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 Va...
1. Diary of Adam Amos (1774-1845), May 1822 - Dec 1825. A record of chief happenings in the district of Great Swan Port of which he was Chief District Constable, including notes of musters and convict passes, with names.2. Adam Am...
Birchall's Bookshop, Launceston, rough accounts or day book for items received for sale from printers, newspapers, clubs and some private writers, photographers etc. Enclosed: advice notes and bill.
The collection contains minutes of directors' and shareholders' meetings and annual reports of the company from 1941-1952. Chairman: C. Alcorso; Directors: O. Alcorso, J.T. Vinton Smith, E. Hearnshaw; Managing Director: P. Sonnino.
Journal articles and off-prints sent to Atkinson including:• W.H. Nicholls, articles in Victorian Naturalist etc.1925-1940;• H.M.R. Rupp, articles in Australian Naturalist and other journals 1926-1945;• G. Weindorfer: "Two botanists in the Cr...
Image contains text identifying the subject and also 'copyright'. Originally taken from a postcard published in the weeks following the 1912 North Mount Lyell mine disaster. Image shows people milling around outside of unidentified buil...
The image shows many men standing within the ruins facing the camera as a hose plays water onto the building. Electronic file is titled 'after fire.tif'
Image has a steam engine and many mining carriages standing beside a steep hillside denuded of vegetation. Many men carrying shovels stand around, apparently working on the site. Image possibly connected to Mt Lyell mining operations.
Image shows street scene with partial images of adjacent shops. B Bird Butcher's shop depicted, with man in apron standing in doorway, dog on footpath nearby, plus horse under saddle standing in road. Contains contemporaneous hand written tex...
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...
The image appears on a printed playing card (4 of Diamonds) with legend in text at the bottom. Image shows significant industrial buildings in operation.
Image is copy of from a series of large format negatives created by the Teaching Aids Centre, Brisbane Street, Hobart, 1951 - 1973 and held at Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office: AB713-1-5635
Image likely taken from a newspaper and has a partial printed legend at the bottom: 6 T. Garcie, of Strahan (left) v W . Burge, of Crotty (right). Won by Burge.
Image like sourced from a newspaper or publication as quality is grainy and contains legend at the bottom: F.O. Henry's Lynx and Grining's Valkyria, Gordon River, c1930. Compare with Boats on Franklin.tif
Image likely sourced from a newspaper or publication as it contains printed legend at the bottom: "All that is left of them - a reminiscence of Crotty, May 30, 1903. Eleven members of the North Lyell Mechanical Staff, which numbered a short t...
Image likely sourced from a newspaper or publication as it contains printed legend at the bottom: electric motors driving blowers at Crotty (and of the lower image) Electric power house at Crotty.
Image is likely sourced from a newspaper or publication as it shows title at the bottom: Roe's All Nations Hotel, Zeehan. It also identifies the photographer and states "Sands & McDougall Ltd Collotype". The view is very early a...
Scrip certificate for one hundred five shilling shares for the sum of two shillings and sixpence each, issued to E. Le Rossignol of New Town by the Savage River Silver Prospecting Company. Office of company: Miller's Chambers, Murray St., Hob...
Scrip certificate for ten one pound shares for the sum of seventeen shillings each, issued to Edward Le Rossignol of New Town by The City Prospecting Association. Registered under "The Mining Companies' Act" 1884. Issue number 149. ...
Most of the papers consist of notes made about historical queries, a rough draft of his book, and correspondence with East Coast residents and others requesting information. There is also a collection of newspaper cuttin...
Correspondence with Angus Robertson, publishers, K .von Stiglitz (see also P1/2/32-36), etc. about the possibility of publishing Dr Parker's book on Great Swanport.
Brief notes and extracts from diaries of: John Allen, 1837-1876; Adam Amos, 1822-1825 (see also P.1/6 app. B); Capt. B. Bayley, 1838 -1839; Joseph Cotton, 1863 -1880; E.O. Cotton, 1881 -1896; George Meredith's pocket book, 1821; G.F. Storey...
Sketch of Franklin Square, Hobart, by Roy Cox. Roy Cox (1903-1976) was a Tasmanian artist and print maker. He originally worked for Cox Kay printers in Hobart.
