Agency:
Davies Brothers Pty Ltd - the Mercury
Agency Number:
Start Date:
01 Jan 1853
Description:
The Mercury began in 1853 when John Davies, a former convict, bought a Hobart newspaper, the Guardian, and the following year renamed it the Hobarton Mercury. It first appeared as a tri-weekly, and the Mercury has provided news for Hobartians ever since, with numerous changes: it took over five other newspapers; became a daily (1858); published subsidiaries, notably the Illustrated Tasmanian Mail (1877 - 1935), the Saturday Evening Mercury (1954 - 84) and the Sunday Tasmanian from 1984 ;;Davies Brothers was taken over by News Limited in 1985, bringing to an end the newspaper business run by the Davies family since 1854. The Mercury will relocate from its original site in Macquarie Street, in August 2012. Its present art deco building dating from 1940 will be sold.;;In June 2001 there was a flood in the basement where the negatives and back copies of newspapers were stored. While many of the negatives were saved there was some loss and some of those retained do show some damage.;;
Related Agencies:
Don Stephens [Photographer] (NG3379) | 01 Jan 1928 | 01 Apr 2013 |
Series Created By Agency:
NS3757 Master Microfilm of the Mercury | 01 Jan 1854 |
NS302 Indenture and Wages Book | 14 Jun 1862 | 01 Aug 1886 |
NS4023 Historical Negatives - Sharland | 01 Jan 1899 | 31 Dec 1945 |
NS4325 Negatives - Subjects and Events | 01 May 1901 | 01 Sep 1971 |
NS4029 Original Indexes to Glass Plate Negatives | 01 Jan 1920 | 30 Sep 1944 |
NS4261 Negatives - Numbered Boxes | 01 Jan 1920 | 30 Sep 1944 |
NS4016 Alphabetical Index to Portrait Negatives | 01 Jan 1921 | 31 Dec 1987 |
NS4017 Numerical Negative Indexes - "Daily Index Books" | 01 Jan 1921 | 31 Oct 1989 |
NS4935 Online Index to Negatives - Numbered Boxes | 01 Jan 1921 | 01 Jan 1948 |
NS4019 Special / Alphabetical Indexes to Negatives | 01 Jan 1947 | 20 Feb 1975 |
NS3798 Index Cards to Articles and Pictures | 01 Jan 1948 | 31 Dec 1986 |
NS4024 Negatives - All Subjects - registered | 01 Jan 1948 | 31 Dec 2003 |
NS4946 Online Index to Negatives - All Subjects - registered | 01 Jan 1948 | 31 Dec 1989 |
NS4021 Photographic Files - Dewey Sequence | 01 Jan 1950 | 31 Dec 2003 |
NS4031 Photographic Files - Alphabetical | 01 Jan 1950 | 31 Dec 2003 |
NS4032 Card Index to Photographic Files - Dewey Sequence. | 01 Jan 1950 | 01 Jan 1990 |
NS4465 Newspaper Clippings - General | 01 Jan 1950 | 31 Dec 1999 |
NS4745 Newspaper Clippings - People | 01 Jan 1950 | 31 Dec 1988 |
NS4018 Index to Published Photographs - All Newspapers | 24 May 1952 | 08 Jan 1988 |
NS3841 Index to Launceston Negatives | 11 Jun 1953 | 06 Nov 1989 |
NS4022 Negatives - Launceston | 11 Jun 1953 | 06 Nov 1989 |
NS4030 Centenary Magazine - Negatives | 01 Jan 1954 | 31 Dec 1954 |
NS4020 Tasmanian Country - Negatives | 02 Sep 1983 | 10 Mar 1989 |
NS4025 Tasmanian Country - Index to Negatives | 02 Sep 1983 | 31 Dec 1987 |
NS4048 The Islander - Negatives | 25 Aug 1985 | 30 Jun 1986 |
NS4065 Treasure Island/Treasure Islander - Negatives | 01 Jan 1990 | 31 Dec 2002 |
NS4066 Derwent Valley - Negatives | 01 Jan 1991 | 31 Dec 2003 |
NS5261 Burnie Negatives | 01 Jan 1998 | 31 Dec 2000 |