Miscellaneous copies and correspondence, also some manuscripts, clippings and printed leaflets.

Papers of Captain W. (William) O. (Oaklands) Mellor. (15 Brigade, AIF, Light Horse, Australian Instructional Corps) Service Number 50665. Diaries, photographic albums, letters, telegrams, postcards, newspaper clippings, war magazines & newsletter, identity card, programme, brochures, airplane ticket, etc. Most of the material relates to his experiences during World War I in France.

Diary of a voyage to Australia aboard the S.S. Duke of Westminster, London to Brisbane, 1886.
Photocopy of typed transcript from original manuscript, accompanied by a photocopy of the first three pages of the manuscript.

Plates and illustrations, from various journals, collected by G. H. M. Addison. Each volume has its title on the spine.

[Item 1] Church architecture, plates from The British Architect 1886, 49 x 38 cm.
[Item 2] Public buildings, includes plates from The Building News, The Builder, The Architect, The British Architect, 1880 to 1887, 43 x 33 cm.
[Item 3] Architectural drawings, includes plates from The Building News, The Builder, 1888, 43 x 33 cm.
[Item 4 ] Churches, includes plates from The Building News, The Builder, American Architect and Building News, 1889, 43 x 33 cm.
[Item 5] Churches, includes plates from The Builder, The Building News, Architectural Illustration Society, 1888 to 1889, 43 x 32 cm.
[Item 6] Street architecture, includes plates from American Architect and Building News, The Builder, The Architect, 1889, 43 x 32 cm.
[Item 7] American architecture plates, includes plates from The Builder, American Architect and Building News, The Building News, 1891, 44 x 33 cm.

Appears to be a valuer's notebook.
Includes records of town property in Gladstone, with details of occupiers, owners, type of building, addresses, sizes and values. Also poems, stories, newspaper cuttings, some of which are by or about Richard McClure Harvey.
Includes explanatory note by donor.

Album of twelve sepia photographs of views of North Queensland including Cairns, Herberton, Barron George, Barron Falls, Hambledon and railways in the area. Title handwritten inside album. Album is undated. A handwritten list of captions and supplied item numbers has been inserted prior to the title page. Most photographs appear to be around the construction of the railway to Herberton which began in Cairns in 1886. It finished in Ravenshoe in 1916.

Written on the inside cover the album, presumably by the seller: "In. [Inventory] 5033. Royal Qto. Oblong Purple toned. 10 [shillings]". These type of photographs were often taken by the Queensland Government.

Each photo has caption, supplied information is included in square brackets:

1. Glacier Rock . --
2. [Cairns-Herberton railway] From 28 bridge. --
3. Surprise Creek bridge [Cairns-Herberton railway]. --
4. Cairns end of long tunnel. --
5. The Barron Gorge. --
6. Herberton end of the tunnel. --
7. Near the Barron. --
8. Barron Falls. --
9. Aborigines of Cairns-Herberton district. --
10. Kanaka women working in sugar cane. --
11. Hambledon Sugar Plantation Cairns, general views. --
12. Hoeing weeds in young cane.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this manuscript may contain images or names of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased.

This series contains material such as theatre programs, concert notes, invitations and ephemeral items relating to Australian theatres.

Correspondence, drawings, papers, newspapers cuttings, genealogical material, photographs relating to the Chomley, à Beckett and Boyd families, particularly Charles Henry Chomley (the grandson of T.T. à Beckett), novelist Martin à Beckett Boyd (son of Emma Minnie à Beckett), and Frances à Beckett Knight (nee Chomley, daughter of C.H. Chomley). The collection includes a substantial collection of correspondence relating to Frances' time in the Land Army during WWI, as well as paintings by Australian artist Minnie Boyd.

Minutes, correspondence, membership rolls, reports, leaflets, scrapbooks, photographs, ephemera of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Queensland (WCTUQ)

Includes documents, catalogues, newspaper cuttings, and correspondence relating to Walter Jenner and his work.