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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 Elizabeth BrownPosted 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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Tasmania Reads: An Application to the Orphan School (Part Two: The Answer and Historical Background)
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Tasmania Reads: Sir John Franklin and his Expedition of 1845 (Part Two: The Answer and Historical Background)
Tasmania Reads: Sir John Franklin and his Expedition of 1845 (Part One: The Challenge)
Tasmania Reads: Reading an entry from the Log of the Whaling Ship Chance (Part Two: The Answer and Historical Background)

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🎞️ #FilmFriday Last year the @statelibrary.ar

🎞️ #FilmFriday Last year the @statelibrary.archives.tas moved from our repository in Berriedale to our new facility in Geilston Bay. With so many precious Tasmanian records in our custody and many more to collect, we needed more room. However for many decades the Berriedale facility was home to the Treasures and records of Tasmania’s history. This guided tour of the Berriedale Repository by Government Archivist Nicki Ottavi offers a behind the scenes look at the Tasmanian Archives #librariestasmania #tasarchives #statelibraryoftasmania #librariesofinstagram #archivesofinstagram #tasmania #berriedale #hobartandbeyond #tassiehistory #tasmanianhistory #getcurious

👗👘🥻🩰Get Curious and go behind the scen

👗👘🥻🩰Get Curious and go behind the scenes of the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts exhibition, Fancy Dress: Tutus to cosplay. The exhibition showcases 130 years of dress ups, from the downright bizarre to the truly magnificent. #librariestasmania #librariesofinstagram #tasarchives #statelibraryoftasmania #allportlibraryandmuseumoffinearts #allportlibrary #hobartandbeyond #tasmania #costumes #fancydress #getcurious

#TuesdayTreasures ⭐️ This toy theatre set from

#TuesdayTreasures ⭐️ This toy theatre set from c.1740 is made up of six panels, creating a three-dimensional view of a dramatic whaling scene. In the centre of the scene a group of five Dutch ships cluster around a group of breaching whales, a group of men in two small row boats can be seen harpooning whales. In the lower left corner of the scene two polar bears are sitting on ice.
The toy theatre drops were printed in Amsterdam by Louis Foubert. Not a great deal is known about Foubert, although he is known to have been active in Amsterdam from the 1730s, particularly printing illustrated books, including works on the latest fashionable dances. From the early seventeenth-century the hunting of bowhead whales in the waters off Greenland had been fiercely pursued by several European nations, not least among them the Dutch, who founded their Noordsche Compagnie in 1614. A century later, Dutch whaling was a massive operation, sending scores of vessels into the region. 📷 State Library of Tasmania: Set of printed toy theatre drops depicting whaling scenes / by Louis Foubert ; Boekverkoper in de Gaaper Steeg, de Groen Lantse Vissery.
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🎥 #FilmFriday Celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth w

🎥 #FilmFriday Celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth with this amazing footage of the Women’s Air Training Corps in 1941 👩‍✈️ ✈️ 🎞️ Tasmanian Archives: Women’s Air Training Corps (1941) NS1960/1/1 #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #tassie #tasmania #hobartandbeyond #librariestasmania #getcurious #tasarchives #statelibraryoftasmania #flying #pilots #femalepilots #womenshistory #aviation #historyofaviation #history #tasmanianhistory #armcorps #womeninthearmy

🩰 Fancy Dress: From tutus to cosplay, a gloriou

🩰 Fancy Dress: From tutus to cosplay, a glorious new free exhibition at the Allport, gives center stage to over 130 years of dress ups, from the downright bizarre to the truly magnificent. Now showing at the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts in Hobart from 10 March to 29 July 2023. 👗🥻👘👒🎩 #FancyDress #Allport #TenDaysTas
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@tasmaniareads State Library and Archives Final Ch

@tasmaniareads State Library and Archives Final Challenge Day 5 ✍️ Link in Bio. ⛵️
@statelibrary.archives.tas is issuing a challenge to Tasmanians to read five different examples of nineteenth century handwriting from our State Library Collections, each featuring a different set of records held in the Tasmanian State Archives.
Your fifth and final challenge is possibly the most difficult. It is an application to the Colonial Secretary for the immediate admission of John Garrity to the newly opened orphanage at New Town.
📖 TasmanianArchives: CSO5/1/86 File 1885 page 154
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@tasmaniareads State Library and Archives Challeng

@tasmaniareads State Library and Archives Challenge Day 4 ✍️ Link in Bio. ⛵️
@statelibrary.archives.tas is issuing a challenge to Tasmanians to read five different examples of nineteenth century handwriting from our State Library Collections, each featuring a different set of records held in the Tasmanian State Archives.
Your fourth challenge is to decipher a note made on a British Admiralty template by members of Sir Franklin’s ill-fated expedition for the Northern Passage of 1845. 📖 Tasmanian Archives: Jack Thwaites Collection, A Series of Stereoscopic Views of the "Franklin Relics" brought home in the "Fox" by Captain McClintock.-Sep 1859. Photographed by Lieut. Cheyne R.N.1860 from expedition of Sir John Franklin to find the N.W. Passage. 1859-1860 (1860) NS1155/1/20. #tasarchives #statelibraryoftasmania #getcurious #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #tasmania #franklin #johnfranklin #librariestasmania #tasmaniareads #tasmanianhistory

#InternationalWomensDay2023 🙋‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏿‍♀️”What’s the greatest lesson a woman should learn? That since day one, she’s already had everything she needs within herself. It’s the world that convinced her she did not.” - @rupikaur_ 📸 Launceston Manuscript Collection, Tasmanian Archives: Girls playing cricket, Broadland House School. Burrows Photo Studio. Launceston LPIC147/1/229. #internationalwomensday #cricket #launceston #launcestonandbeyond #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #statelibraryoftasmania #tasarchives #tasmania #tasmanianhistory #library #getcurious #tasmanianhistory #women #rupikaur

@tasmaniareads State Library and Archives Challeng

@tasmaniareads State Library and Archives Challenge Day 3 ✍️ Link in Bio. 🐋
@statelibrary.archives.tas is issuing a challenge to Tasmanians to read five different examples of nineteenth century handwriting from our State Library Collections, each featuring a different set of records held in the Tasmanian State Archives.
Your third challenge is to transcribe an entry from the log of the whaling ship Chance. Our collection of whaling material is significant - we hold logs, general records, published material on the topic, and an amazing collection of scrimshaw created by sailors. 📖 Crowther Library, State Library of Tasmania: Log - Chance (barque), [Southern Ocean?] - capt Scott [C2395] (1869-70), CRO82/1/9 p.7.

@tasmaniareads State Library and Archives Challeng

@tasmaniareads State Library and Archives Challenge Day 2✍️ Link in Bio.
@statelibrary.archives.tas is issuing a challenge to Tasmanians to read five different examples of nineteenth century handwriting from our State Library Collections, each featuring a different set of records held in the Tasmanian State Archives.
Your second challenge is to transcribe the conduct record of Isaac Solomon. The information in this section of the conduct record was mostly self-reported by convicts on their arrival to Van Dorman’s Land.
📖 Tasmanian Archives: Isaac Solomon, Conduct Registers of Male Convicts arriving in the Period of the Assignment System (1831), CON31/1/39 page 161
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@tasmaniareads State Library and Archives Challeng

@tasmaniareads State Library and Archives Challenge ✍️ Link in Bio.
@statelibrary.archives.tas is issuing a challenge to Tasmanians to read five different examples of nineteenth century handwriting from our Heritage Collections, each featuring a different set of records held in the Tasmanian State Archives.
Your first challenge is to transcribe this passage from the voyage of the Garland Grove, a convict transport that arrived In Van Diemen’s Land in 1843. The answer is provided in the blog that will be published later today. 📖 Tasmanian Archives: Abraham Harvey, Reminiscences of a Voyage on the Female Convict Ship Garland Grove, p.4 (1842-43), NS816/1/1. Abraham Harvey was the 2nd Officer on board the Garland Grove, which left England in August 1842 and arrived in Van Diemen's Land in January 1843. #tasmaniareads #statelibraryoftasmania #tasarchives #tasmanianarchives #librariesofinstagram #archivesofinstagram #tasmanianconvicts #tassie #tasmanianhistory

🎥 #FilmFriday Step back in time and visit the S

🎥 #FilmFriday Step back in time and visit the State Library of Tasmania 1950s style 📚 📖 📕 🎞️ Tasmanian Archives: For All Who Read (1955) AB869/1/1028. #statelibrary #statelibraryoftasmania #librariesofinstagram #archivesofinstagram #read #reading #tasmaniareads #hobartandbeyond #tasmania #tassiefilms #libraryhistory #getcurious

There’s been some changes to our study spaces in

There’s been some changes to our study spaces in the Reading Room, second floor, State Library building at 91 Murray Street 🎒📚#librariestasmania #studyspaces #statelibraryoftasmania #librariesofinstagram #archivesofinstagram #91murray #hobartandbeyond #tassie #tasmania

Behind the scenes at our new Archives repository @

Behind the scenes at our new Archives repository @ Geilston Bay. Rows and rows of precious volumes 🤩😍 📚 #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #geilstonbay #tasarchives #statelibraryoftasmania #librariestasmania #stack #archives #hobartandbeyond #tasmania #history #shelfie #tasmanianhistory

🎥 #FilmFriday 🍷 🍇 Another gem from the ‘Glimpses’ series profiling winemaking pioneer Claudio Alcorso. 🎞️ Tasmanian Archives: Glimpses: Claudio Alcorso- Moorilla Estate, Berriedale AB869/1/1150 #claudioalcorso #moorillawinery #moorillaestate #moorillaestatetasmania #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #tassie #tasmania #hobartandbeyond #librariestasmania #getcurious #tasarchives #statelibraryoftasmania #wine #winemaking #historyofwine #history #tasmanianhistory

☁️ It’s your last chance to catch Skying @ t

☁️ It’s your last chance to catch Skying @ the Allport Library and Museum☁️ Exhibition ends Saturday February 26th 🌧️ Skying: Cloudscapes in Tasmanian Art is an atmospheric installation by Tasmanian artist Tracey Cockburn, exploring the unique and ephemeral qualities of light and clouds in Tasmanian painting, through contemporary print techniques. #getcurious #statelibraryoftasmania #librariestasmania #allportlibraryandmuseumoffinearts #allportlibrary #art #librariesofinstagram #archivesofinstagram #tasmania #tassie #mountains #hobart #hobartandbeyond

#FilmFriday 🎞️ A fixture in Hobart since 1972

#FilmFriday 🎞️ A fixture in Hobart since 1972, the Salamanca Market is the place to be on a Saturday. 🎥 Tasmanian Archives: Glimpses: Salamanca Market (1979) AB869/1/1265 #tasarchives #statelibraryoftasmania #salamancamarket #salamancamarkethobart #hobartandbeyond #getcurious #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #tassie #tasmania #1970s

⛵️ 📸 Tasmanian Archives: Hobart- Constituti

⛵️ 📸 Tasmanian Archives: Hobart- Constitution Dock c.1970 AA193/1/2714 #tasarchives #statelibraryoftasmania #hobartandbeyond #librariestasmania #librariesofinstagram #archivesofinstagram #boats #docks #sailing #hobart #tassie #1970s

Majestic wooden boats of all shapes and sizes are

Majestic wooden boats of all shapes and sizes are currently docked around the Hobart Waterfront to celebrate the Australian Wooden Boat Festival. These boats have come from all over Australia and around the world. Many of the Tasmanian-built boats use Huon Pine, a beautiful and rot-resistant timber, prized by boatbuilders. This short film from 1979 celebrates the beauty and uses of the Huon Pine.

📷 Tasmanian Archives: Film - Glimpses: Huon Pine - craft of the wood turner. Huon pine timber, its use in boat building, early pictures of Tasmania & ships, timber industry early stills. Huon pine boat under construction, Peter Muir wood turner, features Cheryl Saintar (1979), AB869/1/1191.

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🏫 School’s back for summer 🏫 📸 Tasmania

🏫 School’s back for summer 🏫 📸 Tasmanian Archives: Rosetta Pre-school, children playing AB713/1/5986 #tasarchives #rosetta #tassie #librariestasmania #statelibraryoftasmania #tasmanianarchives #librariesofinstagram #archivesofinstagram #tassiehistory #hobartandbeyond #tasmania #tasmanianschools #education

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