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Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts

Contact Details
Street Address
91 Murray Street, Hobart TAS
Postal Address

As above

Phone
(03) 6233-7484
Fax
(03) 6231-0927
Email
Heritage.Collections@central.tased.edu.au
Website
http://www.tased.edu.au/library/allport/allport.htm
Archive Information
Officer in Charge
Senior Librarian (Heritage Collections)
Enquiries to
Senior Librarian (Allport)
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