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Handwritten note

Handwritten note

1 handwritten note on paper - A kind of wild Hybicus [Hybiscus] which they stupidly call the "Desert Rose". Hardly anything less like "a rose" I cannot imagine. The buds however do look a tiny bit like rose buds (if one has plenty of imagination!)

Olive Pink

Guides etc.

Guides include:
• L.S. Bethell, The Story of Port Dalrymple [1957];
• Millbrook Rise 1914 -1918;
• Catalogue of furniture at 'Narryna, Hobart 1957;
• Bligh Museum, Adventure Bay 1956;
• Fenton, Bush Life in Tasmania;
• Dick Wardley, Tasmanian Adventure, 1953;
• Fearn Rowntree, Battery point Sketchbook, [?1953];
• Air raid precautions, 1941;
• Hutchins School prospectus ND c1930s
• Launcestonian, Launceston Church Grammar School Magazine, Centenary Issue 1946;
• St. Michael's Collegiate School, Hobart: blessing and opening Assembly

Grumbleene

Grumbleene

Framed coloured drawing of a bottle of Grumbleene. My father (T.C.W. Midwood) did not like any grumbling at meal time hence this medicine for it.

Thomas Claude Wade Midwood

Groups, meetings

Groups, meetings, etc. Photograph 32 - In car with Mrs Cosgrove, "Caruso" group, hospital ladies' group including Mrs M.Cummings (nee Cosgrove), Goodyear tyre display, Melbourne restaurant, Parliament.

Robert Cosgrove

Group of Navy men

Photograph of a group of Navy men on the C.L.S.S. Lady Loch.
Lighthouse Tender, "Lady Loch", ex Gunboat. Built in 1886 by Campbell, Sloss & McCann in Footscray, Melbourne for the Victorian Dept. of Public Works. Iron Steamship of 531 tons. Built for use as a lighthouse tender and serviced lighthouses around the south east coast and Tasmania. Owned by Victorian Ports and Harbours Dept. Register closed in September 1935 when the vessel was converted to a hulk at Brisbane. Official Number: 88946 Length: 182' from: - http://passengersinhistory.sa.gov.au/file/26416

Lawrence John Hayns

Group

Photograph of group ,including: Robert Cosgrove, Albert Ogilvie, Joseph Aloysius Lyons and William Ebenezer Shoobridge.

Robert Cosgrove

Grevillea chrysodendron

Grevillea chrysodendron

Watercolour and pencil on card. Sketched by Olive Pink at Rodinga, Northern Territory 18/9/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Grevillea chrysodendron

Olive Pink

Grevillea and Calothamnus

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

Greek grammar

"An introduction to the Greek study written in Professor Stuart's class, Marischall College, Aberdeen, George Storey 1816", formerly John Adamson 1812-13. Also elementary Greek Grammar and notes. Also text book: The elements of Greek Grammar for those who have made some progress in the language, third edn., London (1811), exercise in Greek history or translation and religious poems

George Fordyce Story

Government Clerk

Government Clerk

Framed caricature of a very highly respected Government Clerk at Hobart.

Thomas Claude Wade Midwood

Goodina or Velleya

Goodina or Velleya

Watercolour on paper painted by Olive Pink at Rodinga, Northern Territory 13/9/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Goodina or Velleya?

Olive Pink

Golden Unicorn

Poetry for children (pubished by Methuen 1966): draft, correspondence with Higham Authors' agents, and others 1963-1975.

Clive Sansom

Godkin Silver Mining Company

Godkin Silver Mining Company

1 scrip certificate from the Godkin Silver Mining Company, No Liability, Whyte River, Tasmania. Twenty shares upon which the sum of twenty shillings per share has been paid. Progressive nos. of shares 3941-3960. No. of issue 1014. Dates 28th March 1890 and signed by the Director T Smart and the Manager Frank Penn-Smith. Printed by the Mercury Office

Gloves

Gloves

1 pair of small cream nylon gloves with hand sewn fur trim. Label stitched inside - "Dents Nylon, One Size Fits All, Made in Hong Kong"

Glen Gala House: brick house, croquet lawn

Glen Gala House: brick house, croquet lawn

Photograph of Glen Gala House at Cranbrook. Adam Amos arrived in March 1821 in the Emerald along with George Meredith, and was advised to look for land on the unsettled east coast. Adam's capital entitled him to a grant of 1000 acres (405 ha) which he located on the Swan River at Cranbrook, and called Gala. Glen Gala is a two storey brick Victorian Georgian house constructed in 1860 on the original grant to Adam Amos

George Musgrave Parker

Glass photographic slides

Collection of mounted and labelled glass photographic slides used to illustrate lecture - see lecture notes at DX12/5 also accompanying map of Bougainville Island. Jan. 1946 (Rodda)

Roland Arnold Rodda

Glamorgan and East Coast associations & institutions : Rifle Club

Correspondence dated 1865-1869 & 1885-1886 concerning the formation of a rifle club for Glamorgan, including letter about arms supplied to the police, 1865, bye-laws of Glamorgan Rifle Club, 1865 (printed booklet, 2 copies, one marked
Angus A. Amos); request for return of arms, 1869; correspondence, list of names, regulations etc., in connection with the
proposed formation of a rifle club, 1885-6,
(See also P.1/5 for rules c. 1915)

Girl’s High School Hobart

a) Orange/Yellow and white striped hatband and metal badge
Above items contained in the above Kodak photo envelope with annotations:-Miss Clark’s –Girls’ High School” Hobart, Tasmania -Hat badge and band (Olive’s), (private not State School). In old Barracks. Davey St and Barrack St.
b) Photograph of Gym class at Girls’ High School–postcard from Olive’s school friend Ursula Walker to Olive in Perth c. 1910

Olive Pink

George Wright

George Wright

Framed caricature of George Wright. An officer in the Public Works Department, a martyr to flatulence and stomach trouble.

Thomas Claude Wade Midwood

George Washington Walker to Esther Stickney

Letters written by George Washington Walker to Esther Stickney dated April 1834 and November 1835 regarding : Journal writing, Esther's afflictions, parental discipline, plant specimens, glad to hear her brother had given "proofs of his best feelings being exercised towards his family, Barclay's Apology, Backhouse's health (26 April 1834, also copy "per favour T. Mather"); thank for journal; search for Richard and information about his death, his job with Thomas Steel and lodging with Thomas Soltit and wife who kept the "Jolly Tar" public house. his property; the Meeting House in Sydney (November 1835)

Richard Stickney

George E. Crump

Letter to Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmania, from George E. Crump, U.S.A., 6 April 1891. Crump sent Clark an American flag and a copy of a New York Sunday newspaper.

Geography notes

Geography notes made by Le Tall, 1897 documenting travel through France, Belgium, Holland, Germany,Austria, Switzerland and Italy.

Benjamin Bower Le Tall

Gahnia in Crater

Photograph of Gahnia in Crater - N.W. Peak at back, Mt. Balbi, November 1945. Johnson photo.

Roland Arnold Rodda

Fusanus acuminatum

Fusanus acuminatum

Water colour on card painted by Olive Pink at Beltana, South Australia, 19/7/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Fusanus acuminatum - Quandong (Santulum acuminatum)

Olive Pink

Funeral of Princess Charlotte

Funeral of Princess Charlotte

Manuscript of sermon preached by Rev. Knopwood entitled "Funeral sermon on H.R.H the Princess Charlotte of Wales"

Robert Knopwood

Fruitgrowers: miscellaneous papers

Miscellaneous (mainly printed) papers, including: resolutions of Fruitgrowers' Conference 1917 and manuscript notes (1917), wages in the fruit industry, list of Central Fruit Committee, Sir Henry Jones in London - meeting with fruit importers, reports of Australasian fruit market, annual report of State Fruit Advisory Board 1932.

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Fruit industry: Press articles

Articles and reports, including: "marketing of fruit" read to Agricultural Conference, Launceston 16 June 1911, lemon curing (1911-12), co-operation (1913), packing sheds (1913), fruit export (1913), fruit pickers' wages (1916), apples in England (1929), organisation of fruitgrowers, storage of apples (1931-32), carriage of apples (1932-33), fruit drying methods, lemon production (1932).

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Friends' Meeting Papers

Drafts and circulars to Members of Friends' Meetings reminding them to organise their monetary affairs and to make their wills, etc.
To Hobart friends, signed by Hannah Propsting and J. Ridley Walker.
To Lisburn friends, signed by Clerks of Committee on Ministry and Oversight:
• Norah Douglas - 20 December 1943
• Arnold Benington - 7 December 1946
• Cecil M. Johnson - no date

Friends' Meeting House, Murray Street

Friends' Meeting House, Murray Street

Photograph titled First Friends' Meeting House: The first Quaker Meeting House in Hobart. A cottage at 39 Murray Street which was bought by James Backhouse in 1837 with a loan from Meeting for Sufferings, London. The cost was £400 including alterations. Shows Mr Cheverton and Mr Shields and uniformed police constable in front, Holy Trinity Church on hill in background. From 12 February 1832 the visiting Quakers James Backhouse and George Washington Walker held periods of worship in the Quaker manner and others sought leave to join them. These included ex-English Friends who had been transported, some of whom were still prisoners, other convicts and ‘locals’, together with four current members. The gatherings were held in private homes and various rented rooms. The Hobart Meeting began in 1833 when the first Meeting for Discipline was held on 20 September 1833 at the home of Thomas Crouch, Bathurst Street. Members present were Thomas Squire, Ann Pollard (minor), James Backhouse and George Washington Walker. Photograph (mounted) J. Bishop, Osborne (& copy neg)

George Musgrave Parker

Friends' Meeting House, Dolobran

Four photographs dated October 1950, of the Friends Meeting House at Dolobran in Montgomeryshire, Wales. Built in 1701 by Charles Lloyd (1662–1747) of Dolobran, whose father Charles Lloyd (1637–1698) of Dolobran was the first in the family to become a Quaker. It consists of a tiny isolated chapel built of red-brick with drip courses over the cambered windows and comprising also a two-bay cottage under the same roof. Photographs addressed to Hugh Doncaster, Woodbrooke.

Friends Meeting

Notes for the "semi-retreat" and the "day of harmony", note on silence or "stillness".

Clive Sansom

Frankenia

Frankenia

Watercolur on paper painted by Olive Pink, Edwards Creek, South Australia, 25/7/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Frankenia

Olive Pink

Francis of Assisi

Francis of Assisi: the Sun of Umbria, his life told in verse and prose, Hobart (Cat & Fiddle Press 1981). Also rough drafts of poems "St. Francis. Sun of Umbria (3 volumes), typescript, published copy, research notes including guides and postcards of Assisi (1970s), application for Commonwealth Literary Fund grant, correspondence with agent, publishers and ABC, etc. 1968-1980, poems published, script for performance and programs Winchester (1978) and St. Davids Cathedral, Hobart.

Clive Sansom

Forestry and Timber

Articles and notes on Tasmanian forest and timber resources, including: conservation, paper making, firewood, the relation of forests to water supply, wood distillation, forest fires, report of address by W.E.S. to the Australian Natives Association (November 1910 see also Australian Natives' Association: arousing public interest in timber industry August 1911, S.3/56), paper by L. Rodway "Afforestation: the moral for Tasmania" written for the Forest League (1913).

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Folder

Folder of items (photos, certificates, credential from Premier of NSW, newspaper cuttings, etc used by Eileen Barnard-Kettle in compiling her obituary of the late Margaret Watts.
Folder includes photo of Margaret dancing with the Sydney Lord Mayor at the Wattle Day Tea Dance, tributes, newspaper cuttings.
It also includes a photocopy of Raymond Evans' article 'All the passion of our womanhood: Margaret Thorp and the 'Battle of the Brisbane School of Arts', July 1917' (published as chapter 14 in Gender and war: Australians at war in the twentieth century, edited by Joy Damousi and Marilyn Lake).
Also correspondence with Margaret's brother, Dr J Thorp.
It also includes correspondence with Leonard S Kenworthy, editor of Living in the light: some Quaker pioneers of the twentieth century, vol.II which has a chapter on MSW written by Eileen Barnard-Kettle (held in Morris Miller Quaker BX 7791 .L53 1984)

Margaret Sturge Watts

Fire Insurance policy on "Westwood"

Insurance policy on Smiths property "Westwood", River Forth, with Mutual Fire Insurance Company (parchment paper) dated 14 December 1876.
Insuring furniture and household goods, chemicals and library contained in a detached building erected of wood and shingles situated at Westwood, Forth River and occupied by the insured. Insured 200 pounds for goods and chattels and 100 pounds for the library. In 1853 Smith took up one square mile (2.6 km²) of forested land at Westwood between the Forth River and Leven River, making this his headquarters for exploring and prospecting.

James (Philosopher) Smith

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