Scope and Contents A newspaper cuttings book originating from New Zealand, containing articles on immigration to New Zealand, 1849 and 1850; letters to newspaper editors, 1852; and articles and letters on the settlement of New Zealand, 1866-1868. There are also a few articles on immigration to Van Diemen's Land, Australia, New Brunswick, California, Natal and Chile. The latter discusses the 1868 South American earthquake. Some of the cuttings are mounted on loose cardboard. Near the back of the book are a...

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These files include annual reports, accompanied in some cases by explanatory letters, reports of annual general meetings, statements of accounts and other papers.

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Landscape format. [Showing forested hillside with fallen and dead trees].

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Landscape format. [Among dead tree stumps].

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194 x 137 mm.

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The album measures 200 x 300 mm and contains 93 images which are 105 x 90 mm in size. Three photographs are missing. None are captioned. The subjects are rural scenes: woodlands, grasslands, rivers, bridges, and coastline. Several farms are featured, including images of crops, livestock, buildings and residences, as well as European and Aboriginal farming families.

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Landscape format. [Showing burnt trees and wooden fences among scrubland].

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Programmes, guides, journals and one map relating to the Royal Visits to Jamaica, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, Aden, Uganda, Malta and Gibraltar. There is also a report of Barclays Bank D.C.O. Much of the material relates to the tour of Australia.

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Programmes, guides, journals and one map relating to the Royal Visits to Jamaica, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, Aden, Uganda, Malta and Gibraltar. There is also a report of Barclays Bank D.C.O. Much of the material relates to the tour of Australia.

Scope and Contents Collection of loose prints each 200 x 260 mm. It reproduces fourty-five photographs contained in an album whose origin is unknown apart from an inscription in a childish hand on one page: 'For dearest Mother from Wilfred 5 May 1883.' This is very different from the handwriting on the caption of a photograph on the same page, and on most of the rest of the collection. One item is dated 1875, and a number are dated 1885. Despite the uncertainty of their origin, most of these photographs...

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[No print]. Missing.

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103 x 142 mm. Photographic copy of Robert Lewis Parker (1862-1948) of Tasmania, a Life Fellow of the Royal Empire Society. He was an Associate Commissioner of the Hydro-Electric Department of the Government of Tasmania until 1936.

Scope and Contents An incomplete, printed report, 86 pages, with manuscript marginal annotations and a 2-page typed introduction by the R.C.S. Librarian. The report comprises papers respecting the declaration of a British Protectorate over the Gilbert Islands by Captain Davis, of H.M.S. 'Royalist', and general reports on the Gilbert, Ellice and Marshall Islands. The original cover, which is made out of a linen-backed chart of Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania, is bound in at the start. Loose with the volume is a...

Scope and Contents Reports on settlements in Australia visited by Backhouse and Walker during 1833-1835, probably contemporary copies. The 'Australian dictionary of biography' has the following entry on the reports (vol. I, p. 45): 'They gave (Sir George) Arthur eight valuable reports on the penal settlements of Macquarie Harbour and Port Arthur, the Aboriginal establishments on Flinders Island...In New South Wales and its dependencies Governor Bourke encouraged similar work in 1835-37...Their reports were...

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218 x 170 mm. A view looking up the river, with cliffs on one side, and wooded banks on the other.

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Landscape format. Strahan Bay, Tasmania.

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207 x 180 mm. A view looking down on the Bay from the hillside above, with a small township settled by the water’s edge. Situated near Hobart, the area was a popular holiday and health resort.

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[Showing river between forested hills].

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[No print]. Missing.

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Landscape. [Rocky cliffs coming down to a small bay with scattered rocks].

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Landscape format. [Similar picture to previous one but with cart disappearing into the dust].

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Landscape format. Dorset County, Tasmania. [Sheep being driven by a man on horse back with dist obscuring the background].

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205 x 153 mm.

Scope and Contents Comprises 12 scrapbooks of newscuttings relating to Allardyce's career and the colonies he worked in, including photographs, programmes and ephemeral material. Some content relates to affairs in Aberdeen, where Allardyce had been educated. The scrapbooks relate to the following: 1-3 Fiji: 1882-4, 1895-1902, 1902-3; 4-6 Falkland Islands: 1908-9, 1909-13, 1914-18 (including the Battle of the Falkland Islands, 1914) and Tasmania: 1920-1; 7-8 Bahamas: 1915-17, 1918-19; 9...

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Landscape format.