More about the rescue
Newspapers
The Battye Library holds the most complete collection of Western Australian newspapers in the world. There are 971 separate newspaper titles...
Read more about the newspapers
Photographic Negatives
The Battye Library's Pictorial Collection of nearly 1,000,000 images covers social and industrial history from all corners of the State, for example, from far north cattle stations to the early days of whaling...
Films from the State Film Archive
The State Film Archives, the only regional film archive in Australia, contains over 3,000 titles in film and videotapes. It is a collection of unique historic and contemporary films...
The Rescue
The purpose of this section is to provide the community with further information about the HRRC project in relation to the actual rescue of significant historical records; that is, the newspapers, the photographic negatives and the motion picture film.
This includes some background information about each of these three programs, reasons why these historical records are at-risk of being lost to the community and a description of what is involved in the preservation processes being undertaken for the HRRC project.
