Material related to the Electrical Trades Union Federal conferences 1945,1947,1958,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964 and Electrical Trades Union Queensland conferences 1955,1957,1959,1961,1963. Combined Federal Railways Unions 'Constitutions and Circulars' 1947-1948. Peace activism material. Periodicals.

In this collection belonging to Daphne Mayo, there are over 100 folders of correspondence: 13 of these folders relate to Daphne Mayo's commissioned and uncommissioned sculptural works. There are over 1400 items of correspondence from Daphne Mayo's parents, Bill and Lila Mayo. There are over 1220 items of correspondence from friends and family of Daphne Mayo. A small number of outgoing letters or drafts are in the collection. There are financial records and related correspondence, bank records, tax records relating to the finances of Daphne Mayo regarding her artistic works, property investments, and investments in bonds and shares. Personal documents of Daphne Mayo are present such as: permits; identification documents; diaries; calendars; handwritten notes, writings, scribblings; and copious lists for all areas of Daphne Mayo's life. There are portrait photographs of Daphne Mayo and of her works from 1919-1974; as well as two albums of photographs taken by Judith McKay when Daphne Mayo's Sydney studio was packed up. Included in the collection are 48 sculpting tools used by Daphne Mayo. The most prolific of Daphne Mayo's works of art in the collection are her drawings and paintings with over 436 artworks, as well as 22 sculptures, and 46 sketchbooks. Retained in the collection are publications, inscribed by Daphne Mayo and others, exhibition catalogues, and newspaper and magazine cuttings given to Daphne Mayo or collected by her. Additionally material that is presumed to be from the estate of Lila Mayo, Daphne Mayo's mother, form part of the collection and this includes 6 folders of letters from 1930 to 1959 from Daphne Mayo to her parents.

Newsletters and bulletins ; notes ; conference programs and papers ; pamphlets ; letters ; meetings minutes ; articles, posters, newspaper cuttings of Springbok tours ; other newspaper articles ; University of Queensland handbooks and programmes. Relating to socialist movement in University of Queensland, Vietnam war student protests, leftist political ideology, trade unionism.

Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, articles, cards, photographs, publications, typescripts, manuscripts, booklets, notebooks, diaries, theatre programmes, agendas, constitutions, minutes, reports, receipts, accounts, legislation, research material, notes, press statements, propaganda, submissions, tapes, posters, plans, family history, map, Aboriginal flag.
Bulk of papers from 1961 to 1982.

Agendas, minutes, ledger, correspondence, publicity materials.

Research material for Wild Man of Letters, Munro’s biography of P R Stephensen ; notes, typescripts, proofs, photocopied letters from D.H. Lawrence to P.R. Stephensen, subject folders, some interviews with Murray Bail, Michael Wilding, Morris Lurie and Peter Carey. Includes: Records of the Queensland Writers' Centre; academic papers; material relating to the 1991 Churchill Fellowship; research material on electronic publishing; conferences; literary festivals and programs; correspondence; editorial work; diaries and address books from 1972 to 2006; notes and research on publishing and literature in Australia; drafts and related material for Under cover : adventures in the art of editing and Literary Lion Tamers; and information on the publication and reviews of Paper Empires.

Correspondence, publications, manuscripts and other material written by or relating to Cornelis Vleeskens.

Personal papers and photographs, including an autobiography and a history of the first 50 years of the Presbyterian Girls' College, Warwick, Queensland.

Research material for thesis (University of Queensland, MA, 1994): “A history of political theatre in Brisbane as part of working-class cultural tradition and heritage: the Workers' Education Dramatic Society and the Student/Unity/New Theatre (1930-1962)". Includes playscripts, mostly performed by Student / Brisbane New Theatre, New Theatre, Unity Theatre; as well as playscripts, skits, and sketches by Jim Crawford.

Research material, drafts and proofs for her book 'Defiance: political theatre in Brisbane 1930-1962' (2000).

Personal papers of Murray Norris, notebooks of Ursula Southwell, and papers concerning George Eaton, Jim Crawford and other prominent figures in labour movement and radical culture circles. Oral history recordings, photographs and other research material relating to the Young Communist League, Eureka Youth League, leftwing bookshops in Brisbane and leftwing political activism. Some records of the Communist Party of Australia. Photographs, pamphlets and other material relating to the 1948 Queensland rail strike. Research material on the post-WW2 peace movement. Articles and speeches by Connie Healy and others are included in the collection as well as some personal correspondence and research material related to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Drawings of residential and commercial buildings in Brisbane and regional Queensland. Collection includes drawings by Atkinson and Conrad, Atkinson, Powell and Conrad, and Atkinson and McLay, together with plans by other architects, including George Brockwell Gill, C. W. Chambers and Lange Powell.