Large hardback notebook containing newspaper cuttings relating to Supreme Court matters and mining in North Queensland compiled by Alexander Macdonald. There are handwritten annotations throughout. Some cuttings are loose.

87 sepia photographs (19 x 13 cm and smaller) loose mounted between board. Photographs have no captions.
Photographic studios include: Albert Lomer Brisbane, American Photo and Watch Repairing Tamworth, B. Boake Sydney, Batchelder & Co Melbourne, Biggingee Sorabjee Pochee Ipswich, Brand Sydney, Brown & Bailey, C. Roggenkamp Warwick, Carl Sydney, Collis Canterbury, David Scott Sydney, E. B. Cardell Roma, E. Rusfeldt Sydney, Frisco Photo Co. (G. A.Tissington Manager), G. H. Nicholas Sydney, G. H. Spragg West Maitland, Geo L. Massingham Toowoomba, H. Poulsen Warwick, J. Audet Sydney, J. Hubert Newman Sydney, J. Roarty Sydney, J. T. Gorus Sydney, L. Suscirj Roma (Italy), Lock & Whitfield 178 Regent Street [Sydney]?, Lomers Sydney, M. Moss West Maitland, Marquis Brisbane, Metcalfe & Millington, Newman and Co. Sydney, Page & Murray Roma, Poul C. Poulsen Brisbane and Maryborough, R. J. Cottell Roma Qld., Raphael Tuck and Sons London, Shelton Brothers Ipswich, Stewart & Co. Melbourne, Westfield & Co. Calcutta, and W. H. Schroeder George St Haymarket.

Photocopy of scrapbook, mainly of clippings of short stories published in 'The British Australasian' in the 1890s but including some handwritten and typescript manuscripts.

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.

Special autograph copy presented to C. Hardie Buzacott in appreciation ... of assistance ... during the Federation campaign 1899.

Diary of the chief warder, 1899. Microfilm copy of this diary and the diary for 1897 also held at MIC6714.

Album of 29 sepia photographs (15.5 x 11 cm mounted on boards).

Four act play.

A 19th century carte de visite photo album. Brass clasp is missing. Initial page, with inscription is torn with only 'To' and 'wit[h]' still remaining. The album has 42 pages with 84 spaces for carte de visites to be displayed. Each page is specially made to allow insertion of carte de visties through slots in the bottom of two stiff sheets of cardbord and visible through cut portrait openings. There are four missing photographs and one photograph in the back of the book. It may have been compiled by Catherine Bell. Captions are provided where available, supplied titles, some by Sue Bell, are in square brackets:

1. J.P. Bell
2. Margaret M. Bell (Lady)
3. J.T. Bell
4. William Bell
5. C.B.P. Bell
6. Ossie Bell
7. J.T. Bell 1880s
8. [Woman, possibly Jinny Maxwell?]
9. Thomas Bell
10. Maida Isabella Sarah Bell.
11. Maida Bell, taken 1880
12. Thomas Bell, 1872
13. J.P. Bell,
14. [Photo missing]
15. [Gerald and Thomas de Lacy Moffatt?]
16. Colin Bell
17. Maida Bell
18. [J.T. and William Bell]
19. [Gerald Kellet Moffatt, son of Isabella dn Thomas Moffatt]
20. [Thomas de Lacy Moffatt, son of Isabella and Thomas Moffatt]
21. Maida Bell
22. [Missing. Handwritten caption says 'T. B. Thomas Bell. d. 1872 with g'daughter Maida Moffatt]
23. [Thomas de Lacy Moffatt]
24. [Gerald Kellett Moffatt]
25. [Early photo of one of the Moffatt girls?]
26. [Missing. Handwritten caption says Thos Bell]
27. [Gerard Kellett Moffatt?]
28. [Woman. Caption on reverse says Margaret M Bell but not correct]
29. C.B.P. Bell
30. [Photo of two young men]
31. [Isabella and Mary Moffatt?]
32. [One of the Moffatt girls?]
33. [One of the Moffatt girls?]
34. [Missing]
35. [Missing]
36. [Older woman]
37. [Moffatt girl]
38. [Moffatt girl]
39. [Thomas de Lacy Moffatt]
40. [Isabella and Mary Moffatt?]
41. [Moffatt girl]
42. [Moffatt girl]
43. [Moffatt girl]
44. Maida I. S.
45. [Woman]
46. [Group of four women]
47. [Man]
48. Oswald
49. [Man]
50. [Woman]
51. [Young man]
52. [Woman]
53. [One of the adult male Bells?]
54. [Thomas de lacy Moffatt]
55. [Man. Inscription on reverse "To A Queenslander from a 'would be' Queenslander 30/6/81]
56. [Man]
57. [Woman]
58. [Handwritten note 'Welton']
59. [Thomas de Lacy Moffatt]
60. [Man]
61. [Maida Bell? Not a carte de vistie]
62. [Thomas de Lacy Moffatt]
63. C.B.P. Bell
64. Ossie Bell
65. [Inscription: Mr & Mrs Armstrong to their friend G Proley]
66. [Man]
67. J.T. Bell
68. [Man leaning against fence]
69. [Inscription: D. E. Brown, 1880]
70. [Boy]
71. J. T. Bell
72. J. T. Bell
73. [J.T. Bell]
74. J.P. Bell
75. [Young man]
76. [Young woman]
77. [Moffatt girl?]
78. [Moffatt girl?]
79. [Man on a horse in fromt of house]
80. [Horse drawn carriage]
81. [Landscape picture of man with unsaddled horse]
82. [Portrait picture of man with saddled horse]
83. "Ossie" & Maida
84. [Two boys]
    [85. Picture inserted in back of album of young woman with inscription on reverse 'From Evelyn']

Copies of official reports to the Agent-General, London, from G. Randall, lecturer and emigration agent for Queensland Government in Great Britain, 1885 to 1902. Includes copies of reports, correspondence, records of disbursements, newspaper clippings (British and Australian) concerning emigration of British farm workers to Queensland. Some correspondence to Chief Secretary, Queensland.