The National Library has recently acquired a rare portrait miniature of Sir Thomas Brisbane, the sixth Governor of New South Wales.

Aerial photographs of Australia, the Australian Antarctic Territory and Papua New Guinea

We hold a national series of aerial photographs of Australia collected between 1928 and 1988. Use this guide to help you find and access photography of Australian states and territories in our collection and beyond.  

An 1827 illustration of an echidna has recently been added to our collection.

Paintings, drawings, sketchbooks and manuscripts by George French Angas

The Main Reading Room houses a collection of sculptures and paintings inspired by Indigenous stories of the Australian landscape.

The National Library's Asian language collections focus on contemporary Asia from the 19th century onwards.

The Australian Inland Mission established 15 nursing homes, bush hospitals and services in remote Australian locations.

Take a look at some of the postcards we hold from the first half of the twentieth century and the messages they were sent with.

Papers, maps, photographs and other publications largely relating to Daisy Bates' research on Indigenous Australians.

Books, booklets, pamphlets, leaflets and hundreds of photographs and postcards mainly relating to New South Wales country towns.

Papers, including manuscripts on Philippine ethnography, books and pamphlets in various languages on a wide range of subjects with a focus on the Philippines, photographs and printed and manuscript maps collected by Henry Otley Beyer.