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Australian Natives' Association

Correspondence: Australian Natives' Association 1911, 1916. Meetings; committee to consider means of arousing public interest in the timber trade (1911); congratulations on William Ebenezer Shoobridge's election as M.H.A. (5 documents)

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Autobiography: I find my voice

Early autobiography by Clive Sansom (family and childhood to 1926), and copy of first chapter sent to Australian Literature Board (typescript).

Clive Sansom

Autograph album

1 album covered in brown paper and inscribed: M.S. Watts. Autograph Album.
Margaret S. Thorp inscribed on inside cover.
Spine in poor condition.
Inscription opposite title page (Writing Album) says: 'June 1906. Margaret S. Thorp with best wishes from Freda Brunskill'.
Includes inscriptions, cuttings, letters, watercolour paintings, pen and ink drawings and photos.
Autographs include Roald Amundsen (1911), poet Kath Walker, pianist Eileen Joyce, feminists Adela Pankhurst and Vida Goldstein, Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, politicians and many Quakers met on her travels.

Margaret Sturge Watts

Ayers Rock

Ayers Rock –Mt Olga National Park. NT Reserves Board, 1967
Inscribed ‘Miss Pink with compliment from the Chairman (Lionel Rose) who is also the Author. 1 Aug. 1969’

Olive Pink

Azure Kingfisher

Azure Kingfisher

Pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, (date and location unknown). Identified by Olive Pink as Azure Kingfisher.

Olive Pink

B : Historical research notes and drafts

Some records of Great Swanport and the Municipality of Glamorgan 1820-1920 by G. Musgrave Parker' c.1950 . Typed draft, corrected ms., with ms notes and illustrations (snapshots or newspaper cuttings) in 16 chapters and 3 appendices. The draft is in an unfinished state; many gaps have been left for dates or other information to be added, and numerous ms. notes, clippings, etc. have been inserted or left loose in the folders.
Chapter 1 -Early history 1642-1821
Chapter 2 The pioneers 1821-1826
Chapter 3 Under military control 1826-1840
Chapter 4 The native problem in Great Swanport.
Chapter 5 Bushrangers in the district.
Chapter 6 Whaling sealing and some early exports.
Chapter 7 Civilian administration 1841-1859
Chapter 8 The Rural Municipal Council 1860-1920 (police, medical men, coroners, Registrar of Births, Deaths, Marriages).
Chapter 9 Sheep and wool, wattle bark and agriculture
Chapter 10 Coal, tin, gold and lime.
Chapter 11 Roads, bridges, jetties.
Chapter 12 Shipping on the coast.
Chapter 13 The story of the churches
Chapter 14 Parliament and the local representatives
Chapter 15 Education, postal history, societies & clubs.
Chapter 16 Growth of district and township, notable visitors, wars, other notable events and weather.
Appendix A Grants and location orders [Land].
Appendix B Local persons of note (brief biographical notes in alphabetical order)
Appendix C Diary of Adam Amos 1822-1825.
Illustrations included:
Ch. 1. J.A. Graham, first Warden 1860
Ch 2. Pompey's Pillar, Alexandria, Creek Hut (G. Meredith's first residence), Cambria, Cranbrook House, Glen Gala
Ch 3. Red Banks ~ 1890 and later, Apsley, Apslawn, Milton (J. Allen's residence), Swanwick, 'The White Hut' Little Swanport, Kebreden, Kelvedon Rocky Hills Station (including stereoscopic photos of the ruins of the tread mill and lime kiln.
Ch 4. Aborigines, Muirlands Little Swanport (residence of John Radford) , Waubadebar’s grave Bicheno.
Ch 6. Wineglass Bay, Trumpeter Bay, Schouten Island, Meredith's Fishery, a trypot.
Ch 7. Waterloo Point 1852 (watercolour sketch on grey card copied from original at Cambria by Mary Ann Walker 1928
Ch 8. Wardens (J.A. Graham, F. Shaw, Carmichael Lyne, F.C. Shaw, W.F.G. Calvert (news clippings), Council Chambers, Alfred W. Smith, Robert Gould, F. Lyne, G.F. Storey (Beattie's Studio), Dr. E.W. Pilgrim, Dr. E.C. McCarthy, Dr. G.S. Rundle (c. 1860-70)
Ch 9. Sheep, wool press, Picnic Place from Apsley, Mayfield Mill and outhouses (late 19th cent.), Oyster Bay pine.
Ch 10. Bicheno
Ch 11. Rocky Hills culvert, Spiky Bridge Swansea, Swansea jetty.
Ch 12. Cutter 'Thames', ketches 'Good Intent' - 'Foam'.
Ch 13. All Saints Church, Swansea, Bernard Shaw, Shaw memorial window, Bishops Nixon, Bromby, Sandford, Montgomery, Mercer (news clippings), Frank Morris Gill, Tomb of Rev. Thomas Dove Swansea, Swansea (including Catholic Church), Gala Kirk, Fr. Thomas Kelsh (news clipping).
Ch 14. E.T. Miles, John Lyne, F. Lyne, W.H. Bennett, James White, H. Lamb, W.W. Perkins, J. Murdoch, James Lord, J. Mitchell, J. Meredith, C. Meredith, W.J. McWilliams, A. Hearn.
Ch 16. Swansea views Appendix B Graveyard at Llandaff.

Balbi Creek

Photograph of Balbi Creek, November 1945. Johnson photo.

Roland Arnold Rodda

Balbi Creek

Photograph of Balbi Creek, November 1945. Johnson photo.

Roland Arnold Rodda

Balbi Creek

Photograph of Balbi Creek, November 1945. Johnson photo.

Roland Arnold Rodda

Balbi from the sea

Photograph of Mt. Balbi taken from the sea at the Laruma River mouth. Johnson photo.

Roland Arnold Rodda

Bank of Van Diemen's Land

Law Practice - Case Notes - Clark's Opinion in re liability of Bank of V.D.L., copies of Deed of Settlement and of Royal Commission (including copies of correspondence between G.P. Fitzgerald and Dobson, Mitchell & others)

Andrew Inglis Clark

Bank book

Bank book belonging to W. E. Fuller with transactions dated 1958 to 1960

William Edwin Fuller

Bank Orders

Two bank orders dated 1822 and 1823. Promise to pay £86 John Grant and A.B. Spark to Attwood & Smith also bank order from William Wilkinson to John Grant for £86.

John Grant

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

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

Barrie de Jersey autograph book

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The autograph book includes poems by Gwen Harwood, Vivian Smith, Christopher Koch, James McAuley and Barrie's second wife Carol Warner de Jersey. There are also entries from Pat Brewer, potter Mylie Peppin and Volkes Rauff of Salzburg.

Barrie de Jersey

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

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

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

Bible Reading

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

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

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

Birchall's Bookshop, Launceston : Accounts

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  • 1893-1955

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.

Birchall's Bookshop, Launceston

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

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

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

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

Bolton Stafford Bird Papers

Bolton Stafford Bird Papers

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  • 1887-1924

Collection consists of awards including a Royal warrant on parchment, an insignia for the Companion of the Order of St.Michael and St.George, photograph and various newspaper clippings of obituary.

Bolton Stafford Bird

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

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 of poems

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

Alice Daisy Baker

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

"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

Bookshop

Collection consists of material relating to Fullers bookshop : accounts, catalogues card and bookmarks, newspaper cuttings and book proofs

William Edwin Fuller

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

Botanical and Scientific Interests

Includes miscellaneous documents and papers relating to Dr Story’s botanical interests, correspondence, notably with F von. Mueller, notes and catalogues, involvement with the Royal Society, photography, meteorology and other miscellaneous scientific interests

George Fordyce Story

Boyer Lecture : The Spectre of Truganini

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  • 1980

Collection consists of 3 audio cassettes of the 1980 Boyer Lectures given by Bernard Smith, entitled The Spectre of Truganini - 1. The ethical roots of culture 2.The mechanisms of Forgetfulness. 3.The concerned conscience. 4. Black voices. 5. A cultural convergence

Bernard Smith

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

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

Braddon's : A home in the colonies

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

Sir Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon

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