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Begging for bigamy

Begging for bigamy

In November of 1878, two women from Waratah in the North West of Tasmania began a quest to marry one man. They were happy to share him between them, as long as they could do it with the blessing of a church.  Continue reading “Begging for bigamy”

Author Jess WaltersPosted on September 25, 2017October 25, 2017Categories Colonial Tasmania, MarriageTags bigamy, Mormon, North-West Tasmania, Trove, Waratah, womenLeave a comment on Begging for bigamy

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🎞️ #FilmFriday This film celebrates entrepren 🎞️ #FilmFriday This film celebrates entrepreneurial Tasmanian migrants and their love of Tasmania. Includes Umberto Tucceri (Don Camillo / Mondo Piccolo), Roelf Vos, Les Blakebrough, Milan Vyhnalek (Lactos) and Claudio Alcorso (Moorilla).

Produced by the Tasmanian Film Corporation for the Premier's Department.

🎥 Tasmanian Archives: Entrepreneurial Migrants AB869/1/899

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📚 The State Library of Tasmania and Tasmanian A 📚 The State Library of Tasmania and Tasmanian Archives are pleased to offer a fellowship program. The Fellowships, each valued at $10,000 will commence in 2023 with one research fellowship and one creative fellowship. The Fellowships have been introduced to support academics, researchers, independent scholars, writers, artists, film makers, digital innovators and creators who would like to explore our amazing collections to gain new insights and generate new works. Check the link in our bio for application information. #tasarchives #statelibraryoftasmania #librariesofinstagram #archivesofinstagram #hobartandbeyond #tassie #fellowships #fellowshipprogram #91murraystreet
#FilmFriday 🎥 Tasmanian Archives: Living and St #FilmFriday 🎥 Tasmanian Archives: Living and Studying in Tasmania (1987) AB869/1/1701 #library #librariestasmania #statelibraryoftasmania #tasarchives #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #film #tasmania #hobartandbeyond #getcurious #tasmanianarchives
🪡 Uncover the threads of Tasmania’s clothing 🪡 Uncover the threads of Tasmania’s clothing history. Visit the new exhibition Duck Trousers, Straw Bonnets, and Bluey: Stories of fabrics and clothing in Tasmania now showing at the State Library of Tasmania and Tasmanian Archives Reading Room. Learn how clothing was a treasured possession in the past; about evolving styles and fashions; and the work and creativity involved in producing Tasmanian fabrics, such as wool and leather. 🪡 📸 Tasmanian Archives: Series of fashion photographs, Bidencopes (1977) NS3774/1/6  #getcurious #librariestasmania #statelibraryoftasmania #tasarchives #tasmanianarchivea #hobartandbeyond #tasmanianhistory #tassiehistory #hobarthistory #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #tassie #clothinghistory
#FilmFriday Based on the book ‘Highway in Van Di #FilmFriday Based on the book ‘Highway in Van Dieman’s Land’ by G. Hawley Stancombe, the film tours many of the major pubs throughout the Tasmanian Midlands in the 1970s.  A Vivienne Ray Ellis & Robert Montgomery production, led by author G Hawley Stancombe.  Includes locations such as The Grange, Leather Bottle Inn, Man O Ross, Tunbridge Wells Inn, Kenmore Arms (St Peter’s Pass), Tedworth Hall and the Johnny Farmer Inn. 
🎥 Tasmanian Archives: Pubs of the Midlands (c.1962) AB869/2199.  #librariestasmania #statelibraryoftasmania #tasarchives #tasmanianarchives #film #pubs #pubhistory #pubsoftasmania #pubsoflaunceston #pubsofhobart #getcurious #librariesofinstagram #archivesofinstagram #tassiehistory #tasmanianhistory #hobartandbeyond
Lest we forget 🌺 📷 Tasmanian Archives: Austr Lest we forget 🌺 📷 Tasmanian Archives: Australian Imperial Forces, marching bands, possibly Anzac Day, Brite-Lites, Gould's Chemist, Brunswick Hotel, Liverpool St, Hobart NS4033/1/131 #anzacday #librariestasmania #statelibraryoftasmania #librariesofinstagram #archivesofinstagram #tasmanianhistory #tassiehistory #remembranceday #hobartandbeyond #liverpoolstreet
👗👘🥻🩰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
🎥 #FilmFriday 🌍 An illustrated presentation 🎥 #FilmFriday 🌍 An illustrated presentation by Professor SW Carey, of his long held theory that the earth’s expansion provides an explanation of continental drift and other geological phenomena 🌏 🎞️ Tasmanian Archives: Planet Earth: A Question of Expansion (1982) AB869/1/2110 #tasarchives #statelibraryoftasmania #libariesofinstagram #librariestasmania #earth #tassiehistory #tasmanianhistory #hobartandbeyond #tasmania #science #archivesofinstagram #getcurious
It’s #FilmFriday, but for the next few weeks it’s also going to be #FabricFriday to celebrate our new exhibition Duck Trousers, StrawBonnets and Bluey: Undercover the threads of Tasmania’s clothing industry. From the classic ‘Glimpses’ series, this film from 1979 celebrates the extraordinary work of artist, and Tasmanian treasure, Vita Endelmanis. While Vita works in many mediums, this film showcases her wearable wool sculptures 🧶👗 🎥 Tasmanian Archives: Glimpses: Vita Endelmanis (1979) AB869/1/1239  #tasarchives #tasmaniandesign #tasmanianarchives #librariestasmania #statelibraryoftasmania #libraries #librariesofinstagram #archivesofinstagram #getcurious #hobartandbeyond #vitaendelmanis #wool #clothes #fabric #sculpture #tasmanianartist #tasmanianart #91murraystreet
Wishing everyone a lovely and safe Easter break. A Wishing everyone a lovely and safe Easter break. A reminder that the State Library and Tasmanian Archives will be closed on Good Friday, reopening on Wednesday 12th April.

📷 Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts: Curzona Frances Louise Allport, [Group of fowl] [n.d.], Accession No.: HA626.

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Coming soon to the State Library and Archives buil Coming soon to the State Library and Archives building @ 91 Murray Street. Duck Trousers, Straw Bonnets and Bluey: Stories of fabrics and clothing in Tasmania is the first exhibition in our new space on Level 2. Stay tuned 😃  #librariestasmania #statelibraryoftasmania #tasarchives #91murraystreet #getcurious #libraries #librariesofinstagram #archivesofinstagram #hobartandbeyond  #tasmania #tasmanianhistory #fabrichistory
🎥 #FilmFriday Calling all map enthusiast’s 🗺️ This is the first of a five part series on map making and map reading skills. Check out episodes 2-5 on our YouTube channel 📺 Link in Bio 🎞️ Tasmanian Archives: Mapping Series: Episode 1 Ground Rules AB869/1/1777 #mapping #maps #getcurious #statelibraryoftasmania #tasarchives #tasmanianarchives #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #tasmania #hobartandbeyond #history #tassiehistory #tasmanianhistory #librariestasmania
🎞️ #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
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