State Archives Collection
Making history every day
The NSW State Archives Collection documents the daily work of the NSW Government and its agencies from 1788 to today. This vast collection records history as it happens, providing valuable and at times life-changing evidence of events and decisions that have shaped, and continue to shape, our history, communities and lives.
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About the State Archives Collection
The NSW State Archives Collection documents the daily work of the NSW Government and its agencies from 1788 to today
How to use the State Archives Collection
The largest collection of records relating to the history of NSW and the lives of its people
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Tilly Devine & the Razor Gang Wars, 1927–1931
Learn about the Razor gangs and their leaders Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh
Conserving the archive
Supervising conservator Dominique Moussou talks through her work and some of the projects underway in the MHNSW conservation lab
Virtual Tour of the Western Sydney Records Centre
Take a virtual tour exploring the home of some of NSW’s most significant architectural and design collections
Mr Fox's wallpapers
The digitisation of NSW school files at NSW State Archives has resulted in an unusual discovery: 19th-century wallpaper samples