John D Fryer: Certificates and keepsakes
• Three certificates awarded to John D Fryer for academic achievement at the Rockhampton Boys’ Grammar School
• Poster: ‘Female Obelisk. A simple-ton of learning, so aged and wise, Finds fit representation in the obelisk guise’
• John D Fryer, Results of Examinations, Rockhampton Grammar School, 1911 to 1912
• Certificate of Commission as an Officer in the Defence Force of the Commonwealth, 1 Jul 1920
• Invitation to Mr J Fryer from ‘His Excellency the Governor at Home’ 28 Apr [1920?]
• Menu: ‘Dinner tendered to Brisbane University Football Team by the University Amateur League Football Club, Burlington Café, 12 Jun 1920’
• In memoriam card: John Denis Fryer (Lieut. A.I.F) Who Died 7th February, 1923 from the effects of gas received in France, aged 27 years
• Rockhampton Boys’ Grammar School bookplate devised in honour of John D Fryer and awarded for proficiency in French and English

Correspondents include: Margery Browne, V.N. Thompson, Miriam Ogden, Alfred Buchanan, and Timothy Kelly.
Includes:
-- letter to Sydney Morning Herald from Caroline Kelly, 1 Nov 1934.
-- questionnaires concerning the welfare of Aborigines, sent by the Feminist Club of New South Wales to State parliamentary candidates, and letters of reply from some candidates, 1938.

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.

Final order dated 22 June 1953, re-establishing ownership of the Matala plantation to Herbert Walford King and Stanley McCosker under the New Guinea Land Titles Restoration Ordinance 1951-1952; and a map of the islands of the Hermit Group, supplied to H. Walford King in September 1956.

Photographic prints showing people, plantation life and scenery in the Australian Territory of New Guinea. Locations include Wara-Ta-Bar (New Ireland), Ningau, Matala Plantation and Witu. Many of the photographs feature local people wearing ceremonial dress, undertaking ceremonial performances and posing for the photographer. Most of the photographs were taken in the 1930s.

Reports, correspondence, photographs, and research material for several private projects and studies undertaken by Graham de Gruchy.

Correspondence, 1990 to 1992 - James Lecesne, Etienne Roy, Brendan Smith, Ysabel Hoyas?, Ian ?, Warwick Hunter, Peter ?, Martyn Hope, Barbara & Roy ?, Donna ?, Brendan Smith, Elizabeth Gaskin, Leonard and Ildiko Kovacs, Brother Gregory of the St Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, Nigel Hall.

Includes: travel diaries from when Bill and Lila Mayo travelled in 1929; notebook with notes on birds (1923-1926); passport for the Mayo's; visiting cards for W. McA. Mayo. These papers are presumed to be from the estate of her mother, Lila Mayo.

Eleven folders of correspondence to the Arts Council of Australia (Queensland Division) and to its president Gertrude Langer. The last folder had the original title "Expressions of appreciation for my stepping down as President of the Arts Council", in 1975.

Correspondence received by Alan Wearne between ca. 1989 and 1992.