Portrait of an Aboriginal Australian child. The handwritten notes accompanying a print of the negative in Series A Item 1 identifies the child as 'Topsy, section Koorookilla of the Dalleburra Tribe, aged about 8'.

A photograph of a side profile photograph of an Aboriginal Australian man. The handwritten notes accompanying a print of the negative in Series A Item 1 identifies him as 'Ko-bro (Barney) ... Dalleburra Tribe'.

A photograph of a side profile photograph of an Aboriginal Australian man. The handwritten notes accompanying a print of the negative in Series A Item 1 identifies him as 'Kyra (Barney's son), section Koorookilla, the Dalleburra Tribe'.

Portrait of an Aboriginal Australian man. The handwritten notes accompanying a print of the negative in Series A Item 1 identifies him as 'Kyra, Koorookilla section of the Dalleburra Tribe, son of Barney'.

Side profile of an Aboriginal Australian boy. The handwritten notes accompanying a print of the negative in Series A Item 1 identifies him as 'Charley, a Dalleburra boy, aged about 16'.

Side profile of a young Aboriginal Australian man. A handwritten inscription on the front of the plate identifies him as 'Warmbunny, a young Dalleburra stockman'.

Full-length portrait of an Aboriginal Australian child, aged about 3, standing in a garden and wearing a European-style dress. The handwritten notes accompanying a print of the negative in Series A Item 1 identifies him as 'Tommy, section Ko-bro of the Dalleburra Tribe'.

Full-length portrait of an Aboriginal Australian child, aged about 3. The handwritten notes accompanying a print of the negative in Series A Item 1 identifies him as 'Tommy, section Ko-bro of the Dalleburra Tribe'. The note also attributes his despairing facial expression to the fact Mrs Christison dressed him in a 'Tumburra', a clothing item worn only by women, mistakenly thinking it was worn universally.

21 glass plate negatives, 12 x 17 cm, created by Mary Christison and compiled by Mary Christison's daughter, Mary Montgomerie Bennett. The plates contain images of Lammermoor Homestead; three portraits of Robert Christison at ages 20, 40 and 75; and various identified Aboriginal Australian individuals of the Dalleburra Tribe, Mitchell District in North Queensland. Some of the plates contain photographs of photographs.

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Letters to Timothy Kelly from Caroline Kelly, from an original folder labelled Cherbourg letters. It is comprised of sixteen handwritten letters, twenty typescript letters (many with handwritten post-scripts), four incomplete typescript letters, three leaves with handwritten notes, and one newspaper cutting (from The Courier-Mail, 18 Aug 1934, page 12). One of the hand written notes was inside an envelope with organic matter (envelope and organic matter discarded). Many of these letters contain reference to, or personal reflections, about the people Kelly spoke with at Cherbourg.

List of full or partial names of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander individuals mentioned in the file:

? Semples [first name not provided]
McDonald [first name not provided]
Miss Dight
Mrs Ballads
Mr Bulls
? McCaffrey [first name not provided]
? McCarthy [first name not provided]
? McDonald [first name not provided]
? Mitchell [first name not provided]
Ada Beckett
Bill Dupain
Bill Robertson
Duchess
Dolly Button
Dorothy Colley
Eddie Gilbert
Frank Bell
Fred Darby
Jack Dalight
Jack Oliver
Josephine Concannon
M. Alban
Maria Dawson
Tommy Isles
Tim ? (adopted CTK) [last name not provided]
Viv Thompson

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