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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 🎞 Quirky short film written and dir #FilmFriday 🎞 Quirky short film written and directed by Damian Brown for the Tasmanian Education Department in 1983. Features Bob Larkins as Seymour and the Flagstaff Gully, Glen Huon, Goulburn Street and Rokeby Primary schools.
🎥 Tasmanian Archives: Seymour’s View (1983) AB869/1/2421  #tasarchives #tasmanianarchives #librariestasmania #tassiehistory #tasmanianfilm #library #librariesofinstagram #statelibrary #statelibraryoftasmania #tasmanianfilmcorporation #hobartandbeyond #tasmanianhistory #1980s #tasmanianeducation
Chocolate, the food of the gods! For one hundred Chocolate, the food of the gods!  For one hundred years Cadbury’s has been making delicious chocolate at their factory in Claremont, Tasmania. Read all about it in our latest blog (link in the bio), or come and view our Cadbury display on the second floor of the State Library of Tasmania.

📷State Library of Tasmania: By Mountain and Sea: Claremont Tasmania, [Claremont, Tasmania] : [Cadbury-Fry-Pascall Pty. Ltd.], [between 1930 and 1939]

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Happy Mothers Day! 📸 Tasmanian Archives: AB713/ Happy Mothers Day! 📸 Tasmanian Archives: AB713/1/5830 Photograph - Mother and children in grassy field. #tasmania #tasmanianarchives #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #library #libraries #mothersday #getcurious #librariestasmania #statelibraryoftasmania
A parody on the Miss Australia Quest, featuring To A parody on the Miss Australia Quest, featuring Tom Payne. Test your skills in the art of littering and compare your performance with recognised experts, as they compete for the premiership in this glittering competition.
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What's our best research tip? Find out if your que What's our best research tip? Find out if your question has already been asked and answered by someone else! 😏🗃️
We have recently made the Tasmanian Archives Research Files searchable using the Tasmanian Names Index. Find out more about what these files contain and how to access the information within them on our latest blog (link in the bio)
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Our latest exhibition at the Allport Gallery invit Our latest exhibition at the Allport Gallery invites you to discover the life of William Lanney as you've never heard it before, retold by Roger Scholes and Professor Greg Lehman through art and film...

Lanney's story has often been told through his connection to William Lodewyk Crowther and Crowther's involvement in the desecration of Lanney's body. What is lesser known, is that Morton Allport was also a key figure in the scientific community and the mid-nineteenth century trade of human remains.

The State Library of Tasmania is the beneficiary of the Allport and Crowther collections through the donation of the WL Crowther Library and bequest of the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts in the 1960s. As a cultural institution, we also respectfully acknowledge the lasting trauma experienced by palawa / Tasmanian Aboriginal people that has resulted from the actions of Morton Allport, WL Crowther, and other individuals in the name of scientific research.

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“The true soldier fights not because he hates wh “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” - G.K. Chesterton. 📸 Tasmanian Archives: PH30/1/3755 Soldiers at Brighton Camp  #archives #archivesofinstagram #libraries #librariesofinstagram #soldiers #anzacday #worldwar #quotes #history #tasmania #tasmanianhistory #tassiehistory #hobart #hobartandbeyond #getcurious #tasmanianstories
Hidden figures, a heart made of grass, and a draft Hidden figures, a heart made of grass, and a draftsman for the Public Works Department – but what do they have in common?
🔍 Get curious, discover the story of Tom Midwood on the State Library and Tasmanian Archives Blog. Link in Bio. 
📸’Well known citizens of southern Tasmania’, by Thomas Claude Wade Midwood. Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Libraries Tasmania
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The staff at #91Murray take Easter to the next lev The staff at #91Murray take Easter to the next level with egg-tastic headwear and desk decorations 🐰We will be closed for the Easter long weekend from Friday 15th April. We will reopen on Wednesday 20th April. @statelibrary.archives.tas wishes you all a safe and happy Easter break 🐣🐥 
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Our latest blog takes you to the theatre! 🎭 Thi Our latest blog takes you to the theatre! 🎭
This intimidating scene is from the 1926 production of comic opera The Toreador, or How Sammy Gigg Won the Bullfight, as directed for the third time by Australia's first female conductor, Lucy Benson.

The State Library collection holds Lucy's own copy of the score for this show - go to the link in the bio to find out about this fascinating memento and Lucy's long and eventful career in Tasmania's performing arts. 

📷 McGuffies Studio, Hobart, 'Miss Beryl Benson as Teresa and Mr E. Craske as Sammy Gigg', In Caryll, Ivan (composer), The Toreador / Mrs. Benson conductress, [publication date not known, annotation and additional items compiled by Lucy Benson, c1926], State Library of Tasmania.
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Thinking of all the Tasmanians isolating at home, Thinking of all the Tasmanians isolating at home, being #covidsafe 
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📷Jack Thwaites Collection, Tasmanian Archives: NS3195/1/1973, NS3195/1/1938
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This International Women's Day we bring you the st This International Women's Day we bring you the story of Emily Dobson (nee Lempriere), who became known to the world as the Grand Old Lady of Tasmania. 

We recently purchased this rare photograph of Emily as a young woman, which sent our researcher on a path to discover the extraordinary life of an individual who really could be described as an institution in herself.  

Read the full story on our blog - link in the bio.

📷 Tasmanian Archives: PH40-1-3630

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That's not cricket! Or is it? Check out our blog t That's not cricket! Or is it? Check out our blog to learn how Tasmania attempted to break into the cricket-bat industry and how a rural community adopted a novel solution for the construction of a local cricket pitch. Link in the bio

📷 Tasmanian Archives: NS3195/2/1469 

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📷 Tasmanian Archives: ‘Sailing dinghy- the Bat’ (1900-20), NS2511/1/153.
📷 Tasmanian Archives: ‘Wharf looking towards the Hydro Building’ (1949), NS1714/1/3.

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Behind the scenes of our recent #91Stories communi Behind the scenes of our recent #91Stories community curated exhibition. #tasarchives #statelibrary #statelibraryoftasmania #getcurious #librariestasmania #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #tassie #hobartandbeyond #tasmanianhistory #tassiehistory #tasmanianstories #archives #allportlibraryandmuseumoffinearts #allportlibrary #allportmuseum
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📷 Tasmanian Archives, Launceston Manuscript Collection: Cricket Team, Methodist Ladies College, Launceston (n.d), LPIC147/5/107.

📷Tasmanian Archives: Family Photographs of Charles and Georgina Butler … Flossie Waugh, Louisa Swan and Maryanne Walker with cricket bats and wearing boaters (1875-95), NS2217/1/125.

📷Tasmanian Archives: Girls playing cricket (Miss Overell’s schools?) (1910), NS1003/1/17.

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In 2020 @statelibrary.archives.tas & @tasmuseum jo In 2020 @statelibrary.archives.tas & @tasmuseum jointly collected Tasmanians' experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 'COVID-19 Stories' project reached out across Tasmania to collect photographs, writing and a variety of objects to ensure that a selection of stories and experiences associated with this extraordinary event were preserved into the future. David Sinclair submitted this series of images taken between 23rd and 25th May 2020. #tasarchives #davidsinclair #photography #hobartandbeyond #covid19stories #covid #covid19 #tasmania #tasmanianstories #tassie #tasmanianhistory #librariesofinstagram #archivesofinstagram #libraries #archives #tassiestories #tasmanianphotographer #tasmanianphotography
Have you ever wondered how Libraries Tasmania look Have you ever wondered how Libraries Tasmania looks after its film and sound archives? We are now almost a year into a major project to digitise materials held on vulnerable formats such as cassette tapes, Betacam, VHS, and various gauges of film. Read more about this project, and check out some of the material that has been digitised on our latest blog (link in bio).  

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📷The Tasmanian Archives houses two Steenbeck machines for viewing 16mm film and 35mm film and optical sound
The Tasmanian Archives are closing for the Christm The Tasmanian Archives are closing for the Christmas and New Year break. 
Catch you all in 2022!
We definitely don't hate holidays, but we do love this gem of a film from 1978. A light-hearted story of a family holiday featuring tourist attractions of Tasmania.
Tasmanian Archives: AB869/1/1520 I Hate Holidays (1978)
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📸 Tasmanian Archives: NS7016/1/3 Casey Station 📸 Tasmanian Archives: NS7016/1/3 Casey Station staff group, Christmas 2020, Antarctica.
This special Christmas 2020 photo is from Matthew McKay’s submission to the @statelibrary.archives.tas COVID-19 Stories project. Matthew McKay from NSW joined one of Australia's Antarctic Stations for the 2020/21 season. In his submission Matthew describes how this season, his sixth, was very different due to COVID-19 restrictions. #covid19 #tasarchives #covid19stories #antarctica #librariesofinstagram #archivesofinstagram #archives #christmas #hobartandbeyond #tassie #tasmania #nsw
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