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.

Copies of nine architectural drawings of the University of Queensland by Hennessy, Hennessy and Co. from 1936, based on the article in Building. All drawings have the title block of Hennessy, Hennessy and Co.

Accompanied by an article from Building, 12 Oct 1936 with information about the plans and the early St. Lucia site, donated by Peter Brown of the St. Lucia History Group.

Includes photocopy of the design for sandblasted ceiling for the glass dome of the Library building (which was never executed).

Item 1: Preliminary Layout University of Queensland, undated, 46 x 58 cm.
Item 2: Union Building from the north west, undated, 46 x 58 cm.
Item 3: Physics and Geology Buildings from the quadrangle, undated, 46 x 58 cm.
Item 4: Perspective view of the Administration Building from the quadrangle, undated, 46 x 48 cm.
Item 5: Perspective view of the Great Hall, undated, 46 x 48 cm.
Item 6: Interior view of the Great Hall, undated, 46 x 48 cm.
Item 7: Perspective view of the entrance to Arts School from the quadrangle, undated, 46 x 48 cm.
Item 8: Section showing the Physics and Union Building, undated, 46 x 58 cm.
Item 9: Sandblasting designs. Library building, [date indecipherable], 30 x 42 cm.

Drawings of residential and commercial buildings, and related files.

Drawings of residential and commercial buildings in Brisbane and regional Queensland.

Includes tracings, drawings, blueprints and linens, mostly of the Holy Spirit Church at Villiers Street, New Farm, drawings of a Catholic Church in Coolangatta, Stanthorpe residence for Dr. Masel in 1937, Federal Deposit Bank in Queen Street, Leichhardt Hotel Spring Hotel.

Plans of proposed residence to be erected in Grosvenor Parade Indooroopilly for C.W.T. Fulton in 1940.

The architectural drawings in this collection were prepared in Brisbane for the Wattle Day League Scholarship, drawings prepared while R P Cummings was a student at the Architectural Association, London, including his successful submission for the Rome Scholarship, and drawings prepared in Rome, including measured drawings and reconstructions.

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.

Scrapbook belonging to Mary Ann Tiffin (nee Haig), who married Charles Tiffin, Queensland's first Colonial Architect, in Hobart on January 1, 1857. Includes architectural plans and drawings and other original drawings by Charles Tiffin. Also includes drawings by Charles Tiffin's mother, Jane Haig.

Notes on provenance of scrapbook included in parcel with scrapbook.