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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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Tis the season to be picking across our fair state ☀️as our temperate climate allows for a bumper fruit season with apricots 🍑 and cherries 🍒 aplenty.
#pickyourownfruit #tasmaniancherries #tasapricots #knowthyfarmer #farmgatemarket #tasarchives #dodgyladderclimbing
AB713/1/1646 Photograph - Penna, boys picking apricots
AB713/1/1648 Photograph - Penna, loading trailer with apricots
AB713/1/1650 Photograph - Penna, apricot picking
NS6675 Images from Photograph Album of Donald M White

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Tasmania’s landscape has inspired many literary endeavours, great and small. We recently stumbled across this little book of poetry celebrating every corner of our wonderful island.
Meyer, F.C, 1940, Bijoux of Mountains and Valleys of Tasmania, (Hobart: The Mercury Press)
#poetry #discovertasmania #hobartandbeyond #book #librariesofinstagram #tasmania #traveltasmania #tasmaniandevil

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What a racquet! Remember a time when tennis rackets were hand-crafted works of art and used for the perfect overhead smash, rather than smashed in frustration? These beauties were made by the Alexander Patent Racquet Company in Launceston, which from 1926 constructed the world’s first laminated frame racquets. The range included the ‘Hurricane’, the ‘Mersey’, the ‘Golden Topspin’, and the famous ‘Cressy Perfect’ which was in the hand of Jack Crawford when he won Wimbledon in 1933. #hobartinternational #tennisaustralia #hobartandbeyond #launceston
Tasmanian Archives: AB713/1/3368; AB713/1/3353; AB713/1/3377.

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🏖Summer holiday fashions deed 👗 in Tasmania, January 1931 🏄‍♀️ 🌊
The Illustrated Tasmanian Mail, 14 January 1931
#summer #discovertasmania #hobartandbeyond #bridport #shacklife #surfing #nostalgia #beachfashion #cliftonbeach #tassiesummer #aussiesummer

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That’a a wrap 🎁 from us for 2019. Thank you to all our loyal followers. Bring on 2020! 🎉

Libraries Tasmania will be closed for Christmas. We will open again with slightly reduced hours on the 27th and return to normal opening hours on the 6th of January 2020.
Coffee Palace on Collins Street, Hobart (now the Imperial building), 1895. Tasmanian Archives: PH30/1/914 #librariesofinstagram #librariestasmania #hobartandbeyond #tasmania #libraries #archivesofinstagram #library #librarians #tassie #christmas #tassiechristmas #aussiechristmas #launceston #hobart

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🎄 We hope your office Christmas party is as much fun as this one at the Visual Aids Centre in 1951. 🎅
#christmasparty #Christmas #santa #christmaspudding #costumeparty #holidays #sillyseason #tasmania #tasarchives #librariestasmania #hobartandbeyond #hobart 🎄
Tasmanian Archives: AB713/1/596-598, 601. Photographer D. Ibbot

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🎁🎄 🎶 Tis the season to go shopping 🎶🎄🎁🛍 Eastlands Shopping centre, Christmas 1970s, Tasmanian Archives: AB713-1-12182
#retrochristmas #rosny #tasmania #throwback #history #archivesofinstagram #christmasshopping #christmaskitsch #christmas

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New kids on the block!
Thanks to our volunteers on DigiVol we have a new set of records in the Tasmanian Names Index!
In 1827, Governor Arthur ordered the police magistrates of Van Diemen’s Land to compile a census of children. This detailed snapshot of the colony’s youth gives us fascinating insights into the early life of a generation.
To get to these records on our website go to the Names Index and select Census and the year range 1820-1833

Image: [Group of children] C.L Allport, HA718, Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania
#data #familyhistory #digivol #crowdsourcing #history #tasmanianhistory #tasarchives #tasmaniannamesindex #genealogy #childhood #19thcentury

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Looking for people who have done the splits in the past? We have just uploaded an index to divorces from 1921-1950 into the Tasmanian Names Index. 👫💍✂️ P.S the files are not digitised, but you can order copies from our website.
#tasarchives #tasmaniannamesindex #familyhistory #genealogy #archives #divorce #divorcesucks #divorcestories #divorcecourt #courtrecords
Tasmanian Archives: AB713/1/6983

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After fire and after rain... Glass plate negative from the collection of Ash, Bester and co.
Tasmanian Archives,c1910: NS4077-1-166

#tasarchives #glassplatenegative #historicphotos #horseandbuggy #tasmania

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A family home adorned with greenery and flags to celebrate a young soldier’s return home to Hobart in 1920. We will remember them.
Photograph- House of Christopher Bassett Williams - 114 Molle Street (“Golygfa”). Williams Family welcoming soldier back from World War One (1920), NS2107/1/7

#RemembranceDay #tasarchives #hobartandbeyond

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Remember, remember the Fifth of November! On this day in 1909, Hobart had its own impromptu Guy Fawkes celebration: ‘A Volcano of Fire!’ and ‘A Hurricane of Sparks’ ensured that within ten minutes the Hobart Exhibition Hall was no more.
The Daily Post reported: ‘Tongues of the mighty element writhed and hissed and crackled amongst the thousand articles contained within the building. And in the eye-scaring mass could be distinguished tortured forms of bicycles, agricultural machinery, great beams of wood and iron, and the crackling remains of heaps that once were furniture.’
NS392/1/388: Photograph- Hobart- City Hall, Hobart- fire destroys hall- Guy Fawkes Day, 1909- view shows ruined interior and also view of Theatre Royal roof and Mariner’s Church. Cecil Percy Ray (Photographer)

#guyfawkesday #tasarchives #fire #hobartandbeyond

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The first Australian agricultural show was held in Tasmania (then Van Diemens Land) in December 1822 at the Old Market Place (location of Salamanca Market). Today high adrenaline rides, show bags and side show alley have replaced awards: "one guinea be given to each of the 10 male servants in husbandry...prisoners of the crown...who have conducted themselves in the most exemplary manner" Hobart Town Gazette, 1822.
NS392/1/396 Photograph - Agricultural Show - side shows - shows boxing tent and contestants c 1900
NS869/1/147 Photograph - Royal Hobart Agricultural Show c 1920's
NS869/1/145 Photograph - Royal Hobart Agricultural Show c 1920's
AB713/1/1520 Photograph - Royal Hobart Agricultural Show, families eating lunch
AB713/1/1521 Photograph - Royal Hobart Agricultural Show, children buying Cadbury sample bags
#hobartshow #agriculturalshows #showbags #blackandwhitephotography #tasarchvies
😉🐐🐏🐔🐃🐖🐄🍭🍗☔

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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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