49 glass slides, mostly of Aboriginal subjects.
9 contact sheets of images from the glass slides.

Letters from Stan McCosker to the Kokopo Sports Club relating to the auditing of the club's accounts.

Diary entries on two sheets of paper with Lloyd Triesto letterhead, typed on 9 May 1939, the day of the Langers' arrival in Australia at the port of Fremantle.

32 letters (includes postcards) from Bill and Lila Mayo to their daughter Daphne from 28 January 1930 to 30 November 1939.

Correspondence from 4 Apr 1930 to 29 Dec 1939. Correspondents include: Queensland Club; W. Rubery Bennett; MacQuarie Galleries; Society of Artists; Queensland Wattle League; William Moore; Government House, Brisbane; Sculptors' Society of Australia; Women's Executive Committee and Advisory Council; Brisbane City Council; Carnegie Corporation; National Gallery of Canada; McGill University.

Postcards, most appear to have been collected by Mayo on her travels abroad. Some have been sent to her.

29 photographs: A Young Swiss [Adolf] (1 photograph); "The Mother" & "The Father" SMH - 11 Nov 1937 "The settler and his wife" (18 photographs, 10 negatives. 2 newspaper cuttings)

Draft typescript with handwritten emendations. This manuscript contains vocabularies for the Kabi-kabi, Wakka-wakka, Yugarabul and Yugumbir languages. The twelve page preface includes notes on grammar and pronunciation, pronunciation of letters, and grammar of the Yugumbir, Yugarabul and Wakka languages. The chapters: Vocabulary: English - Kabi and Kabi - English (78 leaves); Vocabulary: English - Yugumbir and Yugumbir - English (68 leaves); Vocabulary: English - Yugarabul and Yugarabul - English (29 leaves), Declension of a noun of the Yugarabul language (adapted from the work of Rev. W. Ridley) (1 leaf); Vocabulary: English - Wakka and Wakka - English (24 leaves); Some notes on the manners and customs of the aborigines of South East Queensland; Aboriginal place names of South-east Queensland; Index of names; and a map of south east Queensland. A railways map of south east Queensland has beeen coloured by Watson to show the lingual divisions and has the date of 1939.

It was published as a Supplement to the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Queensland) no. 34, vol. XLVII in 1944.

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