Notes, typescript articles, speeches, correspondence, photographs, cards, invitations, programmes. Includes material relating to : Sir Raphael Cilento; University of Queensland events, including Sir Raphael Cilento Oration; Ron Edwards, Jack Lindsay, Patrick White, Douglas Gordon, Percy Trezise. There is also some biographical material about Len and Fedora Fisher.

43 reel-to-reel sound tapes of oral history interviews with police in Papua New Guinea during 1986. Some of the interviews are in local dialects.
Most tapes are from 1986.

Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, reports, newsletters, brochures, subject files, minutes, notes, memos, press releases.

Correspondence, minutes, typescript articles, reports, circular letters, photographs and subject files on issues of interest to the Bacons' including the Communist Party of Australia, International Women's Day, Aboriginal Australians, the peace movement and women's rights. Bulk of collection from 1970s and 1980s.

Typescript articles on sociology and psychology of sport, especially surfing ; notes ; poems.

Correspondence, literary and artistic papers, poems [by Gardner and others] photographs, diaries and artwork with includes the triptych Madonna of the Springbrook Rain.

One volume of handwritten notes and 48 volumes of newspaper cuttings dealing with Queensland legal history.

85 photographs of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. Includes photographs of the volcanic eruptions near Rabaul in 1937.
Bulk are from 1937.

Copies of drawings of buildings designed by, or in association with, E.H. Oribin.

Architectural drawings, mostly residential, with some commercial; magazine clippings; 35mm slides; photographs.