Sketches and studies. From Brisbane flat. 24 pieces of art: loose; in pencil, pen, oil; on paper, card, envelope. Incomplete sketch book with 24 pages (double sided) of drawings, mostly in pencil. 1 cardboard cutout stencil of a group of three figures.

Drawings from Mayo’s Sydney studio (second set)

Architectural drawings relating to Brisbane Central Technical College.

Fibreglass model for Trophy for Winton's Bronze Swagman Award for Bush Verse. Held together with fabric ties.

Plaster cast of baby's head [possibly a preliminary plaster cast for the baby portrait of Lindsay Gribb]

Fibreglass model, painted green with some gold. The Little Blackie sculpture depicts the smaller than life-sized head of an Aboriginal baby. One of the most reproduced of all Daphne Mayo's works. One bronze head was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) from the Three Sculptors Exhibition in Sydney in 1946. Daphne Mayo would not assigned copyright to the the AGNSW.

12 sketch, note or memo books with writings, notes relating to her art; sketches; glaze recipes; colour. Most sketch books have not been fully used. Six are spiral sketch books.

1 album with slots for art reproduction prints (some have prints inserted) and notes, 22 x 28 cm. 14 sketch, note or memo books with writings, notes relating to her art; sketches; glaze recipes; colour. Most sketch books have not been fully used. Three have names of towns written on the cover and associated sketches: Bolonga/Venice ; Assisi; and Siena. One notebook has notes on motifs and newspaper cuttings inserted at the end. Another notes on dynamic symetry. Another, lined notebook, has notes on State Schools free education and at the other end of the notebook a list of letters to write and bills to pay for Jan 1956. Some have scales for sculptures such as 'Little black baby', 'S. Paterson', and 'Prof. Waterhouse'.

Folder containing drawings, sketches, paint on paper works. Includes: Henry Mayo Bateman pencil on paper sketch with note: Tenderest Memories. Little Daphne by Cousin Binks (HM Baateman), ca. 1922; and scale layout for sculpute of a "baby".

Daphne Mayo's Sydney Studio at 231 George Street was reclaimed by the Sydney Cove Development Authority in 1981. Queensland Trustees Limited, who had power of attorney for Mayo, engaged Judith McKay to direct the sorting and dispersal of the Sydney Studio from 29 June to 8 July 1981. Mayo had been a tenant of the building since 1940 and retained this studio after her move back to Brisbane. She was the last tenant to leave the building. Photographs by Jacqueline Macnaughtan and Tim Collis-Bird.
From volume 1: "These albums were compiled for preservation with the sculptor's papers as a record of the studio and, in particular, to document sculpture and models which were not retrieved from the studio".