Gems of the Mitchell Library for Family Historians

David Scott Mitchell

The Mitchell Reading Room

Manuscripts

Seven Little Australians Ethel Turner’s original manuscript (Mitchell Location: MLMSS 7019)

Early Governors despatches 1813-1879

Convicts letter writing at Cockatoo Island “Canary Birds”. Location: SSV 39

Family papers and letters

Williams family papers and photographs Location MLMSS 8617

Berry Family papers records about assigned and free servants

and tenant workers MLMSS 315/67-74

Shipboard diaries and newspapers

Our Voyage to Australia. A brief sketch by W. S. M.

Location: DLMS 168The Zealandia Free Press

Charitable Societies

Benevolent Asylum, Sydney, N.S.W. Government Printer.

Location: PX*D 116

Political parties and business papers

Mr Lang and Mr McKell at Waterloo Town Hall, 1939 Location: Home and Away - 19705

Indigenous recordsAborigines from the Burnt Ridge, PXA 1303 / Box 1

Aboriginal men and children at Walgett?, February 1965. Location: ON 161 / 220

Indigenous records

Index to Aboriginal words and their meanings, by W.W. Bucknell, ca. 1902 Location: MLMSS 7603

William Thomas 'Language according to different tribes including Sydney side of the Murray', 1862-1863. Location: MLMSS 214

War Diaries and letters

Archibald Barwick diary, 22 August 1914-September 1915. Location: MLMSS 1493 / Box 1 / Item 1

Louis Vasco letters, 1916-1918 MLMSS 8191/Box 1X

WW1 diaries online

Paintings and drawings

New England farm, 1854, drawn by William Gardner, Location: A 176

Sydney Cove - View from the Window, 1842, by Conrad Martens. Location: DG 41

Cabin Scene. Time 9 a.m. Aboard the Wm Jardine, 1844, by James Gould Medland, Location: PXC 287

Ships Pictures

The "Great Britain" before leaving Liverpool for Australia, 1860s, Location: ML 81

Photographs

William Bland, 1845, Location: MIN 350

Sarah Godwin and Family on Punt, Port Macquarie, Location:

At Work and play, 01921

Arrival of “North Coasters” recruiting march, Port Macquarie, during WW1, Location: At Work

and Play, 04975

Oral History

Maps

Map of NSW showing pastoral stations, by H.E.C. Robinson. Location: Z/M4 810gbp/1910/1

City of Sydney, bird’s eye view, by M. S. HillLocation: M3 811.17s/1888.1A

Subdivision plans

Subdivision plan lists and images on the catalogue

Published sources

Out at Sea or the Emigrant afloat,

P B Chadfield Location: 325.242/C

Digging for these gems

Introduction to Shipboard Life

World War 1

WW1 diarists

WW1 diarists

Searching across all WW1 diary transcripts

Searching across all WW1 diary transcripts

Catalogue of Manuscripts, Pictures and Oral History

Searching for manuscripts, pictures

Searching for digitised manuscripts and pictures

Searching for books and maps

Searching for books

Sample results page

Searching for maps of an area

A catalogue record for a digitised map

A catalogue record for a digitised map

1840 Plan of Allotments at Port Macquarie for Sale by W. H. Chapman, Location: Z/M3 811.221/1840/1

Zooming into digitised maps

Online Research Guides

Research guides for Family Historians

Research Guides – Ships Pictures

Research guides – Ships pictures

Online Contents lists (indexes)

Research guides – Ships pictures

Link to the catalogue from the research guide

Online images ofships

Research Guides

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