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Black-and-white photograph shows stone buildings along Salamanca Place, timber stacked on New Wharf and masts of ships docked at the wharf; signs on buildings for “A.E. Lord Wool Merchant” and “W.D. Peacock and Co.”, historic home Lenna and eastern conservatory visible on hilltop behind towards Battery Point; maritime signal station with the Time Ball that was dropped automatically at 1pm, after a relayed telegraph signal from the Melbourne Observatory.

Black-and-white photograph of Royal Botanical Gardens, showing a decorative undercover seat constructed around the stump and butt of a tree. Government House visible in background

Black-and-white photograph shows elevated view of ruined church at Port Arthur, including charred timber roof framework; with view of waterfront and other buildings on Port Arthur site; cut hay is drying in paddock at front of church.

Black-and-white photograph shows an elevated view of Goulburn Street, Hobart, looking south down Derwent River estuary past Sandy Bay

Black-and-white photograph taken from foothills of Mount Wellington shows settlement of Hobart and upper end of Liverpool Street, now called Liverpool Crescent

Black-and-white photograph shows walking path at Fern Tree Bower, Mount Wellington

Black-and-white photograph of rustic hut built amid fern trees on walking track at Mount Wellington, two figures walking across timber bridge amid fern fronds

Black-and-white photograph shows three men sitting on a fence railing outside the entry to Watermen’s Wharf, with horse-drawn carriages pulled up near the Franklin Pier and Brooke Street Pier

Black-and-white photograph shows waves lapping shoreline of Derwent River in foreground, with Government House on the hill, surrounded by mature trees, tall picket fence runs parallel with river, two wires strung between poles, visible through trees

Black-and-white photograph shows Hobart General Post Office viewed from Franklin Park. Words “G.P.O., HOBART, FROM FRANKLIN PARK” and “V6” are typewritten in black on white reverse panel at bottom of photograph

Black-and-white photograph shows Hobart General Post Office viewed from Franklin Park before the installation of the clock in the clocktower.

Black-and-white photograph shows Hobart Railway Station, viewed from gardens of the University of Tasmania, including the Tasmanian Government Railways workshops

Black-and-white photograph shows men, women and children stripping hop cones into hessian-covered troughs, carrying baskets and sacks of harvested hops on the extensive hop grounds. The plant was cultivated widely at Glenorchy, Margate, Kingston and the Upper Derwent Valley area.

Black-and-white photograph shows interior of Hobart Town Hall, with low-hanging chandelier and pipe organ

Black-and-white photograph shows dwellings, fences and farmland at Lindisfarne Bay, looking across Derwent River to Hobart

Black-and-white photograph depicts police officer standing in middle of Liverpool Street, Hobart, with YMCA and J.W. Toplis Pharmaceutical Chemist listed as tenants of the corner building.

Black-and-white photograph of road crossing a pond on Lower Domain Road near Royal Botanical Gardens. Towers of Government House visible behind trees.

Black-and-white vertical/portrait photograph of four men posing for the camera while standing or squatting above or beside a waterfall on Mount Wellington, believed to be Silver Falls

Black-and-white photograph depicts Miller’s Corner on the intersection of Liverpool Street and Murray streets, Hobart, looking towards waterfront down Murray Street. A.P. Miller, dispensing chemist, died 1904

Black-and-white photograph shows public buildings near Franklin Square, Hobart

Black-and-white photograph taken looking north along Gun Carriage Drive towards Government House, Hobart, with post-and-rail fences on Derwent River side; a horse harnessed to a four-wheel carriage, is on the left of the road; a small jetty extends from the shoreline and a boat is visible through the trees, anchored just off shore.

Black-and-white photograph shows view of Hobart rooftops looking east over central city streets including Harrington Street and Murray Street

Black-and-white photograph shows ruins of the church at Port Arthur, damaged by fire in 1884,with charred timber framework in the roof, remnant shingles on the roof and climbing plants covering the sandstone of the church walls. Handwritten words “Church at Port Arthur” in lower left corner of image.

Photograph showing the first hatchery building built in 1870 at the Salmon Ponds at Plenty surrounded by landscaped grounds filled with exotic trees.

Black-and-white photograph shows Sandy Bay Road, with tram tracks on riverside of road, electric wires for Hobart Electric Tramway, carriage wheelmarks in the unpaved road surface, electricity transmission wires strung from poles mounted with porcelain insulators

Black-and-white photograph shows sailing ships moored at New Wharf, Hobart, in front of Salamanca Place, with milled timber stacked on edge of wharf

Black-and-white photograph of St David’s Cathedral, Hobart, including original fence of St David’s Church, which occupied the site until the 1860s

Black-and-white photograph looking up St John’s Avenue, towards St John’s Church, New Town

Black-and-white photograph shows path to near base of waterfall in foothills of Mount Wellington, two men standing near a barrel beside a metal mesh and barbed wire fence and a padlocked gate barring access to the stream

Black-and-white photograph of Bath Street, Battery Point, looking across Derwent River to Sandy Bay and St Helena Point.

Black-and-white photograph taken from elevated point on Queen’s Domain, looking north up Derwent River towards Cornelian Bay and New Town Bay; Risdon Park Racecourse (1880s-1926) at New Town in foreground, early burial plots in headland of Cornelian Bay Cemetery at right of picture.

Black-and-white photograph looking south at Cornelian Bay on the Derwent River, with one boatshed on far shore

Black-and-white photograph shows Sandy Bay Road in foreground, the grand home St Helena on what is known as Dunkleys Point, and Battery Point on the opposite shore of the bay

Black-and-white photograph shows snow on Mount Wellington viewed from the verge of the Huon Road, South Hobart, with post-and-rail fence alongside roadway.

Black-and-white photograph shows visitors standing on front steps and veranda at Falls Hut, built 1897, at the Cascades, on road to Mount Wellington

Black-and-white photograph shows three men and a dog sitting or standing beside a track to Fern Tree

Black-and-white photograph shows gravel walking path in Royal Botanical Gardens

Black-and-white photograph of Gentle Annie Falls, a man-made water channel constructed as part of the Hobart waterworks to supply fresh water to residents of Hobart, operating between the 1860s to 1940s.

Black-and-white photograph shows water wheel on outside of mill on New Town Rivulet at Lenah Valley

Black-and-white photograph shows gravel road leading to western approach to Government House, Hobart, featuring clocktower with Union Jack hoisted and bas relief sculpture above doorway.