Report of an independent undergraduate study for the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Queensland. Concerns survey of Aboriginal relic sites on Facing Island.

Mostly typescript, some handwritten, some photocopies or duplicated papers. These papers were collected by John P. Brown, Senior Lecturer in Dentistry at the Turbot Street Dental School, around the formation of Aboriginal and Islander Community Health Service. It includes: rosters and roster correspondence, articles on the Aboriginal and Islander Community Health Service, dental health, finance and equipment, constitution, minutes and reports, health statistics. Papers relate particularly to the Dental Service of the Aborigines and Islanders Community Health Service.

Paper prepared for 5th National Conference of Australian Council of Social Service, held at University of Queensland, 19-24 May 1968.
Topics include : relationships with the white community, sociological dimensions of the task ahead, case-studies in Aboriginal community development, pre-conditions for successful outcomes, role of the C.D. practitioner, methodology.
Includes bibliography.

An open letter to fellow Aborigines to return to their ancestors' wisdom in dealing with problems instead of banners and placards.
Includes a poem entitled: Where is love by Nurunderi.

Transcript of interviews by Linda McBride-Levi with Hazel Mac, Ruth Hegarty and Moira Gegarty on 9 April 1988. The interviewees share personal recollections of life on Cherbourg Mission.

Album, 32 x 28 x 5 cm, of ninety-two (92) black and white photographs presented to William James Gall of the official trips by James Stopford. The photographs feature James Stopford and William James Gall, as well as others possibly during the period from 1923 to 1928. Stopford was Home Secretary in the Queensland Government from 1923 to 1929. Gall worked as under-secretary for home affairs and protector of Aborigines from 1913 until possibly 1926.

Includes photographs of: Stopford Home for Aboriginal Girls at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement (now Cherbourg); Yhurri Gurri ceremonial arch at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement, 3-May-1928; Cherbourg Hospital; Cobbo Williams play acting with Mr Stopford at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement ca. 1925; a resident of Barambah giving a speech to welcome the members of the parliamentary party at the opening of the Stopford Home for Aboriginal Girls (The bandsmen, left to right, are Eddie Gilbert, Freddy Martin and Jimmy Dodd); the G-AUER air plane, called Hermes; photographs of a mine; and many unidentified Aboriginal and Torres Straits islander peoples.

Only the last six photographs have notations indicating that the photographs were taken by/belonged to E.W. Dabelstein. The album has the title embossed on the cover with the photographs pasted, generally two per page, onto the leaves which are made of green mid-weight card. There are some panorama photographs which have been folded to fit in the album.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Personal recollections of life in north Queensland in 1930s.

Letter concerns the Aboriginal Secondary Grants Scheme, evaluation report.

Typescript copy of W.E. Hanlon's memories of South East Queensland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including stories relating to local Aboriginal people.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.