Tasmania
Higgs, Sydney Hamlet 1884-1978 :[Haywain] [192-]
Date: 1920 - 1929
Reference: A-090-035
Description: A barn, with a horse outside, a man with a fork standing on top of a pile of hay on the cart drawn by the horse. Probably shows Dalebrook farm, Tasmania Supplied title. On verso of A-090-034 (Farish Street) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 277 x 341 mm Provenance: Purchased from the artist's daughter, Mrs Avis Beere, Wellington, April 1980
C 28 to C 555
Date: 1847-1870
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2006
Description: Papers created as Foreign Secretary, and miscellaneous Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Cartes de visite of Tasmania, Auckland and other New Zealand scenes
Date: [187-?]
From: Pringle, William Pilliet, 1897-1984 :Photographs of New Zealand and Australia
By: Clifford, Samuel, 1827-1890
Reference: PAColl-1382-1
Description: Also views of Invercargill, Akaroa, Military officers, ships Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).
Giles, Edmund Douglas, b 1853? : Forty years of colonial life told with an avoidance of...
Date: [1914?]
By: Giles, Edmund Douglas, 1853?-
Reference: MS-0832
Description: Reminiscence of his early years in Somersetshire including details of the Giles forbears back to 1772; description of the voyage to Nelson on the `John Bunyan' in 1868; time spent in Westport where his uncle Dr Giles was the Resident Magistrate; gold mining on the West Coast; travel to Queensland via Sydney (includes descriptions of Sydney, Brisbane and Rockhampton); working as a bullock driver and later a ration carrier and drover, etc in Queensland; describes station life and his other outback experiences; Kanaka labourers in Queensland; Tasmania; return to Barcoo, Queensland; aborigines in Queensland; time spent on New Hebrides, Fiji and other islands in the Pacific; return to New Zealand; family and travel in the early 1900s. Edmund Giles immigrated to New Zealand with his brother Edgar on the `John Bunyan' in 1868. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (231 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; red linen)
Sketch maps of the Australian coastline
Date: 1965-1966
From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7888-014
Description: Mounted sketch maps of South East Australia and Tasmania, relating to Craig's research on William Stewart. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Official correspondence relating to Chapman's suspension as Colonial Secretary of Van D...
Date: 1852-1854
From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0053-02
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.
Swainson, William : Botanical notes
Date: 1853
By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855
Reference: Micro-MS-0503
Description: Notes on Eucalyptus, cassuarina and echidnocarpus of Victoria and Tasmania. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (c400p.). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Baker, Josephine Harriette Anne, 1858-1913 : Papers
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.
Batman, John fl 1835 : Copy of the journal of John Batman Esq
Date: [1835]
By: Batman, John, 1801-1839
Reference: MS-0142
Description: Title continues:`...Journal kept from 10 May to 11 June 1835, both days inclusive, shewing the first settlement of Port Phillip now the State of Victoria'. Daily entries describing voyage on the `Rebecca' round the coast near George Town, Launceston, Port Phillip and other parts of Tasmania, and explorations inland, where Batman named rivers and hills. He describes meeting aborigines and their response to the travellers. Batman was the founder of Melbourne Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (carbon) (21 cm; full calf, blue)
Petermann, Augustus Herman, 1822-1898 :Neu-Seeland (New Zealand), West-Australien, Tasm...
Date: 1877
From: McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978 :McIntosh Collections of antique maps
By: McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978; Petermann, August Heinrich, 1822-1878; Justus Perthes Verlag
Reference: MapColl-830a/1877/Acc.33636
Description: Shows provinces, place names, topographical features of New Zealand, West Australia and Tasmania. Has inset of Auckland and Manukau Harbour. McIntosh Collection, item 7 Quantity: 3 map(s) on 1 sheet. Physical Description: Engraving, coloured, scale 1:5 000 000, 32 x 39cm
Webber, John, 1751-1793 :A woman of Van Diemen's Land. J. Webber del. J Caldwall sculp....
Date: 1784
From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]
By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Caldwall, James, 1739-1789
Reference: C-131-007-c
Description: Portrait of the head and upper body an aborigine woman from Tasmania. She is carrying a sleeping child on her back. Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 7 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 282 x 220 mm
Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Boundary changes... The one to think about.
Date: 1982
From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :[One folder of original cartoons concerning Closer Economic Relations. Published in the Auckland Star 1981 - 1984].
Reference: A-331-123
Description: The cartoon shows a man, representing manufacturers, looking at a map. The map is titled, CER and shows all the states of Australia. However, added to the east coast is New Zealand, as if it were another state of Australia. Refers to CER. Negatives at PA Collection 5371 Bromhead Collection Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 270 x 195mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.
Hunter, Norman Mitchell, b 1859 :Southern coast of Tasmania. South West Cape. Mewstone?...
Date: 1882
From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]
By: Hunter, Norman Mitchell, 1859-
Reference: E-328-f-004-2
Description: A view of the Southern coast of Tasmania showing South West Cape Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Southern Coast of Tasmania 10 am. 8/8/82.; Recto - bottom right - Mewstone?; Recto - above image - South West Cape Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (in three parts). Physical Description: Pencil 40 x 685 mm
[Photographer unknown] :[Unidentified bush scene, Tasmania? 1883]
Date: 1883
From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]
Reference: E-328-f-134-2
Description: A bush scene, with stream running through, probably in Tasmania Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 105 x 185 mm
Address and Appointment
Date: 1850, 1852
From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers
Reference: MSI-Papers-8670-1
Description: Appointment of Henry Samuel Chapman to the Supreme Court of New Zealand; address of the colonists of Tasmania, presented to him on his departure for the United Kingdom. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Papers of Rev W Hickey; Papers of Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo; Papers of Alan Queale
Date: [ca 1848-1865], 1957-1964
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2041
Description: Papers of Rev W Hickey - MS 10501 (in progress); MS 10510; MS 10515; MS 10520; MS 10521; MS 10522. Include correspondence of P J Smyth; papers relating to T F Meagher; poems of W S O'Brien; letters from W S O'Brien (New Norfolk) to Rev W Dunne of Richmond, Tasmania, 1850-1855; letters of W S O'Brien to J Martin, 1852, K O'Doherty, 1851-1853 and others; letters written by K & Eva O'Doherty, 1860s; autobiographical and biographical notes on Eva O'Doherty; letters to K O'Doherty, 1849-1852. Papers of Richard Bourke - MS 1183 (Memo on appointment of Roman Catholic priests on Australian convict ships, 1852. Papers of Alan Queale - MS 11705 (beginning of) concerning the Irish exiles in Australia compiled and collected by Alan Queale of Queensland and E MacLysaght of Dublin. Correspondence, etc 1957-1964 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: For fuller description see piece-level inventory.
Journals and diaries JOD/119 - JOD/158
Date: 1852-1932
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2834
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
[Swainson, William] 1789-1855 :Light wood and Government cottage. New Norfolk Tasmania....
Date: 1854
By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855
Reference: A-035-020
Description: A cottage amongst light scrub in Tasmania Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 140 x 200 mm
Igglesden, (Mr), fl 1840-1861 : Letters from C M Igglesden / transcribed by Margareta G...
Date: 1856-1861 (transcribed 2009)
By: Igglesden, Charles Moore, 1832-1920
Reference: MS-Group-1790
Description: Collection comprises typed transcriptions (analogue & electronic) of three letters from C M Igglesden in Wellington to his father in Chatham, Kent, describing the situation in New Zealand with the start of the New Zealand wars in Taranaki; he discusses the points of view of the settlers, the government, the Maori, his feelings about the destruction caused by war, the place of Christianity, his impression of Donald McLean and related matters. Igglesden kept a diary-letter during his 81-day voyage from England to Melbourne on the Mermaid and the extracts cover his experiences from when he reached the Australian coast in Feb 1856, and also from a letter written after his arrival at Wellington in 1857; he discusses the situation for new migrants. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript & electronic records
Webber, John, 1751-1793 :A woman of Van Diemen's Land. J. Webber del. J Caldwall sculp....
Date: 1784
From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]
By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Caldwall, James, 1739-1789
Reference: C-131-007-d
Description: Portrait of the head and upper body an aborigine woman from Tasmania. She is carrying a sleeping child on her back. Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 7 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 282 x 220 mm