Archival Revival: Tasmanian disasters

1967 Bushfires: The Coombe family picnics in the ruins of their Hobart home.

1967 Bushfires: Burns victim John White, of Whattle Hill, in hospital.

1967 Bushfires: David Burke stands in the ashes of his fiancee's Strickland Avenue home the day after the fires ravaged the area.

1929 Floods: The front page of the Weekly Courier on Wednesday, April 17, 1929 documenting the floods.

1929 Floods: F. H. Stephens Pty Ltd Rescue Party salvaging a player-piano from a flooded home in Bedford Street, Inveresk. The Weekly Courier, April 17, 1929.

1929 Floods: Logs and other debris on the tramline leading to King's Wharf. The Weekly Courier, April 17, 1929.

1929 Floods: The swirling torrents as they rush beneath the Cataract Bridge, over which traffic had to be temporarily modified. The Weekly Courier, April 17, 1929.

1929 Floods: A section of the Relief Depot at the Albert Hall. The Weekly Courier, April 17, 1929.

1929 Floods: A striking picture of the Cataract Gorge in flood when the waters were at their height. The Weekly Courier, April 17, 1929.

1929 Floods: A panoramic photo that gives a good impression of the flood in the vicinity of the wharves and the Rapson Tyre Works. The Weekly Courier, April 17, 1929.

1967 Bushfires: The remains of a house after the fires swept through.

1967 Bushfires: A burnt out lime crusher and feed plant at the Electrona carbide works.

Tasman Bridge Disaster: An aerial shot of the wrecked Hobart Bridge showing the Eastern Shore in January 1975.

1967 Bushfires: All that remains are solid stones of an arch at Cascade Brewery.

1929 Floods: The flooded area of Inveresk to the east of the Rapson Tyre Works. The Weekly Courier, April 17, 1929.

1929 Floods: The inundated terrace of houses to the north of Rapsonia. The Weekly Courier, April 17, 1929

1929 Floods: Flood waters affected lower Charles Street. The Weekly Courier, April 1929.

1967 Bushfires: The grim reminders of burnt out farm buildings contrasted with a new cyclone shearing shed on Mr Robertson's farm near Colebrook.

1967 Bushfires: The burnt-out shell of a Volkswagen in front of a group of tenement buildings in Waterworks Road, Dynnyrne.

1967 Bushfires: In one block at Snug, only five houses remained out of more than 30 - looking along Pearsall Avenue.

1967 Bushfirse: One of a number of bushfires burning in the north. This one burnt out a large property at St Leonards in February.

1967 Bushfires: Stephen Ward, 9 resurrects his bicycle from the ruins of his parent's home.

1967 Bushfires: Supplies arrive on a TAA flight into Hobart airport.

Tasman Bridge Disaster: January 1975

Tasman Bridge Disaster: January 1975

Tasman Bridge Disaster: The bridge on January 6, 1975, looking towards the western shore.

Tasman Bridge Disaster: January 1975.

Tasman Bridge Disaster: Teetering precariously on the edge of the bridge, a Holden Monaro driven by Frank Manley, who was with his wife and daughter. The station wagon ws driven by Murray Ling, with his wife and two children.

Tasman Bridge Disaster: The line shows how the station wagon and probably three other vehicles plunged 50m from the severed bridge into the water, about 25 or 30m deep.

1967 Bushfires: The remains of the Fern Tree Hotel.

1967 Bushfires: Three of the McGlone children - Francis, Mark and Gregory - in the blackened bush opposite their home in South Hobart.

1929 Floods: A view taken from Trevallyn showing the flooded area to the north of Royal Park and a section of the wharves. The Weekly Courier, April 1929.

1967 Bushfires: Volunteers pack donated goods at Launceston's Salvation Army Citadel on February 7 after Mayor Pryor opened an appeal.

1967 Bushfires: Workers repair a foot bridge burnt out by the fires.