Hobart

Date: 1907

From: [Banks, Isabel Violet, 1873- ] :[Scenes of England and voyage to and from New Zealand on S S Ruapehu ca 1914]

By: Banks, Isabel Violet, 1873-

Reference: A-089-054

Description: A peninsula at Hobart showing several trees Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 40 x 125 mm

Date: 1815 - 1827

By: Evans, George William, 1780-1852; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: G-315

Description: View from the domain looking west up Macquarie Street. Includes both Battery Point the spit of land on the left, and Mount Wellington to the right. St David's Church is prominent in the centre. Original for aquatint by R.G.Reeve, published London, Ackerman, 1828. Photocopy in photo file. Part of the same view also appears as the frontispiece to Evans' 'Geographical, historical and topographical description of Van Diemen's Land (London, 1822). Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 390 x 930 mm Provenance: Unknown: possibly collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: 1850 - 1860

By: Lloyd, Henry Grant, 1830-1904; Walton, W L, active 1834-1855; M & N Hanhart (Firm); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-053-003

Description: Shows men working on the wharf, barrels, boats, and packing cases. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Coloured lithograph on sheet 384 x 484 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander H Turnbull?

Date: 1860 - 1869

From: Pope, James Henry 1837-1913 :Scrap book [1860s]

By: Bruce, Robert, 1839?-1918; Cooke, Albert Charles, 1836-1902

Reference: E-043-q-010

Description: Engraving showing two men on a path leading down through the trees on Mount Wellington. In the distance is Hobart Town and the harbour. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, stuck to page 275 x 215 mm

Date: 1840 - 1976 - 1849

By: Prout, John Skinner, 1806-1876

Reference: C-072-017

Description: A level view of early Hobart Nos 5 and 6 of an edition of 1,000 copies Same as C-072-017-a Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 58 x 420 mm on sheet 430 x 555 mm

Date: 1883

From: [Moreton, Samuel Horatio], 1845?-1921 :Tasmania and New Zealand sketch book, 1883-1896

Reference: E-175-f-022

Description: View incorporating both Hobart Town and Mount Wellington behind the town. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 132 x 213 mm

Date: 1927 - 1804

By: Allcot, John C, 1888-1973

Reference: B-037-005

Description: Shows the ships "Ocean" and H M Brig "Lady Nelson". Portrait of Col David Collins Historical notes on mount Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of original painting 233 x 383 mm

Date: 1847-1851, 1848-1849

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889

Reference: qMS-1606-1607

Description: Letter book contains administrative correspondence; the private journal is a record of the Hobart, Auckland and Wellington interludes and includes detailed accounts of the New Zealand Company, the 1848 Wellington earthquake and Maori pa in the Wellington area Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 125 pages). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopy) (24 cm; ¼ green calf, green linen hinged box)

Date: 1839-1854

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2664

Description: Comprises papers of the educationalist John Lillie, given while President of the Hobart Mechanics' Institute. Also diary of Sir Robert McCormick, surgeon and naturalist on HMS Erebus, 1839. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1830 - 1968

By: Huggins, William John, 1781-1845; Duncan, Edward, 1803-1882; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-072-002-a

Description: View of Hobart from the estuary, with ships in the harbour. Prominent buildings named. Reproduction of an aquatint held at B-053-004 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 284 x 444 mm (image) on sheet 430 x 566 mm

Date: 1870 - 1876

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

By: Winter, Alfred, 1837?-1911

Reference: E-328-f-136-2

Description: Portrait of Truganini, purportedly the last full-blooded Aboriginal woman of Tasmania, taken by Alfred Winter of Hobart Other Titles - Truganini Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Trucanini, the last aboriginal woman of Tasmania; Recto - bottom right - A Winter photo - Hobart town Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 152 x 98 mm

Date: 1873-1928

By: Baker, Josephine Harriette Anne, 1858-1913

Reference: MS-Papers-0167

Description: Mainly diaries and inward correspondence from her husband, relations and friends including Flora Acland, 1879-1885; Fanny Bagot, 1875-1876; her grandmother, F. A. Dicken, 1879; sister Ada Dicken, 1876-1899, Beatrice `Bebe' Knight, 1899, and Eleanor Inman, 1873-1899; Emma Packe, n.d.; her aunt Augusta Parker, 1875-1889; and Amelia Soder, 1885; referring to domestic events. Includes reminiscences of her childhood in England written between 1891 and 1905. Also essays, recipe books, poetry, sketches and other writings, as well as some personal material associated with her husband who had a private school for boys at French Farm, Akaroa Includes shipboard diary kept by T S Baker on board the Dallam Tower, 11 May-26 Jul 1873, and a fragment of the original passenger list. The ship left London in May 1873. The ship encountered a cyclone in July 1873 which dismasted the ship. Some passengers were transshipped to the `Cape Clear' for Sydney and others stayed on the `Dallam Tower' to Melbourne where they transshipped to the SS Albion for the final voyage to New Zealand Josephine `Dodo' Dicken emigrated from England in 1873 with her father Thomas and sisters and brothers. The Family settled on a property at French Farm, Banks Peninsula. She married Thomas Southey Baker in Christchurch, 17 December 1878. They had four daughters. Quantity: 86 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, Mss Finding Aids: Inventory available.

From: Taylor, Jill :Four albums of an overseas trip

Reference: PA1-o-607

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca 1890

By: Beattie, John Watt, 1859-1930

Reference: PA7-01-35

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1840 - 1976 - 1849

By: Prout, John Skinner, 1806-1876

Reference: C-072-017-a

Description: A level view of early Hobart Nos 5 and 6 of an edition of 1,000 copies Same as C-072-017 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 58 x 420 mm on sheet 430 x 555 mm

Date: 1850 - 1860

By: Lloyd, Henry Grant, 1830-1904; Walton, W L, active 1834-1855; M & N Hanhart (Firm); Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-072-004-a

Description: View of Hobart from the wharf, looking towards Mt Wellington. "Originally published ca. 1857." "Reproduced by courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library, N.Z." No. 83 of a limited edition. Same: Another copy, no. 82 located at C-072-004 Extended Title - Sydney] Avon Print, 1968. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Col. photolithographs 11 x 15.2 inches, on sheet 17 x 20 inches

Date: 1888

From: Various artists :[Seven loose watercolour drawings of New Zealand (Timaru) and Australia (Sydney and Tasmania), 1874 and 1888].

Reference: A-128-015

Description: View of a coastline seen from a ship (possibly the "Sobraon") with low cliffs along it, and ranges of hills behind, beneath a cloudy sky. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 107 x 239 mm.

Date: 1830 - 1968

By: Huggins, William John, 1781-1845; Duncan, Edward, 1803-1882; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-072-002

Description: View of Hobart from the estuary, with ships in the harbour. Prominent buildings named. Reproduction of an aquatint in the Library's collection, held at B-053-004 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 284 x 444 mm (image) on sheet 430 x 566 mm

Date: [1890s-1900s?]

From: Teale, Edmund Oswald (Sir), 1874-1971 : Birell album

By: Charles H Kerry & Company; Shearsby, A J, active 1913-1928; Star Photo Company; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA1-q-029

Description: Postcards, chiefly of Australia, including Tasmania, Adelaide, Queensland, New South Wales, with several showing various tin mines in Tasmania. There is a section of New Zealand postcards in the middle of the album, many taken by an Australian photographic company "Charles H Kerry & Co", labelled "Series 53. Hot Lakes District, New Zealand". These images are tinted, and include views of the Huka Falls, the Pink and White Terraces, Waiotapu, Ohinemutu, Whakarewarewa, Lakes Waikaremoana and Taupo, and the Aratiatia Rapids. The NZ images also include views of the Mount Cook region of the South Island, including Franz Josef Glacier, Hooker Glacier, Mounts Darwin, Sefton and Cook, and Lakes Te Anau and Wakatipu. Many of the postcards show the photographers' names, and include R C Harvey, A J Shearsby, the Star Photo Co., de Tourret, and the New Zealand Tourist Department. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown "Postcard album" with red, green and blue decoration, 285 x 240 mm

Date: 1879 - 1980

By: Cooke, Albert Charles, 1836-1902; Australasian sketcher (Newspaper)

Reference: C-041-015

Description: Birds-eye view of Hobart Reproduced from engraving published in: Australasian sketcher, May 10, 1879. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, b&w 326 x 527 mm on sheet 460 x 630 mm