Archive and manuscript collections

South Australian archives

University of Adelaide Archives

Barr Smith Library Special Collections

State Library of South Australia holds private, business and society archives, oral histories, South Australiana etc searchable in the Library catalogue. See this fact sheet for more information.

SA Memory (SLSA) a multimedia website which highlights South Australia's people, places, issues and events from the colony's beginnings to the present day. Includes manuscripts, photographs, art works, architectural plans, posters, newspaper articles, printed ephemera, maps, and sound recordings.

State Records of South Australia
holds records of the State Government, semi-Government or statutory authorities and local government bodies.
Colonial records relating to issues that became Commonwealth responsibilities in 1901 were transferred to the National Archives of Australia eg Customs, Defence,  Maritime, Post and Telegraph, Quarantine, Security etc etc.

Print guides in the Barr Smith Library include:

Guide to records relating to women.
Reference collection 305.4099423 G946

Guide to records relating to aboriginal people
Reference collection 994.0049915 G946

Guide to records relating to people of non-English speaking backgrounds
Reference collection 994.23004 S726g

Guide to Records of Indigenous Australians in the Lutheran Archives. 1999 Reference Collection 994.0049915  C968g

Adelaide City Council City Archives

Australian Archives

National Archives of Australia

Trove (National Library of Australia) - search personal and organisational archives, including diaries, manuscripts, letters, business records, photographs, posters, pamphlets, ephemera etc.

Directory of Archives in Australia  (Australian Society of Archivists) - find Australian organisations with archival holdings.

AHRR: Australian historic records register  - from Settlement to 1988

Australian War Memorial

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International archives

United Kingdom

National Archives (England and Wales)

National Register of Archives (NRA) - contains information on the nature and location of manuscripts and historical records that relate to British history

National Archives of Scotland

National Archives of Ireland

United States

National Archives (U.S.)

France

Archives nationales

The National Archives are under the aegis of the Archives de France,

Les Archives nationales : etat general des fonds1978-
t. 1. L'Ancien Regime.--t. 2. 1789-1940.--t. 3. Marine et outre-mer.--
t. 4. Fonds divers et additions et corrections aux tomes I, II et III.--t. 5. 1940-1958
Reference collection 944.0016 F815a

France. Ministère de la guerre. Archives historiques
Inventaire des archives conservées au Service historique de l'Etat-major de l'Armée, Chateau de Vincennes (archives modernes)
Reference collection  355.00944 F815Mi

Inventaire sommaire des archives de la guerre, Série N,  1872-1940
Inventaire des archives de la guerre : Série N, 1920-1940
Main Collection
355.00944 F8151i 1872-1919
355.00944 F8151i 1920-1940  and supplement 355.00944 F8151i 1872-1940 Suppl. 

Worldwide

Archives and manuscript collections, Columbia University Libraries
A comprehensive collection of links to archives collections in the USA and worldwide, by state and country.