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Explore the University of Sydney Library's digital collections

Setting the Foundation Stone for the Sydney Harbour BridgeFisher Library, viewed from the university front lawn steps浮世絵 Ukiyo-e: Step inside the floating world of 18th century Japan

浮世絵 Ukiyo-e: Japanese woodblock prints
浮世絵 Ukiyo-e: Japanese woodblock prints
Norfolk Island
Norfolk Island
Virginia Woolf's personal copy of The Voyage Out
Virginia Woolf's personal copy of The Voyage Out
The Allan E. Bax collection
The Allan E. Bax collection
19th century ships' logs and other documents relating to maritime history and shipping.
Blackacre - University of Sydney Law School Yearbook
Blackacre - University of Sydney Law School Yearbook
Australian Women Writers
Australian Women Writers
The history of the Library
The history of the Library
Faculty of Medicine Senior Yearbooks
Faculty of Medicine Senior Yearbooks
The history of the University of Sydney
The history of the University of Sydney
Berckelman collection of glass plate negatives, 1920-1935
Berckelman collection of glass plate negatives, 1920-1935
戲劇月刋 = The theatre monthly
戲劇月刋 = The theatre monthly
Watercolour drawings of Agaricaceae
Watercolour drawings of Agaricaceae
Yilabara (Now)
Yilabara (Now)
Palm Leaf manuscripts
Palm Leaf manuscripts
The Quartier Latin
The Quartier Latin
The Quartier Latin was a modernist journal devoted to the arts
The University of Sydney during COVID-19
The University of Sydney during COVID-19
Biblical scrolls
Biblical scrolls
Medieval and Early Modern collection
Medieval and Early Modern collection
Manuscripts and printed works from the Medieval and Early Modern period
Donovan's Insects
Donovan's Insects
Donovan's illustrations were the first European recordings of the entomology of India and Australia.
University of Sydney Statistics, 1950 - 2009
University of Sydney Statistics, 1950 - 2009
Statistics from 1950 - 2009 about the staff, students, and courses of the University of Sydney
Sydney Harbour Bridge construction
Sydney Harbour Bridge construction
Photo albums of the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge 1870 - 1929
Visualise Your Thesis Competition Entries
Visualise Your Thesis Competition Entries
University of Sydney research students present their research in engaging 60-second videos
Online jigsaw puzzles from our collections
Online jigsaw puzzles from our collections
Evelyn Nicholson’s trip to Australia, 1897.
Evelyn Nicholson’s trip to Australia, 1897.
Evelyn Nicholson was the daughter in law of Sir Charles Nicholson, 1st Baronet, one of the founders of Sydney University. This is the diary that Nicolson kept during a honeymoon voyage to Austral...
Dante's Divine Comedy with Giorgione illustration and death notice
Dante's Divine Comedy with Giorgione illustration and death notice
In 2017, Library staff discovered a red chalk sketch by Giorgione and a notice for his death in this 1497 edition of Dante's Divine Comedy
The Henry Lawson collection
The Henry Lawson collection
This selection of material from the Lawson Collection has been chosen to illustrate some of the chapters of Henry Lawson's life and the ways in which his contemporaries remembered him.
Annotated first edition copy of Newton's Principia
Annotated first edition copy of Newton's Principia
The University of Sydney copy is one of only four known first edition copies that were sent by Newton and his assistant Roger Cotes to other mathematicians for peer review
Hermes : an undergraduate's magazine
Hermes : an undergraduate's magazine
The USU has proudly published Hermes since 1886, making it Australia’s oldest literary journal.
Honi Soit
Honi Soit
Honi Soit, the University of Sydney’s student newspaper, has been published by the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) since 1929
Journal of a voyage to New South Wales
Journal of a voyage to New South Wales
With sixty-five plates of non-descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions.
Liturgical Manuscripts
Liturgical Manuscripts
The Library’s collection of Spanish liturgical music manuscripts includes the Lamentations of Jeremiah, several graduals, antiphonals, kyriales, tropers and two rare processionals.
eBot Plant Sciences
eBot Plant Sciences
Sydney College of the Arts Archive
Sydney College of the Arts Archive
A unique collection of contemporary visual art that showcases the scholarly research of SCA staff, students and alumni
Cosme Colony Collection
Cosme Colony Collection
is a collection of documents, personal papers, photographs and realia relating to the New Australia Colony and Cosme Colony held in Rare Books and Special Collections.
Frontiers of Science
Frontiers of Science
Archaeological Fish-bone Images
Archaeological Fish-bone Images
Botanische Wandtafeln
Botanische Wandtafeln
Joseph Henry Maiden Botanical Texts
Joseph Henry Maiden Botanical Texts
A collection devoted to pioneering botanical texts and images.
eFlora
eFlora
An interactive, dichotomous key to all species of vascular plants in the Sydney Region
NSW Archaeology Online
NSW Archaeology Online
A digital archive of information about the archaeology and heritage of important cultural places in New South Wales.
John Anderson Archive
John Anderson Archive
A comprehensive resource on the life and works of John Anderson, Challis Professor of Philosophy, 1927 until 1958.
For the sake of a song: Wangga Songmen and their Repertories
For the sake of a song: Wangga Songmen and their Repertories
Australian Digital Collections
Australian Digital Collections
The University of Sydney Library's collection of Australian Literary and Historical Texts.
Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project
Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project
A collection devoted to literary emergence in the 1840s.
Australian Federation Full Text Database
Australian Federation Full Text Database
A collection devoted to national debates and auxiliary writings of the 1890s, introduced by Helen Irving.
First Fleet and Early Settlement
First Fleet and Early Settlement
A collection devoted to manuscripts and published journals of the First Fleet.
Journals of Inland Exploration
Journals of Inland Exploration
A collection devoted to major encounters with the new geography.
Australian Literary and Historical Texts
Australian Literary and Historical Texts