Architectural drawings by James Birrell from his time as a student at Melbourne University, as a fourth year student in 1950 and fifth year in 1951. Drawings from work with the Commonwealth Department of Works in Melbourne (1948-1951, and 1954), Canberra (1952-1953); and Darwin (1954-1955). Drawings of buildings designed by Birrell while employed as an Architect in charge of the drawing office at the Brisbane City Council (1955-1961). Drawings designed by Birrell while employed as the University Architect for the University of Queensland (1 July 1961 to approx. 30 March 1966). Drawings done for buildings which were private commissions (1948-1966). Drawings while practicing in his firm, James Birrell and Partners (1966-1970) as well as drawings for buildings that were not built.

From his book A life in Architecture : Beyond the ugliness, James Birrell notes on pages 71-72 "The University was vested as property of the State Government and came under the control of the Co-Ordinator General of Public Works. The university was thus a tenant of the Co-Ordinator General who had control over all work".

Photgraphs relating to Caroline Kelly's personal and professional life.

Papers, copies of articles, and correspondence relating to the Fryer Library which involve the Fryer Family and/or Jack Fryer.

This series includes sketchbooks and loose sketches by Kath Walker and others. These sketches are in pencil, felt pen and crayon.

Books with inscriptions, annotations, or inserted letters, dated between 1916 and 1979. Comprises:

Anderson, W. (1909). The architecture of the renaissance in Italy (4th ed., rev. and enl. ed.). London: B.T. Batsford. [Inscribed: Daphne from Lloyd to welcome her home 21st May 1925]

Auden, W. (1941). I Believe : The personal philosophies of twenty-three eminent men and women of our time. London: Allen & Unwin. [Inscribed: To Miss Daphne Mayo W.F.S. The storms came and the winds blew, And he remained staunch for he was founded on a rock.]

Australian War Memorial. (1945). Guide to Australian War Memorial. (4th ed.). Canberra: S.n. [Enlosed with a notes from Edith Lahey. Signature on inside cover

Brontë, E. (1939). Wuthering Heights. New York : Pocket books. [Inscribed: Our Daphne Mayo who alas is leaving us with deep affection from Shun-Ro and Wir Bess. Nov. 22. 1939 Bon Voyage]

Carroll, L., & Tenniel, J. (1920). Alice's adventures in wonderland. London: Macmillan. [Inscribed: Xmas 1924 “Toby”! from E. B. Mills (Millie)]

D’Amico, V. (1939). Report on the educational project of the Museum of Modern Art. New York ; Museum of Modern Art.

Dante Alighieri, & Cary, Henry Francis. (1844). The vision, or, Hell, Purgatory and Paradise of Dante Alighieri : With a life of Dante, chronological view of his age, additional notes and an index (3rd ed.] ed.). London: Warne. [Front cover missing. Inscribed: To dear Tobias from his Gabriel. Xmas 1925.]

Flaxman, J. (1865). Lectures on sculpture. England: Bell & Daldy, 1865.[Bookplate: Royal Academy of Arts. Daphne Mayo. Two models of busts from life. December 9, 1922.]

Fouard, C. H. (1926). The Christ, the Son of God; a life of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ. Translated from the 5th ed., with the author's sanction. With an introduction by Cardinal Manning. London : Longmans, Green and Co. [Inscribed: Miss Mayo with the compliments of D M O’Keeffe.]

Good Will publishers Editors. (1955). Come unto me Gastonia, North Carolina : Good Will Publishers. [Presented to Miss Lilian Daphne Mayo … 20 May 1959. Newspaper cutting of funeral notice inserted.]

Hatton, R. G. (1910). Figure Drawing. London : Chapman and Hall. [Inscribed: Daphne Mayo 231 George St Sydney]

Lahey, E. (1953). Friendship : And other poems. Brisbane: Printed by Smith & Paterson. [Inscribed: with much love to my dear Daphne, Edith Lahey]

Lahey, V. (1940). Art for all. Brisbane: Queensland National Art Gallery for the Combined Art Committee of Queensland. [1940 written on cover, pages hand numbered 1-8]

Marshall, A., & Drysdale, R. (1962). Journey among men. Melbourne: Sun Books. [Inscribed: The Cummings wish Daphne Season’s Greetings and good health for 1979].

Percy, H. (1962). New materials in sculpture : Glass fibre polyester resins, cold casting in metals, vinamould hot melt compounds, vinagel. London: A. Tiranti. [Annotations on inside cover about polyuathane foam and back cover about acids]

Public Library of New South Wales. (1943). The Public Library of New South Wales. Sydney: The Library.

Rostand, E. (1923). Cyrano de Bergerac : An heroic comedy in five acts. New York : Henry Holt. [Inscription and letter to Miss Mayo from Robert Carson].

Ruskin, J. (1907). Selections from the writings of John Ruskin : With biographical introduction by William Sinclair. London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. [Inscribed: To Daphne To express my deepest & best wishes for the bif Future from Lloyd 23rd August 1919.]

Stevenson, R. (1914). Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes. London ; Chatto & Windus. [Inscribed: “To Daphne with best wishes from Lloyd Christmas 1916” and Mayo has written “Miss Daphne Mayo Rosebern St Sth Brisbane”]

Streeton, A., & Ure Smith, S. (1919). The art of Arthur Streeton. Sydney: Angus and Robertson. [Inscribed: To Daphne from Lloyd New Year 1919-1920.]

Thompson, F., & Meynell, W. (1910). The Hound of heaven (New ed.). London: Burns & Oates. [Inscribed: Many Happy Returns from Hurdle, Oct 1st 1917.]

Turner, R., & Boyce, M. (1934). Australian Aboriginal signs and symbols : For the use of Boy Scouts. Sydney: Stephensen. [Covered in possibly children’s drawings and scribbles

Van Homrigh, C. (1947). Art and craft : A handbook for students and teachers. Brisbane: A.H. Tucker, Govt. Printer for the Dept. of Public Instruction, Queensland. [Inscribed: With compliments, CMB van Homrigh. Nov, 1947.]

A voyage with the mails between Brisbane - London : Australia and Great Britain: A memento by an amateur photographer with 103 original photographs. (3rd ed.). (1914). London: The London Stereoscopic and Photographic. [Annotated, signed by fellow travellers, and two pages of handwritten notes on 'Who's who and what's what R.M.S. Ormonde']

Winton Tourist Promotion Association. (1973). The bronze swagman book of bush verse : "Gold Star" ; 1972 Award winning verse. Winton, Qld.: Winton Tourist Promotion Association. [Inscribed: With the compliments of the Winton Tourist Promotion Association]

Typescript playscripts, some with annotations.
Box 1
Folder 1: Witcombe, Eleanor, "Smugglers beware"
Folder 2: Tennant, Kylie, "Tether a dragon"
Folder 3: Perkins, Elizabeth, "A squeaking of rats"
Folder 4: "The cell", from Act 2
Folder 5: Harrison-Noble, Lloyd, "Tree story"
Folder 6: Austin, Ian, "The un-cucumber man"
Folder 7: Cram, Alan, "Take the knock"
Folder 8: Vernon, Barbara, "Swords to the rescue"
Folder 9: Hurley, Max, "Visitors unwelcome"
Folder 10: De Groen, Alma, "Chidley"
Folder 11: Kenna, Peter, "Talk to the moon"
Folder 12: Somers, Lorne, "Doubtful heritage"
Folder 13: Niland, Bryan, "The edge"
Folder 14: Noble, Lloyd, "The cyclone story"
Folder 15: Noble, Lloyd, "But what if everyone did it"
Folder 16: Cooper, Walter, "Colonial experience"
Folder 17: Browne, Lloyd, "Don’t feed the sharks"
Folder 18: Ross, Ken, "Don’t piddle against the wind"
Folder 19: Throssell, Ric, "South Sea Gold Bay"
Folder 20: Romeril, John, "The floating world"
Folder 21: Oakley, Barry, "Bedfellows"

Box 2
Folder 1: [Untitled, first character Prospector]
Folder 2: "The flaw"
Folder 3: Noble, Lloyd, "Gallospie & Co."
Folder 4: Rice, NA, "Modeerf"
Folder 5: Rice, NA, "Creation"
Folder 6: Rice, NA, "Gateway Goulash"
Folder 7: Morris, Jill, "Flowers in the sand"
Folder 8: Morris, Jill, "Common courtesy"
Folder 9: Summons, John, "The coroner's report"
Folder 10: "Perilous vacation"
Folder 11: Sheil, Graham, "Lane"
Folder 12: Sheil, Graham, "Fox in the night"
Folder 13: Tassin, Richard, "Hell has a star"
Folder 14: Crawford, James, "The governor's stables"
Folder 15: Morphett, Tony, "An introduction to George"
Folder 16: Finney, Ron, "Hey, there's a women in my wife"
Folder 17: Collings, Paul, "Tiger"
Folder 18: Witcombe, Eleanor, "Pirates at the barn" (stage manager's copy)
Folder 19: Hopgood, Alan, "The golden legion of cleaning women"
Folder 20: "Rumplestiltskin"
Folder 21: Pinne, Peter, "Gold"
Folder 22: "Spend a little"

Box 3
Folder 1: Wales, Robert, "The cell"
Folder 2: "The jacaranda tree"
Folder 3: Davis, Elizabeth, "The phantom rider"
Folder 4: Bibby, Peter, "Island weekend"
Folder 5: Radic, Leonard, "The general"
Folder 6: Blair, Ron, "Flash Jim Vaux"
Folder 7: "Fire on the snow"
Folder 8: Watson, Ian, "Alex --- or, the automatic trial"
Folder 9: Ballinger, Pauline, "Eve has many faces"
Folder 10: Sandford, John, "Burke and Wills"
Folder 11: Cherry, Wal, "Harry's alibi"
Folder 12: White, Patrick, "The ham funeral"
Folder 13: Witcombe, Eleanor, "Smugglers beware"
Folder 14: Graham, SJ (Mrs J Miller?), "Justice for the otter"
Folder 15: Emmanuel, Ernest, "Bush town story"
Folder 16: King, Robert, "The dragon variation"
Folder 17: Mathew, Ray, "We find the bunyip"
Folder 18: Upton, John, "Bicycles"

Box 4
Folder 1: Finney, Ron, "Beautitful Brisbane"
Folder 2: "The Roy Nurphy Show"
Folder 3: Aronson, Linda, "The fall guy"
Folder 4: Patterson, George, "Pandora in the Never Never"
Folder 5: Simmons, John Scott, "The affair at Platypus Creek"
Folder 6: Ireland, David, "The big fellow"
Folder 7: "Home sweet basement"
Folder 8: Bradshaw, Richard, "Bananas"
Folder 9: Marshall, William Leonard, "The man of scincerity and iron"
Folder 10: Hale, John, "It's all in the mind"
Folder 11: Randall, Bob, "6 RMS RIV VU"
Folder 12: McGrath, John, "Evens while guarding the bofors gun"
Folder 13: Pinero, Arthur, "Dandy Dick"
Folder 14: Jellicoe, Ann, "The idealist" or "Shelley"
Folder 15: Kurnitz, Harry, "A shot in the dark"

Box 8
Folder 16: We find the Bunyip : Book II : Jack.
Folder 17: "The off-beat outing"

1 poster advertising lectures held to mark the American Bi-centennial, sponsored by the Queensland Committee for the American Bi-centennial Celebrations, with 9 posters drawn in protest of the celebrations.
3 posters for Free Media.
5 posters relating to student activities.
1 Vietnamese flag.
1 tshirt.

Eight exerices books and one appointment diary with handwritten diaries entries regarding work undertaken by John Kershaw from 2 Jan 1963 to 5 Jul 1979. This includes the time Kershaw and Roderick Voller were in practice together. They are:

1. Diary from 2 Jan 1963 to 19 Nov 1964.
2. Diary from 20 Nov 1964 to 3 Oct 1966. (Inserted letters from R.W. Voller to John Kershaw while Voller holidaying overseas).
3. Diary from 4 Oct 1966 to 20 Dec 1968. Final diary entries for 1968 are inserted at the end of the volume. (Letter from and to a Mr. Torrens regarding a car accident included).
4. Diary for 1969 in an black spiral bound Cemac Brooks appointment book for 1969.
5. Diary from 3 Jan 1970 to 17 Oct 1972. Most of the diary notes for Sep 1971 are on six loose sheets.
6. Diary from 17 Oct 1972 to 15 Dec 1974.
7. Diary from 16 Dec 1974 to 4 Jun 1976.
8. Diary from 5 Jun 1976 to 10 Oct 1978.
9. Diary from 11 Oct 1978 to 5 Jul 1979. Loose notes inserted.

Typescript playscripts, some with annotations.
Box 5
Folder 1: "Scenes from Camino Real"
Folder 2: Cox, Constance, "Everyman, a new version of the famous morality play"
Folder 3: "Gild the mask again"
Folder 4: Musaphia, Joseph, "Mothers and fathers"
Folder 5: Huxley, Aldous, "The Gioconda smile"
Folder 6: Jones, Tom, "The Fantasticks"
Folder 7: Egner, Thorbjorn, "The singing town"
Folder 8: Ayckbourn, Allan, "Absurd person singular"
Folder 9: Lan, David, "Painting a wall"
Folder 10: Stott, Mike, "Midnight"
Folder 11: "Paquerette"
Folder 12: Shaw, Bernard, "Androcles and the lion"
Folder 13: "The princess with a load on her mind"
Folder 14: Chiltern, John, "Four from the end"
Folder 15: Sherness, Marsha, "Professor George"
Folder 16: O'Leary, Martin, "Spasm"

Box 6
Folder 1: "Keep your eye on Amelia"
Folder 2: Saroyan, William, "The beautiful people"
Folder 3: Brecht, Bertolt, "Trumpets and drums"
Folder 4: Spewack, Samuel, "Under the sycamore tree"
Folder 5: "Check to the Queen"
Folder 6: "The typists"
Folder 7: "Sweeny Todd scripts"
Folder 8: [Untitled, beings p 3 "The eighteenth century"]
Folder 9: Williams, Tennessee, "Summer and smoke"
Folder 10: "Cream"
Folder 11: Young, William, "Electra"
Folder 12: Murray, John, "Dry run"
Folder 13: Simpson, Evan, "The circling bird"
Folder 14: "The magic mirror"

Box 7
Folder 1: Ayckbourn, Alan, "Absurd person singluar"
Folder 2: Dumas, Alexander, "Kean", adapted by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Frank Hauser
Folder 3: Thomas, Robert, "Catch me if you can", adapted from the French version by Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert
Folder 4: Gray, Nicholas Stuart, "The princess and the swineherd"
Folder 5: Connelly, Marc, "The green pastures"
Folder 6: Braun, Wilbur, "Her fatal beauty; or, a shop-girl's honor"
Folder 7: Taylor, Samuel, "The happy time"
Folder 8: Goetz, Ruth and Augustus, "The heiress"
Folder 9: Brecht, Bertolt, "The threepenny opera"
Folder 10: Coppard, JAS, "Sordid story"
Folder 11: Totheroh, Dan, "The stolen prince"
Folder 12: "Snowangel"
Folder 13: "Stage door"
Folder 14: Duerrenmatt, Friedrich, "The visit" (stage manager's copy)
Folder 15: Tilt, Jan, "Vanity fair"
Folder 16: "Three sisters"

Box 8
Folder 1: "Tom Sawyer"
Folder 2: Schisgal, Murray, "The tiger"
Folder 14: "The Queen and the Rebels (La Regina e gli Insorti)" by Ugo Betti, translated by Henry Reed.
Folder 15: "The Make-Believe Doctor", by Moliere, translated from the French by Sandra Jean Gordon.

Parcel 1
Item 1: [Stoppard, Tom], “The real Inspector Hound” [photocopy]
Folder 3: Sheiness, Martha, “Stop the parade”
[McDonald, James; Vos, David; Gerlach, Robert], “Something’s afoot” – musical scores for piano and vocals
Folder 4:“Introduction of the guests”; “Marvellous weekend”; “Changing music”; “Marvellous weekend Tag”
Folder 5: “Something’s afoot”
Folder 6: “Carry on”
Folder 7: “Trust you”
Folder 8: “The man with the ginger moustache”
Folder 9: “Suspicious”
Folder 10: “I know what I’m looking for”
Folder 11: “You fell out of the sky”
Folder 12: “Problematical solution”
Folder 13: “I owe it all”
Folder 14: “New day”
Folder 15: “Bows and curtain calls”
“Something’s afoot” – other musical scores
Item 16: Piano conductor
Item 17: Bass
Item 18: Percussion I + II