To minimise handling of the rare and unique items in the Pictures Collection, the Library provides a photographic service.

Fifty years on, see how the destruction and impact of Cyclone Tracy in Darwin 1974 is captured in our collection. 

Family papers, maps of the Hong Kong and Macau region, pictures, photographs and a large collection of books and pamphlets predominantly historical works, particularly histories of Portugal, the Portuguese colonies, China and Japan.

Papers, pamphlets, books and periodicals relating to communism, socialism, fascism, capitalism, international relations, public finance, politics, World War II, and the Vietnam War.

Take flight with some of the prominent aviation families in the collection.

The Asian language collections cover a broad range of formats and focus on contemporary Asia from the 19th century onwards 

The Main Reading Room houses a collection of sculptures and paintings inspired by Indigenous stories of the Australian landscape.

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

An 1827 illustration of an echidna has recently been added to our collection.