Media: DATA CD - 2 CDs (1068 pages)
Year: (1900) 2007
ISBN: 9781920978464
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

This product is sold as a CD SECOND or SPARE.

"CD seconds" or "spares" are perfectly good data wise, but have been put aside due to:

• faulty label printing, e.g. off colour or misaligned. A few have been manually labelled or corrected
• over-produced initially, so offered as "spares" to clear

They are all offered at 60% to 90% discount (from the normal price). They will be supplied in clear CD sleeves, rather than the normal CD cases. In many cases they are the last available, i.e. they won't be available, even at full price, when sold out.

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The Cyclopedias that were published for most states of Australia around the beginning of the 20th Century are a vast resource of historical and biographical information. They cover the people, towns, industries, professional, commercial and social institutions and much more.

The Cyclopedias include thousands of illustrations, the larger number of these being portraits of those whose biographies are included. These are not just the rich and famous, but include a high percentage of the ordinary citizens in each community.

This 2 CD set includes facsimile images of the entire two volumes of the original 1900 edition.

VOLUME 1 - Government, Hobart and southern and Western towns

• over 620 pages, 1000 photographs and 800 biographies
• Introduction and historical sketch of Tasmania in 1900
• Former and present governors
• Government, parliament and the legislature
• Government departments
• Hobart, Old Hobart and the Port of Hobart
• Military
• Government Institutions
• Educational
• Ecclesiastical (various denominations)
• Social and sporting Institutions
• Professional, commercial, Industrial, trades
• Old Colonists
• Rural Industries
• Timber Industries
• Mining
• Towns in the South of the Island
• West Coast Towns
• Index to vol 1

VOLUME 2 - Launceston and the Northern towns

• over 420 pages, 750 photographs and 700 biographies
• Launceston
• Towns in the North of the Island
• Miscellaneous Biographies
• Curious Facts of Old Colonial Days
• Aborigines of Tasmania
• Index to vol 2

Greatly enhanced access to Cyclopedia content

As with many other products being published under the Archive CD Books project access to the vast amount of information is now greatly enhanced The indexing of the original volumes and their general arrangement still give only limited references to the many people, places and subjects that are largely hidden in the extensive text.

NOW that is all changing. The entire text is now easily searched. To illustrate the value of this, the following number of returns were obtained from searching the two volumes.

Sample Search Results
Names (often none or only 1 or 2 in the indexes)
- Gibson - 101
- Meredith - 63
- Williams - 140

Places (usually 1 at the most in the indexes)
- Devonport - 265
- Hagley - 46
- Longford - 321
- London - 500
- Ireland - 113
- Scotland - 160
- Yorkshire - 40

Other (usually only 1 at the most in the indexes)
- butcher - 105
- cricket - 170
- dentist - 16
- hotel - 461
- Presbyterian - 111

The entire text from the two volumes is searchable - names, places and any other words in the text or advertisements

Originally produced by Archive CD Books Australia in 2004, this title has now been remastered and re-released, and includes better searching capability. This CD contains high quality scanned images of the whole of the original book, and has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Any computer using Adobe (Acrobat) Reader 4 or later
Adobe Reader 6 or later is recommended for CDs with searchable text

SAMPLE FILE 
Click here to download a file of sample pages from this book. Right click on the link and select "save as" - to a location on your hard drive. The sampler can be opened, navigated and searched as with the full CD file/s. Sample files usually contain the title page, contents, some introductory pages and sample pages from the body of the book. Often the complete index from the original book is included.