This album was created by Joshua Peter Ferguson Bell. Photographs are arranged chronologically, mostly by location, and most have captions written beneath them. Included with this album are post-it sticky notes with information about some of the content of the album. These notes have been written by Sue Bell.

Photographs include: 'Spicer's Gap, April 1930', 4 photographs with captions. -- 'Upper Logan and Cronan's Creek - Mount Barney - Easter 1930', 24 photographs with captions. -- 'Australia to England, P&O, R.M.S. Mooltan, May-June 1930', 25 photographs with captions. -- 'The Sunbeam, 1930', 4 photographs. -- 'Snowdonia, September 1930', 6 photographs with captions. -- 'English Lake District and Scotland, September 1930', 11 photographs with captions. -- 'Cotswold Hills, Bibury, September 1930', 7 photographs, some with captions. -- 'Brighton - October 1930, Mrs Stuart, Beth & J.P.F.B.', 11 photographs. -- 'Fontainbleau - October 1930, Mr. & Mrs. Stuart, Beth, & the Sunbeam', 6 photographs. -- 'Fontainbleau', 8 photographs, some with captions. -- Tilbury, January, 1931', 5 photographs with captions. -- 'Dover - October 1930', 3 photographs, 1 missing, some with captions. -- 'The Continent, October - December 1930', 5 photographs with captions. -- 'Prague', 4 photographs with captions. -- 'Austria', 4 photographs with captions. -- 'Venice - November 1930', 5 photographs with captions. -- 'Switzerland - November 1930', 10 photographs with captions. -- 'South of France - December 1930', 5 photographs with captions. -- 'Spain - December 1930', 4 photographs with captions. -- [September 1930 to March 1931], 6 photographs with captions. -- 'Jimbour House, Darling Downs, Queensland', 6 photographs, some with captions. -- Marseilles to Bombay, P&O Mooltan, February, 1931', 6 photographs with captions. -- 'Mooltan', 12 photographs with captions. -- 'Swimming pool - Aden', 2 photographs with captions. -- 'India, March 1931', 7photographs with captions, inserted is a notice questing passengers to the a Vaccination Certificate, 2 May 1930. -- 'Mombasa, March 1931', 8 photographs with captions. -- 'Kenya Colony - March 1931', 10 photographs with captions. -- 'Kingatori Estate, Kiambu, April 1931', 6 photographs with captions. -- '"Claude" - May 1931', 4 photographs with captions. -- 'September 1931', 11 photographs, some with captions. -- 'Kiambu Road Repairs - Jan. 1932', 2 photographs with captions. -- 'Kingatori Estate, Kiambu, January 1932', 13 photographs with captions. -- 'Cricket in Kenya, 1931-32', 8 photographs with captions. -- 'Victoria Nyanza, Feb. 1932', 16 photographs with captions. -- 'Trip Home, March-June 1932', 47 photographs with captions. -- 'Coochin - June 1932', 19 photographs with captions. -- [Untitled page], 6 photographs photographs with captions. -- 'Westland - August 1932', 17 photographs with captions. -- 'September 1932', 19 photographs with captions.

This is a large commercially produced photograph album using a punch-and-bind system in which two metal posts are inserted through punched holes near the binding edge. There are 32 brown card pages in this album. The photographs have been adhered overall to the pages.

Dairy belonging to William Alexander Dorsey Bell. Photocopy of diary.

Large black diary with lock (broken and torn from front cover) and 'Private' embossed on the cover. Inside page has 'Autobiographical Diary of William Alexander Dorsey Bell born June 3, 1865, in Brisbane Australia'. Approximately 16 handwritten entries from 20 Jul 1892 to 27 Jun 1916. Most of the volume is blank.

Photocopy of 'Autobiographical Diary of William Alexander Dorsey Bell born June 3, 1865, in Brisbane Australia'. Approximately 16 handwritten entries from 20 Jul 1892 to 27 Jun 1916.

The Bell family initially settled in the Dalby area and were assoicate with several properties including Jimbour Station, Jimbour House, 'Westland' (managed by Colin Basil Peter Bell) and Rakeevan (given by John Ferguson to Joshua Thomas and Catherine Jane Bell (nee Ferguson).

Photocopies of newspaper cuttings regarding the Bell Memorial Committee, the Bell Memorial Fund and fate of the Bell library from Jimbour House, 1912 to 1922

Photocopies of extracts from letters written by Cuthbert Edward Peek while on the Queensland and British 1882 Transit Expedition, 29 Oct to 18 Dec 1882, 3 copies. [Cuthbert Edward Peek was a self-funded amateur astronomer who joined the official observers from the Royal Geographical Society that travelled to Jimbour Station and chose Jimbour House as the transit station to observe the transit of Venus; Jimbour House had been recently vacated].

Correspondence between Dorothy McPhee and Joshua Peter Ferguson Bell (1907-1997) [son of Joshua Thomas Bell] regarding information for the booklet The Bell connection, 1986. The booklet: The Bell & District Progress Association Inc. (2006). The Bell connection : compiled for the Bell centenary, Peranga, Peranga Post. Newspaper cutting ‘Town celebrates centenary in style’, The Chronicle, 9 Oct 2006.

Photocopies, newspaper cuttings, correspondence relating to William Kellett (who worked for Bell & Sons of Jimbour until 1881 when Sir Joshua Peter Bell died). Copy of Mr Edward Kellett (father of William Kellett) deceased notice in Queensland Times, 17 July 1881. Typed tombstone inscription for Edward kellett with typescript of deceased notice in Queensland Times, 17 July 1881. Correspondence to Mr CD & Mrs AM Taylor from Cr Peter Matic relating to naming of Pocket Park, Kellett Street, 17 Nov 2009 to "William Kellett Park".
Two photocopied pages from an unknown publication recounting William Kellett’s association with the Joshua Peter Bell (1827-1881) and the Bell properites, including Buaraba.

Photocopies, newspaper cuttings, correspondence relating to Jimbour House: Copy of ‘The imperfections of the great’, Mar 1978. --
Newspaper cuttings, 2009 to 2010. -- Copy of photograph of tombstone. -- Photocopies of newspaper cuttings. -- Dedication booklet for the Deborah Russell garden. -- Brochure of ‘Jimbour a walk through history’. -- Information sheets. -- Photocopy of photograph of Jimbour Station. -- ‘The Great wall of Jimbour: heritage and the cultural landscape’, from Public history review, vol 12, pp. 103-110, 2006. -- Printout of Friends of Jimbour – Jimbour e-Newsletter, Sep 2009.