Papers, photographs, ephemera, books and journals from Europe, Asia, America and Australia ranging from 1850-1950 collected by Eric Keast Burke.

Photographs and papers, memorabilia and books relating to railways collected by John Buckland.

Overseas and Australian sheet music, including some manuscripts, with the main strengths popular songs and piano music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Papers, including manuscripts on Philippine ethnography, books and pamphlets in various languages on a wide range of subjects with a focus on the Philippines, photographs and printed and manuscript maps collected by Henry Otley Beyer.

Memorabilia of musical, theatrical, social events in Queensland collected by the Benvenuti family musicians.

Books, booklets, pamphlets, leaflets and hundreds of photographs and postcards mainly relating to New South Wales country towns.

Papers, maps, photographs and other publications largely relating to Daisy Bates' research on First Australians.

Take flight with some of the prominent aviation families in the collection.

The Australian Inland Mission established 15 nursing homes, bush hospitals and services in remote Australian locations.

Diaries, papers, photographs, maps and other material related to Australia's involvement in the Antarctic

The Asian language collections cover a broad range of formats and focus on contemporary Asia from the 19th century onwards 

Ephemera, such as souvenir programs, match day cards and flyers, and over 1000 photographs, documenting the history of boxing in Australia from the 1870s to the 1990s.