Family papers, including: family tree and history, correspondence, cassette, photographs, postcards, diaries, periodicals, programme, school papers, newspaper clippings, notebooks, badges. Includes 3 letters written by Nellie Melba to L.D. Watson, a photograph of Nellie Melba and a postcard from Elisabeth Schumann to L.D. Watson.

Seven scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings on Brisbane architectural history, mostly from the Courier Mail, and some from The Australian. Compiled by University of Queensland Dept. of Architecture.

Transcripts, minutes, diaries, correspondence, notes.

Material relating to the medical career and research of Professor John Pearn. Includes speeches, papers, photographs, medals, curriculum vitae, menus, programmes and other ephemera marking special events.

567 photographs of Papua New Guinea (including Sepik River, Hermit Islands, Marienberg Mission, Central Mountains, Yuat River Warrior, Maramuni River Area and Maron); also photographs of Brisbane 1912-1914. Handwritten descriptive notes by John Murphy on back of Papua New Guinea photographs.

The papers are comprised of four diaries (1940-1943; 1950, 1953), two bound typescripts of short story collections (ca. 1944 and ca. 1947), three scrapbooks (1944-1946) and one printed publication (1945).
The first two diaries cover the period between 1940 and 1944, including his work at Broken Hill South Ltd. and his war service in Australia and New Guinea. The other two diaries are travel diaries from 1950 and 1953.
The two bound typescripts contain largely unpublished short stories, with the second typescript mainly being a redrafting of the first.
The three scrapbooks, dating from 1944 to 1946, contain among other things correspondence (including rejection letters), wartime ephemera, cuttings (including several pages of cuttings relating to the ‘Ern Malley’ hoax), list of films and more.
Also contained in the papers is a bound volume containing Gordon’s own copies of three issues of Southerly, each of which features a story by him.

This collection contains poetry, prose, speeches, and reports; correspondence; photographs, newspaper cuttings; press releases; invitations; programmes; research material; and plans.

Correspondence, annual reports, manuals and other records produced by the Home Midwifery Association (Qld.). Also includes subject files on all aspects of pregnancy and home birth.

Drafts, correspondence and research notes relating to literary works of Venero Armanno. Includes drafts of The Lonely Hunter, Romeo of the Underworld, My Beautiful Friend, Strange Rain, Firehead, The Volcano, The Dirty Beat, Black Mountain, Burning Down (also known as Burning Town), Moon a rock opera, Presidentsland, Blood and pasta, Firehead, and The Crying Forest. Drafts of and notes relating to Armanno's PhD thesis.

Correspondence, subscription orders, photographs, index and reviews related to the journal The Aboriginal Child at School.