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Collection of instrumental and vocal music, covering a broad musical repertoire. A large proportion of it is European and includes a variety of vocal music including art songs, choral music and operatic works as well as piano music, symphonies, orchestral music and miniature scores. Some editions from the 18th and 19th centuries are included.

The Papers of Graeme M. Clark comprises material relating to Professor Clark's career and the development of the bionic ear or cochlear implant. Papers include correspondence, notebooks and diaries, research and development material, audio tapes, photographs and slides, lecture notes, speeches, press clippings and other material, certificates, biographical material and publications by or relating to Clark.

Collection of posters advertising various exhibitions held at galleries in Victoria including the National Gallery of Victoria, Exhibition Gallery (Monash University), Museum of Victoria and Realities Gallery.

MS 7168 comprises letters to family, Australian and overseas writers, artists and others; drafts of published and unpublished works with background material (notes, photocopies and cuttings) relating to those works; and, diaries including trip diaries. Lindsay's letters are arranged chronologically with alphabetical indexes. Much of the collection comprises papers arranged by Lindsay according to his activities, especially publication projects, including books on William Blake, Gustave Courbet, William Hogarth, William Morris, and J.M.W. Turner, and interests in subjects such as alchemy, anthropology, art, Marxism and science.

MS 9676 is an extensive collection that documents fully Peter Sculthorpe's career as one of Australia's most distinguished composer. Commencing with early newspaper cuttings and other items about himself, Sculthorpe has amassed a large archive of papers relating to all aspects of his career. The papers comprise correspondence, music scores, subject files, writings by and about Sculthorpe, programs, reviews, financial records, general administrative papers and photographs.

Collection of material published by various Australian publishers giving examples of different musical forms. The material is issued predominantly for the public examinations in music conducted by the Universities of Melbourne, Adelaide, Tasmania and Western Australia, the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and the State Conservatorium of Music New South Wales on behalf of the Australian Music Examinations Board.

Celebration memorabilia catalogue. Support organisations information. Queen Elizabeth The Second's Banner. Musical performances. A memorial. A job advertisement.

Represented in the papers is a large sequence of draft manuscripts and associated papers relating to Tomholt's chief work, an unfinished trilogy based on the life of Governor Macquarie, in which he was involved in meticulous research for over 20 years. Also filed in the collection are two letters from George Bernard Shaw to Tomholt (dated 1919), and correspondence with a number of Australian writers and intellectuals with whom Tomholt maintained a close association, such as C.K. Bliss, Tom Inglis Moore, R.D. FitzGerald, Hugh McCrae, R.G. Howarth, Nancy Keesing and Rosemary Dobson.

The John Hoyle Cookery Collection comprises historical cookbooks chiefly from Australia. Cookbooks from New Zealand and England are also represented. Cookbooks of many varieties are included such as recipe books for home, students and professional use covering a wide range of cuisines. In addition there is a strong collection of cookbooks issued as advertising material from organisations selling, or advocating for, appliances, foods and other products. Many of the titles are listed in Hoyle, J. An annotated bibliography of Australian domestic cookery books, 1860s to 1950

MS 9923 comprises papers collected by Charles Ulm as well as those collected by his son, John. The papers comprise newspaper cuttings, stamps, commemorative envelopes, correspondence, brochures, research notes, articles, reviews, certificates, talks, handwritten notes, photocopies of government records, business papers, photographs, maps and ephemera. The largest series in the collection is the commemorative and philatelic material, comprising stamps, commemorative envelopes, tribute albums, newspaper cuttings, articles and reviews relating to the 50th anniversary of the first trans-Pacific flight. The 1928 flight saw Charles Ulm fly with Charles Kingsford-Smith on the Southern Cross from Oakland, California to Brisbane, Australia (8 boxes, 1 fol. box).