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W. C. Piguenit Reproductions 1892

Photographic reproductions of sketches by W. C. Piguenit published in Report of the Fourth Meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science held a Hobart Tasmania J. 1892., including Murchison Valley, King William Range, Hell's Gates, Mount King William, Mount Gell.

Extracts of officers' logs: part 1

Extracts of the officers' logs of the French naval vessel Mascarin's voyage of exploration led by Captain Nicholas Marion Du Fresne -Tasmanian part of voyage, March 1772.
'Journal du voyage fait sur le vaisseau du Roy Le Mascarin, commande par Mr. Marion, Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal et Militaire de st.
Louis, Capitaine de Brulot, accompagne de la Flutte Le Margqis de Castries, pour faire le voyage de l'Isle Taity ou de Cythere, en faissant la decouverte des terrae Australae passant a la Nouvelle Hollande, a la Nouvelle Zelande etc.

Photographs of Archives Nationales, C 7 197, pp. 1, 7-14;

Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne

Directors' and Shareholders' meetings

Minutes of meetings of directors and of general meetings of shareholders, recording, for example, approval of cheques paid, share transfers, property sales, some appointments, directors' overseas trips for purchase of material. Dated May 1941 to May 1952.
Chairman: C. Alcorso;
Directors: O. Alcorso, J.T. Vinton Smith, E. Hearnshaw;
Managing Director: P. Sonnino.

Silk and Textile Printers Pty. Ltd

Drawings and descriptions of Tasmanian orchids

Undated drawings and descriptions of Tasmanian orchids. Ink drawings with a typed description of plant and where specimen found, including: Caladenia Atkinsonia Rodway, Praesophyllum odoratum Rogers, Pterodtylus pedoglossa, Calochilus paludosus, Microtii atrata Lindl., etc. Also list of Tasmanian endemic plants and 1 dried plant from Mount Wellington.

Henry Brune Atkinson

Psoralea patens

Watercolour on paper painted by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek, South Australia, 5/8/30. Notes on paper - "plants grow to about 4ft high". note on flower details "twice actual size or more" Identified by Olive Pink as Psoralea patens.

Olive Pink

Oxylobium

Pencil and watercolour on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Macdonnel Range, Northern Territory, 28/11/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Oxylobium

Olive Pink

Grevillea and Calothamnus

Watercolour and pencil on card sketched by Olive Pink, from Kalamunda, Western Australia, 1912. Line drawn diagonally across card separating pictures. Top section "V" identified by Olive Pink as a Grevillea. Bottom section "VI" identified by Olive Pink as a Calothamnus (above has "a grevillea" crossed out)

Olive Pink

Unidentified

Watercolour on card sketched by Olive Pink, (date and location unknown)

Olive Pink

Cradle Mountain by R.E. Smith

Manuscript of "Cradle Mountain" by R.E. Smith, with notes on wild life and climate by Gustav Weindorfer. dated 7 August
1937.

Archibald Lawrence Meston

Letters received 1922-1929

The letters were not filed in chronological order but grouped according to writer or family including: F.Taylor (W.A., descendant of Merediths), B. Izod, Thomas Dunbabin, H. Amos, Robert Legge ,B.S.Hammond, K. Smith, H.R .Dumaresq, Emily Mayson, Edwin Mitchell of Mayfield (about maps), G.H.Drake (of Seaford about medicine and documents), Lyne family, J.W. Beattie, H.L.Bayley, A.A. MacLaine, E.J. But1er (DeadIsland), Allan Dilger (Ram Island graves), Sarah E.E.Mitchell (Swansea old church and bell), Fred Mace, Mary Walker (copies of sketches), Mrs. Eliza Johnson (1928, grandaughter of Thomas Buxton), Frederick Rapp (1928, reminiscences and old church), R.W.Giblin (1929), J. Lane.

My flat in Hobart

Black and white photograph of Olive Pinks lower room flat in Hobart. Once Dot Millers home, a girl with whom Olive went to school. Noting field of daisies around the fountain

Olive Pink

St. John's Church Goulburn Street

Photograph of St. John's Church Goulburn Street, Hobart taken c1880 the photographers were Anson brothers whose firm was located in Liverpool, Collins and Elizabeth Streets between 1878 and 1891

Anson Brothers

Murray Street with horse drawn carriages

Photograph of Murray Street, Hobart in 1881 with a row of horse drawn carriages outside the Hobart Savings Bank, Masonic Temple and the Derwent and Tamar Buildings with Webb's hotel (later Hadley's Orient Hotel) in the distance.

Cataract Bridge and Launceston

Photograph of Launceston, Tasmania from beyond the Cataract Bridge. The photographers were Anson Brothers who had studios in Liverpool, Collins and Elizabeth Streets, Hobart, between 1878 and 1891.

Anson Brothers

Maatsuyker Lighthouse

Photograph of the lighthouse on Maatsuyker Island, Tasmania, taken on the day of the opening of the lighthouse in 1891

Government House from the shipyards

Photograph of Government House, Hobart, Tasmania in about 1870. Showing the shipyard in the foreground and Mount Direction behind.. The photographer was Henry Hall Baily who had studios in Elizabeth and Liverpool Streets, Hobart from 1865 until 1918.

Henry Hall Baily

Correspondence

File of the correspondence of Duncan Loane Pty, General Merchants of Devonport, dated 1945-1954 . Mainly about the technical aspects of machinery

Duncan Loane Pty.

Lovell home in Yorkshire

Photograph (neg. 35mm) of the Lovell home in Yorkshire, United Kingdon, undated.

Samuel Ousten Lovell

Grant: land to Joseph Child

Grant to Joseph Child dated 30 June 1823 of 200 acres in the district of Morven V.D.L.[now Evandale east of Launceston] from Governor T. Brisbane, bounded on west by Porter's Farm, reserving to
H.M. growing timber suitable for naval purposes or for highways, quit rent of 4s., land not to be sold or leased for 5 years. Noted as "exhibited 4 August 1841 in the case of Robert Russell for a grant of 8 ac. 3 r. 19 p. in Launceston" and "ex. in claim of George ?Cullam 12 November 1847" and endorsed "Rev. R. Russell".

Gleadow & Henty Solicitors

Letters: from Clive to Ruth

Parcel of letters labelled 'from Clive to Ruth when on his exam tours for LAMDA'. Over thirty letters written in the l 930s both before and soon after the Sansoms married in London.

Clive Sansom

Letters to Clive Sansom

Letters to Sansom from Richard Ailand, Rodney Bennett, Hugh Collinson, Patsy Adam Smith, Kathleen Bethley, Stanley Godman, P. Gurrey, E.M. Gunther, Alec Craig, Gertrude Kirby, Raynor C. Johnson, Clarissa Graves (sister of Robert Graves), Stella Mead, Roger Pilkington, Patricia Ledward, Alan Keeling, Fearn Rowntree, Cecil Roberts, S. George West, G. Wilson Knight, D. Metcalf (Secretary to H.G. Wells), W. Kingdom Ward, Gerald Bullett, John Yates, Elizabeth Buckmeilla [?], the University College Oxford Elizabeth Darvell (Tasmanian Association for Drama in Education), Robert Barclay Wilson, Dorothy Sayer's secretary, Father Cuthbert, the Poetry Society, and the Unity Theatre.

Clive Sansom

No.8 "But which is to stand in front"

Undated reprint of cartoon produced by May while he was employed by The Bulletin magazine. No.8 "But which is to stand in front"
Sir Henry Lock at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition banquet.

Philip William (Phil) May

Interview - part one

Part one of an interview with Peter Jones by Ben Ross from the Oralhistorycompany.com . Recorded February 21st 2019

Peter D Jones

Letters and notes

Letters and notes on subscriptions and exchanges for Library Opinion the journal of the Library Association of Australia : Tasmanian Branch. Dated 1961-1963

Library Association of Australia : Tasmanian Branch

Papers relating to Cape Barren Island

Papers relating to Cape Barren Island 1902 - 1928. Including: correspondence or Captain Bladen concerning the aboriginal reserve 1902-1927, genealogical tables of mixed race people, list of all mixed race people living on the Reserve 1928 and a 'chronological' list of residents in order of age, giving dates of birth, notes, etc.

James M Bladon

Daily Journal of the Bothwell Police Office

Daily Journal of the Bothwell Police Office, Van Diemen's Land, dated 3 November 1829 to 11 September 1830 including records of charges, matters heard before the Justice of the Peace, letters and convictions

Bothwell Police Office

Salmoniana, June 1866

Publication entitled 'Salmoniana,' by Barri Couta (pseud.)m June 1866. Humorous verse and sketches concerning the arrival of salmon ova in Tasmania. The names of the commissioners and others have been noted on the sketches in this pamphlet which includes advertisements printed by J. Walch & Son.

Salmon Commissioners Tasmania

The founding of the University of Tasmania

Article copied from the Bulletin of the Tasmanian Institute for Educational Research, entitled
“The founding of the University of Tasmania”, an address given by the Chancellor of the University,
William Joshua Tilley Stops, Esq. LL.B. on the fiftieth anniversary of the first meeting of the University Council, on the 19 February 1940.

William Joshua Tilley Stops

University Blazer

University of Tasmania blazer, oxford blue with rose and primrose stripes with badge of open book (pre-1937 badge from old University seal). Blazers were made by Smale Bros. Tailors, Hobart, unlined, with cloth buttons.

Donald George Rockcliff

Tasmania 150th Anniversary

Medal comemorating the Tasmania's 150th Anniversary 1952-4
Silver alloy, 69 mm diameter in plastic case.
Obverse description: Tasmanian Arms, 1803-05 at top, 1953-54 below. Legend round: Tasmania commemorates the 150th Anniversary
of British settlement.
Reverse description : outline map of Tasmania bearing British flag, in wavy sea. Legend round: University of Tasmania, Scientific and
Industrial Exhibition Jan. 1954.

Early days of the Tamar

Folder containing "Early Days on the Tamar"; 2 copies of a photograph of Launceston; photocopy of "Plan of Launceston" (from Ross: Hobart Town Almanack, 1832); printed broadside, "Ackerman's Exhibition", Launceston.

Archibald Lawrence Meston

Ships 1816-1823

Typescript copy, alphabetically arranged, of arrival of vessels at Hobart Town and their departure from 1st June 1816 to the 31st December 1823.

Archibald Lawrence Meston

Macquarie's Journals

"Macquarie's Journals". Typed copy of diaries of visit to V.D.L., 1811-1821. From manuscript held in Mitchell Library, published in full, 1956.

Archibald Lawrence Meston

Photographs

Loose photographs of Tasmania – roughly sorted by location & photographer

Thomas Judd's diary

Diary of Thomas Judd (1822-1915) son of Thomas Judd (1794-1887) and Elizabeth (Cane) on a voyage from England to Tasmania on the "Sir Charles Napier" with his family: "Father and Mother, Elizabeth, myself, John, Ann, Rebecca, Susan, Martha and Henry (we have left William behind - being deaf and dumb - to receive his education in the asylum)". The diary consists mainly of the voyage: weather, activities on board, prayer meetings in their cabin. On arrival they took a house in Macquarie Street and looked for jobs. Ann and Elizabeth were offered posts as governesses but Elizabeth died on 30 December, at the age of 22, and was buried in the Scotch burial ground.
Typed typescript made by D. Little 2 July 1953 - spelling and punctuation altered.

Thomas Judd

Anti-submarine warfare

Copy of an article entitled Anti-submarine warfare by Captain Stanley Darling published in Naval Historical Review, New Series VoI.2 No.7 March 1980 pp. 3-13

Stanley Darling

Appointment as Attorney General

Letter Patent on parchment dated 20th October 1909 , appointment of John Earle as Attorney General. Earle led a minority Labor Government as Premier and Attorney-General from April 1914 until the Government’s defeat at the election of April 1916

John Earle

Box 1

Twelve black notebooks dated between 1939 and 1941. Notes for the subjects of Physics, Pure Mathematics and Radio

Ronald Turner Ralph

Letters to mother : 1855

Letters from William Knibb Morris to his mother dated 1855. Description of embarkation at Liverpool on the "Boomerang", signing bounty tickets, etc. (incomplete letter, undated c Jan. 1855); part of letter describing voyage from Melbourne to Hobart in screw steamer "City of Hobart" and arrival, met by James and Isaac Cash "dressed in colonial style with large slouching white felt hats", James had only one child James William "a most beautiful little chap just running alone", another expected, landed on Queen's birthday - kept as strict holiday, rumours of Mr Bryan drinking false, Mr Freer proprietor of low theatre [25 May 1855]; Hobart: business depressed but father got job immediately with R.A. Mather, W.K.M. working for ironmonger Mr Marsh, serving in shop and keeping books, went to live with James and Mr Bryant but James charged 18s for lodging, not paid Mather for tickets but "James thinks he would not take it", Jim had daughter born last Friday [ie 13 July 1855] (16 July 1855); sorry to hear brother Tom had smallpox, sending money, kindness of employer, gathering "beautiful yellow flower of the wattle tree", father and James had built little shop in backyard to work at shoemaking - at work on pair of wellingtons (9 September 1855).

William Knibb Morris

25 years service as secretary

Correspondence and press cuttings relating to the celebration of John Henry O'Neil's 25 years service as secretary of Trades Hall Council, June 1952, notes for speech including history of Trades Union and control of working hours and Wages Board Acts.

John Henry O'Neil

Letter book

Copies of letters to clients, signed by Stephen Sheehy and Thomas Sheehy. Index of names at front.

Thomas Sheehy

Photographs: Clive Sansom

Eleven photographs of Sansom taken at stages of his life from 1932 to the 1970s. Several photographs are of Sansom at home (Mt Stuart), one is taken on board a P&O liner and at least one is a passport photograph.

Clive Sansom

Press cutting scrap-book

Collection consists of press cuttings, pamphlets, labels etc. relating to the history of the firm of Holyman up to c1943, including pictures of ships and aircraft, air timetables, Australian National Airways leaflet. Enclosed: "The Holyman Story", duplicated typescript ; "Holyman's White Star Line" by Ian Cooper, including list of ships; xerox copy from The Log 1963; xerox copies of articles on Holyman's by J. M. Millar (1979) and - Charles Ramsay. William Holyman & Sons, Shipowners, aerial services and insurance agents.

William Holyman

Letter to Philip Smith

Letter to Philip Smith, Hobart Town, regarding the committee of the Temperance Society and the importation of intoxicating drink

George Washington Walker

Woman seated

Unidentified daguerreotype in a plain leather and velvet case of a woman, seated, wearing bonnet with white ribbons and flowers, holding parasol, background of classical pillars, head lightly coloured.

James Backhouse Walker

Port Arthur church and Penitentiary

Photograph of Port Arthur church and Penitentiary with view of Mt. Arthur in the distance. The photographers were Anson Brothers., Portrait and Landscape Photographers, Hobart Town whose firm was located in Liverpool, Collins and Elizabeth Streets between 1878 and 1891.

Anson Brothers

Old Mill at New Town Creek

Photograph of Old Mill at New Town Creek showing creek, buildings and mill wheel. Mt Wellington in distance

James Backhouse Walker

Scrapbook

Personal scrapbook of Dorothy Mabel Ogilvie containing mainly social and personal notes, but including a few references to political matters.

Dorothy Mabel Ogilvie

The Abominable Trade: A Poet's Notes on his Profession

Two spring-back folders (blue and green) containing 490 typed pages of Sansom's unpublished document, "The Abominable Trade: A Poet's Notes on his Profession". This comprises a series of short anecdotes and observations about poetry.

Clive Sansom

Letters to Clive Sansom

Letters to Clive Sansom from The London Speech Fellowship, Leslie Daiker, Joan Bennett, Madame Helen George, Marjorie Gullan, Margaret Willey, Geoffrey Clarke, Aunt Bee, Dorothy Ackman, Len Sansom, Gladys Sansom, Kathleen Needham-Hurst, Arthur Fayne, Hermann Pleschmann, Constance Rennie, D.H. Tribolet, Allan Keeling, Margaret Arnott, Edward Milligan, Martin Davies, Herbert Howells, Richard Graves, Arthur Thompson, and Uncle Harry. There are also two letters from the publishers A.C. Black, one from the editor of John O 'London's Weekly, and one from Dr R. Vaughan Hudson who treated Clive Sansom during his illness in 1948. There are several letters are from unidentified writers.

Clive Sansom

Letters from wife Grace

Delighted at telegram from Auckland announcing Clark on way home, news of family &
friends, (1903); Wendell's letter, love to "Esma and Nosey", thinking of him in court. Written
from Turner's Hotel, Ulverstone.
(2 letters)

Journal : 1847

Journal of William Archer for the period March to December 1847. Entries for most days, sometimes including much detail, referring to his daily work (both farm work on his property and later his architectural work), also his travels, visits to and from neighbours, elections and political activities etc.

William Archer

Unidentified

Pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink at Callanna, South Australia, 20-21/7/30 - identified by Olive Pink as "plant about 2 to 3 inches high both at Beltana and Callanna"

Olive Pink

Senecio

Pencil and watercolur on card sketched by Olive Pink at The Finke, Northern Territory 31/8-4/9/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Camel Weed, Senecio. "near the Rock of Ages" "Scent like (garden) honeysuckle"

Olive Pink

Brachychiton ramiflora

Watercolour on paper sketched by Olive Pink, beyond terminus Birdum, Northern Territory 29/10/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Brachychiton ramiflora (Kurrajong)

Olive Pink

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