Collection: History Support Collection

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

Study of the use and popularity of the postcard in the early twentieth century ; includes thematic discussion of subjects depicted, including "Aborigines" (pp.29-32).

This booklet contains a listing of over three hundred of the early settlers of the Camden district up to about 1870.

Remedying a neglected part of architectural history, this volume presents the work of four of Australia's most innovative arts and crafts architects—Walter Butler, Harold Desbrowe-Annear, Walter Liberty Vernon, and Robin Dods.