This is an excerpt from a public health poster about the Spanish influenza (flu) pandemic, drawn by children's illustrator and author May Gibbs in 1919.

This is a confidential memorandum from 1934 sent by the Director of the Commonwealth Investigation Branch alerting the Collector of Customs in Fremantle to the prospective entry of Egon Erwin Kisch into Australia.

Black-and-white photograph of the famous Australian artist Norman Lindsay.

This posed black-and-white photograph shows Patrick White, Australian writer and Nobel Laureate in Literature.

This black-and-white photograph shows well-known New Zealand and Australian author Ruth Park in the early years of her fame.