Images of Tasmania as collected by Colin Dennison : University of Tasmania Library Special & Rare Collections
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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 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
Colour photograph shows timber workers in hard hats standing around an unladen Skagit loader with an operator visible in the cabin, on a dirt track in the bush
Colour photograph shows a farmer driving an International Harvester Farmall M tractor, with the Australian model name AM, pulling a trailed harvester in a paddock of rye at Glen Dhu, 1956. Placename distinct from other Glen Dhu, near Launceston.
Colour photograph shows a crane being used to load up a semi-trailer to carry logs from the Florentine Valley, inscription on driver's door reads L.J. Reynolds, HAULAGE CONTRACTOR, Maydena, Phone 217
Colour photograph shows five figures in the snow, walking or skiing to the top of Naturalist Peak near Mount Field West, in Mount Field National Park. Some marks on original physical scanned image
Colour photograph shows Caterpillar Diesel D7 series bulldozer and timber workers at the base of a tree being felled by chainsaw in the Florentine Valley
Colour photograph shows man in red and black check bush shirt standing in bush on Mount Lord, looking west. Man is standing amid tall specimens of Pandani, Richea pandanifolia
Colour photograph shows partially dry lakebed of Eagle Tarn, in Mount Field National Park, with hut visible on the opposite shoreline. Sign nailed to tree reads: EAGLE TARN 3390FT
Colour photograph shows a timber work cast in shadow as a log is lifted by a crane being used to load up a semi-trailer to carry logs from the Florentine Valley. Inscription on driver's door reads L.J. Reynolds, HAULAGE CONTRACTOR, Maydena, Phone 217
Colour photograph shows people assembling the roof frame of a Hobart Walking Club hut at K Col, later named the FA. Peterson Memorial Hut and officially opened in 1960 by New Zealand adventurer Sir Edmund Hilary
