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.

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Landscape format. Main pressure column and tail column: Briser's mine: Derby, Tasmania.

Scope and Contents 180 x 103 mm. A mounted print, with a handwritten caption beneath which reads: 'Sorell causeway over the Pittwater (?) River, from the Bluff, Cambridge, Tasmania.' A view looking across the small causeway, along which runs a railway line, towards the Sorell side of the bay. The causeway, which crosses Pitt Water, thus allowing a straight route from Hobart to Sorell and thence on to the east coast of Tasmania, was started at the instigation of Governor Sir William Denison in 1854. It was...

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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 Seventeen loose stereoscope cards measuring approximately 175 x 86 mm., each with two mounted prints measuring approximately 75 x 75 mm., showing scenes in the countryside around Hobart. All prints (with one exception) have a label stuck to the reverse stating ‘Views in Tasmania. Bush scenery. S Clifford, photographer, Hobart Town,’ and handwritten captions, and, in some cases, brief explanations. The seventeen cards do not appear to be a set and were probably purchased at different...

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Landscape format. [Sailing boat in bay taken from by railway tracks with wooded land on far side of the bay].

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Landscape. [View along Emu Bay Railway line with sea on the right with a boat alongside and forested area beyond].

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Landscape format. [Similar view across bay from Emu Bay Railway, Tasmania].

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Landscape format. [Similar view to 6547 and 6547A but with sailing but with sailing boat also].

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Landscape format. Field of oats and forest land near Burnie on the Emu Bay Ry Co's line: from moving train.

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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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Monochrome postcards, showing scenes in Tasmania.

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When the RES Headquarters was rebuilt in 1934-36, gifts of timber for panelling and furnishing were obtained from Empire Governments, companies and individuals. Many were destroyed during the bombing of 1941 and replacement gifts were received. This file coordinates pre and post-war correspondence.

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Notes.

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Landscape format. Ringarooma Road, near Scottsdale, Tasmania. [Team passing man holding a whip with forest in the background].

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[No print]. Missing.

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Landscape format. [Team pulling cart along dusty road with man walking beside with whip].

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'The Aborigines of Tasmania by Hugh M. Hull Clerk in Parliament', 5 pages. The document is undated, but internal evidence suggests it originates from between 1869 and 1876, probably 1873.

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Half-plate (landscape format). [Looking west along the gorge with high path on stilts on the right. Boats visible beyond the iron bridge across the river].

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Half-plate (landscape format). [Showing pathway on stilts above the river with falls of water from it. Trees among cliffs above the river].

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Landscape format. [Showing pathway on stilts along under the cliffs on the left of the picture].

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[No print]. Missing.

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350 x 250 mm. No print.

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Landscape format. [Showing a coach and four with two grooms in attendance and four hatted ladies seated on outside seats of the coach].