This album was created by Joshua Peter Ferguson Bell. Photographs are arranged chronologically, mostly by location, and most have captions written beneath them. Included with this album are post-it sticky notes with information about some of the content of the album. These notes have been written by Sue Bell.

Photographs include: 'Spicer's Gap, April 1930', 4 photographs with captions. -- 'Upper Logan and Cronan's Creek - Mount Barney - Easter 1930', 24 photographs with captions. -- 'Australia to England, P&O, R.M.S. Mooltan, May-June 1930', 25 photographs with captions. -- 'The Sunbeam, 1930', 4 photographs. -- 'Snowdonia, September 1930', 6 photographs with captions. -- 'English Lake District and Scotland, September 1930', 11 photographs with captions. -- 'Cotswold Hills, Bibury, September 1930', 7 photographs, some with captions. -- 'Brighton - October 1930, Mrs Stuart, Beth & J.P.F.B.', 11 photographs. -- 'Fontainbleau - October 1930, Mr. & Mrs. Stuart, Beth, & the Sunbeam', 6 photographs. -- 'Fontainbleau', 8 photographs, some with captions. -- Tilbury, January, 1931', 5 photographs with captions. -- 'Dover - October 1930', 3 photographs, 1 missing, some with captions. -- 'The Continent, October - December 1930', 5 photographs with captions. -- 'Prague', 4 photographs with captions. -- 'Austria', 4 photographs with captions. -- 'Venice - November 1930', 5 photographs with captions. -- 'Switzerland - November 1930', 10 photographs with captions. -- 'South of France - December 1930', 5 photographs with captions. -- 'Spain - December 1930', 4 photographs with captions. -- [September 1930 to March 1931], 6 photographs with captions. -- 'Jimbour House, Darling Downs, Queensland', 6 photographs, some with captions. -- Marseilles to Bombay, P&O Mooltan, February, 1931', 6 photographs with captions. -- 'Mooltan', 12 photographs with captions. -- 'Swimming pool - Aden', 2 photographs with captions. -- 'India, March 1931', 7photographs with captions, inserted is a notice questing passengers to the a Vaccination Certificate, 2 May 1930. -- 'Mombasa, March 1931', 8 photographs with captions. -- 'Kenya Colony - March 1931', 10 photographs with captions. -- 'Kingatori Estate, Kiambu, April 1931', 6 photographs with captions. -- '"Claude" - May 1931', 4 photographs with captions. -- 'September 1931', 11 photographs, some with captions. -- 'Kiambu Road Repairs - Jan. 1932', 2 photographs with captions. -- 'Kingatori Estate, Kiambu, January 1932', 13 photographs with captions. -- 'Cricket in Kenya, 1931-32', 8 photographs with captions. -- 'Victoria Nyanza, Feb. 1932', 16 photographs with captions. -- 'Trip Home, March-June 1932', 47 photographs with captions. -- 'Coochin - June 1932', 19 photographs with captions. -- [Untitled page], 6 photographs photographs with captions. -- 'Westland - August 1932', 17 photographs with captions. -- 'September 1932', 19 photographs with captions.

This is a large commercially produced photograph album using a punch-and-bind system in which two metal posts are inserted through punched holes near the binding edge. There are 32 brown card pages in this album. The photographs have been adhered overall to the pages.

Photocopy of 'Autobiographical Diary of William Alexander Dorsey Bell born June 3, 1865, in Brisbane Australia'. Approximately 16 handwritten entries from 20 Jul 1892 to 27 Jun 1916.

Transcript copies of speeches by Peter Bell and newspaper cuttings relating to Peter Bell.

Photocopies of Letters Patent of Thomas Willis for ‘an improved detachable fencing standard?’, 1905. Photocopies of documents and advertisements about the ‘improved detachable fence standards’ ‘The Westland Dropper’, invented by Thomas T. Willis, c1905 to 192?

Papers relating to Sibyl Bell (Theodora Sybil Francis Needham) (1877-1945): Eulogy for Nigel Hugh St George Gore (1922-2008), 2008 [Sybil was the daughter of Grace Gore]; Correspondence, 2008; Letters to Sibyl Bell from her son Peter (Colin Basil Peter Bell (1902-1976)) and her daughter in law Hilda Bell (nee Walsh), 1936 to 1937.

Documents, invitations, financial records, and personal papers relating to various members of the Bell family.

Papers, notes, newspaper cutting, and Bell family wills all providing information about the Bell family tree. Includes: seven sheets annotated with names of Bell family in the Bell family tree; 19 photocopied pages of Joshua Thomas Bell’s administration of wills; and a newspaper cuting about the wreck of the Sovereign where Henry Dennis, manager of Jimbour died on his way to Sydney to marry Mary Isabella Bell, Thomas Bell’s daughter.

This files includes: correspondence, notes, newspaper cuttings, 'Order of Service ... on the 125th anniversary of the famly of The Hon Sir Joshua Peter Bell commencing residence in Jimbour House 7 April 2002', and 'Order of proceedings' for the cellar door opening on 7 April 2002.

Handwritten notes of the recollections of James Fernival about Jimbour, Henry Dennis, Warabah, and various properties on the Darling Downs, 8 leaves, undated. Attached to handwritten notes is a newspaper cutting from The Queenslander, 7 Jan 1899, of a letter to the editor, ‘Jimbour History’ by Charles Dun, dated 27 Dec. Typescript copy of the handwritten notes of the 'Recollections of James Fernival' with handwritten note on first page ‘circ. 1908-9 in the possession of the late Hon. J.T. Bell’ , 6 leaves.

Fernival's recollections include: Henry Dennis, Thomas Bell, Jimbour Station, Ludwig Leichhardt, Joe King, Joshua Peter Bell, the various stations in the Darling Downs area and who owned them, Charles Coxen, Warraba ("W.H. Warraba", died in 1893), Bungaree, Billy Crow, George Goggs, and others.

Notes from Alexander Johnston. Typescript and carbon copy, 4 leaves, with note on first page ‘In the possession of the Hon. J. T. Bell. Circ. 1908-9’, undated. One typescript copy, 3 leaves, undated. Johnston recalls his time on the Darling Downs where he arrived in 1842, his time in Canning Downs, hostilities with Aboriginal Australians including at Soldiers' Flat and Laidley, Jimbour, Dalby, and people such as Ludwig Leichhardt, Henry Dennis, and Warraba.