Photographs, correspondence, diaries, journals, newspaper cuttings, personal papers relating to the Bell Family, Jimbour Station, various Bell Family properties, Jimbour House, and its occupants.

Notebooks (referred to by Herbert as "literary logs" or "logbooks"), manuscript drafts, proofs and other papers relating to Xavier Herbert's published and unpublished works, including Poor fellow my country, Capricornia, Disturbing element, Soldiers' women, "Me and my shadow", and "The little widow", together with short stories, poems, articles, newspaper cuttings, correspondence, photographs, financial and personal records, audio recordings, and artwork by or featuring Xavier Herbert. Also includes papers relating to Xavier Herbert's pharmaceutical career, military service and aviation pursuits, as well as his interest in politics and the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

This collection contains poetry, prose, speeches, and reports; correspondence; photographs, newspaper cuttings; press releases; invitations; programmes; research material; and plans.

Material includes: Queensland Labor Womens's History Collection 1890-1900, Queensland Women's Service Collection, Federal Council for Reconciliation - first and second agenda papers 1991-1996, selected issue files (environment and social policy development) 1893-1999, Margaret Reynolds speech files and press release 1983-1999, correspondence with Queensland ministers.

Bound album, 28 x 25 x 6 cm, of 167 black and white photographs. Appears to be a record of Appel's voyage while Home Secretary in the Queensland Government Steamer "Otter" in 1914 which went as far north as Daru on the coast of south-western Papua. Title embossed on cover of album. Several pages are without photographs. Photographs have been pasted to the mid-weight card and none have captioning. Photographs include: Baron Falls; a lighthouse (possibly Booby Island Light); possibly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples from Northern Queensland and Papuan New Guinea peoples; and places from his travels.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Two hundred and three (203) photographs of Queensland towns from circa 1880s to1890s, and 211 black-and-white 35mm negative derivatives with 13 proof sheets.

Carbon copy typescript of Die Gliederung der australischen Sprachen : geographische, bibliographische, linguistische Grundzuge der Erforschung der australischen Sprachen by Wilhelm Schmidt publication in 1919 ; translated from the German by D. Clark for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies; 1972. Item contains cut and paste inserts from original publication. Schmidt wrote about the classification of Australian languages; linguistic evidence - phonology, pronouns; comparative vocabularies; distribution of languages and bibliography.

A personal history of an Aboriginal Australian tribe referred to as 'the Blucher tribe' located in the Darling Downs region. Includes an overview of their culture and customs. Two copies are typescripts bound by the Library. One is an original typescript with stiff paper wrappers and some handwritten annotations. One is a roneoed copy. The first of the two bound typescripts has an inscription on the title page near the hinge that reads '1.11.1934 345 1st copy typed in University Office'. The second of the two typescripts has an inscription on the title page near the hinge that reads '345 1.11.1934 duplic[ate] for FWR [Frederick Walter Robinson] 2/6'. The third original typescript copy in stiff paper wrappers, 41 leaves, has a bookplate pasted inside the front wrapper that states it 'belonged to Frederick Walter Robinson'. The fourth copy, 29 pages, looks to be a roneoed typescript that came from the Hayes collection.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource contains details about cultural and ceremonial rites, including Men’s Business and identifying details about the location and features of Killarney bora grounds. This resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

This collection has typescript and handwritten drafts, notes and research material relating to published works and also to a wide range of literary projects mostly undertaken during the later part of Hill's writing career, from 1945 onwards. These unpublished works cover a variety of genres: novels, plays, descriptive writing and scripts for radio, television and film. Included are drafts and research material related to 'Johnnie Wisecap', 'The Coast of the Holy Ghost', 'Zodiac Road / Blanked over the moon', 'Women of Australia', 'Grand Kangaroo', 'Mother of Pearl'. There is material on the life of Daisy Bates, and plans for a film based on her life; personal correspondence, and two complete unpublished novels.

There are 3,156 photographs, some prints, some negatives, reflecting very large collection of photographs taken by Hill during her many long tours of outback Australia, from the early 1930s and cover all aspects of Northern, Western and outback Australia: flora and fauna, scenery, missions, homestead life, coastal scenes and shipping, traditional industries such as fishing, droving, pearling and sugar farming, mining, camel transport, dwellings, cemeteries, and public buildings. There is pictorial material relating to the life and customs of Aboriginal Australians in all areas of Australia.

Brochure constructed of copied black-and-white collages of cuttings of news items regarding Aboriginal peoples, with handwritten notes about the publication date and source of the cuttings.