The collection contains tracings, drawings, blueprints and linen plans for residential and commercial buildings in Brisbane and regional Queensland. Also includes work of Alexander I Trewern, younger brother of E P Trewern. Includes 38 photographs (20 x 26 cm or smaller), nine oversize photographs (most on paper mounted on board) of buildings by Trewern, including his own house; specifictions for St. Matthew's Anglican Church and the Upper Mt. Gravatt Methodist Church; three envolvopes from the American Face Brick Association with plates for houses; publications relating to houses by G. L. Sutcliffe; and journal cuttings.

Material related to the Electrical Trades Union Federal conferences 1945,1947,1958,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964 and Electrical Trades Union Queensland conferences 1955,1957,1959,1961,1963. Combined Federal Railways Unions 'Constitutions and Circulars' 1947-1948. Peace activism material. Periodicals.

43 reel-to-reel sound tapes of oral history interviews with police in Papua New Guinea during 1986. Some of the interviews are in local dialects.
Most tapes are from 1986.

Hecate Press records includes correspondence, submissions for publication, press releases, newspaper cuttings, subscription files, photographs, paste ups, proofs, and advertising, mostly, for the journal 'Hecate : an interdisciplinary journal of women’s liberation'.

Correspondence consists mostly of unsolicited submissions and attached self-addressed stamped envelopes. Rejected submissions are not kept. The letters from submitters may have notes written on them by Hecate Press editors (primarily Carole Ferrier and Bronwen Levy) or a simple ‘Rej’ [Rejected] written on the letter. The submissions were mostly poetry, although short stories and articles were also sent to Hecate Press.

'Hecate' is an international feminist academic journal. The focus is material relating to women and also creative work and graphics. It runs reciprocal advertisements with other feminist and socialist publications as well as exchange subscriptions. The Literature Board of the Australia Council as well as donations have been sources of financial assistance.

Some material is for other Hecate Press publications including ‘Australian Women’s Book Review’.

Includes: State committee minutes; correspondence; state and federal Communist electoral material 1937 onwards; Communist Party, Queensland Branch District Conference papers 1951-59; subject files covering issues such as 'Aboriginal issues' and 'Youth'; miscellaneous pamphlets and newspaper clippings; extensive range of photographs.

Notes, typescript articles, speeches, correspondence, photographs, cards, invitations, programmes. Includes material relating to : Sir Raphael Cilento; University of Queensland events, including Sir Raphael Cilento Oration; Ron Edwards, Jack Lindsay, Patrick White, Douglas Gordon, Percy Trezise. There is also some biographical material about Len and Fedora Fisher.

23 blueprints and drawings. Includes plans for wool washing machines and drying machines. Some plans are for alterations.

Literary drafts, personal papers, correspondence, research notes, newspaper cuttings, financial records, subject folders, cassette tapes.

Collection contains papers of Olga and Brian Penton. Some are handwritten drafts of unpublished, untitled material. Others are typescripts of unpublished material such as 'Outrageous fortune' by Brian Penton and 'We Prometheans' by Olga Penton. There are typescripts of articles by Brian Penton. Included in the collection is a carbon typescript of 'Why Singapore fell' by H. Gordon Bennett. This was published in the Sydney Daily Telegraph.

The collection contains correspondence, school and university records, photographs; papers, commissions and badges relating from military service in the First World War for Jack Fryer and his brothers who served in World War One. There are papers relating to the Fryer Family and the establishment of the Fryer Memorial Library of Australian Literature.