Scrapbooks containing typed transcriptions from books and periodicals, mss entries, press cuttings, photographs and cartoons. Mainly dealing with early navigators and explorers, French comments on Australian society and conditions, with some material on Aboriginal origins and art.

Typescript account of childhood on Gootchie Station, Wide Bay, Queensland in the 1890s, by the daughter of Henry Missing. Accompanied by one page of notes supplied by Mrs I. W. Hill, nee King.

Early Victorian local history and politics, racing news, short stories and serials, cartoons, programmes.

Postcard photographs compiled to illustrate Goener's sea voyages, and a world tour 1960-1961. Most are captioned. Accompanied by itineraries for each sea voyage, including dates and nautical miles.

84 glass plate negatives.

The personal papers of Gertrude Langer (1908 – 1984) include diaries, correspondence, photographs, manuscripts and typescripts, notebooks and ephemera, including exhibition catalogues. The papers cover the period 1917 – 1984 including correspondence received between 1918 and 1984. The material from before 1938 includes papers relating to her Art History studies in Vienna and Paris as well as photographs taken during her travels in Europe. From 1929 onwards the papers include correspondence to and from her future husband Karl Langer (married in 1932), as well as photographs of their travels together. Correspondence and records from 1938 and early 1939 document the Langers’ escape from German-annexed Austria. Material after 1939 documents Gertrude Langer’s activities as a private art history educator and as an art critic in Brisbane. This material includes her lecture notes, lists of students attending the classes, printed ephemera, manuscripts and typescripts of her art reviews for the Courier Mail newspaper, as well as annotated exhibition catalogues. The papers also contain Arts Council of Australia and Queensland Art Gallery Society records, as well as material created by her husband Karl Langer. This includes correspondence received by him between 1922 and 1969, staff cards from his architectural firm (1950s), ephemera as well as sketch plans and architectural drawings for the Langers’ residence in St Lucia (1950).

Photographs of Karl Langer, ca. 1915 – 1969. The earliest photograph is a studio portrait of Karl Langer and his sister Magda with their mother, captioned verso '1915'.
Photographs of Gertrude and Karl Langer, 1930 – 1969.
Family photographs, subjects identified, including parents Anna and Alois Freschl (Froschel), sister Lisl Goldhammer, later Korn), and cousin Oszkar Ascher, nephews Yochanan Goldhammer and Karl Rosse, ca. 1890 – ca. 1980.

2 copper calling card plates, one for Mr A.R. Macdonald ad the other for Mr & Mrs A.R. Macdonald in brown cardboard envelopes.