Datasets

  • Bird Songs Online

    John Hutchinson was an ornithologist and a birdcall recordist. This dataset includes all the bibliographic records for the digitised and available online bird song recordings in...
  • Adopt a soldier

    A collection of more than 700 photographs of World War I soldiers was digitised in 1999 as part of the Adopt-A-Soldier project.
  • Western Australian Newspapers 1830 -

    Nearly 900 Western Australian newspaper titles are held by the State Library. These range from the manuscript newspapers of the early 1830s up to currently published titles....
  • WWI Centenary Project

    To mark the centenary of World War I, the State Library is in the process of digitising material relating to this conflict. Items include photographs, books, letters, diaries,...
  • WABI Subset: Police

    This index was compiled by Miss Mollie Bentley from various records she has used relating to the police. These include: Almanac listings, Colonial Secretary's Office Records,...
  • WABI subset: York

    1859 York district Census. Entry is by name of person, Place of occupation, age, religion, occupation, literacy, arrival ship and date. Details of marriage, wife and children...
  • WABI subset: Eastern Goldfields

    This index has been compiled by Mrs T. Thompson of Kalgoorlie from the following cemeteries and cemetery records: Old Boulder - Anglican Section of the Cemetery Board Register...
  • SLWA Commonwealth Games photographs

    Photographs from the SLWA collection featuring the Commonwealth Games. Most if not all of the photographs are from the 1962 games held in Western Australia. Photographs include...
  • Richard Woldendorp Collection of Photographs

    A large collection of photographs taken by photographer, Richard Woldendorp, including a wide variety of images of people, buildings, places, industries, sport and entertainment...
  • Obituaries indexed by State Library of WA

    This dataset contains over 10,000 indexed records of obituaries found in Western Australian newspapers, newsletters and journals from the mid-1800s to early 2010s. The records...
  • In Memoriam Cards

    Collection of "In Memoriam" cards with photographs of West Australians killed during the First World War, with brief biographical notes.
  • Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI)

    The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye...