Digital Collections

The aim of our digitized collections is to increasingly make available world wide on the web  rare materials and unique manuscripts from the collections which are sources for scholarship and research or of general interest to the State, national and international community.

Please note that a more recent and complete collection of items digitized by Special Collections can be found via the Library's Adelaide Research & Scholarship web site. To browse, simply click on the Communities & Collections link on the left-hand menu, or click here to go directly to University Library: Special Collections.

• Address to the Honorable Thomas Elder from the University of Adelaide
  
• The R.A. Fisher Digital Archive
  
• The Australian colonies : together with notes of a voyage from Australia to Panama in the "Golden Age", descriptions of Tahiti and other islands in the Pacific and a tour through some of the States of America in 1854 / by H. Hussey. (PDF file, 421 k)
  
• Federation Pamphlets
  
• The Kelly gang : being a full and true account of this noted band of outlaws, their extraordinary deeds, capture & death, with the latest information / compiled from authentic sources. Adelaide : Frearson, [1880] 
  
• "How can you sing the Lord's song without a book" : a checklist of books printed 1855-1975 by the Anglican Church in Melanesia on the Mission Press 1976 [manuscript] / compiled by Wilfrid John Pinson (PDF file, 238k)
  
• Journeys through Pacific History : a guide to the Pacific Islands Library and Papers of H.E. and H.C. Maude, by Susan Woodburn, 1995.
  
• Letter from George Washington to William Vans Murray
  
• William Lawson : Selections from The Country Hous-Wifes Garden and A New Orchard and Garden.
  
• Selections from John Swan's Speculum Mundi (1635)
  
• South Australian history and exploration, and aboriginal language and culture.
  
• Tales about America and Australia / by Peter Parley [i.e. Samuel G. Goodrich] (PDF file, 3.3 Mb)