Diary, correspondence, cards, Fellowship reports, ephemera, drafts, notes, newspaper cuttings relating to Rosanne Fitzgibbons receiving the first Beatrice Davis Award in 1992 and her time in New York with Norton Publishing in 1992-92. The Fellowship is named after the distinguished literary editor Beatrice Davis and provides an opportunity for a senior editor to develop knowledge and expertise in the editorial department of an international publishing house/s.

Personal correspondence, notebooks, curriculum vitae and references. Includes a list of titles and photocopies of inscriptions on the copies of books belong to Fitzgibbon that were returned to the family.

Twenty one (21) glass plate negatives created by Mary Christison:

1. ‘Mattamundukka waterhole at the Lammermoor Homestead’, published in Bennett, Mary M., ‘Records’, Vol 1, p70
2. ‘Mattemundukka on Tower Hill Creek’
3. ‘Lammermoor Homestead’
4. ‘Royal Wilton Stud cows’
5. ‘My last muster’
6. ‘Robert Christison in 1857’
7. Notes of race on back of photograph of R Christison
8. ‘R Christison, 1912’
9. ‘R Christison, 1877’ [damaged]
10. ‘Tommy’, full portrait of a young child taken in 1898
11. ‘Tommy’, in European dress in garden taken in 1898
12. ‘Warmbunny’ taken in 1898
13. ‘Charley’, portrait taken in 1898
14. ‘Kyra’, portrait taken in 1898
15. ‘Kyra’, portrait taken in 1898
16. ‘Ko Bro’, portrait taken in 1896
17. ‘Topsy’, portrait taken in 1898
18. ‘Ko Bro’, portrait taken in 1898
19. ‘Ko Bro’ portrait taken in 1896
20. ‘Wyma’, portrait taken in 1898
21. ‘Ko Bro, Wyma and friends’.

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Technical drawing and blueprint for residence at Edge Hill for Mrs J. Connors.

Architectural plans for various hotels in North Queensland: Corner House Hotel (Gordonvale) (1937); The Mossman Exchange Hotel (1934); The Atherton Grand Hotel; and the Innisfail Riverview Hotel.

Twenty architectural drawings for buildings and additions for the Atherton Hospital. One drawing is for an unidentified medical building (which may not be by Brown).

The Atherton Maize Board (Pool) was constituted on 31 August 1923 and was responsible for the marketing of maize produced in Atherton, Mareeba, Herberton, Chillagoe and adjacent areas. New Silos at Atherton and Tolga were completed in 1925 and by 1931 addtional storage was required. This series has plans for silo storage in Tolga, Kairi, and Atherton.

Personal documents relating to James Peter Birrell.

Correspondence from friends and family of Daphne Mayo including her parents, Bill and Lila Mayo, Lloyd Rees, some with or by his wife, Majorie Rees; Vida Lahey; Edith Lahey; Dr Christine Rivett; Walter Taylor; Nell Mary Lette Hubble; Mim Shaw; and Ina Rivers. General correspondence includes letters from government departments, the Society of Artists, exhibition organisers, galleries, lawyers, dentists, real estate agents, and others.