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Photographs of friends and acquaintances

Photographs of Gertrude Langer’s friends and acquaintances, including school and university photographs, ca. 1918 – 1984
Includes photographs of architect Clemens Holzmeister and Gunda Lexer in Athens in 1939; Inscribed photographs of Lili Kraus; Photographs of Peter Behrens.

Financial records relating to artistic works, 1918 to 1939

Receipts, invoices, correspondence relating to works of art and studio expenses, dated from 9 Nov 1918 to 25 Oct 1939. Small notebook with lists of professional expenses with one page having a note across the top 'June 1936 to June 1937'.

Realia.

Metal printing plate used to print the cover of a 1919 issue of The Australian at Weymouth, with accompanying provenance statement; a single bound volume of 1918 and 1919 issues of The Australian at Weymouth; three ink stamps from German New Guinea. Sample imprints of two of these stamps are located in Series C, Subseries 1, File 2.

John Thomson Lectures by J.J.C. Bradfield

  • F3883
  • File
  • 1918

Three typescripts by J. J. C. Bradfield, presented as part of the John Thomson Memorial Lectures at the University of Queensland in 1918. The first lecture, on the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Scheme, was delivered in two parts on 26 July 1918 and 2 August 1918 respectively. The first part is titled 'Burrinjuck Dam, weirs and regulators, main canals'. The second part is titled 'Water system on the irrigation areas, irrigation settlements and townships; the development of the farming, dairying, and fruit growing industries on the areas, with establishment of factories for the treatment of farm produce'. The second lecture, undated except for the year 1918, is titled 'Principles governing the location and design of the Sydney city (underground) railway'. Three typescripts originally held together with metal fasteners in a bound binder folder. Lectures separated by linen paper inserts and original typed title pages that state the lectures were delivered at 'Brisbane University'.

Bradfield, J. J. C. (John Job Crew), 1867-1943

Memorialisation

Materials relating to the continued memorialisation of James Macdonald after his death including correspondence; 2 copies of a stab-sewn booklet entitled In Memoriam: Captain James Shaw Rose Macdonald; Thanksgiving Sunday 1919 order of service; Brisbane Grammar School booklet Memorial in honour of the Volunteers in the Great War; newspaper cutting; guide to Dickiebusch New Military Cemetary issued by the Imperial War Graves Commission; photographs and negatives. The latter part of the file relates to Michael White's enquiries as to the location of James Macdonald's grave and images of poppies placed on the grave each ANZAC Day.

White, M. W. D.

Letters from William Fryer

Letters and Cards to William Fryer
• Ruth Mathews, London to William Fryer, 25 Apr to 16 Jun 1937
• Easter card, from [?] to Will Fryer, 5 Apr 1917

Fryer, William Thomas, 1887-1946

Letters: Jan 1917 - Dec 1917.

Handwritten letters to family from Frederick (Fred) William Scott Martin during his war service in World War One. The correspondence in this file begins while Martin was in the trenches at the Western Front. His final letter is dated 31 August 1917. Martin was killed in action in Belgium on 20 September 1917. The final documents in this folder are an article about Martin published in The Humpybong Halcyon newspaper on 20 October 1917, a letter from the Queensland Department of Public Instruction to Martin's father, dated 6 December 1917, and a copy of a Commonwealth record detailing the actions that led to Martin being awarded the Military Medal.

Ephemera relating to the peace movement and disarmament

  • FVF639
  • File
  • 1916-2000

Leaflets, poster and correspondence, postcards from many Peace groups mainly from Brisbane, but includes interstate and overseas groups. Groups include Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Stop the War collective, The Brisbane Peace and Environment Fleet, Student Campaign against Militarism, Australian Peace Alliance, World Peace Council, Youth Carnival for Peace and Friendship, Peace and Goodwill Assembly, New South Wales Peace Council, Victorian Peace Council, P.A.X., Australian Peace Liaison Committee, Inter-Church Committee on Peace, Federal Pacifist Council of Australia, M.V. Australian Venture, Rally for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Committee, Australian Anti-Bases Campaign, People for Nuclear Disarmament, Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition, Australian Association for Armed Neutrality, Peace Tax Campaign, Alice Springs Peace Group, Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament, Nuremburg Action Renegade Activists Action Force, Gulf Action Coalition, ACT Disarmament Coalition, Hiroshima Day Committee, Diamond Valley Peace Action, Ecofleet, Chogm Action Network,
Many of the groups only have one item in the collection. Bulk of the collection is 1970-1999.

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