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Letter from the Sociedad Ballenera de Magallanes to the Governor of the Falkland Islands applying for a whaling licence in respect of the South Shetland Islands

Diplomatic communication relevant to the sub-Antarctic, territorial claims, sovereignty, UK, Chile, Falkland Islands Dependencies, Islas Malvinas, South Georgia, whaling. Provides document or extract, with source information and Bill Bush notes. [Published by Bush as UK19041907]

Bill Bush

Letter of appointment :September 1818

Draft of letter dated 24 September 1818 from John Terry, late of Redmire Mill, appointing his brother Ralph to receive money due on Lord Bolton's estate, with list of money laid out in expenses by John Terry 1809-1811. Note added in pencil of dates of birth of some members of the family, 1710-1878.

John Terry

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

Letter to TMAG

Letter to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) regarding donation of her Albert Namatjira paintings – copy of typed letter

Olive Pink

Letters Patent of the University of Tasmania

Parchment document bound with green ribbon and sealed with red wax. Letters Patent of King George V granting recognition throughout the Kingdom, empire and Dominions of degrees conferred by the University of Tasmania in Arts, Science, Law, Medicine, Music and all branches of knowledge except Theology

University of Tasmania

Library promotional video

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC UT558
  • Collection
  • 1981

Consists of one Library promotional video made in 1981, VHS cassette recording, 6.5 minutes. Script by Mary Howard and Peter Cohen, narrated by Meg Taylor, camera work by Michael Knott, Ross James and Eve Pettit, technical director Brian Rieusset, programme director Eve Pettit. Originally recorded on Umatic cassette for continuous playing over 1 hour, copied on to VHS by Brian Rieusset July, 1993, for University Archives (two showings over 15 minutes). Reformated to DVD in 2017. Includes typed copy of script.

University of Tasmania Library

Library Staff 1956

One small black and white photograph of Library staff taken outside the entrance to Domain House, Christmas 1956.

University of Tasmania

Library workroom

One small black and white photograph of Library workroom at Domain House taken in November 1960. Staff identified as M. McClymont, Dr. Wojtowitz, Mr S. Flood

University of Tasmania

Library workroom

One small black and white photograph of Library workroom at Domain House taken in November 1960. Staff identified as J. Reynolds

University of Tasmania

Lidiosus glaucifolius

Watercolour and pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink at Horseshoe Bend, Central Australia, 1930. Identified by Olive Pink as Lidiosus glaucifolius (?)

Olive Pink

Lightwood

Pencil on card sketched by Olive Pink 16/9/57, Alice Springs. Identified by Olive Pink as Lightwood (Whitewood)

Olive Pink

Lindisfarne Bay

Black-and-white photograph shows dwellings, fences and farmland at Lindisfarne Bay, looking across Derwent River to Hobart

Liverpool Street, Hobart

Black-and-white photograph depicts police officer standing in middle of Liverpool Street, Hobart, with YMCA and J.W. Toplis Pharmaceutical Chemist listed as tenants of the corner building.

Loading apples on the wharf

Cases of Tasmanian apples being loaded on board a ship, with a man driving a wagon with packing cases stamped with the number 393. A cyclist is riding past on the wharf with a ship moored nearby.

Graeme Raphael

Loans desk

Photograph of the Librarian, D H Borchardt at Loans desk with Mrs Kemp 1960

University of Tasmania

Loans desk

Photograph of the Librarian, D H Borchardt at Loans desk with Mrs Kemp 1960

University of Tasmania

Locomotive steam engine in railyard

Colour photograph of black locomotive, shunting a rail car in unidentified rail yard, boiler design has a light, a low-profile front funnel, then two steam domes atop the centre of the locomotive boiler.

Hal Wyatt

Locomotives at Western Junction

Colour photograph shows two C Class steam locomotives with red livery, at Western Junction station, figures on platform, people in background taking photographs

Hal Wyatt

Logs from the Florentine Valley

Colour photograph shows a crane being used to load logs on a semi-trailer in the Florentine Valley. Inscription on driver's door reads L.J. Reynolds, HAULAGE CONTRACTOR, Maydena, Phone 217. Visible at lower left of image are people in street or travelling clothes on an outing to view timber workers in the bush

Loranthus amplexans

Pencil and coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Darwin, Northern Territory 27/10/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Loranthus amplexans, Mistletoe

Olive Pink

Loranthus exocarpi

Water colour on paper painted by Olive Pink at Beltana, South Australia, 19/7/30 Identified by Olive Pink as Loranthus exocarpi

Olive Pink

Loranthus exocarpi

Coloured pencil sketched by Olive Pink, Warraweena, Beltana, South Australia 19/7/30 Identified by Olive Pink as Mistletoe Berry - Loranthus exocarpi

Olive Pink

Loranthus miguelii

Water colour and pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Jay Creek, Northern Territory 27/12/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Loranthus miguelii "veins in leaves lighter and more yellow than leaf - flowers bright red"

Olive Pink

Loranthus migulii

Pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Jay Creek, Northern Territory (no date). Identified by Olive Pink as Loranthus migulii

Olive Pink

Low sun on Macquarie Plains

An aerial colour photograph shows distinctive shelter belts around cultivated hop fields alongside River Derwent at Bushy Park, Glenora and Macquarie Plains. Long shadows being cast from the low sun to the west

Lunch Hour Golf

Four men playing golf. Back of photograph states The Origin of Claremont Golf Club 1926? (Lunch hour golf) Left to right: Wal Morrow (scorer), HV McKernan, Will Cooper, FB Richardson. Photo by JA Cooper (his clubs lying on green)

Machinery at Launceston Show

Colour photograph shows men sitting on hay bales amid farm machinery display at Launceston Show, near Webster Woolgrowers sign and W logo.

Hal Wyatt

Macquarie Island correspondence

Government correspondence affirming status of Macquarie Island as a dependency of Tasmania. Relevant to territorial claims, sovereignty, New Zealand, the sub-Antarctic. Provides document or extract, and source information and Bill Bush notes.

Bill Bush

Macrocarpa gregoria

Watercolour on card sketched by Olive Pink, "Native Gap" ( Aileron Stn.), 1960. Identified by Olive Pink as Macrocarpa gregoria ( I think) Spinifex Snow - description on back of drawing.

Olive Pink

Macrocarpa gregoria- verso

Description on back of drawing : Louie an aboriginal worker at Aileron Station used to get it for Mrs (Elsie )Cobson (later Nolan) to send to me. Was never able to paint it from the plant and it faded when sent in. An exquisite blossom that grows close to the ground in Spinifex country hence the name Spinifex Snow : Watercolour on card sketched by Olive Pink, "Native Gap" ( Aileron Stn.), 1960. Identified by Olive Pink as Macrocarpa gregoria ( I think) Spinifex Snow .

Olive Pink

Main reading area

Photograph of the main reading area of the Library, Domain, House . Taken in November 1960 showing students working at desks. Fire place and mantel on rear wall.

University of Tasmania

Main reading area

Photograph of the main reading area of the Library, Domain, House . Taken in November 1960 showing students working at desks. Honour board on wall.

University of Tasmania

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