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The collection documents Jim Fraser's career as the Member for the Australian Capital Territory from 1951 until his death on 1 April 1970. It consists of subject files which include correspondence relating to constituent matters, speeches, transcripts of weekly broadcasts on Radio 2CA and telecasts on Channel 7, press cuttings, photographs and printed material.

Collection includes portraits of residents who are oral history subjects in the National Library of Australia's Norfolk Island oral history project; photographs of Bounty Day celebrations; as well as other general scenes from around Norfolk Island.

Correspondence 1836-1883. Subjects include: discovery of fossils in Australia; observations of Tasmanian Aborigines; self-government in New South Wales; research on Australian and New Zealand fauna including platypus and moa; dispatch of Australian specimens and skulls of Maoris and Aborigines. Correspondents include W. Clift, G. Bennett, Sir Walter Buller, R. Etheridge, W.B. Clarke, Sir Julius von Haast, J.L.G. Krefft, Sir Ferdinand von Mueller, E.P. Ramsay, T.H.C. Hood and H. Woodward.

Letters, arranged chronologically, sent to Rev. T. Heptonstall, Abbot Gregory and other members of the Downside community. Correspondents include Polding, Ullathorne, Davis, C. Conolly, Bishop R. Salvado, Bishop R.W. Willson, Bishop F. Murphy, Bishop J.B.F. Pompallier, Bishop J.A. Goold.

Material filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project includes: correspondence regarding land claims in New Zealand; legal papers, draft reports, orders and records of HMS Juno which document: the social life of naval officers in Sydney and Hobart; a cruise in the Pacific; the transfer of the Pitcairn Islanders to Norfolk Island; the defence of Sydney and Melbourne; the activities of the surveying ship HMS Herald; the annexation of the Cocos Islands in 1857; the possible annexation of Fiji; and Fremantle's disciplinary troubles on HMS Juno and the Journal 1856 of Lieut. G.W. Gregorie describing the removal of the Pitcairn Islanders to Norfolk Island.

Collection includes photographs of bird nests and eggs (all identified) and other animal and botanical subjects taken in New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia between 1891-1932.

Material filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project includes correspondence on topics such as: botanical, zoological and ethnological specimens collected from the South Seas while also referring to French and Spanish voyages; Cook's voyages; the charts and plates; voyages of W. Bligh and G. Vancouver; and specimens collected in Australia, the Pacific and the East Indies

The collection consists of files relating mainly to Hince's work as a music critic in the last thirty years. It includes scores, printed material, ephemera, files and music group discussions notes, plus correspondence, correspondence, both business and private, copies of Hince's own letters, letters from readers, composers, musicians, conductors and musicologists, typescripts of Hince's manuscripts on musicians, papers relating to his music collecting and his judging of music competitions, notes of interviews with notable composers, and substantial files on the ABC, The Age and the Australian.

Papers 1785-1817 of Henry and Robert Dundas, Viscounts Melville, referring to Thomas Muir, T.F. Palmer and other Scottish political prisoners, transportation of convicts, trade in Far East, and Prince of Wales Island.

Photographs of Australian landscape, cities, towns and country districts, civic buildings, transport, street scenes, parks and gardens, plantations, river crossings, mining, housing, holiday scenes, birdlife, animals, and portraits of individuals, including Indigenous Australians.