Daphne Mayo's Sydney Studio at 231 George Street was reclaimed by the Sydney Cove Development Authority in 1981. Queensland Trustees Limited, who had power of attorney for Mayo, engaged Judith McKay to direct the sorting and dispersal of the Sydney Studio from 29 June to 8 July 1981. Mayo had been a tenant of the building since 1940 and retained this studio after her move back to Brisbane. She was the last tenant to leave the building. Photographs by Jacqueline Macnaughtan and Tim Collis-Bird.
From volume 1: "These albums were compiled for preservation with the sculptor's papers as a record of the studio and, in particular, to document sculpture and models which were not retrieved from the studio".

Newspaper and magazine cuttings collected by Daphne Mayo. Based on correspondence, friends and relatives also sent her cuttings and these may form part of this series.

[Item 1] Newspaper cuttings, undated. -- [Item 2] Newspaper cuttings, 1914, 1920s. -- [Item 3] Newspaper cuttings, 1930s. -- [Item 4] Newspaper cuttings,1940s. -- [Item 5] Newspaper cuttings,1950s. -- [Item 6] Newspaper cuttings, 1960. -- [Item 7] Newspaper cuttings, 1970s.

In 1967 Cottrell-Dormer was employed by the South Pacific Commission to conduct an agricultural extension survey. The 12 files in this series consist of his personal copies of the reports he wrote and submitted to the Commission between 1967-1973.

1479 35mm slide mounted transparencies, most individually captioned. Slides were arranged into subject files by the creator, as outlined below. Also 39 35mm negatives.

==Album 1==
2 pages of notes
Cath Healy, 18 slides
Mrs C-D personal, 21 slides
Papua 1-400, 229 slides
Papua and New Guinea 401-800, 211 slides

==Album 2==
Brisbane, 83 slides
NSW & ACT, 118 slides
USA, 21 slides
France, 12 slides
Pacific isles, 160 slides
Mekeo agricultural development, 211 slides
Mekeo rice project, 39 negatives

==Album 3==
Black and white II [images from PNG], 276 slides
Black and white III [images from PNG], 122 slides

Lists of exhibitions held at private galleries in Queensland.

Presentation notes on art and craft topics with accompanying illustrations and related correspondence and publicity ephemera.

The series includes manuscript and typescript drafts, notes, research material, publicity material, and related correspondence for Carey's published and unpublished novels.

This series comprises manuscripts and drafts of unpublished and published short stories and short story collections. It also includes Carey's biographical story about the birth of his son Sam called A letter to our son

This series contains correspondence, notes, posters and documents dating from 1972 to 1994 that relate to Ian Sinnamon's professional activity as an academic and lecturer at the Architecture Department (School of Architecture) at The University of Queensland.

Correspondence, notes and sketches relating to prospective architecture jobs, heritage building preservation study program undertaken in the United Kingdom, Sinnamon's activity with a local architectural history group.