Official records, reports, minutes and correspondence from the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority, Cooma Municipal Council and the Monaro County Council and around 750 Australian town and district maps.

Books, pamphlets, broadsides, posters, periodicals, newspapers and some manuscripts mostly relating to Federation and political and constitutional history.

About 240 recordings of folk music, folklore, and oral histories documenting family history, local history, work experiences, music and other arts.

The resources available for each house may be different, due to the fact the availability, organisation, and location of records vary from state to state.

421 photographs taken in the period 1858–1910 in Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and South Australia, mostly of public buildings, street scenes, rural scenes and events.

Folklore performances and oral history interviews recorded between 1981 and 1989, containing music, recitations and recollections of performances and local history.

About 3,460 books and pamphlets, mostly local, church, business and organisational histories from around Australia.

Learn some useful tips and suggestions on how to use newspapers for family history research.

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Recordings of the music of various language, nationality or region-based communities in Melbourne, 1975-1983, plus oral history interviews with people who lived in the Illawarra region from the 1920s to 1990s,  people involved with the 1989 Newcastle earthquake.

This special event explored some of the ways in which southern NSW community members have told and preserved their bushfire stories.

40 recordings of folk music, folklore and reminiscences from people in rural New South Wales recorded 1983-1988.