The State Library of Tasmanias heritage resources are held in four Heritage Collections. The Tasmaniana Library holds mainly published material books and pamphlets, maps, postcards, posters and printed ephemera relating to Tasmania. The Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts has rich holdings of rare books, works of art, prints, photographs, manuscripts and decorative arts. Most of the visual material is nineteenthcentury Tasmanian works, with members of the Allport family strongly represented. The W.L. Crowther Library has similarly wideranging collections relating largely to Tasmania, but also to other subject areas such as the history of whaling and medical history. Again, the visual material is largely Colonial. The Launceston Local Studies Library holds printed, manuscript and photographic material relating to northern Tasmania.

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