Eight notebooks with mss notes and drafts of work later published (mostly in the Bulletin), eight historical essays and a history of the Upper Hunter region in New South Wales.

Approximately 525 postcards, black and white and coloured, many undated. Most of the postcards are real photo postcards.

57 sepia studio portraits (Cabinet cards), 2 photographs of Hector William Harris and William Henry Harris, plus one letter card views of Pitlochry no. 2. No details supplied with photographs. Photographs come from mostly Victorian studios, including Geelong, Colac, Ballarat and Melbourne.

Research materials collected by Colin Brumby: correspondence, press clippings, photographs, programmes.

Notebook containing a list of playscripts on loan 1956-1959; playscripts from the library collection.

Correspondence, poetry and prose manuscripts, newspaper cuttings, miscellaneous items.

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

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.

Lesson notes, examination papers.

Manuscript of Labumore (Elsie Roughsey), An Aboriginal mother tells of the old and the new. Includes the original handwritten and typed manuscripts, edited drafts, deletions from edited version , final typescript of the book, and the editorial folder.