Finding Aids
Finding aids are inventories, indexes, or guides that are created by archival and manuscript repositories to provide information about specific collections.
The Research Centre finding aids contain information about selected selected private records and ephemera collections held in the Research Centre of the Australian War Memorial. In general, each finding aid includes:
- background information on the creator or theme of the collection
- a description of the collections overall content and organisation
- a breakdown of the collection's contents
These finding aids have been encoded according to the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) format and are converted to HTML format for public access. For information about the EAD encoding standard that has been employed to make these finding aids accessible over the Internet, see the EAD home page at the Library of Congress.
Please note that the finding aids listed below are part of a trial project and have been converted from existing guides and listings prepared by Private Records and Published and Digitised Collections in the Research Centre. Many more finding aids exist at this time in paper form, and are available in the Reading Room of the Research Centre.
Published and Digitised Collections
Aerial Photographs
Cards, Certificates & Leaflets
- Guide to the Certificate Collection
- Guide to the Cigarette & Trade Card Collection
- Guide to the Greeting Card Collection
- Guide to the Far Eastern Liaison Office (FELO) Leaflet Collection
Ephemera (includes cards, certificates, leaflets, postcards and souvenirs)
- Guide to the Korean Collection
- Guide to the Vietnam Collection
- Guide to the Gulf War Collection
- Guide to the East Timor Collection
- Guide to the Iraq 2003 Collection
- Guide to the Afghanistan Collection
Postcards
- Guide to the Postcard Collection, 1900-1913
- Guide to the Australian Postcard Collection, 1914-1918
- Guide to the Silk Postcard Collection
- Guide to the W.G. Fortman War Memorials Postcard Collection
Souvenirs
- Guide to the ANZAC Day Souvenirs Collection, Souvenirs 1
- Guide to the Concert and Theatre Programs, First World War, 1914-1918, Souvenirs 2
- Guide to Concert and Theatre Programs, Second World War, 1939-1945, Souvenirs 3
- Guide to the Entertainment for the Troops Collection, Souvenirs 4
- Guide to the Appeals and Fund Raising Souvenir Collection, Souvenirs 5
- Guide to the Army Unit Souvenir Collection, Souvenirs 6
- Guide to Australian Historical Events and Commemorations Collection, Souvenirs 7
- Guide to the Australian Comforts Fund Souvenir Collection, Souvenirs 8
- Guide to the Australian War Memorial Ephemera Collection, Souvenirs 9
- Guide to the Autographs and Autograph Books Collection, Souvenirs 10
- Guide to the Aviation History Souvenir Collection, Souvenirs 11
- Guide to the Animals Souvenir Collection, Souvenirs 12
- Guide to the Boxer Uprising Souvenir Collection, Souvenirs 14
- Guide to the British Commonwealth Occupation Force Souvenirs Collection, Souvenirs 15
- Guide to the Cadets Souvenirs Collection, Souvenirs 16
- Guide to the Sympathy Cards Souvenirs Collection, Souvenirs 17
- Guide to the Dances and Balls Souvenir Collection, Souvenirs 18
Private Records
- Guide to the papers of Brigadier Maurice ‘Bunny’ Austin [PDF]
- Guide to the papers of Australian National Defence League (NSW Division)
- Guide to the papers of Charles and Ethel Bean
- Guide to the Papers of Lord Birdwood
- Guide to the Papers of Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blamey
- Guide to the Papers of Sir Cyril Bingham Brudenell White
- Guide to the Papers of Vivian Bullwinkel
- Guide to the Papers of General (Sir) Henry George Chauvel
- Guide to the Papers of Frederick Sidney Cotton
- Guide to the Papers of Neil Brian Davis
- Guide to the Papers of Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop
- Guide to the papers of Brigadier General Harold Edward ‘Pompey’ Elliott
- Guide to the Papers of Charles and Olwyn Green
- Guide to the papers of Sister Agnes Betty Jeffrey
- Guide to the Papers of Athol Randolph Moffitt
- Guide to the Papers of General Sir John Monash
- Guide to the Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Leslie Morshead
- Guide to the papers of Sir George Pearce
- Guide to the papers of Lieutenant John Desmond Peck
- Guide to the papers of Dr Rowley Richards
- Guide to the papers of Dr John William Springthorpe
- Guide to the papers of Sir William Webb
- The One Hundred Days: guide to selected Private Records, 1918
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