Our James Cook collection showcases the Library’s most famous item - Cook’s HMS Endeavour journal.

1290 recordings of interviews and readings from many of Australia's poets, artists, writers, composers, actors, academics, publishers, librarians, scientists, anthropologists, public servants and some politicians

Paintings, drawings, sketchbooks and manuscripts by George French Angas.

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

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

Oral history recordings by Barbara Blackman, mostly of Australian painters, sculptors, potters and others concerned with the visual arts.

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

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

Oral history recordings by Ros Bowden for the Women of the land and Comic artists and illustrators projects.

Over 530 pamphlets collected by Meyer (Max) Zwalf on socialism and related subjects published in Europe from 1875 to 1950.