Research material about the University of Queensland 1958-1986.

Papers relating to Professor Prentice's research, as well as Department of Engineering exams, laboratory proposals, reports, minutes, invoices and accounts, staffing and correspondence. Bound and unbound papers/reports 1933-1974 relating to public commissions, academic seminars and academic teaching 1933-1974. Also photograph albums, medals and certificates.

Job files, correspondence, photographs, slides, publications.

Correspondence, photographs, newsletters, newspaper cuttings, songbooks, reports, membership lists, financial records, posters, minutes, and performance programs.

Seventeen drawings for the Architecture Music & Planning Building (now the Sir Zelman Cowen Building), drawn in 1973, for Job no. 335 of Nutter Stevenson & Partners. All signed off by the Office of the University Architect.

Press cuttings, typescript articles, reports, pamphlets, periodicals. 10 boxes contain material relating to the development of self-government in Papua New Guinea. 3 boxes contain material relating to left-wing politics and the student protest movement in Brisbane in the early 1970's.

Transcript of hearing relating to bashing of student during demonstation in Brisbane, 1977 (Folders 1 & 2) ;photographs of Right to March demonstrations, Brisbane, 1978 (Folder 3) ;papers relating to a political controversy about Sir Garfield Barwick's shares in Mundroola Pty. Ltd. (Folder 4). Material in Folder 4 originates from period 1978-1981 when Mark Plunkett was assistant private secretary to Bill Hayden (then Leader of the Opposition). Plunkett was asked to investigate the activities of Mundroola Pty. Ltd., the Barwick family company, of which Sir Garfield Barwick was a director, for possible conflicts of interest. Gareth Evans started action to impeach Barwick.

Biographical material, school records, war service papers, family photographs, travel diaries and photographs, travel ephemera. Records relating to the Boyce Gardens at 6 Range Street, Toowoomba, and the bequest of the gardens to the University of Queensland. Records relating to the administration of the Gardens. Photographic slides.

The collection contains correspondence, school and university records, photographs; papers, commissions and badges relating from military service in the First World War for Jack Fryer and his brothers who served in World War One. There are papers relating to the Fryer Family and the establishment of the Fryer Memorial Library of Australian Literature.

Architectural drawings of residential and commercial buildings, job files, incoming and outgoing correspondence, photographs and research material for his book on Walter Burley Griffin. Includes plans by Scorer and Scorer which Birrell obtained when he purchased the firm in 1966. The architectural drawings in this collection include those from his student days, his time with the Commonwealth Department of Works, the Brisbane City Council, the University of Queensland (as University Architect), and his private practices. Drawings for buildings not constructed are also in this collection.