This letter from the Anti-Female-Suffrage League to Prime Minister Barton criticises Barton’s support for voting rights for women.

A letter to Prime Minister Edmund Barton from Paul Soong Quong, with a reply from the Department of External Affairs, about the restrictive dictation test.

Barton’s handwritten notes in red ink record decisions made by the Constitution Committee, which he chaired, at the Australasian Federal Convention of 1897–98.

The oath of allegiance to Queen Victoria and 'Her Heirs and Successors according to law' signed by Edmund Barton on 1 January 1901.

This is a telegram sent by the British Colonial Secretary in London, Joseph Chamberlain, to Australia's Governor-General Designate, Lord Hopetoun.

This photograph shows colonial delegates to the Australasian Federation Conference held in 1890.

This is a copy of a letter to Prime Minister Edmund Barton from Walite Shah, a resident of the Indian community in Victoria.

The full title of this legislation is 'An Act to provide for an Uniform Federal Franchise (No. 8 of 1902)'. The blue silk ribbons binding the document indicate its origin as a Bill introduced into the Senate.

A letter written by Georges Biard d'Aunet, expressing concern over perceived unfair aspects of the proposed dictation test.