Research material for book "A man of achievement : Sir Manuel Hornibrook Kt.OBE, Hon FIOB, FIAB, Fr Hist SQ".

This collections consists of Australian art exhibition ephemera which includes invitations, flyers and price list; Australian and European bookplates; and four framed artworks by Fred Leist, Lionel Lindsay, Percy Lindsay, and Rose Lindsay. There are over 1500 bookplates in this collection. Bookplate artists include Lionel Lindsay, D. H. Souter and Pixie O'Harris.

Taped interviews, correspondence with informants, printout of database.
Interviews conducted by Dr. Kay Saunders and others.

Letters from Gwen Harwood and her husband, F.W. Harwood, to Alison Hoddinott and her husband W.G. Hoddinott. Includes "Sappho cards", parodies of other Australian poets, accounts of Gwen Harwood's first meetings with James McAuley and A.D. Hope, a full account of the Walter Lehmann Bulletin hoax, and manuscript poems. Also typescript for "The lion's bride", dream book, and Sappho cards to Thea Goodwin. Alison Hoddinott's book, Blessed city : the letters of Gwen Harwood to Thomas Riddell January to September 1943 was awarded the Age Book of the Year in 1990.

Four letters from Xavier Herbert to Ken Wilder, 1978-1979; newspaper cutting re Xavier Herbert; inscribed copy of book Poor Fellow my Country, and oil painting by Ray Crooke (60 x 91 cm framed) used for the dust jacket image.

Transcript of hearing relating to bashing of student during demonstation in Brisbane, 1977 (Folders 1 & 2) ;photographs of Right to March demonstrations, Brisbane, 1978 (Folder 3) ;papers relating to a political controversy about Sir Garfield Barwick's shares in Mundroola Pty. Ltd. (Folder 4). Material in Folder 4 originates from period 1978-1981 when Mark Plunkett was assistant private secretary to Bill Hayden (then Leader of the Opposition). Plunkett was asked to investigate the activities of Mundroola Pty. Ltd., the Barwick family company, of which Sir Garfield Barwick was a director, for possible conflicts of interest. Gareth Evans started action to impeach Barwick.

Contains postcards, greeting cards and letters,1991-1995 from Gwen Harwood to Gregory Kratzmann; draft typescript introduction, typescript and computer disk with manuscript for A Steady Storm of Correspondence published by UQP in 2001; notes by Normal Talbot on transcripts of letters from Gwen Harwood; and draft of talk on Gwen Harwood to VCE students in 2012.

Material compiled in the course of researching the 1980 PhD thesis A study of Australian descriptive and travel writing, 1929-1945. Includes notes taken during conversations with Ernestine Hill, Louise Campbell, Laurie Hergenhan and others in 1972. Also includes correspondence with Robert Hill and others.
Records and ephemera relating to women in the labour movement and in the arts. Includes material relating to the Organising Committee of the Fourth Women and Labour Conference, the Feminist Film Workshop Resource Book Stage I’, and the Women & the Arts Advisory Committee’

One thousand and fifty two (1,052) 35mm colour slides and original bound manuscript relating to Trotter's publication Cities in the Sun, which were taken while he undertook his Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) Sisalkraft Travel Scholarship in 1963. An additional 147 35mm colour slides are included, which relate to architecture and design in Australia and the Torres Strait.

Research notes, books, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings related to Nancy Bonnin's introduction to the 1975 University of Queensland Press edition of David Hennessey's The dis-honourable and to her 1985 book "Katie Hume on the Darling Downs." Also included is an essay on Hennessey's The Outlaw entitled "The Australian Bushranger : Cultural Catalyst."