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.
Colour photograph of dark bay or black horse in harness, with a black carriage at Launceston Show, 1972. Groom or driver also dressed in black. Other carriages in background.
Black-and-white photograph shows horse and cart positioned in pit while men excavate the site of the Derwent Prime furnace by hand at the E.Z. Co Zinc Works 1930
Black-and-white photograph shows stacks of sawn timber and workmen with horses and carts removing earth at an excavation on site E.Z. Co. Zinc Works at Risdon
Colour photograph taken near the Springs of man dressed in red beside road to Mount Wellington, with icicles dangling from the vegetation after a snowstorm
This collection is a sample of images of Queenstown, Zeehan and Macquarie Harbour, sourced from the Colin Dennison image collection. Most of the images were originally created prior to 1956 and have been sourced from private Tasmanian collections. Most of the images have been obtained by scanning photographs either donated to or purchased by Mr Dennison or copied by him with the permission of families, one or more of whose members took the photographs. Some of the images can be identified as copies of original images created by government departments which were discarded and destroyed.
Black-and-white photograph shows partially completed tanks atop heavy concrete foundations in a building under construction, at E.Z. Co. Zinc Works at Risdon 1924
Interview with Colin Dennison dated 25th August 2018. Interview conducted by Ben Ross (www.oralhistorycompany.com) concerning Colin’s lifetime of collecting photographs, postcards, stamps and other historical resources. Colin donated the collection to the University of Tasmania Library Special & Rare Collections.
Cover photograph from Joe Brown's autobiographical account of racing and broadcasting (radio and television) 1947-1981, in Melbourne. Published by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1984. Includes photographs, racing statistics and appendices (short articles on Warrnambool racecourse, Phar Lap, Moonee Valley centenary)
Colour photograph shows Australian K1 champion Jonathan Males, a Tasmanian paddler competing at Bradys Lake slalom course, watched by several spectators on a bridge above and alongside the course. The course on Woodwards Canal, a man-made water course carved between Bradys Lake and Bronte Lagoon by the Hydro Electric Commission during construction of a hydro-electric power scheme
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.
Colour photograph shows a crane being used to load up a semi-trailer to carry logs from the Florentine Valley. inscription on driver's door reads, L.J. Reynolds, HAULAGE CONTRACTOR, Maydena, Phone 217
Cases of Tasmanian apples being loaded on board a ship, with a man driving a wagon with packing cases stamped with the number 393. A cyclist is riding past on the wharf with a ship moored nearby.
Group of people loading or unloading luggage from the rear boot of vehicles parked in the car park at Hobart Aerodrome. Building site and an aircraft parked on tarmac visible in background.
Colour photograph of black locomotive, shunting a rail car in unidentified rail yard, boiler design has a light, a low-profile front funnel, then two steam domes atop the centre of the locomotive boiler.
Colour photograph shows a crane being used to load logs on a semi-trailer in the Florentine Valley. Inscription on driver's door reads L.J. Reynolds, HAULAGE CONTRACTOR, Maydena, Phone 217. Visible at lower left of image are people in street or travelling clothes on an outing to view timber workers in the bush
Black-and-white photograph of construction of cell room extension at E.Z. Co. Zinc Works at Risdon. Large sign reading “SAFETY” is mounted at ground level.
An aerial colour photograph shows distinctive shelter belts around cultivated hop fields alongside River Derwent at Bushy Park, Glenora and Macquarie Plains. Long shadows being cast from the low sun to the west
Factory workers on lunch break at Cadbury Factory. Some seated, some walking to canteen. Time on tower clock is 12:30. Sign on side of road states 'Speed limit 10 miles'
Four men playing golf. Back of photograph states The Origin of Claremont Golf Club 1926? (Lunch hour golf) Left to right: Wal Morrow (scorer), HV McKernan, Will Cooper, FB Richardson. Photo by JA Cooper (his clubs lying on green)
Colour photograph shows a farmer ploughing a paddock at Westerway in a field strung with trellis frames for hop cultivation with a draught horse and plough
Colour photograph shows grain being bagged at a vintage farm machinery demonstration with Aveling & Porter steam engine attached by belt to grain processing machine, watched by dozens of people