-petunia flowers" Identified by Olive Pink as Parachylia

Olive Pink

Stemodia viscosa

Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Tortungah Quadtcha, Northern Territory 4/12/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Stemodia viscosa

Olive Pink

Unidentified

Pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Mt. Tambourine, Queensland, 1926. Not identified by Olive Pink

Olive Pink

Capparis

Pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, 17/1/41. Identified by Olive Pink as Capparis

Olive Pink

Unidentified

Pencil some coloured on card sketched by Olive Pink at Callanna Reservoir South Australia 20-21/7/30

Olive Pink

Unidentified

Pencil on card sketched by Olive Pink, "Near the 10 Mile", Darwin, Northern Territory, 28/9/30. Identified by Olive Pink as apple green calyx of bud, bright apple-green leaves, cream blossom (of magnolia texture) warm brown stem

Olive Pink

Zygophyllum

Watercolour on card with some pencil painted by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek, South Australia 5/8/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Zygophyllum

Olive Pink

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