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title: State Library of New South Wales open data
resource: https://publicdata.au/nsw/state-library-of-new-south-wales/
jurisdiction: New South Wales
catalogue_read: 2026-09-28
not_endorsed: true
---

# State Library of New South Wales open data

State Library of New South Wales lists 11 datasets on data.gov.au. 11 of them have an open licence and a file or API we can read.

## On the portals

- [Australian Gas Light Company maps](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/australian-gas-light-company-maps) (CSV, XLS; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2023-08-11)
- [First Fleet Collection](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/first-fleet-collection) (CSV, XLS; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2023-08-11)
- [First Fleet maps](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/first-fleet-maps) (CSV, XLS; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2023-08-11)
- [Maps of the Southern Hemisphere 16th-18th centuries](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/maps-of-the-southern-hemisphere-16th-18th-centuries) (CSV, XLS; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2023-08-11)
- [New South Wales officers and men of the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) and the Australian Naval Forces : portrait collection, 1919](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/new-south-wales-officers-and-men-of-the-australian-imperial-force-a-i-f-and-the-australian-naval-for) (CSV, XLS; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2023-08-11)
- [Photographs of NSW life pre 1955](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/photographs-of-nsw-life-pre-1955) (CSV, XLS; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2023-08-11)
- [Photographs of Sydney before 1885](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/photographs-of-sydney-before-1885) (CSV, XLS; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2023-08-11)
- [Rare printed books](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/rare-printed-books) (CSV, XLS; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2023-08-11)
- [Sydney bond store maps 1894](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/sydney-bond-store-maps-1894) (CSV, XLS; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2023-08-11)
- [Sydney maps 1917](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/sydney-maps-1917) (CSV, XLS; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2023-08-11)
- [NSW newspapers catalogue data](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-newspapers-catalogue-data) (XML; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2023-08-09)

Full list: https://publicdata.au/nsw/state-library-of-new-south-wales/catalogue.json