Photographs, correspondence, diaries, journals, newspaper cuttings, personal papers relating to the Bell Family, Jimbour Station, various Bell Family properties, Jimbour House, and its occupants.

Remnants of handwritten letters.

Correspondence between J.B. (Jim Burrell) and Francis Needham Bell (Binghi), 1931-1980. -- Correspondence of Francis Needham Bell, 1937-1982.

A 19th century carte de visite photo album. Brass clasp is missing. Initial page, with inscription is torn with only 'To' and 'wit[h]' still remaining. The album has 42 pages with 84 spaces for carte de visites to be displayed. Each page is specially made to allow insertion of carte de visties through slots in the bottom of two stiff sheets of cardbord and visible through cut portrait openings. There are four missing photographs and one photograph in the back of the book. It may have been compiled by Catherine Bell. Captions are provided where available, supplied titles, some by Sue Bell, are in square brackets:

1. J.P. Bell
2. Margaret M. Bell (Lady)
3. J.T. Bell
4. William Bell
5. C.B.P. Bell
6. Ossie Bell
7. J.T. Bell 1880s
8. [Woman, possibly Jinny Maxwell?]
9. Thomas Bell
10. Maida Isabella Sarah Bell.
11. Maida Bell, taken 1880
12. Thomas Bell, 1872
13. J.P. Bell,
14. [Photo missing]
15. [Gerald and Thomas de Lacy Moffatt?]
16. Colin Bell
17. Maida Bell
18. [J.T. and William Bell]
19. [Gerald Kellet Moffatt, son of Isabella dn Thomas Moffatt]
20. [Thomas de Lacy Moffatt, son of Isabella and Thomas Moffatt]
21. Maida Bell
22. [Missing. Handwritten caption says 'T. B. Thomas Bell. d. 1872 with g'daughter Maida Moffatt]
23. [Thomas de Lacy Moffatt]
24. [Gerald Kellett Moffatt]
25. [Early photo of one of the Moffatt girls?]
26. [Missing. Handwritten caption says Thos Bell]
27. [Gerard Kellett Moffatt?]
28. [Woman. Caption on reverse says Margaret M Bell but not correct]
29. C.B.P. Bell
30. [Photo of two young men]
31. [Isabella and Mary Moffatt?]
32. [One of the Moffatt girls?]
33. [One of the Moffatt girls?]
34. [Missing]
35. [Missing]
36. [Older woman]
37. [Moffatt girl]
38. [Moffatt girl]
39. [Thomas de Lacy Moffatt]
40. [Isabella and Mary Moffatt?]
41. [Moffatt girl]
42. [Moffatt girl]
43. [Moffatt girl]
44. Maida I. S.
45. [Woman]
46. [Group of four women]
47. [Man]
48. Oswald
49. [Man]
50. [Woman]
51. [Young man]
52. [Woman]
53. [One of the adult male Bells?]
54. [Thomas de lacy Moffatt]
55. [Man. Inscription on reverse "To A Queenslander from a 'would be' Queenslander 30/6/81]
56. [Man]
57. [Woman]
58. [Handwritten note 'Welton']
59. [Thomas de Lacy Moffatt]
60. [Man]
61. [Maida Bell? Not a carte de vistie]
62. [Thomas de Lacy Moffatt]
63. C.B.P. Bell
64. Ossie Bell
65. [Inscription: Mr & Mrs Armstrong to their friend G Proley]
66. [Man]
67. J.T. Bell
68. [Man leaning against fence]
69. [Inscription: D. E. Brown, 1880]
70. [Boy]
71. J. T. Bell
72. J. T. Bell
73. [J.T. Bell]
74. J.P. Bell
75. [Young man]
76. [Young woman]
77. [Moffatt girl?]
78. [Moffatt girl?]
79. [Man on a horse in fromt of house]
80. [Horse drawn carriage]
81. [Landscape picture of man with unsaddled horse]
82. [Portrait picture of man with saddled horse]
83. "Ossie" & Maida
84. [Two boys]
    [85. Picture inserted in back of album of young woman with inscription on reverse 'From Evelyn']

Written by Sybil Bell, ‘The History of Jimbour and its occupants’, is an historical study for third year history major at the Kelvin Grove College of Teacher Education, photocopy, 22 pages, 14 Nov 1973.

Photocopies of Letters Patent of Thomas Willis for ‘an improved detachable fencing standard?’, 1905. Photocopies of documents and advertisements about the ‘improved detachable fence standards’ ‘The Westland Dropper’, invented by Thomas T. Willis, c1905 to 192?

Boondooma Station – Historical Background, typescript 7 pages, undated

Documents, correspondence and personal papers relating to the Bell family and related families (including those by marriage or close association with the Bell Family and/or their properties and interests).

Papers, notes, newspaper cutting, and Bell family wills all providing information about the Bell family tree. Includes: seven sheets annotated with names of Bell family in the Bell family tree; 19 photocopied pages of Joshua Thomas Bell’s administration of wills; and a newspaper cuting about the wreck of the Sovereign where Henry Dennis, manager of Jimbour died on his way to Sydney to marry Mary Isabella Bell, Thomas Bell’s daughter.

Correspondence relating to various members of the Bell family.