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Poster bills

Six poster bills of varying sizes, announcing pleasure trips by SS 'Koonya ' and regular service to Saltwater River and East Bay.

Thomas Risby

Powers Referendum

Files of press cuttings, miscellaneous papers and pamphlets relating to the "Powers Referendum". Constitution Alteration (Post-War Reconstruction and Democratic Rights) 1944 was known as the "14 powers", or the "14 points referendum". It sought to give the federal government power over a period of five years to legislate on a wide variety of matters

Robert Cosgrove

Press cutting enclosed with letter

Press cutting enclosed with letter dated 24 June 1904. The cutting deals with a recital performed by Mdlle. Antonia Dolores at St. James' Hall. The article deals initially with the reaction of the audience over the first half of the programme, and then goes on to list many of the tunes she sang during the evening.

Edward David Dobbie

Press Cuttings

Miscellaneous personal papers including character references, First Communion card, newspaper cutting relating to introduction of Fair Rents Bill, , House of Assembly notice of regret at his retirement,
1958, House of Assembly and Legislative Council notices of regret at his death 1969, funeral card 1969.

Robert Cosgrove

Press cuttings

Personal tributes etc., including 8 Hour Day parade 1921, carbine rifles used by Thomas Mitchell to drill boys found in roof of St. Peter's School 1964.

John Henry O'Neil

Press Cuttings

Various newspaper clippings from the years 1918, 1930 and 1933, contained in an unused 1914 pocket diary

Robert Cosgrove

Press cuttings

Press cuttings of articles on V.D.L. Co. published by Advocate 3 Nov. 1925 - 5 February 1927 and miscellaneous
cuttings re birds on Bass Strait Islands

Archibald Lawrence Meston

Press cuttings

Press cuttings collected by Robert Mackenzie Johnston, including some of his correspondence to the press. Undated.

Robert Mackenzie Johnston

Primitive Art

Adam, L
Primitive Art, Pelican Books, 1940
Second copy owned by Olive Pink

Olive Pink

Print of Mt. Bagana

Photographic print of Mt .Bagana an active volcano located in the remote portion in the centre of the island of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea

Roland Arnold Rodda

Printed books

Originally four books. Two catalogued and taken into the Rare Collection.
(1) "Samuel Clemes 1845-1922" by I. M. Shoobridge, Hobart (Cox &
Kay) c 1923

(2) (Transferred to the Rare Book Collection -Morris Rare PR 9619.3 .B52 M98 1913)
"The Mysterious Stranger", Marie Bjelke Petersen, Walch & Sons, Hobart, 1913 (reprint, 1914) 30 pp
Inscribed: "to dear Mrs. Fuller in memory of our little talks at Swansea, March 1915, from the writer".

(3) (Transferred to the Rare Book Collection - Morris Rare PR 9619.3 .B52 M93 1914)
"Muffled Drums ", Marie Bjelke Petersen, Hobart, 1914 paper 49 pp
Inscribed, ms.: "To dear Mrs. Fuller [Mrs E. C. Fuller] with much love and earnest prayer for His best and richest gift -Himself.
From the writer, Swansea, March 1915".
• Includes copy of obituary notice, Mercury, 1969.

(4) A Century of Banking, The Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney, Sydney, 1934, 89 pp. illustrated.

William Edwin Fuller

Printed books

Proof copy of
(1) Pink Magic by :Margaret Lee Runbeck, London, (Peter Davis, 1951)

(2) 'My little book by Dora Hookey' , W. E. Fuller & James Boa, The Bookshelf, 1920. (photocopy)

William Edwin Fuller

Printed stationery

Two sheets of printed stationery –Home Hut (off) Native Flora Reserve Alice Springs Northern Territory

Olive Pink

Probate of Will of David Marshall

Probate of Will of David Marshall, died 16 September 1919 detailing that all real and personal estate be bequeathed to his son George Douglas Marshall of Flowerpot, Tasmania, farmer.

George Marshall

Promissory note

Thomas Risby's promise to pay £100 to John and Henry Morrisby and Grace Smith, at the age of 21, being the consideration for premises purchased from their father, James Morrisby. Dated 1823

Thomas Risby

Promissory notes

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC W12
  • Collection
  • 1823-1825

Collection consists of four small handwriiten notes. Agreements by John Wood to pay Kemp & Co. various sums at a later date.

John Wood

Prostantera striataflora

Water colour on card sketched by Olive Pink, Alice Springs, 1958. Arid regions (of Australia) Native Flora Reserve, Alice Springs. Identified by Olive Pink as botanical name Prostantera striataflora one "popular" name was the silly one of mint bush.

Olive Pink

Prostanthera

Identified as Prostanthera striatiflora . Watercolor on card sketched by Olive Pink near power station at Alice Springs on 7 June 1958
'has aromatic scent (leaves?) (very honeyed flower)

Olive Pink

Protection

One pamphlet entitled "Protection" dated 13 July 1921.
Speech by the Hon. John Earle reprinted from Parliamentary Debates.

John Earle

Psoralea

Watercolour on card with pencil, painted by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek, South Australia 1930. Identified by Olive Pink as Psoralea

Olive Pink

Psoralea patens

Watercolour on paper painted by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek, South Australia, 5/8/30. Notes on paper - "plants grow to about 4ft high". note on flower details "twice actual size or more" Identified by Olive Pink as Psoralea patens.

Olive Pink

Public Examinations

Typescript draft with NS annotations, of consideration of reports of Board of Public Examination and Professional Board. c. 1943

Earnest Ewart Unwin

Public Offices

Includes miscellaneous documents and papers relating to Dr Story’s involvement in the Government Store and Convict Station, public meetings an petitions, electoral returning officer, Glamorgan Library, Lisdillon School Board

George Fordyce Story

Public Works : bridges, roads, railways

Series of articles or letters to newspapers on "Public Works" relating to the New Norfolk Bridge (1874), roads and road trusts, Derwent Valley Railway and bridge (1883-6), railway extension (1889) (typescript, 20 p.)

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Publication of "A lute with three strings"

Clive Sansom's correspondence with publishers and reviewers, accounts for fund for the publication - remainder of funds for a poetry prize - cheque book, copies of advertisements and reviews including review by Judith Wright, copy of poem "your heart has an irregular beat" written shortly before she died and printed with photographs in Australian Book Review March 1965. Also manuscript music "I am no nearer proving thee" - words by Helen Power, music by Richard Graves.

Clive Sansom

Pussy Tails

Watercolour on card sketched by Olive Pink, (location unknown), 1960. Described by Olive Pink as " popular name Pussy Tails" (ugly?)

Olive Pink

R. Westland Marston Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC M12
  • Collection
  • 1887-1923

Collection consists of a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings of letters addressed to various newspapers by R. Westland Marston. They cover various subjects such as charities, the Church, education, road trusts, also farm and native reports from Lower Piper. 1877-78. Letters are from Alvechurch, Worcestershire, U.K., or the Granmar School Alvechurch.
Newspaper correspondence dated 1877-8, 1880, some under the pseudonym 'Scholasticus' or 'Schoolmaster'.
The 1880 ones are addressed from Lower Piper, Tasmania.
Enclosed: 'In Memoriam Service: Our late Beloved Queen' Devonport Town Hall, 2 Feb. 1901. and ANZAC commemoration service, Pitt Street Congregational Church, Sydney, 22 April 1923.

R. Westland Marston

Ralph Middenway Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC 2019/2
  • Collection
  • ADD dates from index (Creation)

Collection consists of 12 unaccessioned boxes

Ralph Middenway

Rapunzel

Opera for Children's Theatre, music by Don Kay: drafts.

Clive Sansom

Receipt

Receipted account for 1 guinea paid to W.J. Ring for tuition of Master Ralph. Dated 1830

John Terry

Receipt book

Receipt book for hire of piano from Walch & Co. 1911 - 1917

William Edwin Fuller

Receipted bills

Receipted bills for miscellaneous household goods, clothing, etc.

  1. 1825-1827
  2. 1828-1830
  3. 1831-1833
  4. 1834
  5. 1835
  6. 1836

Andrew Downie

Recipe book

Recipe book belonging to Mrs. M.M. Hayns before her death

Lawrence John Hayns

Reconstruction and After the War

Articles and notes on "Reconstruction", including: municipal failures, federal and state government, individual and collectivism, after the war, Russia, loan for Europe, finance, etc., labour.

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Red Cross items

a) 1 metal filigree belt
b) 1 fabric red cross badge (shape of cross)
c) 2 Metal Red Cross badges –one with navy embroidered badge attached
d) 1 fabric Australian Red Cross Society VAD badge with metal VAD badge attached
e) 1 fabric VAD stripes and small striped ribbon bow
f) 2 white fabric epaulettes with metal numbers 15 (from the 15 Voluntary Aid Detachment)
g) Postcard ‘It’s our flag Fight for it Work for it’.
h) 1 New South Wales Division of the Australian Branch of the British Red Cross
i) Certificate of Membership for 1915 NSW branch (Miss Olive Pink)
j) 1 Voluntary Aid Detachment Darlinghurstmembership card (Miss Olive Pink) signed by Hon. Sec. Ethel A. Stephens

Above items contained in a Kodak photo envelope with annotations:-“Olive Pink’s VAD stripes etc 1st to register “15” Detachment. Miss Ethel Stevens then Mrs Marie Irvine Commandants. Vol. Aid from 1914 to after War –(about 1920)”

Olive Pink

Registrar, James Henry Robert Cruickshank and his wife Mary

Black and white, 35mm slide of the University of Tasmania's Registrar, James Henry Robrert Cruickshank and his wife Mary.
Cruickshank was born on 24 May 1840 in Bombay, and he died on 26 January 1916 m Hobart. Cruickshank received his first commission in 1858, and served in the Bombay Presidency until he retired in 1885 when he immigrated to Tasmania, as one of the 'Non-Effective Officers . Cruickshank and his family arrived in Launceston on the Flinders on 15 May 1885.36 He was appointed Registrar of the University of Tasmania in succession to George Richardson on the 1 August 1892, and he held this post until his death on 26 January 1916. Cruickshank was given a land grant of 100 acres in the Parish of Wickham in the County of King Island on 13 June 1885 but he did not settle there. He had married Mary Emma Wright in 1865 in Bombay. Mary Emma was born on 24 May 1846 in Rochester Kent, and she died on 17 October 1940 at 'Burnside' Glenorchy Tasmania. The couple had nine children, the youngest of whom was Margaret Winifred Cruickshank. Margaret was born on 12 July 1888 in Hobart, and she died on 4 March 1980 in Hobart. She was married to Percy Hamilton Scott in 1922 in Hobart. Two years before her death Margaret was interviewed by John Roberts, as part of the University of Tasmania oral history recording program. Margaret told of her early life in the 1900s as the daughter of the Registrar of the new university. Her reminiscences are particularly valuable, as they provide a rare window into the early life of the university: interview available here https://sparc.utas.edu.au/index.php/interview-with-mrs-margaret-scott

Religion

"God is a spirit", "Duty of the Church" (1920), "Christianity and unemployment" (1933) (tyepscript)

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Religious Society of Friends, Religious writing

Correspondence with the Religious Society of Friends and various lectures on religion. Note: Clive Sansom also collected many cuttings of articles on religious topics, prayers, sayings etc., but these have not been retained in Archives.

Clive Sansom

Reminiscences of Sarah Benson Walker

Sarah Benson Walker's reminiscences of her life in Hobart Town as recorded by her son James Backhouse Walker. It includes narrative of the voyage out, and descriptions of Hobart in the very early period, information about Hobart personalities as well as the story of Sarah Benson Walker's life

James Backhouse Walker

Reminiscences of William J. Johnstone

Copy of William J. Johnstone's reminiscences of the history of William Johnstone's business in Launceston from 1842 and the partnership with Stuart Eardley Wilmot, who had married Rosa c. Johnstone, founding the firm of Johnstone & Wilmot.

William Johnstone

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