Personal and professional correspondence.

Handwritten and typed drafts of Anne McCosker's poems and short stories, often with heavy editing and annotations, and notes and drafts for the book Lieutenant Martin's Letters. Many of the drafts of poems and stories are in notebooks. The series also contains a typed draft of a story titled 'Pacific Pot Pourri: Concerning One Klearwatgear', written during World War 2 by Winifred Martin.

Photographic prints, postcards and some photographic negatives relating to the history of European-Australians involved with the plantation economy of Australian New Guinea. The series include images of Anne McCosker's family and their expatriate associates, local people participating in ceremonial performances, engaged in plantation labour or posing in portrait or group shots, and views of various locations in New Britain, New Ireland and other northern islands of New Guinea where the McCosker family was based. The majority of the photographs were taken in the 1920s, 1930s and the postwar 1940s, and many are captioned. Some were published in Anne McCosker's book, Masked Eden.

There are approximately 1243 b&w photographs, 53 b&w photo postcards and 12 negatives in this series.

Consists of correspondence, research material and photographs relating to Ray Sumner's PHD thesis 'Amalie Dietrich in Australia'

Dr David Clements Jackson gave his original lecture notes from 1961 to Pearn. In 1961 the Department of Child Health was established within the University of Queensland.

Photographs comprise:

[Item 1] Commemorative photograph: 75th Anniversary of the University of Queensland, Department of Child Health, Clinical Examiners, 1985.
[Item 2] ‘Treasures of the Fryer Library’ [names of families represented in group photo written on frame], 1997.
[Item 3] Photograph of John Pearn and library staff at Customs House Presentation to John Pearn as Alumnus of the Year [from left: Lisa Kruesi, John Pearn, Grace Saw, Deborah Stumm and Andrew Heath], with accompanying note to Lisa Kruesi, 24 Oct 2004
[Item 4] One colour photograph of John Pearn’s presentation to Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace where he received the King Edward VII Cup for service to lifesaving, injury prevention and prehospital care, 22 Nov 2016

Forty open open reel audiotapes of interviews as part of the project From lunchroom to boardroom : records of oral history project, Women in the Labor movement, 1930-1970.

This series is comprised of four (4) artworks mounted on boards, 31 x 51 cm.
Item 1: Fred Leist, (Two men in street), 1898, ink on paper, 10 x 13 cm, signed Fred Leist, mounted with an inscribed silver gelatin photograph, inscribed 'Lest you forget/Yours Fred Leist', 11 x 6.5 cm.
Item 2: Lionel Lindsay, The Return Home, ink on paper, 10.5 x 8 cm, inscribed lower centre "After Sunday dinner. The return home. Pray notice the ties - (very unique)'.
Item 3: Percy Lindsay, (The Vanquished), 1909, ink on paper, 20 x 15.5 cm, signed 'Percy Lindsay' dated '09'.
Item 4: Rose Lindsay, silver gelatin photograph, 19.5 x 13 cm, signed by Rose Lindsay.