Papers and photographs related to Clark's life and work as an Australian historian of renown.

Our Manuscripts collections are wide ranging and provide rich evidence of the lives and activities of Australians who have shaped our society.

View historical maps overlaid on a modern map.

614 books and pamphlets, mostly published overseas in the period 1850–1950, including children’s books, novels, atlases, scripture readings, prayer books, hymn books, works on theology, school textbooks and some historical works.

We explored early modern maps with cartographic historian Chet Van Duzer.

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In 1877, meteorologist and astronomer Henry Russell produced the first published weather map for the colony of New South Wales.

Our Maps collection includes around 1 million maps, from early European charts to current mapping of Australia, in print and digital form.

Sarah Luke

The Library recently acquired an original draft of a poem by Mark Twain in the form of a letter.

145 original works of Conrad Martens, consisting of four oil paintings, 91 watercolours, and 51 sepia wash, pencil and wash, or pencil drawings, plus a number of his lithographs