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- c1804 (Creation)
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1 lantern slide - Standard format (3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch square)
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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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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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