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

Correspondence relating to various members of the Bell family.

Photographs relating to the Bell Family and their activities and interests.

Photocopies of letters from the Bell family, 1880 to 1907 [provided by Anita O’Connor, descendant of Sarah Bell (nee Alexander) and son, John Alexander Bell]

Letters to Colin Basil Peter Bell (on death of brother Joey (Joshua Thomas Bell)), legal battle, Ossie Bell (Oswald Marmaduke Dorsey Bell), 38 letters, 1881 to 1933 [very fragile]. Order of Service for commemoration of the life of The Hon. Joshua Thomas Bell, 19 Mar 1911. Address to his Excellency Major-General Sir Herbert Charles Chermside, 19 May 1903

The Bell family initially settled in the Dalby area and were assoicate with several properties including Jimbour Station, Jimbour House, 'Westland' (managed by Colin Basil Peter Bell) and Rakeevan (given by John Ferguson to Joshua Thomas and Catherine Jane Bell (nee Ferguson).

Photocopies of extracts from letters written by Cuthbert Edward Peek while on the Queensland and British 1882 Transit Expedition, 29 Oct to 18 Dec 1882, 3 copies. [Cuthbert Edward Peek was a self-funded amateur astronomer who joined the official observers from the Royal Geographical Society that travelled to Jimbour Station and chose Jimbour House as the transit station to observe the transit of Venus; Jimbour House had been recently vacated].

Newspaper cuttings, some photocopied, relating to the Bell Family.

Letters from Jinne Maxwell, also known as Jane Maxwell, (nurse to the children of Joshua and Margaret Bell) to Colin, Joey, Willie, Ossie and Maida, 4 letters, 1893 to 1919

Bell family correspondence, 27 letters, 1897 to 1923.