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Arthur Power Lyons Papers

  • UQFL185
  • Collection
  • 1884-1977.

Photographs, diaries, correspondence, maps, journals, publications, annual reports, typescripts, articles relating to Papua New Guinea by Arthur Lyons, John Murphy, Daphne Winnifred Lyons, and others.

Lyons, A. P. (Arthur Power), 1879-1965

Mitch Thompson Papers

  • UQFL186
  • Collection
  • 1966-1975.

Press cuttings, typescript articles, reports, pamphlets, periodicals. 10 boxes contain material relating to the development of self-government in Papua New Guinea. 3 boxes contain material relating to left-wing politics and the student protest movement in Brisbane in the early 1970's.

Thompson, Mitch

Provincial Newspapers (Qld.) Limited Records

  • UQFL187
  • Collection
  • 1887-1993.

Minute books, correspondence, annual reports, financial records including cash books, profit and loss statements, balance sheets, scrapbooks. Includes records of:

  1. Newspapers in which the Andrew Dunn acquired a controlling interest, 1887 - 1973.
  2. Dunn Family businesses, 1929 - 1968.
  3. Associated Press of Queensland, 1910 - 1916.
  4. Queensland Provincial Newspapers, 1937 - 1953
  5. Queensland Country Press Association 1910 - 1943.
  6. Queensland Country Press Ltd. 1914 - 1975.
  7. Regional Dailies of Australia (Qld Div.), previously Australian Provincial Daily Press Ltd (Qld Division) and Associated Dailies Information Service, 1953 - 1983.
  8. Provincial Newspapers (Qld) Ltd, 1968 - 1989.
  9. Newspapers acquired by PNQ, 1958 - 1975.
  10. Regional News Service, 1975 - 1982.
  11. Historical research papers, 1956 - ca. 1980.

The collection contains material relating to Queensland Country Press and in particular the Dunn family of Maryborough, Rockhampton and Toowoomba who initially traded as A. Dunn and Family and were incorporated in 1957 as A. Dunn and Company Pty. Ltd. They were substantial shareholders in Provincial Newspapers (Qld.) Ltd. which controlled nine regional daily newspapers.

Provincial Newspapers (Qld.) Ltd., 1968-1988

Carlin Family Papers

  • UQFL188
  • Collection
  • 1835-1974

The Carlin Family Papers contain the correspondence of Sarah Carlin (nee Brooke) and her husband Frederick Benjamin Carlin, their daughter Ethel Maud 'Nettie' Darling and her daughter Mary 'Molly' Flewell-Smith. The papers were collected together by Oriel C. Morris, the daughter of Mary Flewell-Smith.
The earliest correspondence contained here are letters from friends and family received by Sarah Brooke before her marriage to Frederick Benjamin Carlin. The Carlins emigrated to South Australia in ca. 1849 and the correspondence contains letters written and received by them and from their families in England, including letters Sarah Carlin sent to her parents William and Dinah Brooke. The papers also contain letters received by the Carlins daughter Ethel Maud 'Nettie' Darling (nee Carlin). This includes letters from her husband Charles Alfred Darling and her daughter Mary Ethel Carlin 'Molly' Flewell-Smith (nee Darling) . There is also some genealogical material compiled by Oriel Morris (nee Flewell-Smith) tracing the Carlin (1792-1850) ; The papers also contain a couple of unidentified photographs, Masonic membership certificates from London as well as a facsimile issue of the 'London Post' from 1745.

Morris, Oriel C., 1922-2012

H. W. Leary Papers

  • UQFL189
  • Collection
  • 1931-1981

Correspondence ; transcripts of speeches and articles by H.W. Leary ; handwritten reports of executive to Pensioners' League ; newspaper cuttings ; magazines (monthly copies of 'Pensioners' Newsletter') ; photographs.

Leary, H. W.

Percy Brier Papers

  • UQFL19
  • Collection
  • ca. 1906-1969

Personal papers, correspondence, photographs, notebooks . Manuscripts on history of music in Queensland; church history in Brisbane, with emphasis on church choirs and liturgical music; records of Queensland musical societies. Notes on the teaching of music in Australia. Musical scores and programs. Compositions for piano, choir, violin; including full score for an opera. Memoirs. Associations: Australian Music Examination Board; Musical Association of Queensland; Guild of Australian Composers; Brisbane Musical Union.

Brier, Percy, 1885-1970

Helen Row Papers

  • UQFL190
  • Collection
  • 1936-1945

Correspondence between Helen Row and her family and husband, Peter Row, from London, the Middle East and Australia.

Row, Helen

Constance Healy Papers

  • UQFL191
  • Collection
  • [193-?]-2010.

Research material for thesis (University of Queensland, MA, 1994): “A history of political theatre in Brisbane as part of working-class cultural tradition and heritage: the Workers' Education Dramatic Society and the Student/Unity/New Theatre (1930-1962)". Includes playscripts, mostly performed by Student / Brisbane New Theatre, New Theatre, Unity Theatre; as well as playscripts, skits, and sketches by Jim Crawford.

Research material, drafts and proofs for her book 'Defiance: political theatre in Brisbane 1930-1962' (2000).

Personal papers of Murray Norris, notebooks of Ursula Southwell, and papers concerning George Eaton, Jim Crawford and other prominent figures in labour movement and radical culture circles. Oral history recordings, photographs and other research material relating to the Young Communist League, Eureka Youth League, leftwing bookshops in Brisbane and leftwing political activism. Some records of the Communist Party of Australia. Photographs, pamphlets and other material relating to the 1948 Queensland rail strike. Research material on the post-WW2 peace movement. Articles and speeches by Connie Healy and others are included in the collection as well as some personal correspondence and research material related to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Healy, Connie

Chris Tiffin Papers

  • UQFL192
  • Collection
  • 1975-2009.

Papers concerning the Cecil Hadgraft Memorial Fund (1987-1988), the Warana Festival (1983-1991) and the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (1975-1990) and the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS); conference proceedings, correspondence, financial records, original contributions, conference proceedings relating to the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Some material originates from Dr Helen Tiffin.

Tiffin, Chris, 1945-

Union of Australian Women Records

  • UQFL193
  • Collection
  • 1938-2001

Documents, leaflets, newspaper cuttings and correspondence on various topics, subject files, banners, badges, posters, periodicals, photographic material, constitution and programmes, rules, minutes, agendas, cashbooks, reports of local branches and Queensland Branch of Union of Australian Women, newsletters.

People in the photographs include: Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), Ruth Wallace, Muriel Callofe [? Spelling], Joyce Lightning, C. Smith, M McBride, Sandra McGinness, Margaret Macdonald, Kerrie Davis, Gladys O’Shane, Lynette Macdonald, Margaret O’Shane, Doris Webb, Pat O’Shane, Janet Webb, Josie Dyer, and Marcia Langton.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions. This resource contains images of culturally sensitive sites.

Union of Australian Women

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