Papers, journal articles, newspaper clippings and correspondence related to Prof. Douglas Gordon's medical career and his interest in Queensland's medical history.

Sketches, biographical material, artwork, photographs, and short stories related to Rosemary Opala's nursing career and her career as a writer of popular magazine fiction. There are 48 original artworks, some framed, primarily of plants and 830 x 35mm colour slides.

Notes, newspaper cuttings and a work diary pertaining to Feilding Chippendale's work as a horticulturalist on the University of Queensland's St. Lucia campus in the late 1930s. Also photographs of University of Queensland students (mainly in the Botany, Argriculture and Entomology Departments) on field excursions.

Personal papers and photographs, including an autobiography and a history of the first 50 years of the Presbyterian Girls' College, Warwick, Queensland.

Eight notebooks (four written in ink and four in pencil) and six photographs. Field notes of surveys in north Queensland, with some geological observations. Areas: Lyndhurst to Oak Park stations; Lyndhurst - Cave Creek; Murray's Creek, Tommy's Creek, Specimen Gully, Golden Gully; Cape River traverses; Mt. Ramsay - Cape River, Duck Creek, Nigger Creek, Oxley Creek, Mt. Cook, Rannes,; Gympie goldfields, coal in the Dawson Valley, Woogaroo coal mine, N.S.W.; Ravenswood, Burdekin reef.

Papers and correspondence related to Dr. Emmerson's medical career and to the Princess Alexandra Hospital as a teaching hospital of the University of Queensland.

Diaries, with pasted-in newspaper clippings and other ephemera, written about the history of the suburb of Ashgrove in Brisbane. Meta Truscott was a resident of Ashgrove.

Photographs, typescript articles, correpondence, diaries, notes and ephemera documenting personal experiences of colonial administration and general life in Papua New Guinea. The collection was assembled by Dr Peter Cahill, from material donated by members of the Papua New Guinea Association of Australia. Some slides of the Middle East, Australia, England and Ireland.
Bulk of papers from period 1930s-1950s.
Includes explanatory notes by Dr Peter Cahill.

Ephemera, badges, posters, drawings, newspaper cuttings scrapbook, and videorecordings relating to radical politics, labour movements, student demonstrations, and student activities, including some theatre productions.

Eight notebooks with mss notes and drafts of work later published (mostly in the Bulletin), eight historical essays and a history of the Upper Hunter region in New South Wales.