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Time-balls and feminism

Time-balls and feminism

What was a time-ball and how did it contribute to the feminist movement?

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Author Liz LehetePosted on October 16, 2017October 25, 2017Categories Fashion, Maritime, womenTags corsets, shipping, timekeeping devices, women's education1 Comment on Time-balls and feminism

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Summer may be officially over, but classic photos

Summer may be officially over, but classic photos like this one from our collection are inspiring us to make the most of the sunny Autumn days ahead☀️ AA375/1/422 Photograph - beach scene at Oppossum Bay - four young women in water in one piece bathing costumes - view of Derwent Estuary and Mt Wellington in background #tassie #tasmania #oppossumbay #derwentestuary #mountwellingtontasmania #mountwellington #kunanyi #hobartandbeyond #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #library #librariestasmania

School admission records can provide the family hi

School admission records can provide the family history researcher with fascinating insights into the lives of relatives. We are gradually transcribing a selection of our early school admission registers such as the one from the Charles Street State School previously located at 233 Charles Street, Launceston. If you know a relative attended this school in the early 1900's you can now search for them using our Tasmanian Names Index. Other details will be revealed such as parents occupation, residence, date of birth and previous school attended 🔔🏢👫
Launceston schools: collection of postcards [Tasmania; [1870-195-]
#archivesoftas #launcestonhistory #stateschoolsoftas #digivol

Do you remember where all of your school friends l

Do you remember where all of your school friends lived?
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This lovely little map marks out the houses of families whose children attended Sidmouth Primary school in 1900-1921. It was drawn inside the front cover of the school admissions register. This was not a requirement of the education department, so it seems that the teachers just wanted to know who lived where. 🏡

📷Admissions Register for Sidmouth Primary School, 1900-1921, Tasmanian Archives: AD109/1/1

#schooldays #nostalgia #hometown #sidmouth #northerntasmania #tamarvalley #sidmouthprimaryschool #community #local #ruraltasmania #archivesofinstagram #librariestasmania #tasmanianarchives #discovertasmania #hobartandbeyond

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Celebrating 150 years of Tasmanian Railways! On th

Celebrating 150 years of Tasmanian Railways! On the 10th February 1871, the first stretch of railway in Tasmania was officially opened to great celebration, but also great relief! It had been a difficult and expensive task, thirteen years in the making. The first track ran from Launceston to Deloraine, and was described as ‘a new era in the history of material progress in Tasmania’ (The Mercury, 13 Feb 1871, p.2).
📷 Tasmanian Archives, Beattie photo: Mount Lyell Railway showing train on King River Bridge (1900-9), NS3245/1/254.
📷 Tasmanian Archives: Plan 3093941 (6051) TRG- Launceston, Tasmania- additions to workshops (1903), P1330/1/8499.
📷 Tasmanian Archives: Plan 7812194 (8159) Tasmanian Railways- sectional diagrams- showing mileage and heights above sea level (1872-1939), P1330/1/10743.
📷 Launceston Local Studies Collection: Tasmanian Government Railway 4T10Q10 locomotive pulling express train past St Leonards (1947), LPIC147/6/18.
#150yearsoftasmanianrail #railway #railwayphotography #rail #tasmania #discovertasmania #hobartandbeyond #tasmania #locomotives #tasarchives #tasmanianhistory #railtrack #tasmaniantransportmuseum

Fancy heading out for a nautical buffet and candle

Fancy heading out for a nautical buffet and candlelight supper this weekend? In Hobart, we are celebrating Regatta Day and all things maritime. First celebrated in 1838, the Royal Hobart Regatta is a long weekend traditionally filled with boat racing, rowing, and a trans-Derwent Swim. ⛵️⚓️🚣🏾‍♀️🧜‍♂️🪢🏊🏽‍♀️

📷 Ferries on the Derwent River- 5 ferries abreast on Derwent River, New Norfolk (1923), NS869/1/198.
📷 Brown’s River Pier- ferries at pier (1910), NS869/1/292.
📷 Stereoscopic lantern slide- Hobart wharves- showing ferries and tug boats near the wharf - photographer G B Davies (1920-26), NS3258/1/76.

#regattaday #regattaday2021 #ferries #boatsofinstagram #keepingupappearances #hobartandbeyond #tasmanianhistory #tasarchives #tasmania #tassielife #boaties

The back to school routine begins for many this we

The back to school routine begins for many this week 📖🍎⏰📚The Tasmanian Archives have thousands of photos of Tasmanian schools over the years. Tasmanian Archives: AA193/1/2262 Photograph - school
AA193/1/2263 Photograph - school
AA193/1/2165 Campbell Street School, Hobart
AA193/1/2161 Burnie High School, Cooee
AA193/1/2194 East Moonah Pre School
AA193/1/2173 Claremont High School
#backtoschool #school #education #tasmanianschools #archives #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #hobartandbeyond #tasmania #tassie #tasmanianhistory #tasarchives

Penguin Awareness Day🐧 “Penguins are an indic

Penguin Awareness Day🐧 “Penguins are an indicator of the health of our watery planet, and if they are unable to survive, we had better take notice or we might find our own survival threatened.” - Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist. Tasmanian Archives: NS6607/1/12 Group of Adelie penguins #penguin #penguinawarenessday #environment #nature #preservation #archives #archivesofinstagram #libraries #wildlife #wildlifephotography

To 'pile Pelion on Ossa' 🗻🏔means to complic

To 'pile Pelion on Ossa' 🗻🏔means to complicate something that is already difficult. It is a reference to a story from Greek Myth in which two giants - Otus and Ephialtes - piled the mountains on top of each other in an effort to reach heaven - Mt Olympus ⛰ - and challenge the gods. Tasmanian bushwalkers may sympathise with this idiom. If you are already walking the overland track, adding on the summits of Mt Pelion and Mt Ossa might seem like a bit much. However, the payoff would probably be better than what the giants faced. No matter how bad the weather, you are unlikely to be lashed to pillars of Hades with snakes 🐍 and forced to endure the screeching of owls for eternity 🦉. No guarantees, though.

If the myth had been played out in Tasmania the act of stacking mountains would have been utterly futile, as Ossa alone looms over Olympus by 168 metres.

There are a whole gammut of geographical features in Tasmania named for Greek Mythology 🧜‍♂️. Check out library titles such as @stephenfryactually 's Mythos (available as an audio book 🎧📖) to find out the stories behind these names.

📷West Mt Pelion, 1970, Tasmanian Archives: AA193/1/1477
📷A spell on the Pelion Plains - Pelion West and Ossa in background, 1955, Jack Thwaites Collection, Tasmanian Archives: NS3195/1/1348
📷Mt Pelion Trip - Paddy Hartnett on top of Mt Ossa, 1921, Frederick Smithies Collection, Tasmanian Archives: NS573/4/4/1/34
📷"Mt. Olympus from north of Lake St. Clair" by F. Smithies, 1925, Frederick Smithies Collection, Tasmanian Archives: NS3282/1/1
📷 “Mt Olympus" Taken by Brown & Durreau, print no.173., 1938, Tasmanian Archives: NS4894-1-15 Edit: actually Frenchman's Cap - the archival description will be updated.

#greekmyths #greeknames #mountains #pelion #ossa #olympus #overlandtrack #tasmania #discovertasmania #bushwalking #idioms #archivesofinstagram #mountainsofinstagram #historicphotos #nationalparks #summit #aerialphotography #hiking #hikingadventures @tasmaniaparks

Sunny☀️ days in Tassie at the moment. Make sur

Sunny☀️ days in Tassie at the moment. Make sure you get out and enjoy our gorgeous beaches 🏖🌞
Tasmanian Archives: Photograph - Coles Bay - beach 1980 AA193/1/1289 #archives #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #libraries #tassie #tasmania #hobart #hobartandbeyond #beach #beaches #summer #sunshine #weather #colesbay #colesbaybeach #librariestasmania

Happy New Year from @tasarchivesandheritage 🎊 T

Happy New Year from @tasarchivesandheritage 🎊 This sketch of New Year Island is from a volume of drawings by Francis Russell Nixon (1803 - 1879) the first bishop of Tasmania. #archives #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #libraries #tassie #tasmania #tasmanianhistory #tassiehistory #hobartandbeyond #newyearisland #drawings #art

The Tasmanian Archives are closed for the Christma

The Tasmanian Archives are closed for the Christmas and New Year break. See you in 2021!

📷 Tasmanian Archives: ‘Photograph- Cradle trip- Christmas 1939/40’, Jack Thwaites Collection, NS3195/2/2278.

#hobartandbeyond #tassielife #tasmania #tasmanianhistory #tasarchives

Dresses and smiles all around @ the 1949 YMCA Valk

Dresses and smiles all around @ the 1949 YMCA Valkyries (the men’s group were the Vikings) Christmas party🎄 Tasmanian Archives: NS4479/1/1 #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #tasarchives #ymca #valkyrie #valkyries #1940s #1940sfashion #1940sstyle #tasmania #hobart #tasmanianhistory

A beautiful Van Dieman’s Land map newly digitise

A beautiful Van Dieman’s Land map newly digitised by our Digital Services department. This map was drawn and engraved by J.Rapkin - with illustrations by H. Warren. #tasarchives #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #vandiemensland #vandiemansland #hobart #hobartandbeyond #tassie #tasmania #map #maps #mapsofinstagram #tasmanianhistory

“Christmas doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Ch

“Christmas doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more.” - Dr Seuss 🎄🧑‍🎄🤶🎅. Tasmanian Archives: NS6404/1/14. Hobart - Collins Street, showing Christmas decorations outside Fitzgeralds store; shows two way street system #tasarchives #hobarttasmania #hobartandbeyond #tassie #tasmania #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #hobart #fitzgeralds #collinsstreet #christmas #christmasdecorations

Are you curious about the history of the land at y

Are you curious about the history of the land at your feet? Is there a plot of land that has been in your family for generations?
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The Tasmanian Names Index now includes records of 23,383 deeds of land grants to Tasmanian colonists between 1832-1935. You can find them under the new category ‘Land’.
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You can SEARCH these records by the name of the deed holder and the location. In the grant itself you will find reference points to indicate the precise location and boundaries of the plot. These often include names of neighbouring landholders or geographic features.

These were not the free land grants offered before 1831, but a grant by purchase from the Crown. The deed shows how much money was paid. For example, Henry Dobson paid 145 pounds for 1 acre in 1877, on what is now Wynyard Street in South Hobart. This would be about $19,823 in today’s terms. What a steal for land along the Hobart Rivulet! By contrast, in 1886, 110 pounds (or $14,233) bought William Baldock 99 acres in Poatina, Westmorland.

Thanks to our wonderful volunteers on #Digivol for your work on the transcription of this valuable resource

📷Prout, John Skinner, [Hobart Town Rivulet and Mount Wellington], painting, oil on canvas, 1847, Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania
📷Tasmanian Archives: RD1/1/83 p.153
📷Tasmanian Archives: AF394/1/109
#tasmaniannamesindex #land #alwayswasalwayswillbe #history #tasmanianhistory #discovertasmania #hobartandbeyond #hobartrivulet #mountwellington #colonialism #archivesofinstagram #librariestasmania

Looking for some inspiration for the Office Christ

Looking for some inspiration for the Office Christmas Pantomime?

📷 State Library of Tasmania, Murphy Poster Collection: ‘The Girl from Rectors’ (1910).

📷 State Library of Tasmania, Murphy Poster Collection: ‘The Devil’s Own Trick’ (1912).

📷 State Library of Tasmania, Murphy Poster Collection: ‘The Worst Woman in London’ (1903).

📷 State Library of Tasmania, Murphy Poster Collection: ‘The Night of the Party’ (1910).

Check our our Story for the full versions.

#tasarchives #tasmania #tassielife #hobartandbeyond #theatrehistory #theatrical #theatricalposters #christmaspanto

It’s Mo time! Swipe right for a sneak peek at t

It’s Mo time!
Swipe right for a sneak peek at the fun new exhibition in the Allport gallery this #movember

Prisoner John Beckett’s exuberant sub-nasal follicular proliferation entirely conceals the scar on his lower lip that was recorded in the physical description on his police record. Was this fuzziness fashion or function?

Come along to the Allport and discover moustaches of Tasmanian history, open from 16 November to 27 February 2021.

Tasmanian Archives, Photographic record and description of prisoners: GD128/1/2
#moustache #moustaches #stache #menshealth #menshealthawareness #allportlibraryandmuseumoffinearts #galleriesofinstagram #photographicexhibition #archivesofinstagram #history #discovertasmania #hobartandbeyond #moustachesofinstagram #moustachesoftheworld #facialhair #facialhairbros #beardsofinstagram

Kaparati Always was, always will be * * * * #naid

Kaparati
Always was, always will be
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#naidoc #naidocweek #naidoc2020
#country #palawa #palawakani #discovertasmania #alwayswasalwayswillbe

Tasmanian Archives, Jack Thwaites Collection: NS3195/1/3290

Palawa place names sourced from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre map. A link to this can be found in our bio.

Nupawula Always was, always will be * ‘Namplut

Nupawula
Always was, always will be
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‘Namplut told George Augustus Robinson this word as she led him through the country around the Great Western Tiers in July 1834. She said nupawula is also the name of a woman “that was taken up to the clouds and where she afterwards remained and danced”’
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#naidoc #naidocweek #naidoc2020
#country #palawa #palawakani #discovertasmania #alwayswasalwayswillbe

Tasmanian Archives: LPIC1/1/1166
Tasmanian Archives, Jack Thwaites Collection: NS3766/1/4

Palawa place names and provenance sourced from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre map. A link to this can be found in our bio.

Wukaluwikiwayna Always was, always will be * * *

Wukaluwikiwayna
Always was, always will be
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#naidoc #naidocweek #naidoc2020
#country #palawa #palawakani #discovertasmania #alwayswasalwayswillbe
Tasmanian Archives, Jack Thwaites Collection: NS3195/2/72, 856

Palawa place names sourced from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre map. A link to this can be found in our bio.

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