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Collecting, preserving and digitising Western Australian history through photographs, films, oral histories, music, maps, newspapers and post office directories. We treasure and share everything from historically significant moments to the equally important everyday lives of ordinary Western Australians. View highlights and learn more about the historical collection below.
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Aboriginal Collections
Explore the diversity of Aboriginal content through the photographs, manuscripts, oral histories and digital stories collections.
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![Dictating archival file records of State Government for use in JS Battye Library 1969](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2021-05/319495PD_Dictating%20archival%20file%20records%20of%20State%20Government%20for%20use%20in%20JS%20Battye%20Library%201969.jpg?h=74a31ca2&itok=Sg5AYu0A)
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![Illustration from Tales from outer suburbia by Shaun Tan](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2021-09/PWC-112_Illustration%20from%20Tales%20from%20outer%20suburbia%20by%20Shaun%20Tan.jpg?h=dce1fb60&itok=eSSOwUZC)
![Bride Phoebe Searcy nee Leach 1927](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2021-06/104497PD_Bride%20Phoebe%20Searcy%20nee%20Leach%201927.jpg?h=a9b024aa&itok=FVz4b_T1)
![Man in suit beside letterbox c1930](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2021-05/013565PD_Man%20in%20suit%20beside%20letterbox%20c1930_0.jpg?h=12f5b80c&itok=uv_woqjE)
![Horse cart loaded with mail 1930](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2021-05/013562PD_Cart%20loaded%20with%20mail%201930.jpg?h=8c84461d&itok=-joJ1QTc)
![Government Printing Office typesetters c1905](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2021-05/006303PD_Government%20Printing%20Office%20typesetters%20c1905.jpg?h=45695f59&itok=sIt4ubav)
![untapped the Australian Literacy Heritage Project](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2021-12/CMD681_untapped%20banner%20website_0.jpg?itok=i5JvvCaO)
![Arthur Ellis in Circulation Services selecting an exchange of books to be despatched to a library 1964](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2021-11/319449PD%20Circulation%20Services%20Library%20and%20Information%20Service%20of%20WA%201964.jpg?h=379a3730&itok=V3mVWWIg)
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