Papers relating to Jack Harding’s political and lobbying activities, including papers relating to the Douglas Social Credit Movement and the Social Credit Party of Australia; papers relating to the Monetary Reform League (Rockhampton) and the Rockhampton Anti-Inflation Study Group (which Harding co-founded), papers relating to the Anti-Fluoridation Council, the Central Queensland Society for Prevention of Cruelty, the Capricornia New State Movement. Personal diaries, subject files and correspondence. The collection includes correspondence, minute books, campaign material, newspaper cuttings, subject files, diaries and ephemera.

Material relating to the medical career and research of Professor John Pearn. Includes speeches, papers, photographs, medals, curriculum vitae, menus, programmes and other ephemera marking special events.

Includes: correspondence; photographs; manuscript of unpublished autobiography "Memoirs of a Communist"; obituary; medals received from Ho Chi Minh and dignitaries from Communist countries visited. Also includes audio tapes featuring talks on Nelson Mandela; memoirs; newspaper cuttings; manuscripts of published and unpublished articles; pamphlets; leaflets, flyers, articles on the Communist Party of Australia and the Socialist Party of Australia.

One volume of handwritten notes and 48 volumes of newspaper cuttings dealing with Queensland legal history.

Minutes and reports of the Queensland Place Names Board 1967-68; minutes and related correspondence of the Oxley Library Advisory Committee 1967-69; material relating to the Australian Dictionary of Biography; typescripts; lecture notes; newspaper clippings. Collection reflects author's academic interests; board responsibilities; and research into the history of Queensland, local government and labor politics.

85 photographs of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. Includes photographs of the volcanic eruptions near Rabaul in 1937.
Bulk are from 1937.

567 photographs of Papua New Guinea (including Sepik River, Hermit Islands, Marienberg Mission, Central Mountains, Yuat River Warrior, Maramuni River Area and Maron); also photographs of Brisbane 1912-1914. Handwritten descriptive notes by John Murphy on back of Papua New Guinea photographs.

115 black and white photographs of Papua New Guinea, depicting Rabaul, Edie Creek goldfields, Wau, Samarai and Bulolo. 32 photographs record the eruption of Matupi volcano, Rabaul, May 1937. Handwritten identifying notes on back of each photograph.

74 black and white photographs of Papua New Guinea, showing people and places in and around Rabaul, Edie Creek, Lae, Bulolo, Wau and Salamaua. Scenes from Rabaul include indigenous and European people, aeroplanes, buildings and beached whales or porpoises. Photographs of Edie Creek and Bulolo include depictions of mining camps and mining operations. Wau scenes include buildings, pit sawing, the airstrip and a crashed aeroplane. Each photograph has handwritten identifying notes on the back.