Images of Tasmania as collected by Colin Dennison : University of Tasmania Library Special & Rare Collections
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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.
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.
Colour photograph of Mount Lyell No. 2 Abt railway locomotive, two people walking beside tracks, Evans groceries and general store visible in background.
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.
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.
