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Printed materials in the PROMPT collection include programs and printed ephemera such as brochures, leaflets, tickets, etc. Theatre programs are taken as the prime documentary evidence of a performance. The list is based on imperfect holdings, and is updated as gaps in the Library's holdings are filled. Unless otherwise stated, all entries are based on published programs in the PROMPT collection.

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.

Papers of H. Otley Beyer including correspondence, programs, photographs, maps, notebooks, articles, drafts of books, printed materials, theses, undergraduate students' work, conference papers, newspaper cuttings, charts, genealogies and other papers. Also includes bound volumes containing original source material on archaeology, ethnography, languages, history, culture and religion of ethnic groups in the Philippines including the Ifugao, Bantok, Igorot, Moro and Iloko. Most, but not all volumes were written or compiled by Beyer.

Correspondence with naturalists relating to Flower's work as Director of the British Museum (Natural History). Subjects include difficulties in obtaining Pacific Islands skulls. Main correspondents are W. Saville Kent of Hobart, Alfred Corrie of HMS Pelican and Henry Forbes of Christchurch.

Material in this collection dates from 1869 until 1970, and consists of correspondence, notes, diaries, photographs, certificates, programs, invitations, publications, scrap-books and loose press cuttings.

Correspondence, memoranda, notes on foundation of Alfred Herbert (Australasia) Pty Ltd, auditors reports and annual accounts. Correspondents include C.E. Young, Sir Alfred Herbert, D. Gimson, and Norton, Smith Co, Sydney.

The collection contains images of Melbourne streetscapes, prominent buildings and the tram system.

The papers comprise the diary of the voyager of Hugh Culling Eardley Childers to Australia in 1850, four diaries of his wife Emily Childers in Melbourne in 1852-1856, and correspondence concerning their son Rowland, who was sent to Australia in 1878-1886.

This collection comprises two scrapbooks with a compilation of materials relating to Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore, who served as Governor of South Australia between 1889 and 1895. The scrapbooks include letters, photographs, seating plans for official dinners, certificates and invitations, along with materials relating to the British Monarchy, Kintore's role as governor, and Australian Federation.

The Sharp collection of programs from concerts, musicals, theatre, vaudeville staged primarily in Sydney documents the development of Australian theatre. Comprising 150 programs, the collection offers a sampling of theatre activities in Sydney, concentrating on the period 1898-1907.