Series:
Photographs of Various Trips
Series Number:
Access:
Open
Start Date:
01 Feb 1920
End Date:
31 Oct 1945
Creating Agency:
| Frederick Smithies (NG573) | 16 Aug 1885 | 13 Oct 1979 |
How to Use:
Copyright has expired. There were no conditions on use stipulated by the donor. Copies may be made for private research/study with any other use requiring permission from Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Archives. These records are part of the Launceston Manuscript Collection and are physically located at the Launceston Library. For enhanced access, all items have been digitised.
Series notes:
There are 6 captioned photograph albums of various camping trips as follows:
1. "Our trip to Lake St Clair, Jany/Feby 1920". Presented to Smithies by his friend and fellow NTCC member Charles F Monds, who accompanied him on this trip.
2. Presented to the Smithies by Dr R McClinton, Christmas 1920 with the dedication "This volume is dedicated in Remembrance of the numerous indignities bestowed on me by an ungrateful Side Car during the routine of my duties in getting in and out of that Side Car 1,000,000 Times. R.M. Xmas 1920"
3. "Lake St Clair, Easter 1925". The party comprised Frank Heyward and son Archer, C. K. Stackhouse and K. Stackhouse, the Duck Hunters and Fred Smithies and his first wife. Transport was a Berliet and a Maxwell motor car. The group also had a boat.
4. "Ben Lomond from Blessington end". Undated - possibly pre1930s
5. Trips to Cradle Mountain 1920-1929. Dedication "In memory of happy times spent at Waldheim. P.S. Not including Xmas vacation of 1922-23".
6. Central Highlands and West Coast, 1920s
7. These albums are followed by 67 loose photographs.
These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives
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