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Using Microforms: Australian history

Indigenous studies (Selected resources)

Aboriginal Peoples of Australia 1786-1983
Selection of manuscript and rare printed items relating to Australian indigenous people held in the Mitchell and Dixson Libraries at the State Library of New South Wales.
Aborigines' Protection Society transactions, 1837-1909
From the collection of Anti-Slavery International.

People and places (selected resources)

City of Melbourne rate books 1845-1900
Convict records
Material from the Archives Office of Tasmania.
Index of New South Wales convict indents
Indexes to registers of South Australian births, deaths and marriages pre-1906
Who's who in Australia, 1906-1988
Women in Australia
Includes reproductions of Records of the pioneer women of Victoria, 1835-1860; Who's who in the world of women; Book of remembrance of the pioneer women of the Portland Bay district.
Port Phillip/Victoria directories, 1839-1867
Postal, squatting, farming, professional and commercial directories published from 1839 to 1867.
Victorian Pioneers Index c1837-1888: index to births, deaths & marriage records held by Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Victoria, Australia

News (selected resources)

The Age (Melbourne), 1854-

There are some excellent online resources for Australian newspapers. These include:

Trove (National Library of Australia). Trove includes many regional titles as well as major capital city newspapers.
Sydney Morning Herald Archive 1955-1995
Factiva.

See the Finding news guide for more information.

The Bulletin
Library has 1880-29 January 2008.
The Australian
Library has 15 July 1964 onwards. For more recent issues, use Factiva.
Australian Financial Review
Library has 16 August 1951 onwards. For more recent issues, use Factiva.
Sun News Pictorial (Melbourne)
Library has: 11 September 1922-7 October 1990.

International relations (selected resources)

Despatches from United States consuls in Hobart, 1842-1906