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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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"I have been invited to create a body of work in r

"I have been invited to create a body of work in response to the Allport gallery's Baudin voyage collection from 1802. This exhibition is a contemporary Aboriginal artist's response to portraits of ancestors created by non-Aboriginal persons as an important part of lutruwita's/Tasmania's history."
– Rodney Gardner, palawa artist, Launceston

Now open in the Allport gallery

#LibrariesTasmania #exhibition #lutruwita #lutruwitaartist #palawa #art #portrait #landscape #watercolour

Skiing anyone? Spring snow has covered much of Tas

Skiing anyone? Spring snow has covered much of Tasmania overnight, with snow falling in parts of Hobart! ❄️❄️⛄️⛄️

📷Tasmanian Archives: National Park- skiing (1928), NS1029/1/154.

📷 Tasmanian Archives, Jack Thwaites Collection: Official Opening Southern Tasmanian Ski Association’s Ski Tow- Mt Mawson- National Park (1963), NS3195/1/2936.

#tasmanianarchives #librariestasmania #librariesofinstagram #archives #hobartandbeyond #hobarttasmania #tasmania #tasmanianparks #getcurious

Do you use our Tasmanian Names Index to dig up det

Do you use our Tasmanian Names Index to dig up details of your ancestors, search out stories from the past, or explore human data? Check out our latest blog post to learn some clever tricks for burrowing into the one million, fifty-eight thousand entries to find the ones that are meaningful to you.

📷Rosny College, students using computer with a ticker tape printout, Tasmanian Archives: AB713/1/12378

#LibrariesTasmania #TasArchives #research #genealogy #FamilyHistory #BigData #TasmanianHistory

Tasmania: It's Like A Breath Of Fresh Air (1988) A

Tasmania: It's Like A Breath Of Fresh Air (1988) AB869/1/2649
Interviews with couples and families and their life in Tasmania. Includes Lyn and Jack Thomas (Hamilton, Glen Clyde House), Frank and Hilda Hammond (Derwent Waters, Hobart), Hans and Angela Ruckert (Sandy Bay, Baby Paws Company), Maxine and George Manifold (Latrobe), Howells family (Lenah Valley). #tasmanianarchives #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #librariestasmania #statelibraryoftasmania #hobartandbeyond #tasmanianhistory #tassie #tasmanianhistory #tassiehistory #film #tasmania #tasmanianfilm

Good news Southern Taswegians!! The three day Sout

Good news Southern Taswegians!! The three day Southern Tasmania lockdown will end as planned at 6 pm Monday 18 October 2021.
Southern libraries will re-open with normal opening hours from Tuesday 19 October.
In line with public health requirements and subject to further updates, all visitors to southern libraries, aged 12 and over, will be required to wear a mask at all times until 6 pm Friday 22 October 2021.

Visitors to our other libraries aged 12 and over who have travelled from the south of the state will also be required to wear a mask. #staysafe #wearamask #librariesofinstagram #archivesofinstagram

Discover some of the @tasarchivesandheritage recen

Discover some of the @tasarchivesandheritage recently digitised treasures available on our website. In the 1940s, after the Second World War, Lois Symonds corresponded with a young German couple, Walter and Margot Appel, and sent them photographs. These photographs were returned to a local family who, in turn, donated them to the Tasmanian Archives. The photographs are inscribed by Lois on the back with details explaining each image and the handwritten text illustrates the nice easy "pen-friendship" that is not so common today. 📸 Tasmanian Archives: NS5622/1/3 Lois Symonds, in costume outside family home, annotated with notes. #librariestasmania #librariesofinstagram #archivesofinstagram #libraries #archives #penpals #writing #ww2 #hobartandbeyond #tasmania #tasmanianhistory #tasmanianphotography #tasmanianphotographs #getcurious #getthefullpicture

COVID-19 Library Closures : Southern Region. From

COVID-19 Library Closures : Southern Region. From Friday 15 October at 6:00 pm, the Southern Region of Tasmania will enter a lockdown until Monday 18 October at 6:00 pm. @tasarchivesandheritage is temporarily closed. Stay safe everyone #lockdown #hobartandbeyond #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #librariestasmania #91murraystreet

Speeches, picnics and wood-chopping competitions c

Speeches, picnics and wood-chopping competitions celebrated the formal opening of the National Park at Mount Field on this day in 1917. This area is part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, and an important place for Tasmanian Aboriginal Peoples. National Park is famous for its waterfalls, including the beautiful and iconic Russell Falls.

📷 Tasmanian Archives: National Park Opening Ceremony (1917), NS869/1/298.
📷Tasmanian Archives: Russell Falls, National Park- prepared by JW Beattie (1900), PH40/1/576
📷Tasmanian Archives: Opening Ceremony [Chopping Match] (1917), NS869/1/303.

#tasarchives #librariestasmania #91stories #tassielife #tasmanianhistory #tasmania #nationalparks #mountfield #hobart

☀️ Always sunny? ☀️ Come to Sunnylands: Ho

☀️ Always sunny? ☀️ Come to Sunnylands: Hobart's premier residential and town planned suburb. Advertisement by Sunnylands Real Estate Pty. Ltd. for the sale of residential and business sites on the newly developed area of the Eastern shore of Hobart. #tasmania #easternshore #tasmanianhistory #realestate #tassie #tassierealestate #tasmanianrealestate #sunnylands #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #libraries #archives #librariestasmania #hobart #hobartandbeyond

#WorldRiversDay 🌏 “Rivers are roads which mov

#WorldRiversDay 🌏 “Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.” - Blaise Pascal. 📸Tasmanian Archives: LPIC1/6/47 Photograph - Huon River.
#worldriversday2021 #rivers #huonriver #tasmanianrivers #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #statelibrary #statelibraryoftasmania #libraries #librariestasmania #huonvalley #hobart #hobartandbeyond #tassie #tasmania #nature #tasmanianwilderness #tasmaniannature

Hobart, could today be a Snow Day? Is it possible

Hobart, could today be a Snow Day? Is it possible that later today we might happily be throwing snowballs in the air?

📷 Playing in the snow at Sorell [Cole Street, shows Gordon Highlander Hotel] (1896), NS1553/1/371.

#snowbart #librariestasmania #noshoes #tasarchives #91stories #tassielife #tasmanianhistory #tasmania #sorell #hobart #hobartandbeyond

All Aboard! Who remembers the train cake from the

All Aboard! Who remembers the train cake from the Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake Book? Today the State Library and Archive Service Team celebrated 150 Years of Tasmanian Railways, including making (and eating) a M Class Locomotive! Check out the historic railway photographic exhibitions in your local library, and online at the Tasmanian Archives and State Library Flickr album.

📷Tasmanian Archives: Hobart Wharves, M Class Locomotives on Christian Smith (1952), AB713/1/751.

#librariestasmania #tasarchives #91stories #150yearsoftasmanianrail #tassielife #tasmania #tasmanianhistory #hobartandbeyond #archivesofinstagram #railway

“The natural world is in serious trouble and it

“The natural world is in serious trouble and it needs our help as never before. We continue to lose the precious wildlife that enriches our lives.” - David Attenborough
📷 Tasmanian Archives: AA193/1/966 Photograph - Wandering Albatross (Diomedia exulands) 🐦
📷 Tasmanian Archives: AA193/1/977 Photograph - Wedge tailed Eagle 🦅 #tasarchives #librariestasmania #libraries #threatenedspecies #threatenedspeciesday #threatenedspeciesday2021 #albatross #eagle #wedgetailedeagle #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #tasmania #discovertasmania #hobartandbeyond #tassie

Are you ready for spring, Tassie?🌼☀️🌻🌾🌿🍃🐝
📷 Tasmanian Archives: LPIC1/7/297 Orchard in early spring
📷 Tasmanian Archives: LPIC1/1/461 Dicot, Leguminosae, Acacia deadbeta (Spring Hill, looking south)
📷 Tasmanian Archives: LPIC1/1/498 Dicot, Leguminosae, Acacia deadbeta (Spring Hill, looking south) #tasarchives #librariestasmania #hobartandbeyond #launcestonandbeyond #tassie #tasmania #spring #statelibrary #statelibraryoftasmania #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #springtime #springtimevibes #springtimevibes

Our snow-laden mountain from the ‘birdcage’ at

Our snow-laden mountain from the ‘birdcage’ at the very top of the tower at 91 Murray Street 🏔
#snowbart
#91stories
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#librariestasmania
#GetCurious
#LocallyTold #library
#archivesofinstagram #hobarttasmania #tasmania #statelibraryoftasmania

Earlier this year, we asked you to nominate your f

Earlier this year, we asked you to nominate your favourite treasures from within the Libraries Tasmania cultural collections, and to tell us why that item mattered to you.

Today, we are thrilled to announce that the 91 Stories exhibition is NOW OPEN!

Click the link in our bio for more information.
#LibrariesTasmania #91Stories #GetCurious #LocallyTold #hobarttasmania #hobartandbeyond #library #librariesofinstagram #archivesofinstagram #statelibraryoftasmania #allportlibraryandmuseumoffinearts #tasmania #tasmanianhistory #tasmanianstories

August is National Family History Month (NFHM) and

August is National Family History Month (NFHM) and Libraries Tasmania is once again holding a series of talks at 91 Murray Street, Hobart. Check the link in our bio to book yourself a spot at one or more of the upcoming talks 🌳 #nfhm #nationalfamilyhistorymonth #librariesofinstagram #archivesofinstagram #familyhistory #hobartandbeyond #tassie #tasmania #tasmanianhistory #research #familytree #tasarchives

New blog! How did the clean up of old railway re

New blog!
How did the clean up of old railway records lead to the discovery of these tiny, secret drawings? ✒️📜Who drew them and why? Click the link in our bio to find out.
#archivesofinstagram #tasarchives #nationalarchives #cartoons #caricature #art #railways #librariestasmania @naagovau
Weekly Courier 19/9/1912, photographic insert 4
Tasmanian Archives: P1330/1/1591

The @tasarchivesandheritage blog has a brand new p

Recently digitised and added to our online archive

Recently digitised and added to our online archive. Spectacular photos taken by Andrew Watson on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914.
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📷 Tasmanian Archives: NS6607/1/1 Photograph - stereophotograph - Huskies in the Antarctic 1911-14 [Training dogs on the floe beneath the Shackleton Shelf] / Photographer A Watson
📷 Tasmanian Archives: ND6607/1/7 Photograph - stereophotograph - Some of the party on board at Macquarie Island / Photographer A Watson #tasarchives #libraries #librariesofinstagram #archives #tasmania #hobartandbeyond #antarctica #tassiehistory #huskies #tassie #librariestasmania #statelibraryoftasmania

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