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Personal and professional papers

This series is comprised of documents mostly relating to Green's 50 years of service to the University of Queensland and his retirement in 1980. It includes: incoming and outgoing correspondence, newspaper cuttings, and certificates.

Parcel 2
Item 1
University of Queensland red presentation folder belonging to Mr HB Green, containing documents relating to Green's 50 years of service to the University of Queensland, a statement by the Chancellor, three handwritten notes of congratulations (one with a copy of a reply letter to Zelman Cowan from Green), telegrams, luncheon invitations, carbon copy typescript replies by Green, card, and professorial board minutes. 1979.

Item 2
University of Queensland brown presentation folder belonging to Mr HB Green containing a retirement card with an official list of all staff on the inside cover, Certificate conferring Honoris Causa Bachelor of Arts to Bruce Green, 29 Apr 1970.

Box 1
Folders 3-6
The folders contain: letters of congratulations for many of Bruce Green's success and promotions from the University of Queensland staff and from the broader community; carbon copies of Bruce Green's replies; certificates (birth extract, qualifications, service awards from the Second World War; drafts of thank you speeches; interview transcripts from 1982; pay and superannuation information; and other personal correspondence. Dates: ca. 1969 to 1981.

Folder 7
Newspaper cuttings and journal issues containing stories mentioning Bruce Green or about Bruce Green.

Green, Herbert Bruce, 1915-1995

Audio recording

One audio cassette of Bruce Green's farewell event on 12 Dec 1980.

Green, Herbert Bruce, 1915-1995

Realia

This series is comprised of realia given to Bruce Green from the University of Queensland.

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Item 3
Silver champagne cooler engraved to "Mr Bruce Green University of Queensland Union 23rd October 1980".

Item 4
Box-framed University of Queensland presentation plate, signed Kenneth [last name indecipherable], 1980.

Item 5
Large silver serving platter. Engraving on back: Presented to Mr Bruce Green on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Queensland by Members of the Professorial Board. [1980]

Item 6
Timber door plaque with "Assistant Registrar Mr Green", 8 x 23 cm, undated.

Item 7
Timber plaque with arms of the University of Queensland, 18 x 15 cm, undated.

Item 8
One linen tea towel wit the arms of the University of Queensland and the Colleges within the University (St John's King's, Emmanuel, Cromwell, Women's Duchesne, and St Leo's), 52 x 79 cm. Some brown markings.

Box 1
Folder 2
Two Military Dog Tags for Bruce Green from World War Two.
Three military fabric patches from the United States.

University of Queensland

Ephemera

This series is comprised of newspaper cuttings relating to Bruce Green and Bruce and Nina Green. There are a few invitations and ephemeral items. The cuttings were in five commercial photograph albums. The cuttings and ephemera from three of the these albums have been rehoused into archival sleeves and are housed in a folder. Two of the albums were retained as they have transparent film overlaying pages that have a sticky surface to which the newspaper cuttings have adhered.

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Items1-2
Photograph albums.

Box 1
Folder 1
The cuttings and ephemera from three of the these albums.

Curriculum vitae

Bound volumes containing John Pearn's curriculum vitae for: 1994, 2014 and 2022.

Videos and audio recordings

This series is comprised VHS videos, and digital video and audio recordings.

Box 1
Item 1
Gung Ho to Paradise : a community theatre pageant (copyright ACTU Queensland Branch), VHS.

Item 2
Choirs to Congress 1997, VHS.

Box 2
Folder 8
USB with 10 videos of Combined Union Choir performances, 2018 to 2023. Printout of text file listing the videos is in the folder with the USB.

Items 1-7
Seven audiocassettes of recordings of the Combined Unions Choir.

Items 8-21
Fourteen 3.5-inch computer microdisks (floppy disks) containing files possibly relating to interviews with people associated with the Combined Unions Choir.

Item 21
Combined Unions Choir at Mad Ass Folk Club, CD-R, undated.

Item 22
Gung Ho to Paradise, on DVD-R [possibly format shifted by Combined Union Choir?]

Items 23-24
Choirs to Congress, 1997, on two DVD-R discs [possibly format shifted by Combined Union Choir?]

Item 25
Union Choir movies, undated on CD-RW.

Performance records

This series is comprised of records relating to performances including: administrative records, sheet music, schedules, and song lyrics.

Box 1
Folder 1
Marco Shortez. ‘The CUC Inchoiry (working title)’, photocopied, includes score, (removed from plastic folder), 1995?

Folder 2
List of known CUC performances, 2006.
Photocopy of pages from Combined Unions Choir Tenth Anniversary Song Book , 1998.
Newspaper cuttings and articles about the Choir’s history.

Folder 3
Song book, Title unknown (Missing Cover), Forest Lodge: Newsletter Printery, undated.
Working Class and National Songs, photocopied, unknown publication details, undated.

Folders 4-13
Ephemera, articles, photocopies of photographs, Choir notices and information, musical event flyers, folk festival brochures and flyers (including Maleny Folk Festival), sheet music. 1988 to 1997.

Box 2
Folder 1
Song lyrics and planning documents for the recording an audio recording. Printed out from CD-ROM which is also in the folder.

Folder 2
Sheet music and report on the performance of Dust in 2015. Printed out from USB which is also in the folder.

Folder 3
Sheet music, programme, performance notes for the Combined Unions Choir River Works performance. undated.

Folders 4-5
Draft script, booking form, evaluation report, sheet music, travel information for the tour for the Fair Play Cabaret, 2006.

Folder 6
Rehearsal schedule, sheet music, flyers and articles about the Dust, 2013.

Folder 7
Flyers, sheet music, recording script relating to Under the cover of covid, 2021.

Photographs

This series is comprised 564 colour photographs and 13 black and white photographs taken at Combined Union Choir performances and events. Additional digital photographs are on three CDs and there is a folder with photocopied photographs with pencil notes identifying people.

Album 1
Colour photographs (219), black and white photographs (13) and 1 black and white real photo postcard, from 1988 to 1995
Contains photographs grouped by year and under the following headings : 1988. Getting organized; May Day; Christmas. 1989 : May Day; Coffs Harbour , the bus, at the motel, the theatre, meeting the Newcastle People’s Chorus, Rehearsing, Printing T-shirts, Songwriting workshop, Conducting workshop, Discussion and farewell, Recording session, Libby Sara goes bush for six months…, and Michael Roper takes over; Laurel Power elected MLA; Maleny Folk Festival. 1990 : Remembering Ewan McColl and Jim Peterson; Opening the art space under the TWU Buiding; Rehearsal break; Hiroshima Day; Gulf War peace demo; Union of Australian Women 40 years. 1991 : Barcaldine Shearers’ Strike commemoration; the Tree of Knowledge; Speeches; Billet; The re-enactment; Free breakfast from a hotel; Waiting to rehearse; Women’s conference; Inside the theatre; the railway station; Dawn on the way home; May Day in Brisbane; Festival Fringe. 1992 : TLC May Day dinner. 1993 : Maleny, the Flames of Discontent. 1993 : African songs project; African songs concert in Sydney; a billet; box office; back stage; At the concert Solidarity Choir of Sydney; Voices from the Vacant Lot; Halt on the way back to Brisbane; Latin American songs project; Archbishop Tutu sings with the choir. 1994 : Mark Shortis; May Day; Stradbroke Island festival; the new banner; Jacinto Herrera; Christmas. 1995 : Palm Sunday; May Day; Opening the Queensland Women in War exhibition; Union Choir’s greatest hits.

Album 2
Colour photographs (180) from 1996 to 1997
1996 : Festival Hall election rally 27 February; Palm Sunday; Limestone Cabaret - in Ipswich, and Paddington; Emma Miller fundraiser; Commemorating the Ipswich Rail Workshops; Mark and Adrienne’s wedding; At rehearsal; New offices for Queensland Advocacy Inc. 1997: Australia Day Reconciliation Choir; Reconciliation Choir reunion and recording; Palm Sunday; May Day; Lord Mayor’s reception for Archbishop Napier; Anti-racism rally in Ipswich; Choirs to congress; welcome buffet; Conductors meet; Rehearsals – in the TLC Building; and at Culturebank; Concert at Culturebank; Concert in Ipswich; Women’s Reconciliation dinner; Soiree at Roger’s.

Album 3
Colour photographs (165), sizes vary, related to the performances of Fair Play Cabaret, 17 colour photographs of the Hiroshima Day performance, and 6 colour photographs of 'Rekindling', 2006.

Box 1
Folder 14
Photocopied photographs, one photograph each per A4 page; with handwritten notes identifying people. Undated.

Box 2
Items 26-28
Three CDs with digital photographs.

Leyshon house at Burpengary

The series contains documents and architectural drawings relating to Kevin and Betty Leyshon's house at Hunt Street, Burpengary designed by Noel Robinson (as part of 'Noel Robinson + ptnrs' and later as 'Noël Robinson Built Environments Pty Ltd). There is a file with correspondence with the Caboolture Shire Council, financial information, contracts, design notes, and photocopies of plans. There are also 2 spiralbound copies of the specifications, with divergent handwritten notes and marks on each, and a prospectus for ‘Noel Robinson Built Environments Pty Ltd’, dated post 1981. Of the architectural drawings, six plans are for the original build of the house at Hunt Street: Job no. 1105 'Leyshon House Burpengary’: ‘Plans elevations’, drawing no. 1, Aug 1974; ‘Section details', drawing no. 2, Aug 1974; ‘Details kitchen utility’, drawing no. 3; ’Details bathroom’, drawing no. 4; ‘Dormitory details', drawing no. 5, Mar 1975; ‘Storage shed and chicken coop’, drawing no. 6, May 76. There are two architectural drawings for job no. 1229, ‘House extensions’: ‘Schematic’ dated Feb 1978, drawing no. 1; and “Working drawings’, drawing no. 2, Mar 78. Four of the architectural drawings are for extensions, designed by Noel Robinson Built Environments, for K.R. & B.A. Leyshon, 'House extensions', no job or drawing numbers, dated Dec 1984 to Jun 1985. Two different sets of plans for the billiard room seem to have been drawn up, one portrayed as a curved room on the end of the existing house, one as a free-standing geodesic dome.
There are six plans in A3 size, with no date or job number, titled ‘Leyshon House Burpengary’: ‘Site plan’, drawing no. 001; ‘Existing ground floor plan’, drawing no. 002; ‘Tiling and paving layout’, drawing no. 003; ‘New ground floor plan’, drawing no. 010; ‘First floor plan’, drawing no. 011; ‘Kitchen plan and sections’, drawing no. 012; ‘Kitchen sections’, drawing no. 013.

There are two photocopies of plans for the Leyshon House by James Architects, no dates, which appears to be interior design improvements for the house. Unsure if this work was done. There is no related correspondence.

Leyshon, Kevin Robert, 1937-

Leyshon house at West Chermside

Kevin and Betty Leyshon's house was designed by Dan Kelvey and was situated at 29 Rossett Street, West Chermside, Brisbane. Kelvey designed a home to fit the climate of Brisbane, built of materials that were readily available, wide overhangs or eaves, downpiping set into the building without being conspicuous, fairly flat roof without many angles and no tiles, concrete floor construction, interiors with natural materials. The file has correspondence, financial details and specifications relating to the land and house. Included is a two page note by Kev Leyshon about Dan Kelvey. There are three architectural drawings. There is an undated drawing of Residence for K. Leshion [sic] Esq at Rosset [sic] St. Chermside by D.W. Kelvey with elevations, sections, foundation plan, floor plan and kitchen details. There is a copy of this drawing with pencil notes. The third drawing is dated Mar 1965 for Proposed car-port extension for Mr. K. Leyshon at Rossett Street Chermside with Brisbane City Council specification attached and architect name not specified.

Leyshon, Kevin Robert, 1937-

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