Mainly letters, postcards and telegrams written to or by Edmund Hodgson Yates or his son Edmund Smedley Yates, or to or by other members of the family. The papers were collected by Edmund Hodgson Yates and Edmund Smedley Yates.
Bulk of papers 1840s-1890s.

Diaries (15) dated 1885-1931; minute book of Jimboomba Cricket Club 12 Nov. 1892; minute book of Jimboomba State School Committee 21 May 1898-30 Apr. 1899; family photographs, copy of Thomas Strachan's birth certificate, biographical notes written by grandson N.D. Strachan.

Newspaper cuttings concerning Queensland politics and government, and public policy issues.

Correspondence 1928 to 1932; press clippings 1924 to 1931.

9 scrapbooks about stage and screen productions, actors and actresses. Contains chiefly newspaper cuttings; also contains some theatre programmes, correspondence and postcard photographs (some with autographs, including one of Ellen Terry).
Compiled in Australia. Refers to performances in Australia and overseas.

74 black and white photographs of Papua New Guinea, showing people and places in and around Rabaul, Edie Creek, Lae, Bulolo, Wau and Salamaua. Scenes from Rabaul include indigenous and European people, aeroplanes, buildings and beached whales or porpoises. Photographs of Edie Creek and Bulolo include depictions of mining camps and mining operations. Wau scenes include buildings, pit sawing, the airstrip and a crashed aeroplane. Each photograph has handwritten identifying notes on the back.

Photographs, maps, postcards, relating to Mills' service in World War 1.

Correspondence; financial records; articles of Association and Prospectus of Company; newspaper cuttings; photograph album; and photographs.

Papers of Walter Cunningham Hume (1840 – 1921), surveyor and Chief Commissioner for Lands for Queensland; his wife Katie, daughter Ethel, brother Washington Hume, and members of both their families in England. They lived at Drayton, Toowoomba, and Brisbane. Includes personal correspondence, photograph albums, travel journals, diaries, and notebooks.

Papers, agendas, minutes, memoranda.
Most papers typed or roneoed.