Notable Collections
There are several notable collections held by the National Archives of Australia. These include:
- founding documents, including the Royal Commission of Assent, the Constitution Act and other records created when the six colonies federated to create the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901
- World War I and II service records - some 376,000 service records for men and women who served in World War I have been digitised and are available online on the National Archives' website (www.naa.gov.au)
- the Griffin drawings - Walter and Marion Griffin's winning entry for the design of Australia's Federal Capital
- the Mildenhall photographs - taken by government photographer Jack Mildenhall, 7700 images which document the building of Canberra during the 1920s and 1930s
- a series of immigration photographs comprising some 34,000 images
- copyright, patent and trademark registration records documenting nearly a century of Australian creativity and ingenuity
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