Sub-item 6 - Plan of early Hobart Town

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AU TAS UTAS SPARC W9-Ph-LS-6

Title

Plan of early Hobart Town

Date(s)

  • c1804 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

1 lantern slide - Standard format (3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch square)

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Name of creator

(1859-1930)

Biographical history

John Watt Beattie (1859-1930), photographer and antiquarian, was born on 15 August 1859 at Aberdeen, Scotland, son of John Beattie, master house-painter and photographer, and his wife Esther Imlay, née Gillivray. After a grammar-school education he ... »

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Scope and content

Lantern Slide of plan of early Hobart Town, from a survey done in 1804-1805, showing later alterations. The plan also appears in James Backhouse Walker's paper 'The Founding of Hobart, by Lieut.-Governor Collins' read to the Royal Society of Tasmania 14/1... »

Publication note

Map - From: Walker, James Backhouse (1889) The founding of Hobart by Lieutenant Governor Collins.
Papers & Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. pp. 223-248. http://eprints.utas.edu.au/15834/

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