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The collection comprises correspondence, printed materials, notebooks, notes, business papers, photographs, menus, programs, and invitations relating to Hall's career and his book The Manufacturers.

This collection comprises printed labelling for fruit boxes (apples, pears, etc), confectionery, cleaning products, foodstuffs, wines, cosmetics and veterinary medicines.

The papers fall into two broad categories: personal and political material relating to Perkins' career, and historical material assembled by Perkins relating to the Eden-Monaro District.

The papers relate mainly to Irvin's writings about early Australian theatre, but also include transcripts of ABC broadcasts that Irvin gave in the last years of World War II relating to poetry.

The collection consists mainly of the drafts and manuscripts of a Bibliography on Federation c. 1840-1901. There is also a bibliography of books copyrighted by the N.S.W. Bookstall Co. Ltd. and a small amount of material concerning the collecting of Australiana.

The collection includes correspondence, photographs, notes, research material (primarily photocopies) and manuscript drafts relating to the researching and writing of Cochrane's book Simpson and the donkey: the making of a legend (1992). The research material gathered by Cochrane documents the life and legend of stretcher-bearer John Simpson Kirkpatrick, who died in the Gallipoli campaign of World War I. Among the correspondents are Ken Inglis, Bill Gammage, Jim Henderson, Humphrey McQueen, John Hirst, John Herouvim, Peter Stanley, Barry York, Alan McLean, Craig Munro, Catherine Snowden, Ian Duffield, Chris Pugsley, Barry York, Ann Richter, Renata Howe and Michael Sharkey.(4 boxes).

Material in the Australian performing arts programs and ephemera (PROMPT) collection consists of programs and related items about the Sydney Theatre Company and the Company's upcoming productions

Taken as a whole, the collection comprises typescripts of books, correspondence, photographs and material gathered during Clune's research. For the purpose of his research, Clune kept diaries of his journeys and collected published Australiana. A number of the printed items in the collection are ephemeral or rare.

Political correspondence, including official and semi-official letters. Subjects include: emigration; colonial governorships; Fiji; establishment of Moreton Bay as a separate colony; the Congress of Berlin (1878); military action in Malaya; colonial appointments; affairs of Sir James Brooke; and Fenian prisoners.

Badges and pin backed buttons mostly donated to the collection by members of the public, including many collected in Adelaide by Mrs Fransine Brown (1904-1991) and her son, the Reverend Peter Brown (1936-2012). They relate to Australian charities, organisations, events, armed forces, public campaigns, patriotic causes and fundraising initiatives, and include badges or buttons commemorating specific events such as Australia's Commonwealth celebrations in June 1911, the 1918 Armistice, Anzac Day 1915, Navy Day 1918, and Empire Day 1946. Includes badges or buttons relating to Australian organisations or people such as the RSPCA, SIDS for Kids, AFL, Red Cross, the Australian Comforts Fund, Legacy, the League of Loyal Women of Australia, the Salvation Army, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Several badges from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s relate to the Vietnam Moratorium and other federal political campaigns.