Collections

Material in the Australian performing arts programs and ephemera (PROMPT) collection consists of advertising flyers, pamphlets, and brochures of various plays written by Alana Valentine.

The ephemera collection contains documents of everyday life generally covering publications of fewer than five pages. These may include: advertising material, area guides, booklets, brochures, samples of merchandise postcards, posters, programs, stickers, Commenmorating 75 years of Australian Peacekeeping and Remembrance Day pamphlets.

Material in the Geography and Travel ephemera collection covers significant information about the geography, history, and tourist activities of places in Australia, its Antarctic and island territories. This includes geographical features, national parks and reserves, regions, cities, towns, buildings and other man-made structures. The collection includes advertising material, pamphlets, price lists, tokens, area and accommodation guides, brochures, postcards, stickers, labels and tickets.

Material in the Geography and Travel ephemera collection covers significant information about the geography, history, and tourist activities of places in Australia, its Antarctic and island territories. This includes geographical features, national parks and reserves, regions, cities, towns, buildings and other man-made structures. The collection includes advertising material, pamphlets, price lists, tokens, area and accommodation guides, brochures, postcards, stickers, labels and tickets.

This collection of black and white photographs includes images of the competitors and pilots of the Victorian Centenary Air Race in Melbourne in 1934. There are photographs of the procession through Melbourne with crowds celebrating the participants, including the winners British fliers C.W.A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black, and South Australian pilot C.J. (Jimmy) Melrose. Scott and Campbell Black were winners of the speed section of the race in a red DeHavilland 88 Comet. They reached Melbourne in two days 23 hours 18 seconds, with a total air time of 71 hours. Second fastest with an air time of 81 hours 10 minutes. Their flight showcased the viability of aviation in connecting Australia with the rest of the world, and in particular the route from Australia to England which took up to six weeks by ship. The Vauxhall cars used in the celebration procession are featured in the images with the details of all Vauxhall cars included. Also included are images of H.R.H, Duke of Gloucester during his tour of New South Wales, and group images of men possibly at the General Motors Australia Brisbane Branch Dealers Convention, 1928. The collection is accompanied by a typed list of captions with names of people and details of Vauxhall cars in photographs, and original brown cardboard box in which the photographs were housed.

Collection of scenic views of Australia taken by Charles Rudd; including scenes in South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria. The collection contains 27 distinct photographs of Australia; the National Library holds multiple prints of each photograph as well as the corresponding negative.

Views of Canberra and the ACT, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, including public buildings, suburbs, people and landscapes. Activities and wildlife on, and views of Lake Burley Griffin. Canberra churches and mosques, embassies, the ANU, Duntroon, Old Parliament House, National Press Club, Australian War Memorial, and other buildings. Houses in various suburbs. Various sculptures, and Hiroe exhibition (1975). Shops and shoppers at Woden Mall (1971), Hall (1971), Fyshwick Market and Civic. Various bands, folk musicians and an event at the School of music. Events at the showground, Canberra Day (1977). Canberra Weavers, Wednesday Painters. Pakistan Disaster Dinner (1975), demonstration against logging Tantawangalo Forest (1987). Also portraits of Holt, Hawke and Gorton, other unidentified men, family and friends. Views of Honey Suckle Creek, Ororal Valley, Uriara Creek, Tuggaranong, Murrumbateman. In New South Wales, views of Castle Peak, Pidgeon House, Bungonia, Budawang, Boroomba, Hill End, Sofala, Michelago, Shoalhaven, Mongarlow, Captains Flat, Lotus Bay, Dubbo, Tenterfield, Mt Warning, Point Hicks, Ben Boyds, Eden, Thredbo, Kiama, Memosa Rocks, Mootwingee, White Cliffs, Wilcannia. In Victoria, Mt Buller, Mt Hotham, Omeo, Yallourn, Sale, Melbourne. In South Australia, Flinders Ranges, and Aboriginal rock paintings at Chambers Creek. Photographs of Aborigines in Western Australia in 1961. Album 879/26 contains photographs of Hedda Morrison's trip around Australia with her husband Alastair in 1961.

"In September 1858 [William Hetzer] published by subscription the first sets of stereograph views of Sydney and environs, which he had extended by May 1859 to a total of sixty." -- Shades of light : photography and Australia 1839-1988 by Gael Newton. Canberra : Australian National Gallery : Collins Australia, 1988.

Collection includes a series of Melbourne city views photographed by John Noone, from the tower of Dr. Fitzgerald's residence on Lonsdale Street West. Presented to H.A. Williams by officers of the Department of Public Works, with signatures of donors.

Material in the Geography and Travel ephemera collection covers significant information about the geography, history, and tourist activities of places in Australia, its Antarctic and island territories. This includes geographical features, national parks and reserves, regions, cities, towns, buildings and other man-made structures. The collection includes advertising material, pamphlets, price lists, tokens, area and accommodation guides, brochures, postcards, stickers, labels and tickets.