Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts
Contact
- Street address
- 91 Murray Street, Hobart TAS
- Postal address
- As above
- Phone
- (03) 6233-7484
- Fax
- (03) 6231-0927
- Heritage.Collections@central.tased.edu.au
- Website
- http://www.tased.edu.au/library/allport/allport.htm
- Enquiries to
- Senior Librarian (Allport)
About
- Officer in charge
- Senior Librarian (Heritage Collections)
- Hours & facilities
- Open Mon-Wed & Fri 9:30am-5:00pm, Thurs 1-9pm. General reference assistance available. Copying services include photocopying, photography, microfilming and scanning.
- Acquisition focus
- The content of the manuscripts collection is generally nineteenth-century Tasmanian, with an emphasis on the Allport family. The collection is largely as it was bequeathed to the people of Tasmania by Henry Allport in 1966. Manuscripts are infrequently added to the collection, but rare and significant items may be acquired if they meet the Library's Collection Development Policy.
- Quantity
- 20m (100% collecting).
- Major holdings
- Allport family: personal papers (5m).
- Dobson, John: professional (legal) papers c.1834-1860 (3m).
- Guides
- Card indexes to the collection as a whole, and to the Dobson papers, are available for use in the Library.
- References
- The Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts. Hobart: State Library of Tasmania 1993.
- Winter, G (ed) Tasmanian insights: essays in honour of Geoffrey Thomas Stilwell. Hobart: State Library of Tasmania 1992.
- See also
Last updated: 8 June 2005