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Brunonia australis

Brunonia australis

Watercolour and pencil on light green card sketched by Olive Pink at Rodinga, Northern Territory 13/9/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Brunonia australis (Goodeniaceae)

Olive Pink

Bruce Hood

Bruce Hood

Framed caricature of Bruce Hood. Very fond of singing songs at parties, his favourite being Egypt. Could not stop him once he began.

Thomas Claude Wade Midwood

Brown paper cover

Brown paper cover

Brown paper cover which contained the calendar and card designs - written on by Olive Pink

Olive Pink

Broadcasting

Folder labelled 'Broadcasting' containing various articles and notes on the subject including one prepared by Sansom.

Clive Sansom

Briar Rose

Briar Rose and other plays with choruses edited by Clive Sansom, The Children's Theatre No. 10, London (A. & C. Black, no date), including "Briar Rose" and "The May Queen" by Clive Sansom, "The play of the Pleiades" by Mona Swann, "The Gentle Squire" by Eleanor Farjeon, and acting notes: book, typescript of "Briar Rose", manuscript music.

Clive Sansom

Braddon's : A home in the colonies

Photocopies of thirty letters written by Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon and published serially in The Calcutta Statesman & Friend of India, May to October 1878, describing life in Tasmania.

Sir Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon

Braddon in India

Article by Scott Bennett written in 1979 entitled Braddon in India and published in T.H.R.A. Papers & Proceedings; vol. 26 No.3 Sept. 1979 pp. 70-84

Sir Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon

Brachychiton ramiflora

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

Bottle of wine

Bottle of wine

Green bottle of red wine, with cork in. Label reads: 'University Rugby Club Red 1986. George Wilson, the Club patron, with black and white photo, 1983 under. Cabernet Sauvignon. An elegant red for the true red man and Club supporter, eminently suitable for imminent consumption or short term cellaring

George Thomas Jamieson Wilson

Bothwell township

Photograph of a distant view of Bothwell, Tasmania. Stamped on back "Wilkinson Chemist, Hobart Town), and ms. "Bothwell Township, Tasmania, J B W".

James Backhouse Walker

Botanic Gardens

Photograph of Botanic Gardens, Hobart, showing wide footpath leading to water, trees and hedge. Glossy print, amateurishly mounted.

James Backhouse Walker

Bookshop photographs

Book shop photographs. Library, probably Angus & Robertson, Sydney c. 1909 including Miss Frances Ruby Evans (later Mrs. W. E. Fuller) Collins Street, Arcade, W. E. and Mrs. Fuller and Miss C. Parker standing in front of opening in brickwork, 1930 (also cutting of Illustrated Tasmanian Mail, 3 December 1930). Snapshots of books being loaded on truck outside house and unloading outside
"Goodwill Store", Elizabeth Street (Fullers was in basement under "Goodwill") with negatives. c. 1932 - 1935 Tasmanian Book Club display, J. Walch &Sons. N.D. W. E. Fuller in Bookshelf Gallery.- Views in bookshop c. 1940 - 50. Booksellers' Conference
N.D. (c. 1930):­ Photo C. J. Frazer, Melbourne Photo (framed N.D. (?1930-40) Also snapshots of Booksellers' Conference,Hobart, (with negatives.)

William Edwin Fuller

"Bookshelf Library" catalogues

File consists of multiple items including Fullers "Bookshelf Library" catalogues, sale notes 1936 etc., publishers' lists, notes of trip abroad, 1954; also cards, bookmarks, labels and small jig-saw puzzle and library notice.

William Edwin Fuller

Books transfered to the Library

Books of Mrs Earle transferred to Library:
• Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon, ed. F.M. Robb, Oxford V.P. (1912) (inscribed in pencil "S. Earle")
• Sagitta Says, Enid Moodie Heddle, Adelaide (Hassell Press, 1943)
• Vanity Fair, W.M. Thackery, London (Ward, Lock & Bowden 1895)
• Popular Verses, Henry Lawson, Sydney (1937)
• Kalevala, vol. 1, (Everyman 1907)

Susanna Jane Earle

Book of poems

Book of poems, dated 1935-1936, containing manuscripts and cuttings of published verse, giving date and name of publication.

Alice Daisy Baker

Book I

1 handwritten diary (black exercise book), marked Private, 1910 - 1914, documenting her last week in London and voyage to Australia [sailed from Tilbury on September 15th and arrived in Adelaide on 21st October 1911]. At the Freemantle stopover, her father received a letter from Francis Mather and Mr Gower asking him to take over at the Friends' School for 7 months while Mr Gower was in England

Margaret Sturge Watts

Book 2

1 handwritten diary (black exercise book), marked Private, 1910 - 1914 (amended to 1914 - 1916, which is incorrect) documenting her time in Hobart and voyage back to England [arrived at Tilbury in April 1914]

Margaret Sturge Watts

Boer War letters

Letters dated January 1901 to February 1902 written by Dr. J.H. Patterson while on active service in South Africa during the Boer war to his mother, Sarah Patterson.

James Harold Patterson

Boer War diary

Diary of Dr. J.H. Patterson dated April 1901 to March 1902, written while on active service during the Boer War in South Africa, often in the form of a letter as it was sent to his mother whenever it was possible to post letters.

James Harold Patterson

Board of Enquiry, May-June 1936

Minutes and associated papers of meeting of Board of Enquiry into Educational Matters for the period May to June 1936.

Earnest Ewart Unwin

Bluff Cottage, formerly known as Harbottle's Cottage and Caulfield Cottage

Bluff Cottage, formerly known as Harbottle's Cottage and Caulfield Cottage

Photograph of Bluff Cottage, formerly known as Harbottle's Cottage and Caulfield Cottage. This single storey, sandstone rubble building with a corrugated iron hipped roof was listed by the National Trust in 1976 as it demonstrated the principal characteristics of a single storey, sandstone Victorian Georgian domestic building . Located at 45 Shaw Street, Swansea, Tasmania

George Musgrave Parker

Birth dates of nephews and nieces

Scrap of paper with note of birth dates of William Norman Allison 11 June 1879, Mary Isabel Allison 25 January 1881 (died February 19 1881), Edith Frances Arndel Allison 13 February 1882, Ethel Marguerite Allison 4 May 1884. Thought to be nephews and nieces.

Margaret (Gunn) Allison

Birth certificates

File contains 2 x Certificate of Date of Birth from New Zealand Registrar-General's Office, Wellington for George Thomas Jamieson Wilson, dated 29th day of April, 1931 and 25th day of June, 1937.

George Thomas Jamieson Wilson

Birth Certificate : Mary Cotton

Birth Certificate : Mary Cotton

Birth certificate of Mary, daughter of Francis Cotton, carpenter and Anna Maria Cotton in Spitalfields, Middlesex, England, 23/12/1827.

Mary Cotton

Biography

Copy of a biography of William Ebenezer Shoobridge published in serial form in the Examiner under the heading "Tasmanian Industries". It deals especially with his work in irrigating the hopfields on the Valleyfield and Bushy Park estates and later the orchards, the installation in 1908 of a hydro-electric plant for lighting and small electric appliances on the estate driven originally by an iron water wheel but later by a turbine, and his interest in the development of Hydro Electric Power in Tasmania and the first Hydro Electric Power station at Waddamana and the proposal for a Hydro-Electric Commission for Tasmania. It also refers to William Ebenezer Shoobridge's work in the development of orchard irrigation, pruning of fruit trees, export of apples and the Saaz drying process for hops and its use for drying or curing of lemons and other fruit (part 5, pages 10-11 missing). Also copy of brief biographical details sent to the Advocate.

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Biographical

Brown manila folder titled 'Biographical' and containing a number of Sansom's letters to others, including letters to and from Hermann Pleschmann and Robert Swire, Sansom's letters about Speech and Drama activities and the teaching of poetry, Sansom's letters to teachers in response to numerous requests for advice and information, to 'Aunt Bee', to the ABC, to Allan Keeling (references here to Truchanas, B. Hean, Max Oldaker and Sansom's personal writing).

Clive Sansom

Bills : June 1818

Bills : June 1818

True copy of 2 bills for £100 each delivered to his brother Ralph Terry, now residing at Forcett Mill, by John Terry. True copy dated 6 June 1818 signed John Terry & Ralph Terry

John Terry

Bill of lading

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC H11-414
  • Item
  • 1877

    • Part of Hull Papers

Bill of lading dated 1877 for a shipment of a case of fish to Melbourne.

Hugh Synnot Hull

Bible Reading

Including Speech Institute Course and lectures (1938, 1947), notes and quotations, Sunday School Teachers' Conference (1963).

Clive Sansom

Beltana, Flinders Ranges, South Australia

9 sketches in pencil and crayon, 3 of which are water coloured. Sketches made along the railway between Quorn and Alice Springs at places where railway workers reported flowers and in Darwin.

Olive Pink

Bellerive

Photographs of Bellerive (Kangaroo Bay), taken c1882 photographed by Baily.

James Backhouse Walker

Bedford College, Strathfield Sydney

Bedford College, Strathfield Sydney

Copy of The Bedford Magazine–dated December 1913-Magazine of Bedford College, Strathfield, Sydney -girls school where Olive Pink taught art. On page 11 reference to Miss Pink taking a party of girls to the Art Gallery and on page 17 an article ‘Western Australian Flowers’ by Olive Pink

Olive Pink

Bean Tree

Bean Tree

Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Aileron Station, Northern Territory, November 1937. Identified by Olive Pink as Bean Tree [Erythrina vespertilio]

Olive Pink

Bean Tree

Bean Tree

Pencil and coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Aileron Station, Northern Territory, 1936-37. Identified by Olive Pink as Bean Tree

Olive Pink

Bean Tree

Bean Tree

Pencil on card. Sketched by Olive Pink at Thompsons Rockhole 22/11/43. Identified by Olive Pink as Bean Tree.

Olive Pink

Barque "Lufra"

Papers relating to the barque "Lufra" (built in Aberdeen 1870), including: mortgage by David Storm of Aberdeen, 1870-74; sale of four sixtyfourth shares from A.G. Webster to A. McGregor for £94 (30 July 1892), insurance on barque for A.G. Webster (1892), accounts of barque Lufra (Captain L.A. Rogers) in account with Alex McGregor for docking, stevedoring, stores, customs etc (1892-3) and memo of freight for owners meeting.

Alexander McGregor

Barque "Helen" refit

Barque "Helen" refit 1893, 1894 - Survey report laid up on Domain slip since 1891, now fitted as whaler, 15 May 1894. Also letter from McGregor to Messrs. Dalgleish & Taylor, Patent Slip, Domain: Mr Dalgleish not to work on "Helen" after walking off the job (pressed copy 30 Nov. 1893).

Alexander McGregor

Barque "Harriet McGregor"

Material relating to the Barque "Harriet McGregor" 1882-1892. Apprentice G.T.E. Allsopp receipts for wages from Capt. A.s. Leslie (1882-4); Lloyd's register certificate class Al (May 1884, noted as launched 1871, sheathed with yellow metal on felt May 1884); papers relating to accidental killing of dockman when the "Harriet McGregor", Captain Evans, docked at London docks in May 1892.

Alexander McGregor

Barnett family

Miscellaneous papers relating to the Barnett family. Barbara Barnett, the grand-daughter of Henry Propsting, established the first ‘rest home’ for old people in Hobart in 1922.

Thomas Judd

Bargain & sale: Oakden to Thomas Button

Bargain & sale: Oakden to Thomas Button 30 May 1845
Philip Oakden of Launceston, esq., to Thomas Button of Launceston, tanner, bargain & sale of 1 ac. 2 r, corner of Paterson & Hill Streets, Launceston [Cataract Hill], sold by F.E.D. Brown to A. Beverdige who sold to J.A. Eddie who sold to P.O.,for £146 in 6 bills of exchange dated between 6 and 36 months from date. Signed. Endorsed 6 June 1851 receipt of full payment and release of land. Enclosed the 6 cancelled bills. (solrs. Gleadow & Henty)

Gleadow & Henty Solicitors

Bargain & Sale: Eddie to Oakden

Bargain & Sale, Eddie to Oakden 31 July 1835.
John Alexander Eddie of Launceston, auctioneer, to Philip Oakden of Launceston, merchant, bargain & sale of allotments in York St., Basin Road and Hill St., Launceston, for £1200. Sealed, signed and witnessed. Reg. No. 5265

Gleadow & Henty Solicitors

Baptismal certificate

Baptismal certificate

Certified copy of the record of baptism in the Chapelry of Bolton and Redmire, Co. York, England, of Ralph, son of John Terry, miller and Martha Terry, dated 5 March 1815.

John Terry

Baptism certificate

Certified extract of entry of baptism and birth of William, son of Murdo Downie, Master Royal Navy, and Anne Smith his wife, parish of Foot Dee, Aberdeen, Scotland. Dated 20 October 1801

William Downie

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