One bound volume, with lined pages, with transcribed handwritten poems, and newspaper cuttings. Includes poems by Mary Hannay Foott, John Bernard O'Hara, Henry Lawson, Andrew Barton Paterson, and many English and Irish poets.

"Read before the Royal Society of N.S. Wales, June 3, 1896." Note on cover: 'Information on the same subject from two other sources'.
Last page entitled 'Mika or Kulpi' includes extracts from 'Psychology of Sex' by Havelock Ellis (1917) and 'Strange Sexual Customs' by Professor Paulo Montegazza (1932).

Typescript copy of W.E. Hanlon's memories of South East Queensland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including stories relating to local Aboriginal people.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Copy of advertisement for annual meeting held 8th Dec. 1890. Lists agenda. Authorised by W. Kewley, Secretary.

Album 20 photographs (26 x 35 cm and smaller) of Rugby Union football teams and matches, 1879-1890. Most teams are from Brisbane, some are from New South Wales and overseas. Teams include Brisbane Football Club, Intercolonial Queensland and New South Wales teams, Wanderers, All England team, Wallaroo Football Club, Emu Football Club, Combined Juniors and All England Club, Wasps and Arfomas.

Sepia photographs (various sizes) mounted on board. Some photographs have handwritten captions identifying players.
Includes a proof of an ink and pen drawing with caption: "NB The top part represents Fall's & Rocks. The bottom scratches are the boy's", and two newspaper cuttings on the Pioneers of Moreton Bay. Green album engraved with gold and word Album written on cover.

Album contains 104 photographs of Stodart family, Melbourne, Egypt, Batavia, no. 3 S.M. Coy Corps of Australian Engineers, Brisbane during the 1898 flood, Enoggera Creek and the early operations of Enoggera Reservoir, federation celebrations in Sydney, Lord Houptoun, federation proclamation in Brisbane, and the visit of the Duke of Cornwall and York to Brisbane.

Sepia and black and white photographs (various sizes) mounted on board. Some photographs have captions. Inscribed inside front cover: 'Nina Stodart with love from F.S. 18.5.05'.

Album contains approx 340 photographs showing Stodart family and scenes from their 'grand tour' of Europe, possibly on the ship Buteshire, together with cuttings from souvenir publications. Places visited include Queensland coast, Thursday Island, Colombo, Port Said and Suez Canal, Malta, Sicily, Naples, Pompei, Rome, Florence, Venice, Austria, Dresden, Potsdam, Berlin, Koln, Rhine, Brussels, Paris, Versailles, Switzerland, Oxford, Stratford on Avon, Durham, London, Warwick, Wye Valley, Scotland, Ireland, Brittany and Norway. Captions mention Dr Brown, 4th Officer "Curly", Captain Wheatman, Mr Phillips, Adelaide, Misses McIllwraith Taylor, Mr McKinlay snr and jnr, Miss McPherson Bonmahon and Mrs Hughes.

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.

An album of 39 black and white photographs (8 x 14 cm and smaller) mounted on commercially produced grey boards; the brown board for the front cover has a design with a sail boat ; boards have three holes down the side, of which the top and bottom holes have been tied together with two pieces of string. Inscription inside front cover: "With much love and best wishes to Mr & Mrs 1 1/4 in memory of a very happy & cheery winter at Isis Downs from Aileen." All photographs are undated. Title for the album is taken from the caption above the first photograph the first page. Most photographs have handwritten captions.

Titles for photographs in square brackets supplied by processing archivist and additional/explanatory details are supplied for supplied captions in square brackets:
[1.] The house [Isis Downs Homestead];
[2.] The houseparty [Rupert Turner Havelock Clarke is in the back row, second from the right];
[3.] The drawing room furniture arrives;
[4.] Unloading at the store;
[5.] Mr 1 1/4 [Robert S. Whiting] & The Shed [Isis Downs Woolshed];
[6.] The trolley into the wool room;
[7.] Mr Fowler & The Bosses;
[8.] "Oh never see the loikes, so oi did";
[9.] The picnic at Bullock Creek;
[10.] Bullock Creek Backwater;
[11.] The huts;
[Photograph missing, caption: In the yards];
[12.] [Rupert Turner Havelock Clarke];
[13.] [Sheep yards];
[Two spaces for photographs, no captions]
[14.] Mr 1 1/4 [Robert S. Whiting] duck hunting on "Hope Tank";
[15.] "Hope tank";
[16.] Oranges at Avington";
[17.] The "outer Barcoo";
[18.] The new hoist;
[19.] Mr 1 1/4 & Sir Rupert;
[20.] Wool on the way;
[21.] [Two horse drawn carriages with wool bales, part of a shed on the left];
[22.] The Blackall coach;
[23.] The butcher's shop;
[24.] Sir Rupert flagging emus; and;
[25.] An emu family;
[26.] Mr Fraser meets his doom;
[27.] "Bloodstained Bertie", the Barcoo Bushranger;
[28.] The Tall & the short of it at Bullock Creek Bore;
[29.] Themselves;
[30.] Young Wace on Tango;
[31.] doing a "Tango Tangle";
[32.] Wace on the Grey mare;
[33.] [Tock Dean & Co-Trapers (I don't think)? Caption indecipherable];
[34.] The teamster's kitchen;
[Space for one photograph, no captions]
[35.] [Horse drawn carriages with wool bales in front of sheds];
[36.] [Wool bales on carriage and beside entrance to shed, sheds in foreground and background];
[37.] Four men in wool shed, stacked with bales;
[38.] Inside a woolshed with machinery and a man standing near a door;
[Three spaces for photographs, no captions]
[39.] [Woman and man between sundial and thatched roof open construction dwelling];
[Two spaces for photographs, no captions]

Flanking the Barcoo River at Isisford in the heart of Queensland's best central-west grazing country, Isis Downs is one of Australia's largest pastoral holdings. In its 1912 heyday under the ownership of Sir Rupert Clarke and Richard Whiting, Isis Downs ran 230,000 sheep and employed up to 150 staff during shearing, its area totalling more than 2,430 sq km. The Isis Downs shearing shed is the largest shearing shed in Australia. It consists of 52 shearing stands and is equipped with a rectangular sheep yard complex which, in its day, could hold 30,000 sheep at full capacity. It is a huge semi-circular shed which was fabricated in England, shipped to Australia and erected on site in July 1914 by the same company that built the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Only two sheds of this type and style were ever manufactured, with the other one being situated in Argentina.

Album (23 x 28 cm) of sepia photographs (15 x 21 cm and smaller) mounted on board. Indooroopilly was first settled by Europeans in 1860 when H. C. Rawnsley purchased land south of Witton Creek. Rawnsley built the first house in the area, Witton Manor, in 1861, on the site of the present Nudgee Junior College. It was later owned by Andrew Bogle. The holding covered an area of over 70 acres with extensive river frontages. Witton Manor was later owned by Herbert Brealey Hemming, who purchased the property "Tighnabruaich" in 1904. He moved Witton Manor to the grounds of "Tighnabruaich" from its original site further upstream at Indooroopilly between 1916 and 1919, and renamed it Witton House. Hemming resided at Witton House from c1919 until c1938.

Album bound in red leather and in fragile condition. Photographs are not captioned; inscribed inside front cover "Andrew Bogle, owner of Witton Manor, circa 1880-circa 1907".