Studies for the Trophy for Winton's Bronze Swagman Award for Bush Verse.

Studies and sketches for projects and/or commissions.
• Sketches for Public Library of New South Wales doors: draft drawing for doors (with individually pinned pictures for panels, 56 x 38 cm); 10 sketches, sizes vary, includes notes on possible content for the doors; 1 folded set of sketches, middle pages have been cut or torn with titles for some -- 'Childhood', 'Boomerang practice' and 'Axeman'; drawing, pencil with chalk on wrapping paper, 1940, 31 x 22 cm, window mounted (56 x 40 cm) which formed part of the Queensland Art Gallery Exhibition Daphne Mayo : let there be sculpture, in 2011.
• Charcoal drawing, double sided (61 x 61 cm).
• Charcoal sketch [for the Wild White Horse and Susannah?].
• Sketch, pen [for Bancroft medal?]
• Notebook, no covers, with 10 sketches of birds (pelican, jabiru).
• Sketch [for pelican fountain?] on part of large envelope.
• 3 sketches [for Dr Christine Rivett?]
• 1 double sided sketch [for Kings School Memorial?]
• 2 sketches for Unsung Heroine of War.
• Sketch for Church of the Holy Spirit, Newfarm.
• Sketch from the 1940s?
• Sketch, with notes [for Lion Tamer?]
• 2 sketches on lined paper for Man in the Street.
• 14 Sketches (34 cm) [for youth at Knox School?]
• Facial measures for portrait bust of woman (very fragile and breaking apart).
• Diagram for carving of Brisbane City Hall tympanum, left hand side only, showing stone joints and various depths of relief.
• Sketch, 57 x 185 cm, uneven edge on right hand side [for The Olympian?]
• Studies on one lined page for the Fat Man.

Drawings from Mayo’s Sydney studio (second set)

13 sketches from Daphne Mayo’s second overseas visit.

Sketches and studies. From Brisbane flat. 24 pieces of art: loose; in pencil, pen, oil; on paper, card, envelope. Incomplete sketch book with 24 pages (double sided) of drawings, mostly in pencil. 1 cardboard cutout stencil of a group of three figures.

Prints of warrior figures, most crumbling and fragmented.

Ink and paint; 17 scrape painting designs; from the Sydney studio. One design on a page from The Sydney Morning Herald dated, Saturday 27 Jul 1940.

Pastel, pencil, oil; on card, paper, canvas. 24 artworks and 1 fragment of an oil on paper. Mostly still life studies. Includes colour schemes (paint by numbers). Some have a lesson number or homework lesson number on the back.

Pastel. Children’s art, possibly from an exhibition at Queensland Art Reference Library run by Mayo and Lahey. Includes the names of the children and their class number.

Architectural plans: 3 architectural drawings (99 x 66 cm and smaller). 1 plan is title Department of Education Building and has details for art gallery spaces; the other two are sheets number 7 and 8 for Mount Saint Josephs Convent, Nundah (architect H.S. MacDonald). 3 drawings of details for panels for Qantas commencing operation in Winton in November 1970: 3 x pencil on paper ; 167 x 56 cm and smaller. These three drawings form part of the sand blasted glass panels designed by Mayo for the North Gregory Hotel in Winton (1954-1955).