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.

Typescript draft of Ross Patrick's autobiography, An Allora lad. Accompanied by an obituary for Patrick from the Medical Journal of Australia, Sep 2005.

Bound typescript draft of book.

Programs from the Trocadero Dance Hall or Dansant, Melbourne Street, South Brisbane: 2 from 1926 and 1 from 1931.

Musical programme arranged by 4QG for the State Reception to the Delegates to the British Empire Forestry Conference, Parliament House, Brisbane, 22 September 1928. Features 4QG Studio Orchestra, Miss Jean Naylor, Mr. J. Atkinson, Mr H. Scott MacCallum, Mr John Steel, Mrs M.L. Spanjer, and Miss R.G. Husband.

Programme for Grand Opera under the direction of Henry E. Abbey and Maurice Grau at The Auditorium, Chicago, Illinois presenting Gounod's opera Romeo et Juliette with Mme Melba as Juliette and M. Jean de Reszke as Romeo.

Programme for Melba - Second Concert, Saturday December 14th, 1907 at the Town Hall Sydney. Other performers were Una Bourne and Bryce Carter, Andrew Black, John Lemmone with Harold Whittle as accompanist.

This transcription of the original item was compiled and annotated by Richard Fotheringham. There is a note in the top right-hand corner 'In the posession [sic] of Hon. Joshua Thomas Bell circ. 1908-9'. Footnote on first page: 'Two manuscript notes in different hands are written in the right margin at this point ... indicates that this was compiled c. 1902 (Thomas died Jan 1904).' These recollections were shared with his son, Arthur Hoey Davis (1868-1935) (whose pen name was Steele Rudd) mostly likely in the early 1900's. Thomas Davis was a former convict. His memoir covers the period from 1849 to the separation of Queensland from New South Wales in 1859. Davis initially worked with J. C. Burnett's Survey Party. He recounts stories of the places he visited and their history, various encounters with local indigenous groups and individuals, language and culture of the Aboriginal people of the area, kinship system in the Maronoa and Balonne region, and a list of more than 100 names and phrases in the dialect of the people of the Balonne, Dawson and Comet river. Joshua Peter Bell is mentioned several times in memoir. This and other recollections by Thomas Davis were collected by Joshua Thomas Bell in the first decade of the 20th century.

Contents: Complimentary ticket to Grand Military and naval tattoo 2nd Jan 1901 -- Invitation to United Friendly Societies' and Trades Unions' demonstration and sports Jan 5 1901 -- Admission ticket to Naval and military banquet 5 Jan 1901 -- Government of New South Wales requests the honor of presence at a Pyrotechnical illumination of Sydney Harbour on the 4th January 1901 -- State banquet to commemorate the Inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia Jan 5 1901 -- Admission ticket Municipal and Civil luncheon 7 Jan 1901 -- Menu and toast list for Dinner Representative Press Jan 8 1901 -- State Municipal & Civil Luncheon Town Hall Sydney Jan 7 1901 menu and toast list --Invitations for Mr and Mrs T Price (2 items) to Parliament House Melbourne reception for The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York 8 May 1901 --Envelope addressed to T. Price from the Parliament of the Commonwealth -- Invitation The Parliament of the Commonwealth opening ceremony 9th May 1901 to Mr and Mrs T Price (2 items) -- Invitation to Mr and Mrs Price to meet Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York 9th May 1901 (2 items).

Invitation on silk, and bound in gold- embossed brown leather with crest. On cover: Brisbane, Queensland 21 September, 1901. Invitation includes luncheon menu and toast list.