Images of your building
We are more likely to have an image of your building if it featured in prominent events or was linked to something of significant historical value, but it could very easily be included in streetscape images, aerial photographs, panoramas, albums and postcards of particular towns. Also see historic films on our YouTube channel such as Hobart: Island Capital (1962), Georgian Bothwell (1964), City of Launceston (1957) and Remembering the 1967 Bushfires (10 films). Also see recently digitised items.
Explore our images of Tasmanian buildings online which include photographs, paintings, drawings and more. There are over 8,900 sets of images online and we add to them regularly. Some examples of what you’ll find:
- 1885 Panorama of Launceston from the fire bell tower. Series of nine photographs taken from the firebell tower on Brisbane Street, Launceston
- Southern Master Metropolitan Planning Authority maps c.1950-1983 provide building and street details for Hobart city and suburbs based on aerial photography. The earliest set goes a little further out, e.g. covers Sorell.
- Two albums of photographs [192-]-[194-] taken by Frank Heyward, a Launceston architect, of Tasmanian building and stone features. Many buildings are named; many entries include information about residents and local history. Also see indexes to the two albums
- Photographs of Hobart and Suburbs, Port Arthur and Ships (NS1231)
- Aerial photographs in Teaching Aids Centre – Photographic Prints – Sequence [1 – 12387] [AB713]
- Aerial survey of the City of Launceston, 1922. To find more than 900 aerial photographs in our collection, search Tasmanian Archives using the keywords ‘aerial’ and a location, and select the search facets ‘photograph’ and ‘online’.
To search for images that have not been digitised:
Images may be found in either the State Library of Tasmania or Tasmanian Archives collections:
- Search Tasmanian Archives for your location, limit your search to the formats you want, for example ‘photograph’ and ‘print’, and exclude the ‘online’ search facet. See our guide Searching Tasmanian Archives for assistance.
- Search the library catalogue and limit your search in the same way as for an Archives search. See our guide Search our collections (includes published resources) for assistance.
- Ask about our hardcopy card image index in the State Library and Archives of Tasmania Reading Room.