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This squatting map of Victoria shows counties, road and rail lines, settlements and subdivisions. Relief is shown on the map using hachures.

Thomas Ham, Blundell and Ford, The squatting map of Victoria, 1864-1865, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-231392173

This squatting map of Victoria shows counties, road and rail lines, settlements and subdivisions. Relief is shown on the map using hachures.

Pastoral or squatting maps

Early pastoral or squatting maps can help you locate pastoral properties relating to ownership before Torrens Title, and for identifying large pastoral and squatting runs. Many maps we have can be viewed online, and all can be viewed at the Library.

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Plane Table Surveys Collection

182 original field sheets, representing 32 map sheets, dating from 1915 to 1936 including surveys carried out in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia.

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A historic real estate map advertising a land auction at Circular Quay and George Street, Sydney, dated May 30th, 1900. The layout showcases plots available for development, labeled "colored red," situated near the wharves, shops, and notable buildings. Text emphasizes the commercial opportunities of the site, positioned near tram and maritime terminals.

Hardie & Gorman Pty. Ltd & W. E. Smith Ltd, Circular Quay and George St., a splendid site for stores and offices, opposite the wharves for auction sale at the rooms, 133 Pitt St,  nla.gov.au/nla.obj-230508873

Real estate or sales plans

Use sales plans to find information about land sales, such as prices, boundaries, roads and land use.

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Rummery Collection

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

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Scott Collection

Recordings of folk music, dance music, folklore and oral history from New South Wales and Queensland recorded during the period 1955 to 1990.

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A man standing next to a hanging fish. The fish is taller and larger than him.

DC Tilghman, Groper caught off Cairns foreshore, 1932, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-142227653

Tilghman Collection

About 260 books and pamphlets on American history, as well as papers of the Woodriff family and Tilghman, including about 380 of Tilghman's photographs of the Northern Territory 1925–1927 and Queensland 1931–1933.

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Tregellas Collection

About 10,000 stereoscopic view cards produced by both commercial and amateur photographers in all parts of the world and a significant collection of photographic equipment and some books and journals on photography.

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Wilson Collection

Drawings, sketches, plans and photographs of Australian colonial architecture, ancient buildings from China and Greece, furnature designs and sketches for a proposed "ideal city" of Kurrajong.

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Woodland Collection

27 recordings of traditional music, recitations, folklore and oral histories made in New South Wales between 1968 and 1995.

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