Discover land and property history with our extensive map collection and enrich your family history research with unique geographical records.

Early pastoral or squatting maps can help you locate pastoral properties relating to ownership before Torrens Title, and for identifying large pastoral and squatting runs. Many maps we have can be viewed online, and all can be viewed at the Library.

Published by the State Lands Departments from the 1860s onwards parish, town and county maps can be used to find land holdings, show boundaries, land use and types of ownership.

Use sales plans to find information about land sales, such as prices, boundaries, roads and land use.

Over 13,000 negatives, transparencies, and photographs of cattle stations taken between 1951 and 1961, as well as 52 British Hydrographic Office charts and maps of Australia and the Pacific and personal papers of Johnston.

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Join us for a special book launch event for Robert Macklin's definitive biography of Charles Weston.

182 original field sheets, representing 32 map sheets, dating from 1915 to 1936 including surveys carried out in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia.

Papers and photographs related to Clark's life and work as an Australian historian of renown.

A comprehensive collection of original records of the Federation movement plus books, pictures, music and other material related to Federation.

Peter Crowley

Be inspired by these highlights from our collection to discover more of Canberra.

Fifty years on, see how the destruction and impact of Cyclone Tracy in Darwin 1974 is captured in our collection.