First three leaves contain a name index to the essay.

Seven audiocassettes of interviews: Eddie Hayes, Louis Hailey, Don Winsen, Stuart McIntosh, James Birrell and Judith McKay. Architects Eddie Hayes, Louis Hailey, Don Winsen, Stuart McIntosh, and James Birrell interviewed by Don Watson and/or Alice Hampson. Final interview is Sue Tate interviewing Judith McKay regarding exhibition 'The Flower Painting of Ellis Rowan'.

One certificate, mounted on board. First certificate of registration as an architect issued in Queensland.

Correspondence, speech notes and arwork related to Bill Curnow. Incoming and outgoing correspondence includes: working with CSIRO as Project Architect for the Australian National Animal Health Laboratory (ANAHL); with Correctional Facilities; Thiess; the University of Newcastle; and references with biographical information such as career highlights.

Speech notes include: Speech given entitled ‘C.S.I.R.O. Laboratory Animals, Their Production, Care and Housing’, 16 Feb 1972; Keynote address given at the occasion of the graduation dinner. Corrective Services Academy, Department of Corrective Services, New South Wales, 2 Dec 1994; Paper presented to the Queensland University of Technology’s Faculty of building Science entitles ‘The Changing faces of Architecture’ [undated]; Handwritten notes for a speech on private prisons entitled ‘Measuring the tangible and intangible benefits of a tender’ [undated]; Handwritten document about the development of private prisons in Australia entitled ‘Southern Cross Corrections’ [undated]; Typed document entitled ‘The Australian National Animal Health Laboratory’ [undated]; Brochure for Wang’s OPEN/image software used by the Royal Commission into the New south Wales Police Service, annotated, [undated]; andPhotocopy of handwritten notes outlining Curnow’s professional achievements and personal life [undated].

There is a caricature portrait of William Curnow, created on 22 Mar 1970 by unknown artist [initials B.Y.K.].

Papers, photographs, and newspaper clippings related to the career of Elina Emily Mottram, first female architect in Queensland. The file is comprised of: Two black and white photographs dated at Elina Mottram's retirement ; One coloured photograph of Elina Mottram with a black dog ; One coloured photograph of Elina Mottram with Betty Preston ; Two newspaper articles, one titled 'Architect' (plus photocopy of same), one titled 'Architects Day' ; Coloured photocopy of photograph of Eagle Junction station ; Two handwritten notes giving provenance of the photographs ; Single-page biographical summary ; Two-page printout of employment record ; One invitation for the Queensland Museum 'Women of the West' exhibition, the published book of which included information on Elina Mottram ; and three-page extract from Queensland Heritage Register , File No 601171.

Materials relating to the original Bethany Home for the Aged in Rockhampton, Queensland (opened in 1987). Includes architectural drawings, newspaper cuttings and ephemera dating from 1975 to 1978.

In the folder, there are 3 newspaper cuttings relating to the opening of Bethany Home from the Monday 11 December 1978 edition of The Morning Bulletin.

Order of service from the official blessing and opening of Bethany Home and the chapel by the 'Most Rev. BJ Wallace D.D. Bishop of Rockhampton'. Four typescript pages. Dated 10 December 1978.

19 drawings including privacy screens, planter boxes and garden boxes. Job number 1513, drawing numbers 362 and 483-500. 30 x 21 cm.

In the tube there are 17 drawings including floor plans, foundations, plumbing, elevations, sections and planting areas. Job number 1513, drawing numbers 102-182 (incomplete holdings). 60 x 80 cm.

Architectural plans of residential and commercial buildings. Also includes bills of quantities, client files, specification files, job files, miscellaneous papers of A.B. Wilson and R.M. Wilson, and card index of plans by plan numbers, job numbers, and client names. Includes several plans by Alfred Banks.
Also includes rare poster "Victoria Skating Rink, Sandgate". Includes plan of 'University site, St. Lucia. Proposed design', by R.W.J. Hawken, 1929.
Professor Hawken and Alexander Wilson were members of a committee established in 1921 to determine a site for the University of Queensland.

Much of the material in this collection was prepared for a series of residences and plans to be published in the Sunday Mail. Little material can be positively identified. Some of these items have numbers on the reverse which appears to signify that these were plans for actual jobs undertaken by Da Costa. A distinct Spanish influence can be discerned in many of the houses. Many of the plans bear the initials A or B, A meaning wooden construction and B denoting brick construction.

Architectural drawings of residential and commercial buildings, job files, incoming and outgoing correspondence, photographs and research material for his book on Walter Burley Griffin. Includes plans by Scorer and Scorer which Birrell obtained when he purchased the firm in 1966. The architectural drawings in this collection include those from his student days, his time with the Commonwealth Department of Works, the Brisbane City Council, the University of Queensland (as University Architect), and his private practices. Drawings for buildings not constructed are also in this collection.