Special collection subject guide

Special Collections comprises various collections, listed below, and material not on open access for other reasons.

These materials are under varying levels of access, and any queries regarding their use should be directed to the Library.

Click on a letter to browse alphabetically by title.

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Aboriginal education

• Aboriginal Education Archives

African literature

• Syd Harrex Collection
• Ronald Klein Collection

American Literature

• Louis L'Amour and Valda Harding Collection
• Ian Reid Collection

ANZUS Treaty

• Tim McDonald Collection

Archaeology

• Megaw Collection

Architecture

• Architecture Collection

Art

• Borrow Collection
• Evatt Collection
• E. M. Yelland Collection

Art - South Australia

• Borrow Collection

Asian literature

• Syd Harrex Collection
• Ronald Klein Collection

Asian Studies

• Bill Brugger Collection
• Syd Harrex Collection
• Ronald Klein Collection
• Anton Lucas Collection

See also Asian Studies Resources in Special Collections

Astronauts

• Mamoru Mohri Collection

Australia - discovery and exploration

• Borrow Collection
• David Elder Collection
• Flinders Collection

Australia - social conditions

• Children's Literature Collection
• SA Council for Civil Liberties Collection

Australia - foreign affairs

• Evatt Collection
• Jacobi Collection
• Tim McDonald Collection

Australia - history

• Bannon Collection
• Borrow Collection
• Sir Charles Bright Papers
• Sir Charles Bright Papers on Charles Flaxman
• Sean C. Dawes Collection
• David Elder Collection
• Evatt Collection
• Flinders Collection
• Heritage and Tourism Collection
• E. M. Yelland Collection
• Roberts Thomson Collection

Australia - politics and government

• Dr Colin Sharp and Australasian Evaluation Society Collection
• Bannon Collection
• Borrow Collection
• Cameron Papers
• David C. Corbett Papers
• Dunstan Collection
• Evatt Collection
• Jacobi Collection
• SA Council for Civil Liberties Collection

Australian Labor Party

• Bannon Collection
• Cameron Papers
• Dunstan Collection
• Evatt Collection
• Jacobi Collection

Australian literature

• Children's Literature Collection
• Barry Dangerfield Collection
• Evatt Collection
• Syd Harrex Collection
• Ingamells Collection
• Brian Medlin Collection
• Morrisby Collection
• Ian Reid Collection

Autographs

• Tinsley Collection

Badges

• Badge Collection

Baptist Church - Australia

• Tinsley Collection

Bookplates and the book trade

• Bookplate Collection
• Morrisby Collection
• Muir Collection

Bougainville

• Jacobi Collection  

Caribbean literature

• Syd Harrex Collection

Censorship - Australia

• Australian Sexuality Collection
• SA Council for Civil Liberties Collection

Charities

• Badge Collection
• Simpson Collection
• Recipe Book Collection

Children

• Brittain Collection
• Children's Literature Collection

China

• Bill Brugger Collection

CSIRO

• Simpson Collection

Cultural Studies

• Heritage and Tourism Collection
• Women's Liberation and Radical Cultural Theory Collection
• Songster Collection

East Timor

• East Timor Collection

Economics

• Committee of Economic Enquiry. See Karmel Collection
• Committee to review the findings of The Committee of inquiry into the Australian Financial System
  (part of Hancock Collection)
• Hancock Collection
• Karmel Collection
• Simpson Collection

Education

• Aboriginal Education Archives
• Brittain Collection
• Children's Literature Collection
• David C. Corbett Papers
• Denis Grundy Collection
• Flinders University Library Archives Collection
• Karmel Collection
• Nursing Education Collection
• Robert Paddick Collection
• School Text Book Collection
• Simpson Collection
• South Pacific Education Archive
• L.A.G. Symons Mathematical Textbook Collection

English Literature

• Daalder Collection
• Brian Medlin Collection

Famine

• Lombok Collection

Feminism

• Women's Liberation and Radical Cultural Theory Collection
• Women's Studies Collection

Fiji

• South Pacific Education Archive

Film

• MPPDA Digital Archive
  
• South Australian Film Corporation Collection

Flinders University

• Flinders University Library Archives Collection
• Flinders University Wine Bottles and Beer Can Collection
• David C. Corbett Papers
• Gus Fraenkel Collection
• Denis Grundy Collection
• Hancock Collection
• Syd Harrex Collection
• Robert Illing Collection
• Reece Jennings Collection
• Karmel Collection
• Horace Lamb Centre Collection
• J.M. Main Archive
• Ian McCarthy Collection
• Brian Medlin Collection
• Megaw Collection
• Robert Paddick Collection
• Anthony Radford Collection
• Dr Colin Sharp and Australasian Evaluation Society Collection
• Women's Studies Collection

Geography

• McCaskill Collection

Geology

• L. Keith Ward Collection
• Lovering Collection

Great Britain - History

• Borrow Collection
• Jacobite Collection
• J.M. Main Archive
• Scottish Documents Collection

Health

• Anthony Radford Collection
• Roberts Thomson Collection

History

• Bannon Collection
• Borrow Collection
• David Elder Collection
• Heritage and Tourism Collection
• Indian Indentured Labour Collection
• Jacobite Collection
• J.M. Main Archive
• Megaw Collection
• Moore Collection
• MPPDA Digital Archive
  
• E. M. Yelland Collection
• Scottish Documents Collection

Human rights

• East Timor Collection
• Jacobi Collection
• SA Council for Civil Liberties Collection

Humanism

• Humanist Society of South Australia Archive

India - history

• Indian Indentured Labour Collection
• Moore Collection

Indian literature

• Syd Harrex Collection
• Indian Fiction Collection
• Ronald Klein Collection

Indonesia

• East Timor Collection
• Lombok Collection
• Anton Lucas Collection
• South Sulawesi Collection

Industrial relations

• Cameron Papers
• Committee of Review Into Australian Industrial Relations Law and Systems
  (part of Hancock Collection)
• Hancock Collection
• Reece Jennings Collection
• National Institute of Labour Studies Collection
• National Wage Case Collection (part of the Hancock Collection)

Java (Indonesia)

• Anton Lucas Collection

Labour studies

• Indian Indentured Labour Collection
• National Institute of Labour Studies Collection
• National Wage Case Collection (part of the Hancock Collection)

Law (South Australia)

• Law Reform Committee Collection
• SA Council for Civil Liberties Collection

Literature

• Brittain Collection
• Children's Literature Collection
• Richard Conyers Collection
• Louis L'Amour and Valda Harding Collection
• Syd Harrex Collection
• Indian Fiction Collection
• Ingamells Collection
• Ronald Klein Collection
• Brian Medlin Collection
• Ian Reid Collection
• Faith Stadler Trent Collection
• Women's Liberation and Radical Cultural Theory Collection

Lombok (Indonesia)

• Lombok Collection

Maritime law

• Jacobi Collection

Mathematics

• L.A.G. Symons Mathematical Textbook Collection

Medical education

• Gus Fraenkel Collection

Medical history

• Gus Fraenkel Collection
• Tea and Sugar Train Archive
• Roberts Thomson Collection

Medicine

• Anthony Radford Collection
• Roberts Thomson Collection

Murray Darling Basin

• Jacobi Collection

Music

• Robert Illing Collection
• Songster Collection

New Zealand - foreign relations

• Tim McDonald Collection

New Zealand Literature

• Syd Harrex Collection
• Ian Reid Collection

Oceanography

• Horace Lamb Centre Collection

Papua and New Guinea

• Simpson Collection
• South Pacific Education Archive

Peace movement

• Brian Medlin Collection
• Peace Movement Collection

Philosophy

• Brian Medlin Collection

Physics

• Ian McCarthy Collection

Primary Health Care

• Anthony Radford Collection

Public policy

• Dr Colin Sharp and Australasian Evaluation Society Collection
• David C. Corbett Papers
  
• SA Council for Civil Liberties Collection

Racing industry - South Australia

• South Australia. Committee of Enquiry Into The Racing Industry. Papers
  (part of the Hancock Collection)

Railways

• Reece Jennings Collection
• Tea and Sugar Train Archive

Religion

• Festival of Light Collection
• Peace Movement Collection
• SA Council for Civil Liberties Collection
• Tinsley Collection

Science fiction

• Allan Bray Science Fiction Collection

Sex industry - Australia

• Australian Sexuality Collection

Socialism - United States

• New England Free Press Collection

South Australia - health services

• Anthony Radford Collection
• Sir Charles Bright Papers

South Australia - history

• Bannon Collection
• Borrow Collection
• Sean C. Dawes Collection
• A.M. Dolling Collection
• Dunstan Collection
• David Elder Collection
• Giannoni Collection
• Heritage and Tourism Collection
• Reece Jennings Collection
• Muir Collection
• Nicholls Collection
• E. M. Yelland Collection

South Australia - politics and government

• Bannon Collection
• Borrow Collection
• David C. Corbett Papers
• Dunstan Collection
• Jacobi Collection
• Nicholls Collection
• SA Council for Civil Liberties Collection

Sport

• Robert Paddick Collection

Sulawesi (Indonesia)

• South Sulawesi Collection

Superannuation

• National Superannuation Committee of Enquiry. Papers
  (part of the Hancock Collection)

Theatre

• Murray Bramwell Collection
• Evatt Collection
• Nicholls Collection
• Songster Collection
• Theatre Programs Collection

Tourism

• Heritage and Tourism Collection

United Nations

• Evatt Collection

United States - foreign relations

• Tim McDonald Collection

United States - politics and government

• New England Free Press Collection

Vanuatu

• South Pacific Education Archive

Vietnam war

• Brian Medlin Collection

Wages and conditions - Australia

• National Wage Case Collection (part of the Hancock Collection)

Water resources - Australia

• L. Keith Ward Collection

Welfare - South Australia

• Community Welfare Advisory Committee on the Delivery of Community Welfare Services in South Australia. Papers.

Women's Studies

• A.M. Dolling Collection
• Australian Sexuality Collection
• SA Council for Civil Liberties Collection
• Women's Liberation and Radical Cultural Theory Collection
• Women's Studies Collection