Copies of photographs related to Birt Acres, his life and achievements from Tjitte de Vries’ collection, the Melbourne-Cooper Archive and Kensington Science Museum, 41 lose copies of original photographs by Birt Acres, three small photo albums containing colour and photographs showing people and places and ten photographs of Birt Acres camera.

Scrapbook copy of the ‘Black Book’ entitled Birt Acres Film Pioneer 1854-1918 containing photocopies of newspaper cuttings and photographs and typed news reports and some material on the Cinema Veterans annual reunion. Press cuttings collected by Birt Acres wife who continued to update it until her death in the 1950's. Subsequent additions were by Birt's daughter-in-law Phyllis.

Includes:

Bound photocopy of Fred Talbot's book titled, ‘Moving Pictures’ with foreword by Birt Acres (178B29.2(xli))

Bound photocopy of C. W. Ceram's book titled, 'Arhaeology of the Cinema' (178B29.2(xlii))

Bound photocopy of a manuscript titled, 'Portrait of Celluliod', written by John Grisdale (178B29.2(xliii))