More than 1,000 comics, mostly published in Australia and including some overseas titles reprinted in Australia, from the 1940s to 1970s, as well as fanzines and personal papers.

99 first-issue charts and views of Australian coasts published by the Admiralty between 1814 and 1861.

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

919 watercolours and gouaches of flowers and birds of Australia and Papua New Guinea painted 1870-1920, plus a small quantity of personal papers.

1576 pamphlets, leaflets, speeches, newspaper and serial issues relating to trade unionism, socialism, left-wing parties in Australia, economics and labour issues, as well as the papers of Lloyd Ross and his father the socialist journalist R.S. Ross.

Personal papers and legal material that record of one of the most important and controversial legal cases in Australian history and the life of the man who is chiefly associated with the case.

Over 10,000 volumes and 1500 pamphlets in English, Latin, French, Italian, German and Spanish, with particular strength in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Papers, maps and a large collection of photographs related to Papua New Guinea mainly from the period 1910-1940.

Around 4,000 books and serials on theosophy, Indian philosophy, comparative religion and related topics.

Collections of papers from several significant Australian authors collected by Harry Chaplin.