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Remittance man

Remittance man

Framed caricature of an Englishman living at Hobart on his regular remittance from "Home" which he at once spent on alcohol etc.

Thomas Claude Wade Midwood

Report and financial statement

Report and financial statement. December 1st, 1921, to June 30th, 1923. 31 pages. Printed in Melbourne by H.E. Pett & Co.
Fund started at instigation of the Quakers, and taken up by other churches and charities.
Margaret Thorp pages 4, 10, 19, 22; and Arthur Watts page 4.
After the Armistice, there were approximately twenty organisations - religious, social and philanthropic - taking part in relief work in Central Europe. The Australian Relief Fund for Stricken Europe was inaugurated in 1921 to coordinate funding efforts, after Australians (including Margaret Thorp of the Society of Friends) returned from relief work confirming stories of distress, disease and starvation rampant in Europe. On her return, Margaret Thorp lectured and organised committees throughout the Commonwealth

Margaret Sturge Watts

Report from the Select Committee on the Native and Historical Objects and Areas Preservation Ordinance 1955 – 1960

Legislative Council for the Northern Territory. Report from the Select Committee on the Native and Historical Objects and Areas Preservation Ordinance 1955 –1960.Presented by Mr D. D. Smith, MLC on 10th August, 1965
Includes a handwritten letter from Olive Pink to Mr D D Smith who presented this report.

Olive Pink

Reports of bushrangers

Reports to Campbell Town Police Magistrate about bushrangers, including robbery at Henry Stieglitz place (1843); report
from the Police Magistrate at Fingal that his district Constable [?Ward] had been shot by bushrangers at Mr. Gilligan's near Avoca (1843)

Reprint

Journal article reprint entitled Two Tropical Volcanoes: the First Complete Ascents of Balbi and Bagana Bougainvillell , by Roland Rodda. Reprinted from N.Z. Alpine Journal vol.11, 1946, pp.118-125

Roland Arnold Rodda

Reprint : Piesse - "The foundation and early work of the Society"

Piesse, Edmund Leolin 1913 , 'The foundation and early work of the society; with some account of earlier institutions and societies in Tasmania' , Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania , pp. 117-174 . Read on 13th October, 1913, at a Meeting held in celebration of the Seventieth Anniversary of the Society. An account of the works of earlier Institutions and Societies, including the Van Diemen's Land Agricultural Society (1821), and the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1843-8.

Robert Mackenzie Johnston

Research Notes

Research notes and draft of Meston's book. Copies of dispatches, minutes of the council and miscellaneous notes and correspondence of VDL. Notes on aboriginals including the incident when aboriginal women were killed at Emu Bay.

Archibald Lawrence Meston

Resignation

Correspondence relating to John Henry O'Neil's resignation as secretary and delegate to State Executive owing to ill health and eye operation dated March-May 1958.

John Henry O'Neil

Retirement

File consistes of a letter enquiring his entitlement from Tasmanian Government Railways; letter from Henry Bland with thanks and congratulations for service and best wishes for retirement; Department of Labour and National Service. Staff 'Regional notes' including farewell to Ron Smith; folder of autographs of colleagues, photographs and newscuttings of farewell presentations and presentation from Hospital Board.

Ronald Campbell Smith

Retirement 1968

Letters and statements in tribute to his work (1967-1970), including minutes of Federated Confectioners' Association of Australia Conference, Adelaide, 20-24 April 1970.

John Henry O'Neil

Return to Magic

Return to Magic c1969.
Poems of fairy tales:- correspondence and reviews 1966-1969.

Clive Sansom

Rev. Frederick A. Woods Collection

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  • Collection
  • 1915-1944

Collection consists of poetry, notes and photographs relating to Rev. Frederick A. Woods and his family.

Frederick Alfred Woods

Rhymes for Primary Schools

Acting Rhymes edited by Clive Sansom, London (A. & C. Black 1947): drafts, correspondence with publisher, book, reviews, revision; Rhythm Rhymes by Ruth Sansom, London (A. & C. Black, 1965): correspondence with publisher and with Argo about possible publication of recording (and of Activity Rhymes); Speech Rhymes edited by Clive Sansom (new edition 1974): correspondence 1972-1974; Counting Rhymes edited by Clive Sansom: draft, rejects, correspondence 1973-74; "Conversation Rhymes": rhymes collected for a possible collection (1970s?).

Clive Sansom

Richard Stickney Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC S9
  • Collection
  • 1832-1835

Collection consists of correspondence and transcripts of letters

Richard Stickney

Risby Brothers Collection

Risby Brothers Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC R2
  • Collection
  • 1823-1910

Collection consists of personal diaries and photographs relating to Risby Brothers, sawmillers and timber merchants

Thomas Risby

Road to Springs from my flat

Road to Springs from my flat

Black and white photograph of view of the road to the Springs at Mt Wellington from Olive Pinks flat in Ferntree, Hobart Tasmania

Olive Pink

Robert & Ann Mather Papers

Robert & Ann Mather Papers

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC M10
  • Collection
  • 1821-1835

Papers relating to the voyage out and settlement of Robert Mather and his wife, Ann (Benson). Many of the papers (Ml0/16-20) consist of extracts from letters from Ann Mather to her brother, Rev. Samuel Benson, and sisters Isabella Whytall and Sarah Benson (m. Hammond 1832), in UK and were probably given to their niece, Sarah Benson Mather who married George Washington Walker in 1840, after Ann Mather's death in 1831.

Robert Mather

Robert Cosgrove Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC C5
  • Collection
  • 1898-1969

Collection consists of papers, speeches, press cuttings and photographs relating to Sir Robert Cosgrove.

Robert Cosgrove

Robert Doctor account book

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC D4
  • Collection
  • 1827-1851

Xeroxed copy of Robert Doctors account book for the years 1827 to 1851 with details of goods and services supplied by and to various residents in the Sorell area, including: boots, shoes soled and heeled, plough mould, beans, handle, tobacco, rum, sugar tea, callico, coffin, bread, repairing cart wheel, laying floor, shingles, glass, making ploughs. Also payments made.

Robert Doctor

Robert Mackenzie Johnston Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC J3
  • Collection
  • 1913

Collection consists of notebooks and sketchbooks mainly regarding fish, other files consisting of press cuttings and a reprint

Robert Mackenzie Johnston

Robey & Mather Papers

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC R7
  • Collection
  • 1843-1962

Miscellaneous papers and photographs relating mainly to the family of Joseph Benson Mather

Joseph Benson Mather

Roland Rodda Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC DX12
  • Collection
  • 1945-1946

Collection consists of diaries, letters, maps, photographs and slides compiled during a tour of duty as a medical officer at RNZAF Station Torokina, Bougainville from June- November 1945.

Roland Arnold Rodda

Ronald Campbell Smith Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC DX4
  • Collection
  • 1915-1973

Collection consists of papers and photographs relating to Ronald Campbell Smith.

Ronald Campbell Smith

Roy Bridges Archives

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC B4
  • Collection
  • 1903-1960

The collection consists of correspondence, papers, newspaper cuttings, literary manuscripts and other miscellaneous items of Roy Bridges, Tasmanian writer and newspaper reporter Including some correspondence and agreements with publishers and manuscripts or typescripts of much of his work, including unpublished material. The Collection also includes manuscripts of Hilda Bridges, Roy's sister.

Royal Tasman Bridges

Royal Mint Gold Mining Company

Royal Mint Gold Mining Company

Scrip certificate for twenty five one pound shares for the sum of thirteen shillings each issues to Edward le Rossignol of New Town by The Royal Mint Gold Mining Company, Reg. North Mount Cameron, Tasmania. Registered under "The Mining Companies Limited Liability Act, 1869. Issue number 516. Share numbers 156621-15686. Dated 22nd July 1881. Signed by the Directors and the Manager of the company. Attached are three stamp duty stamps - two red coloured stamps for one shilling and one blue coloured stamp for one penny. Both have an image of a platypus .

Royal Society Papers

Copies of printed papers including "Tasmanian plants of the upper Palaeozoic & Mesozoic coal measures" and other papers of The Royal Society of Tasmania and Linnaean Society of N.S.W. annotated ms. and bound with blank pages containing further notes and drawings.

Arndell Neil Lewis

Royal Tasmania Regiment : 1st Battalion

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC M20
  • Collection
  • 1968

Illustrated progamme of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Tasmania Regiment: Presentation of Queen' s and Regimental Colours by his excellency the Governor of Tasmania, Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Gairdner KCHG, KCVO, KBE, CB, (Honorary Colonel The Royal Tasmania .Regiment) at the Brighton Military Camp, Saturday 2nd March 1968' includes colour photographs of the colours, photos of Governor and officers, and list of parade

Royal Tasmania Regiment

Royal Tennis Court material

Newspaper cuttings collected by Mrs. F. R. Fuller, including Mercury photograph of W. E. Fuller and visitors at the Royal Tennis Court, Hobart on its 75th anniversary in 1950.

William Edwin Fuller

Royal Visit to Tasmania

Working programme of Tasmanian visit (including traffic arrangements), Tasmanian Programme, Commonwealth programme, script of documentary film, and Sequence of Events for the Opening of Parliament by Her Majesty the Queen

Robert Cosgrove

Royal warrant

Royal warrant on parchment, signed by Governor R.G.C. Hamilton. Appointment of Bolton Stafford Bird to Executive Council of Tasmania dated 29 March, 1887.

Bolton Stafford Bird

Sarah Benson Walker

Collection consists of family correspondence, miscellaneous papers, household accounts and personal mementos

Sarah Benson Walker

Sarah Dunbabin

Sarah Dunbabin

Black and white 35mm slides of Sarah Dunbabin an early graduate of the University of Tasmania. B.A. March 1909 & M.A. April 1912. One of 11 chidren of Thomas Dunbabin, farmer, and his wife Sarah Ada, née Murdoch of Marchwiel, Bream Creek. Prior to entering university she won prizes for English, Latin, History & German and a scholarship to the University.

Savage River Silver Prospecting Company

Savage River Silver Prospecting Company

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., Hobart. Registered as a No Liability Company under "The Mining Companies Act, 1884". Issue number 55. Share numbers 7201-7300. Dated 23rd December 1891. Signed by the Director and the Manager.

Savage River Silver Prospecting Company

Savage River Silver Prospecting Company

Scrip certificate for twelve (12) five shilling shares for the sum of five shillings each, issued to E. Le Rossignol of New Town by the Savage River Silver Prospecting Company. Registered as a No Liability Company under "The Mining Companies Act, 1884". Issue number 1042. Share numbers 46,865 to 46,876. Office of company: Miller's Chambers, Murray St., Hobart. Dated 23rd December 1891. Signed by the Director and the Manager.

Scaevola aemula

Scaevola aemula

Coloured pencil on dark card, sketched by Olive Pink at Callanna, South Australia 20-21/7/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Scaevola aemula

Olive Pink

Scaevola depauperata

Scaevola depauperata

Watercolour on card. Painted by Olive Pink at Rodinga, Northern Territory, 17/9/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Scaevola depauperata

Olive Pink

Scamander Mineral Exploration Company

Two files of correspondence and one folder of newspaper cuttings relating to the Scamander Mineral Exploration Company, dated 1967 to 1968, some newpaper cuttings from 1957

John Reynolds

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