About 15,000 books and pamphlets. The great strength of the collection is in Pacific voyages and early Australiana with many very rare items. Also manuscripts including papers of Joseph Banks, maps and pictures.

80 oral history interviews with musicians, dancers and others, and recordings of songs and performances, as well as sheet music, imprints and personal papers.

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The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia and its principal Sydney-based artists - Julian Ashton, A. Henry Fullwood and Frank Mahony - transformed the way settler colonial Australia was seen both here and around the world.

The Library is unable to provide specialist advice about how to care for personal or family archives, but there are a number of resources which can help.

We hold one of Australia’s largest collections of performing arts materials.

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Sydney’s first theatre was said to be opened in 1796 and was managed by Robert Sidaway.

Oral history interviews with people involved in all aspects of forest and around photographs depicting various aspects of forests and forestry work.

A collection of approximately 1,225 books published in France from the 17th to 20th centuries, including works by major, popular, and lesser-known authors.

Stephanie Owen Reeder, illustrated by Ingrid Bartkowiak

14,000 books and pamphlets about numerous subjects such as Australian poetry and literary criticism, English and Scottish poetry, Greek and Roman literature, Australian history, labour history and religion. Also includes personal papers of Pearce and other Australian writers.