Photograph of two-storey rendered house, Georgian in style, with trees, lawn and flower garden at front, behind fence with old lichen-covered fenceposts, strands of rusty barbed wire and wire mesh.
Colour photograph taken from the western shore of the Derwent River, depicts vehicles travelling on the temporary, floating Hobart Bridge, while the nearly complete multi-lane Tasman Bridge to join the eastern and western shores of the river, is visible downstream.
Colour photograph of two bridges across the Derwent River, the Hobart Bridge, right, and the Tasman Bridge, left, as viewed from the eastern shore of the Derwent in August 1964. Snow caps Mount Wellington in the background.
Black-and-white photograph shows Hobart General Post Office viewed from Franklin Park. Words “G.P.O., HOBART, FROM FRANKLIN PARK” and “V6” are typewritten in black on white reverse panel at bottom of photograph
Black-and-white photograph shows Hobart Railway Station, viewed from gardens of the University of Tasmania, including the Tasmanian Government Railways workshops
Colour photograph shows smoke curling out of the flue from a woodheater or fireplace of the Hobart Walking Club timber hut at Mount Field National Park, with snowdrifts banked halfway up the walls of the hut
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.
Colour photograph of dark bay or black horse in harness, with a black carriage at Launceston Show, 1972. Groom or driver also dressed in black. Other carriages in background.
Black-and-white photograph shows horse and cart positioned in pit while men excavate the site of the Derwent Prime furnace by hand at the E.Z. Co Zinc Works 1930
Black-and-white photograph shows stacks of sawn timber and workmen with horses and carts removing earth at an excavation on site E.Z. Co. Zinc Works at Risdon
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
Image likely sourced from a newspaper or publication as it contains printed legend at the bottom: Opening out of the west - clearing the land for the new town of Crotty. Photographer identified. Primitive buildings just visible in the background. It is likely the image is older than 1902.
This collection is a sample of images of Queenstown, Zeehan and Macquarie Harbour, sourced from the Colin Dennison image collection. Most of the images were originally created prior to 1956 and have been sourced from private Tasmanian collections. Most of the images have been obtained by scanning photographs either donated to or purchased by Mr Dennison or copied by him with the permission of families, one or more of whose members took the photographs. Some of the images can be identified as copies of original images created by government departments which were discarded and destroyed.
Several female Cadbury workers selecting books from the library, while two men offer suggested reading. Women are wearing uniforms of dark skirt and lighter top embroidered with the Cadbury logo
Two managers inspecting chocolate production on the factory floor. Female worker is wearing hat, light uniform and floral apron and is seated at conveyor belt
Black-and-white photograph shows partially completed tanks atop heavy concrete foundations in a building under construction, at E.Z. Co. Zinc Works at Risdon 1924
Interview with Colin Dennison dated 25th August 2018. Interview conducted by Ben Ross (www.oralhistorycompany.com) concerning Colin’s lifetime of collecting photographs, postcards, stamps and other historical resources. Colin donated the collection to the University of Tasmania Library Special & Rare Collections.
Cover photograph from Joe Brown's autobiographical account of racing and broadcasting (radio and television) 1947-1981, in Melbourne. Published by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1984. Includes photographs, racing statistics and appendices (short articles on Warrnambool racecourse, Phar Lap, Moonee Valley centenary)
Colour photograph shows Australian K1 champion Jonathan Males, a Tasmanian paddler competing at Bradys Lake slalom course, watched by several spectators on a bridge above and alongside the course. The course on Woodwards Canal, a man-made water course carved between Bradys Lake and Bronte Lagoon by the Hydro Electric Commission during construction of a hydro-electric power scheme
The image appears on a printed playing card (7 of Spades) with legend in text at the bottom. The cards were part of a tourism promotion campaign by the Northern Tasmanian Tourist Association, printed and distributed just after the Great War (World War I).
Large display of advertising material including items from J.Walch and Sons, posters promoting shoe week, various coats of arms, Bournville Cocoa, Port Huon and Cygnet apples and Frigidaire refrigerators
