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Jones Collection

Negatives, transparancies, photographs, books, serials, personal papers and oral history interviews related to motorcycles, races and vintage cars.

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Humphery Collection

About 6500 lantern slides, glass negatives and photographs, mostly of Australian ships, especially sailing ships.

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Ferguson Collection

Over 32,000 items, including rare books, pamphlets, maps, and ephemera, covering topics such as Oceania, transport, and literature. Compiled by Sir John Alexander Ferguson, it is a key resource for Australian history and bibliography.

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Ellison Collection

Personal papers of Norman Ellison, pictures, books and other other manuscripts relating to aviation and early aviators. 

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detail of cover of Air travel and holiday with illustration of two women driving a car past some boats

Cover of Air travel and holiday, vol. 1, No. 3 (cropped), March 1948, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3997211269 

Destination Trove: Travel magazines now online

Pack your bags for a trip through new travel serials, now on Trove.

News article
Man in a leather jacket and cap seated in an old biplane

JL Turner, Mr WE Hart, the first Australian aviator in his biplane, [seated at controls, 1911?], nla.gov.au/nla.obj-144639799

Crome Collection

The Crome Collection includes papers, photographs, ephemera, aero-philatelic material, objects, books and pamphlets relating to Australian aviation collected by Ernest Alfred Crome.

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Locomotive 900 Lady Norrie
Community Heritage Grant: National Railway Museum

Explore items from the National Railway Museum's collection and their significance to Australian railway history.

Blog
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Callen Collection

Photographs of Australian steamships, nine paintings and an unpublished manuscript 'Dictionary of Australian steamships' by Terence Callen.

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Black and white photo of train at Campbelltown Station

John L. Buckland, Pilgrim train E class locomotive 2007 at Campbelltown Station New South Wales, 1937, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-154996700

Buckland Collection

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

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2023 NLA Fellow Dr Adam Sundberg, 26 May 2023
Below the surface: Marine bio invaders

Dr Adam Sundberg talks about his experience studying the environmental effects of marine bioinvasions through the study of ballast water.

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Video
Two men standing and leaning against a small passenger plane in front of an aircraft hangar

Horrie Miller (right) and Jim Woods standing with MacRobertson Miller Aviation Lockheed DL-1A Vega Special passenger aircraft VH-UVK in front of hangar at Maylands Aerodrome, Perth, c.1938, nla.obj-148194215

Aviation families in our collection

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

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A black and white aerial image of Charters Towers.

Charters Towers Replenishing Centre, 1952, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2909430463

Aerial photographs collection

Aerial photographs of Australia, the Australian Antarctic Territory and Papua New Guinea

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