Dive into the records of the Australian Women Pilots’ Association and some of the stories they tell about early Australian female pilots.

2780 music scores for songs and vocal and piano selections from American, British and Australian musicals, music theatre, films and television shows produced from about 1920 to 1990.

Comics-journalist and cartoonist Sam Wallman presented a lecture on his 2023 Creative Arts Fellowship research into the Pink and Green Bans movement and how it will contribute to a new artwork celebrating the 1970s coalition of blue collar union workers and LGBTIQA+ people.

Lavishly illustrated travel books had long been popular in Europe and North America when the same American team that produced Picturesque Canada established the Picturesque Atlas Publishing Company in Wynyard Square, Sydney, on Gadigal Country, in 1885.

Our rich and varied Pictures collection focuses on Australian people, places and events, from early European exploration of the South Pacific to contemporary events.

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Reading picture books is important in speech development, building literacy skills, helping children to use their imagination.

About 440 books published by William Pickering between 1820 and 1854 including reprints of classics and seventeenth-century Anglican religious works, plus contemporary writers of his time.

The Library has recently acquired 3 photographs from a Rational Dress Movement picnic in 1895.

The Library commissioned photographers to capture the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Four photographs of the 2022 Pacifica Youth Rugby Cup have recently been added to our collection.