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- 1880
Part of Risby Brothers Collection
Personal and family diary for the year 1880, with a few references to the business of Risby Brothers
Thomas Risby
Part of Risby Brothers Collection
Personal and family diary for the year 1880, with a few references to the business of Risby Brothers
Thomas Risby
Part of Risby Brothers Collection
Personal diary for the year 1895, refers to Hobart Cup, departure of boats, occasional references to the business
Thomas Risby
Part of Risby Brothers Collection
Six poster bills of varying sizes, announcing pleasure trips by SS 'Koonya ' and regular service to Saltwater River and East Bay.
Thomas Risby
Part of Risby Brothers Collection
An account ledger of timber merchant (unknown but could be Risby). Ledger accounts headed by name of client. Entries, dated, record: number, description, sum (with debit and credit in columns on the same page). Items mentioned are mainly timber but also include shingles, palings, freight, cartage, painting, insurance. Payments are noted as cheque or cash, or sometimes 'goods', or bacon, tea, sugar, soap, tobacco, castor oil. The volume includes an alphabetical index of clients names. These include many well-known names and, where addresses are given, are usually, but not only, residents of Hobart. Several clients are described as builders. Sleepers were supplied for the Government railways and timber for the Hobart Exhibition. Among clients' names are, for example, W. Batt, builder, Sandy Bay; Bidencope; Burn & Son; Cascade Brewery; Clark, undertaker Brisbane Street; Currie, Murray St.; Cygnet Coal Co.; Gas Co.; Government Railways; Hobart Corporation; Marine Board, Mcgregor & Co. Mill; Oates Dock; H. Priest, Melville St.; Public Works, ;Telegraph Dept.; Risby,; R. Shoobridge, New Norfolk; E. Tolman; Walsh,; A.G. Webster.
Risby Brothers
Diary of Arthur E. Risby : Franklin Whalf
Part of Risby Brothers Collection
This is a personal diary writen by Arthur E. Risby (1856-1915) son of Joseph Edward Risby and includes notes of the weather, Huon Regatta, sailing, arrival and departure of boats; also some notes from 1878 - the mill burnt down, 'Helen' and 'Esk' started for London.
Thomas Risby
Photograph of illuminated address
Part of Risby Brothers Collection
Photograph of illuminated address to J.E. Risby thanking him for his serviced on the committee of the Hobart Town Regatta.
Joseph Edward Risby
Part of Risby Brothers Collection
Collection of photographs of sawmills dated c1890 to 1910
Risby Brothers
Part of Risby Brothers Collection
Advertisement for Risby Bros. Franklin Saw & Moulding Mills, timber merchants. Designed and drawn by Thomas Midwood and published in the Illustrated Directory of Hobart.
Risby Brothers
Photograph of the Franklin Wharf Steam Saw Mills
Part of Risby Brothers Collection
Photograph of the Franklin Wharf Steam Saw Mills destroyed by fire 8th March 1878
Risby Brothers
Photograph of the Franklin Saw Mills
Part of Risby Brothers Collection
Photograph of the Risby's Franklin Wharf Saw Mills, showing groups of workmen posed on weighbridge in front. Photographed by Frederick Spurling & Co. Taken pre 1878 before building destroyed by fire
Risby Brothers
Souvenir edition of the Sydney Morning Herald
Part of Risby Brothers Collection
Miniature souvenir edition of the Sydney Morning Herald, dated Saturday 21st May 1910, featuring the funeral of King Edward VII.
Risby Brothers
Part of Risby Brothers Collection
Thomas Risby's promise to pay £100 to John and Henry Morrisby and Grace Smith, at the age of 21, being the consideration for premises purchased from their father, James Morrisby. Dated 1823
Thomas Risby
Part of Risby Brothers Collection
Personal diary for the year 1888. References to trips on 'Koonya ', telephone went wrong (17.2.88), Eaglehawk neck , etc.
Thomas Risby
Part of Risby Brothers Collection
Summons dated 1891 to A.E. Risby, S.W. Risby and C.W. Risby to appear at the suit of Charles James Barclay.
Thomas Risby
Photograph of the Risby Brothers office
Part of Risby Brothers Collection
Photograph of the single story brick house with shingle roof, which was the Risby Brothers office taken post 1878
Risby Brothers
Photographs of sailing ketches and steamboat
Part of Risby Brothers Collection
Photographs of sailing ketches and steamboats, including the 'Yolla' the SS 'Wiena' and the 'Koonya '
Risby Brothers