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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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As all traditional gardeners know it is nearly time to plant out those frost hardened tomato seedlings! Here students at Hagley Farm School tend to their greenhouse seedlings 🍅🌱❄
AB713/1/8062 Photograph - Hagley Farm School, student transplanting tomato seedlings in a greenhouse
#nearlyshowday #tasarchvies #tomatoplants #hagleyfarmschool

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Treasures in the library are not just books. Sometimes it is what's in the book that is fascinating. Dr Brown's 'Florae Novae-Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen' (1810).
This botanist manual had additional pages for writing notes and was owned by Dr. Storey of Kelvedon and includes his notations and some plant samples! #LibrariesTasmania #archivesofinstagram #botanicalarchives #hobartbotanicalgardens 📖✒🌳🍃🌿

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Here at the State Library and Archive Service we wish your children happy term holidays and a break from the usual stresses of school life!
PH30/1/7491 - Photograph School Activities, 1950
#schoolactivities #LibrariesTasmania #blackandwhitephotography #fightclub #schoollife 😕💥💪🔔

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The latest exhibition in the #allportgallery is A Shipwrecked Life, by visiting artist Caroline Amos. It explores the life of Jorgen Jorgenson, that extraordinary character who served time in Van Diemen’s Land as a convict, but whose biography is strewn across the historical record in roles as diverse as adventurer, scholar, gambler, doctor, captain and even King of Iceland!

Visit the Allport Eventbrite for details of school holiday programs with the artist in the gallery’s #childrensartspace
#allportlibraryandmuseumoffinearts #librariestasmania #discovertasmania #hobartandbeyond #thingstodoinhobart #exhibition #art #tasmania #jorgenjorgenson

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On the blog: Tales of the unexpected...
Librarian Ian Morrison delves into the secret histories of 4 items in our State Library ‘Tasmaniana’ collection

Image: Fragment of Hobart Town Courier, 1833, in binding of Mrs W Fletcher’s music album, vol.1. Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Libraries Tasmania

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In 1827, Governor Arthur ordered the police magistrates of Van Diemen’s Land to take a census of children 👶 in need of schooling 🧮📚. Archdeacon Scott ⛪️had arrived and prompted moral reform. The census informed the establishment of schools such as the Queen’s Orphan School in New Town, which took in orphans and children whose parents couldn’t support their education.

The index to this census is now being transcribed by volunteers on Digivol. Create an account now to help us to transcribe this resource. You will be helping to contribute to the #tasmaniannamesindex and help ing to inform research into family histories, social welfare, education, convicts and early colonial life.

#orphanschool #coloniallife #tasmania #vandiemensland #digivol #census #education #tasarchives #archivesofinstagram
Image: Allport, Curzona Louise, study of a child’s head, ALMFA, Libraries Tasmania

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A whaling ship’s log used as a child’s writing practice? Esther Mary Paul was the niece of Captain Jacobs and his wife, both of whom sailed the South Seas in the 1850s. Esther was born in 1860 and might have been given the ledger to use as scrap paper when writing lines. “Be a good girl Esther Mary”
“Be kind to thy relations”
“Behave at Sunday school”
“Write slow and write well”
Search our website for CRO83/1/3 to see the digital copy of this whole volume.
#archivesofinstagram #19thcentury #tasarchives #beagoodgirl #southseas #whalingwives

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The Jack Thwaites collection of photographs reveal his love of dogs, as well as the Tasmanian wilderness. Happy #internationaldogday #tasarchives #archivesofinstagram #tasmania #dogsoftasmania #dogsofinstagram
Ernie Bond and his dog on the Rasselas Track n.d. NS3251/1/1380
Bill Thwaites in the garden with dog. NS3195/1/913
Ann and Bill Thwaites with dog NS3195/1/913
Blythe Ritchie's labrador dog with a fairy penguin on the beach near Cape Grim NS3195/2/348

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Celebrating🎉 the completion of a long-running volunteer project to make all of the 19th century arrivals of free settlers to Tasmania searchable through our website.
This 🍰represents the Flying Squirrel, one of the ships that carried 94,526 named passengers to Van Diemen’s Land. Why not type a name into the Libraries Tasmania search bar to discover your family’s origins?

A huge thank you and congratulations to all of our volunteers and staff who have worked on this project, which has been active since before 2008!

#cakeableoffence #archivesofinstagram #hobartandbeyond #familyhistorymonth #genealogy #maritimehistory

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“BOTHER IT!”
This act of vandalism on an 1835 land grant deed is quite appalling. We can only speculate about what frustrations led the person to deface an official document with such obscenity. Any ideas?
Deeds of Land Grants RD1/1/1 p.279
#archivesofinstagram #tasarchives #historic #research

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Another of our images reposted from @hellohobarttasmania
Check out the gorgeous fashions in this #historichobart photo we came across.👒👗 Collins Street, Hobart, 1957.
📸 AB713-1-5567 Tasmanian Archives

#hobartandbeyond #tasarchives #archivesofinstagram

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Repost of one of our historic archival photos used by @hellohobarttasmania
Old school 🚗 and not a🚦in sight.
#historichobart photo of Macquarie Street, Hobart. 📷 AB713-1-5602 Tasmanian Archives

#hellohobart #discovertasmania #hobart #tassiestyle #hobartandbeyond

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Silence and solitude. It might sound pleasant for a while, but for inmates of Port Arthur’s Separate Prison, the punishment system of solitary confinement could do serious harm. PhD candidate Honey Dower has been using our wonderful convict records to research the effects of the prison on inmates.
You can read more about The prison’s history in an article written by Georgie Burgess on abc.net.au
Images: NS1013/1/1937; PWD266/1/1822; AUTAS0016125426361
#tasarchives #research #prison #solitude #heritage #hobartandbeyond #portarthur #history #librariestasmania #convicthistory

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On the blog: The origins of the myth that Tasmanians have two heads and the role of public education in fighting disease, malnutrition and poor health.
#150yearsofpubliceducation #education #publichealth #schoolmilk #goiter #tasmania #archivesofinstagram #archives #tasmania #hobartandbeyond @tasgoveducation

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Golly Miss Gillion, it’s nearly a million! Our index of Tasmanian Names is on track to reach a million names by the end of August (which is Family History Month)! That’s a million stories, a million meaningful records that have been photographed and given personal details, so that you can pop a name into our search bar and discover the lives of people like Miss Gillion here. Map your family history, or someone else’s!
Check out the talks, tours and treasures on show in your local library for #familyhistorymonth #nfhm #archives #libraries #discovertasmania #discovertasmanians #hobartandbeyond #amillionnames
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/allport-library-and-museum-of-fine-arts-8036281933
Miss Gillion (or Gellion) was a season ticket holder for the 1894 Tasmanian International Exhibition.
Image: NS738/1/1021

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“neither a pleasant nor a safe country to live in, for the greatest part of the settlers are men who were wicked in their own country, and become still more so here…. The children of such parents are not likely to be brought up to any good … It is better to live among the fiercest wild beasts than amongst wicked and hard-hearted men.” This comes from a fourth year geography lesson in an Irish National Reader (like the one pictured), which were used as textbooks for public school students in Van Diemen’s Land up until 1885.
Check out our blog to find our more about what learning was like for children in this far-flung colony.
#schoolholidays #hobartandbeyond #textbooks #tasarchives #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #archives #150yearsofpubliceducation

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When you govern with an iron fist and love to micromanage the daily running of a colony you produce lots of paperwork!
The State Library and Archive Service team have recently added 3495 records to the Tasmanian Names Index from the Colonial Secretaries Office, Governor Arthur period 1824-1836 (A-L index references). These files contain everything…chases, escapes, murders, abductions, accusations and misunderstandings, heartfelt appeals from convicts to have their sentences lessened or their family brought to the colony, fortunes made and fortunes lost.

You can now search the first part of the index* to the Colonial Secretary’s correspondence (1824-1836) using the Tasmanian Names Index (pop a name into the search bar on the Libraries Tasmania website) *This is just the index. You can find the files themselves on microfilm in our reading room, or through Family Search
#digivol #tasarchives #tasmaniannamesindex #statelibraryoftasmania #heritage #discovertasmania

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Congratulations to The Mercury newspaper on 165 years in print 📰 🗞 AB713/1/651 Man reading The Mercury newspaper 1952
#newspaper #news #tassienews #tasmania #hobartandbeyond #hobart #themercury #daviesbrothers #archivesofinstagram #librariestasmania #librariesofinstagram #newspapers #tasmanianhistory

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“Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills” Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
Saint-Pierre’s novel Paul and Virginia is about a tragic, innocent romance. Written in 1788, it became a classic of its age, inspiring many artists with its depiction of humans living in harmony with nature. One such artist was our own Mary Morton Allport who painted the miniatures in the first picture around 1838. Although titled Paul and Virginia, the models for the portraits are believed to be Tasmanian settlers Alfred Stephen and wife Eleanor Martha Pickard Bedford.
The second image is a plate from an 1865 copy of Paul and Virginia from the Crowther collection.

In Mary Morton Allport’s book of treasures, Allport Library 📚 and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania
#enlightenment #backtonature #pauletvirginie #literature #tasarchives

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🍞🍡🎉Fairy bread was invented in Tasmania! The first mention of bread, butter and 100’s and 1000’s as a party treat was in 1929, as part of an event for the Children’s Sanatorium. This year is the 90th anniversary of this classic party food.
The Mercury, 25/4/1929
Photo: Tasmanian Archives, AB713-1-5063
#party #tasarchives #tassie #tasmania #tasmanianhistory #tassiehistory #fairybread #invention @themercuryphotos
P.S. 🎉 fairy bread day is celebrated on November 24th. Get your sprinkles ready #fairybreadday

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