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Glass plate negatives

Twenty one (21) glass plate negatives created by Mary Christison:

  1. ‘Mattamundukka waterhole at the Lammermoor Homestead’, published in Bennett, Mary M., ‘Records’, Vol 1, p70
  2. ‘Mattemundukka on Tower Hill Creek’
  3. ‘Lammermoor Homestead’
  4. ‘Royal Wilton Stud cows’
  5. ‘My last muster’
  6. ‘Robert Christison in 1857’
  7. Notes of race on back of photograph of R Christison
  8. ‘R Christison, 1912’
  9. ‘R Christison, 1877’ [damaged]
  10. ‘Tommy’, full portrait of a young child taken in 1898
  11. ‘Tommy’, in European dress in garden taken in 1898
  12. ‘Warmbunny’ taken in 1898
  13. ‘Charley’, portrait taken in 1898
  14. ‘Kyra’, portrait taken in 1898
  15. ‘Kyra’, portrait taken in 1898
  16. ‘Ko Bro’, portrait taken in 1896
  17. ‘Topsy’, portrait taken in 1898
  18. ‘Ko Bro’, portrait taken in 1898
  19. ‘Ko Bro’ portrait taken in 1896
  20. ‘Wyma’, portrait taken in 1898
  21. ‘Ko Bro, Wyma and friends’.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Bennett, M. M. (Mary Montgomerie), 1881-1961

Records collected by Mrs Bennett when compiling the history of Robert Christison, 1837-1915

Two bound scrapbooks of records collected by Mary M. Bennett when compiling the history of her father, Sir Robert Christison, The bound volumes include: newspaper cuttings, extracts of newspaper cuttings, pamphlets, photographs, reprints of articles, and typescripts written by or relating to Sir Robert Christison and the Dalleburra people who lived on the same land. Most of the material covers the period 1870 to 1910.

Bennett, M. M. (Mary Montgomerie), 1881-1961

Correspondence and notes.

Two folders: 1. 9 letters, typescript and handwritten, received by Mrs Bennett from overseas institutions and friends re her donation and her book Christison of Lammermoor; and 2. accompanying notes compiled by Mrs Bennett for the slides in Series C.

Bennett, M. M. (Mary Montgomerie), 1881-1961

Diaries of David Malouf

Comprises:

  1. Diary entries on Child’s Play and Fly Away Peter, Jan and Feb 1981, removed from annual calendar, titled on front page.
  2. Diary of a trip to Lebanon and Syria with Carmen Callil [editor at Chatto & Windus], Apr 1994, A6 notebook, [Ca. 100p].
  3. Typescript from a diary: account of a trip to Lebanon and Syria in 1994 with Carmen Callil, for printing an anthology, 19p, undated.
  4. Copy of extract from water-stained diary together with ‘typed extracts from a personal diary kept by David Malouf from October to December 1976', with relevance to the material in the subseries for An Imaginery Life.

Playscripts

This series is comprised of the published and unpublished playscripts for stage, radio and television written by Dorothy Blewett.

Blewett, Dorothy, 1898-1965

Photographs

There are 1029 photographs (black and white, 6 x 6 cm) split over two parts (or albums). Norman Francis Nelson (also knowns as "NF") was the main photographer. The photographs document the travels of "NF" and JT Robinson as they journeyed from Brisbane, visiting, inspecting and evaluating the four mission stations administered by the Presbyterian Church of Queensland. There are many photographs of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The original album with its captioning was retained (in Box 1); the photograph captions were transposed exactly into the new albums, and these captions are used as the titles for each photographs; titles in square brackets are provided by Library staff.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Non-Australian playscripts

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

Unknown playscripts

Typescript playscripts, some with annotations.
Box 8
Folder 3: [Untitled, starts at Act 2]
Folder 4: "The Frog Prince"
Folder 5: "The pigeon with the silver foot"
Folder 6: The princess and the woodcutter"
Folder 7: Brothers Capek, "And so ad infinitum (the life of the insects)" [incomplete]
Folder 8: "The prisoner" (stage manager's copy)
Folder 9: Aitken, Bill, "Money makes the world go round"
Folder 10: Aitken, Bill, "The perils of Pinky"
Folder 11: McDonald, James et al, "Something's afoot" (stage manager's copy)
Folder 12: "Epiphany"
Folder 13: "The conversion of the Anglo-Saxons"

Parcel 1
Folder 2: "The off-beat outing"

Australian playscripts

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"

Art ephemera

Art exhibition ephemera including invitations, fliers and price lists. Some signed or annotated.

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