Collection: History Support Collection

This book contains historical information about Vo Nguyen Giap, Southeast Asia's most successful Communist general who was the principal commander in two wars: the First Indochina War (1946-1954) and the Vietnam War (1960-1975).

A record and memento of the finale to the Centenary of Federation celebrations in 2001. The Peoplescape brought together stories from the city, country and outback; from past and present; from the celebrated, the infamous, and the unknown to represent and applaud the diversity and individual cont...

Results from the 1986 Census of Population and Housing for each State and the Northern Territory. It presents census counts of persons and dwellings for various geographic levels based on place of enumeration

These guidelines provide an outline for making a photographic record of sites, buildings, structures and movable items of heritage significance. They are particularly relevant to the recording of items of industrial or technological significance and domestic items and interiors.

This report of the American Institute of Crop Ecology summarizes results of its investigation dealing with the crop ecology of Southeast Asia during the years 1955 to 1958.

Details the growth of the city over the last two hundred years, including also its Aboriginal heritage, rural diverstiy, industrial growth and residential development...

The coaching age, which began in 1854, lasted for almost 70 years. It began when four young Americans, headed by Freeman Cobb, introduced the revolutionary leather-slung Concord coaches to Australia's unmade goldfields' tracks. This book tells the story of the birth, rise and fall of Cobb and C...

This booklet contains a pictorial history of the Blue Mountains with thirty-one pencil drawings in chronological order from the earliest geological era to the nineteen twenties