Correspondence. Includes an undated handwritten statement signed by Lenard Law, possibly writing as an amanuensis. The statement is written in the first-person and contains biographical details of an Aboriginal person confined against his/her wishes at the Cherbourg settlement.
Correspondents include Wilfred Wragge, Maidie Ross (Restricted), Arthur Cobba Simson, Doris Crawford, W. Porteus Semple (Superintendent Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement), Leslie Wilson (Governor of Queensland), and Tom Blackman.

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Correspondence and reports relating to Caroline Kelly’s anthropological survey.
Paper by Caroline Kelly on "the impact of European culture upon the Aborigines of New South Wales", ca. 1937

List of full or partial names of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander individuals mentioned in the file:
Herbert Davis
Campbell [full name not provided]

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This collection includes : 'The Great Barrier Reef and its origins'; 'Great Barrier Reef investigations'; 2 photographs; handwritten notes entitled 'Great Barrier Reef : manuscript notes made during reading at Geological Survey Library, London 1935'; one folder entitled 'Chemical analyses of coralline material from bore at Michaelmas Cay' (includes graphs). There is a map of Great Barrier Reef ca. 1925, which hung in Richards' office; William Branwhite Clarke medal; Carnegie Corporation medal; and hammer belonging to Richards.

Correspondence and reports relating to Caroline Kelly’s anthropological survey. Including report and correspondence to the AP Board 1937, Anthropological survey August/September 1937.

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University of Queensland Dental Hospital and College, Sheet numbers 1-11, Title block client name is Queensland Department of Public Works, ink line drawings on paper, dated July to December 1937:

[Item 1] Block plan; [Item 2] Sections showing site prepartion; [Item 3] Plan of foundations; [Item 4] Plan of basement floor; [Item 5] Plan of ground floor; [Item 6] Plan of mezzanine floor; [Item 7] Plan of first floor; [Item 8] Plan of roof; [Item 9] Front and back elevations; [Item 10] South west and North east elevations; [Item 11] Section A-B and Section C-D.

Cuttings from various newspapers including The Argus, Sydney Morning Herald and the Daily Mail relating to Ian Macdonald, the Australian navy in WWI, HMAS Australia, HMS Hood, and the visit of the American fleet to Australia in 1925. There are several death notices for Ian Macdonald which appear to have been collected by his brother Alistair.

21 photographs of various sizes that do not fit into standard albums. The majority are formal portraits of Ian Macdonald.

Copies of architectural drawings of the University of Queensland. Accompanied by an article from 'Building', 12 Oct 1936 with information about the plans and the early St. Lucia site, donated by Peter Brown of the St. Lucia History Group. Includes photocopy of the design for sandblasted ceiling for the glass dome of the Library building (which was never executed).

Cliffside Apartments, also know as Cliffside Flats, is a heritage-listed apartment block located at Kangaroo Point, Brisbane. In 1936, goldminer and New Guinea expatriate Doris Regina Booth (nee Wilde) commissioned Cliffside Flats in South Brisbane, designed by local architect Ronald Martin Wilson. Her sister, Selma Dore, oversaw the construction and photographed the site at various stages throughout the project. The apartment block was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 27 February 2004. This file comprises a DVD of high-resolution scans of 23 photographs, with proof sheet.

Suggestions by the Art Advisory Committee of the Queensland Art Gallery, reports of works of art, correspondence.