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']

Handmade photograph album with gold embossed title on cover The tour of His Excellency the Governor through Northern & Western Queensland, 1908. Cover has the top left-hand cover torn away thus first words of the inscription on the inside cover is missing: [To Colin] Bell from Ralph Verney in remembrance of a very pleasant tour. Ralph Verney was aide-de-camp to the Governor. The Governor, Frederick John Napier Thesiger, (Lord Chelmsford) accompanied by the Minister for Lands, Joshua Thomas Bell, left Brisbane on June 13 on a tour in Northern and North-western Queensland. Photographs:

1. A change of horses
2. Constable Dick
3. Irvinebank
4. Inspector Malone
5. The native cooks at Forest Home
6. Forest Home
7. An Aboriginal
8. Forest Home
9. His Excellency’s Goat Escort at Georgetown
10. His Excellency’s Goat escort at Georgetown
11. Main St, Georgetown
12. The luggage, Mr Mooney and Mr Smith
13. Floraville Post Office
14. Warandingo
15. The start from Inverleigh Station
16. Our hotel at Burketown
17. Burketown water supply
18. Burketown bore
19. Gregory Downs Hotel
20. Rocklands
21. A Bore at Rocklands
22. Gate in Boundary fence between Queensland and Northern Territory
23. Boundary fence between Queensland and Northern Territory
24. Colin Bell on the left, His Excellency, and Inspector McGrath on the right
25. A midday meal
26. Our Camp
27. The Australian Gum Trees
28. Roughing it
29. A midday halt
30. Colin Bell (1867-1934) on the trip with the Governor, and his brother Joshua Thomas Bell who was Minister for Lands and The Speaker
31. Packing up in the morning
32. On the road [in horse drawn carriage]
33. Coming out of the Leichhardt river [in horse drawn carriage]
34. The Leichhardt River
35. The bath at Rocklands
36. Harnessing up
37. On the road
38. The luggage buggy on the road
39. Starting for the days journey
40. Putting in the horses
41. Native Trackers
42. Native Trackers
43. Colin Bell and Fogarty bringing the horses out

Typescript letter on Department of Public Lands letterhead, from Joshua T Bell to Collie [Colin Basil Peter Bell] regarding horses and land at Juandah, 25 Jan 1907

Letter to Uncle Alick (John Alexander Bell, c1829-1901), from Joshua Thomas Bell, 21 Feb 1880

Letter from Joshua Thomas Bell to his daghter Margot Margaret Maxwell Bell on the occassion of her first birthday, 9 Mar 1909.

Booklet stapled together with lightweight card cover with forty poems. Sticky taped to inside cover is a typewritten letter from Judith Rodriguez to her mother which says, in part: "It is a selection of poems made with you in mind..." Poems, with dates: To my mother, who loves and disagrees; Watching the wake; On journeying apart; The unforgiving clock; The poenix; Lullaby; The Cats; On the farewell gift of a jade ring; Landfall - the second city; The lovers; Indifference; Apology to the spectator; At Luciano's, Port of Spain; Betrayal; Looking at; Free-wheeling; For Hazim Abdullah (d. June 1963); Lesson in mime; Miscarriage; Names for children; Frontier incident; Evening in Society, Port of Spain; Armistic Day, 1966; The Pre-Cook; Party; Bigfoot territory; Caution for an English February; Quest; Word my oracle; The windy cock; Encounter; Listening and living; Tree-climbing in summer; Pine-grove; The bush-fiddle; Pages from a sketch-book, 1959: for Kate Manifold; Witnesses; A drawing of Diego Rivera; Grapefruit at lights out : (words for a design); and A painting of fruit, and Fabio away.

Booklet, twelve leaves, comprised of twelve typescript poems, stapled together with a green cover, and handwritten title and number 7 on the inside front cover. Each poem has date on the page. Poems are:

• Centipede (March 1971).
• The hand-loom (July 1970).
• The bush-fiddle (December 1960).
• Joy of the eye (March 1970).
• Witnesses (1963-February 1969).
• Horses to the sea : (a Romantic motif) (February 1970).
• The brown horseman : of the Arrezzo [sic] frescoes of Piero della Francesca (July 1962), with handwritten correction from Arrezzo to Arezzo.
• A drawing by Diego Rivera (March 1965).
  *A painting of fruit, and Fabio away (undated).
• After a poetry seminar (June 1971).
• Yarding penultimates (May 1971).
• Perseus (November 1970).

Booklet, ten leaves, comprised of ten typescript poems, stapled together with a lightweight white card cover, and handwritten title and number 5 on the front cover. Each poem has date on the page. Poems are:

• Nothing a child does (August 1970).
• For Hazim Abdullah (d. June 1963) (August 1963).
• Lesson in mine (May 1967), with handwritten emendation.
• Miscarriage (June 1968). [no. 1].
• Miscarriage (june 1968). [no. 2].
• Naming of children (July 1968).
• A kind of heritage (February 1969).
• Neither up nor down : (written at 35 years, for Sibila and Ensor) (March 1971).
• Conifer: a photograph of Ensor aged 3 (March 1972).
• The rugs (September 1971).

Booklet, three leaves, comprised of three typescript poems, stapled together with a lightweight grey card cover, and handwritten title and number 4 on the front cover. Each poem has date at the bottom of the page. Poems are:

• My grandmother retraces evolutionary paths (February 1969).
• Her village (March 1969).
• She speaks (February 1969), with one handwritten emendation.

Booklet, seventeen leaves, comprised of sixteen typescript poems, stapled together with a purple cover, and handwritten title and number 3 on inside of front cover. Each poem has date at the bottom of the page. Poems are:

• Word of the explorers (April 1970); handwriten note at top in brackets: To Em. Prof. F.W.R.
• On some university lecturers (February 1959).
• Conceit upon pens (November 1966).
• Inscriptions, Granite Belt (May 1959).
• Holiday Haiku (August 1963).
• Open-air cinema (March 1970).
• Bigfoot territory (February 1969); 2 leaves; at top of poem "On the trail of a gaint," by Albert S. Hunter, Herald, Sat. 22. ii.69.
• Frontier incident (February 1962).
• Armistice Day, 1966 (November 1966); title has '1966' crossed through.
• June 1970 (undated).
• Evening in Society, Port of Spain (March 1969).
• Brown Ellen (January 1970).
• Women's ward (October 1967).
• These many deaths (April - August 1970); handwritten note at top of page: Coffee with Jill (Farrar) Morris.
• Talking of people (April 1970); handwritten note at top of page in brackets: to D.M.
• Caution for an English February (February 1962).