Assorted maps and other documents regarding Tasmania, 1984-2006

Containers:

Box 28 (MS 10563)

Component identifier:

File 332

Content Summary:

Express Post envelope addressed to Alec Costin from Charlotte Peterswald for Property (Real estate agents, Battery Point, Tasmania).

Real estate brochures, one advertisement and related correspondence regarding the sale of "Blubber Head" farmhouse in Esperance Coast Rd, Dover, Tasmania, 2006c. Includes two notes from real estate agent, two business cards, two brochures (one with segment cut out and inserted again inside), one small express post envelope, one section of newspaper (annotated) with advertisement.

"Tasmania: Vegetation map" by J.B. Kirkpatrick and K.J.M. Dickinson, "Freycinet National Park: Map and Notes" by Tasmania Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment, "Tasmania" by Royal Automobile Club of Tasmania.

Signed copy of "Tasmania's Recherche Bay" by Bob Brown, 2005.

Diary with inserted notes and Christmas card. Diary is labelled "Tasmania" on front cover and has contact details for Alec Costin on first page but the rest is blank. Christmas card was written from Acacia to Alec; is attached with card showing contact details for Linton Manley (sculptor); and contains notes regarding people in Tasmania and local newspaper subscriptions. Also includes one page of notes mainly regarding real estate, 2000 to 2003.

Immediate source of acquisition:

This large and diverse collection was compiled by Alec Costin then organised and catalogued by the eScholarship Research Centre at The University of Melbourne from 2017-2019. The collection was then transferred to the National Library of Australia in 2020.

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