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.

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.

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.

696 books and pamphlets relating to freshwater fishing mostly from Britain, as well as many from Australia, New Zealand and America.

Around 150 Chinese books, including some very rare works, about a range of subjects such as Chinese history, literature, society, classics, philosophy and religion.

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.