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Time-balls and feminism

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

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Hey, it’s Agfest! Celebrating all things agricul

Hey, it’s Agfest! Celebrating all things agricultural in Tasmania, particularly the contribution of rural youth. First held in 1983, Agfest is run by the Rural Youth Organisation of Tasmania.

📷Tasmanian Archives, Mercury Historical Collection: ‘Harvesting Scenes, Richmond District, farming, agriculture, horse and cart’ (1930-40), NS4023/1/272.

#91stories #tasmanianarchives #tasmanianarchivesandheritage #getcurious #statelibraryoftasmania #agfest #tasmania #discovertasmania

On the blog: When the Iron Horse (railways) came t

On the blog: When the Iron Horse (railways) came to Tasmania 150 years ago there was great excitement and enthusiasm that this great modernising force would invigorate the countryside. However, the cost of this infrastructure was overwhelming, and people were not too happy!! Read all about it in ‘The Railway Rate, a Riot, and the Railway Hotel at Longford’.

📷Tasmania Archives: Longford Railway Bridge (1863-65), NS1442/1/10.

#91stories #tasmanianarchives #getcurious #statelibraryoftasmania #railways #trains #longford #tasmania #tasmania

Take a trip to the tropics with our latest #Allpor

Take a trip to the tropics with our latest #Allport exhibition 🏝
Open now!
Banks’ Florilegium - Society Islands, 1769 is an exhibition showcasing stunning botanical plates made from specimens taken during Captain Cook’s first voyage.
Linger over the sumptuous detail of the flowers and foliage, then wander down to the library to learn more about the expedition and how these wonderful illustrations were produced.
Showing in the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Ground floor 91 Murray St until 31 July
#botanicalart #art #tahiti #flowers #floral #exhibition #voyagesofdiscovery #josephbanks #captaincook #florilegium #societyislands #copperplateengraving #botany #librariestasmania #allportmuseumoffinearts #tasmanianarchives #statelibrarytasmania

Meet Trixie 🦋 Trixie Meech was a student of the

Meet Trixie 🦋 Trixie Meech was a student of the famous Beattie Jordan Dance Studio when she was photographed by Jack Cato (c.1920). Trixie, as she was always known, was born in Hobart in 1909, and went on to become a dance teacher herself.

You will soon be seeing Trixie everywhere as part of the Libraries Tasmania #91Stories campaign and exhibition. Find out more about the stories and how you can share your own story via the link in our Instagram bio.

📷Tasmanian Archives: Photographs of theatrical performers - Trixie Meech (front view) in butterfly costume - Jack Cato photographer NS2490/1/1
📷Tasmanian Archives: Photographs of theatrical performers - Trixie Meech (back view) in butterfly costume - Jack Cato photographer NS2490/1/1
#statelibraryoftasmania #librariestasmania #tasmanianarchives #91stories #tasmania #getcurious #murraystreet #91murraystreet #hobartandbeyond #tassie #tasmanianhistory #history #dance #beattiedancestudio #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #tasmanianstories

Celebrating the soft colours and warm shades of a

Celebrating the soft colours and warm shades of a Tasmanian autumn!
📷Tasmanian Archives: Morilla Estate in autumn- colour photograph by Ralph Clarke (1989), PH30/1/9230.
📷 Tasmanian Archives: Fitzroy Gardens, Autumn scene, children walking in leaves (1957), AB713/1/5937.
📷 Tasmanian Archives, Thomas E. Burns Collection: Royal Park in autumn (1957-77), LPIC1/6/8
#statelibrarytasmania #tasmanianarchives #91stories #getcurious #discovertasmania #morilla #mona #tassielife #hobartandbeyond #tasmania

Happy Easter to all our happy hoppy followers 🐰

Happy Easter to all our happy hoppy followers 🐰🐣The Tasmanian Archives are closed for the Easter break. We’ll return on Wednesday April 7th 🍂 Tasmanian Archives: NS1553/1/47 Teenage girl holding rabbit #tasarchives #archivesofinstagram #easter #happyeaster #rabbit #rabbitsofinstagram #rabbits #librariestasmania #statelibraryoftasmania #tasmanianarchives #tassie #tasmania

Love a tinkle of the ivories, or a good family sin

Love a tinkle of the ivories, or a good family singsong around the upright? Today is World Piano Day, so we are celebrating the power that music has in forging friendships, as an outlet for creativity, and for education and learning.

📷Tasmanian Archives: ‘Albuera Street School, music club’ (1958), AB713/1/6336.

📷Tasmanian Archives: ‘Sight-saving School, visually disabled student and teacher at piano’ (1958), AB713/1/6673.

📷Tasmanian Archives: ‘Miss E. Taylor, New Dover Hotel, Port Esperance, Instrument: Pianoforte’, Pianoforte Ledgers (1901- 1905), J. Walch & Sons, NS67/1/1.

📷Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts: Curzona Frances Louise Allport, ‘Two Ladies and a Piano’.

#tasmanianarchives #statelibraryoftasmania #allport #allportlibraryandmuseumoffinearts #tasmania #worldpianoday2021 #music #musicislife

🐶 #InternationalPuppyDay 🐶 Tasmanian Archiv

🐶 #InternationalPuppyDay 🐶 Tasmanian Archives: AB713/1/1438 Photograph - Cadbury Factory, Joyce feeds dog chocolate, #puppies #puppiesofinstagram #puppiesofaustralia #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #dogs #dogsofinstagram #nationalpuppyday #librariesofinstagram #tasarchives #puppy #hobartandbeyond #puppylove

“I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, th

“I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.” - Maya Angelou Tasmanian Archives: NS2487/1/43 Group of women wearing first aid uniform during World War 1, taken at North Motton school shelter shed- L to R - Nita Tongs, Grace Guthrie, Mabel Delaney, ?, Miss Faye, Edna Billing, Miss Faye, Mary Shadbolt, Mary Johnstone & Bess Lines. #women #tasarchives #tasmania #librariesofinstagram #archivesofinstagram #march4justice #nurses #worldwar1 #worldwar #nurse #empoweringwomen #history #tasmanianhistory #womeninhistorymonth #womeninhistory

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?
🎓🏫🚸
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

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