Correspondence, comprising 9 letters and 1 telegram; mostly written to Kath Walker; 1976 to 1979 and undated.

Certificates and testimonials, outgoing and incoming correspondence, photographs, financial papers, booksellers' catalogues and newsletters, publishers' announcements, political and pressure group leaflets, maps of Moreton Bay Islands, notices and plans of Moreton Bay land for sale, newspaper cuttings, subject files on people and organisations, periodicals, notes and notebooks.
Most papers cover the period 1950s-1970s.

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.

Business and administrative records of The Women's Bookshop, Highgate Hill, Brisbane from its inception in 1984 to its sale in 1998. Includes financial records, promotional material, correspondence, publisher's catalogues, flyers, photographs, posters and ephemera. The poster collection is comprised of 341 posters (which includes 48 screen printed or hand coloured posters plus two copies of a 1993 calendar) which exhibit graphic design history and local / social history from 1984 to 1998.

Research material (including notes and photocopied archival material) and correspondence relating to Deebing Creek and Purga Aboriginal Missions. Includes transcripts of interviews, photocopies of Queensland Department of Public Instruction records, material for history thesis, and files of Deebing Creek Cultural Committee relating to the Committee's efforts to have part of original Deebing Creek Mission made an Aboriginal reserve. Also includes letters from Frances Wright, and maps. Much of the material was used for Bill Thorpe's book, 'Remembering the forgotten : a history of the Deebing Creek Aboriginal Mission in Queensland 1887-1915'. Includes typescript and CD copies of Thorpe's thesis, 'Archibald Meston and the Aborigines'.

Playscripts, posters, articles, research notes, transcripts and publications.

Seminar folder containing a summary, flyers, and precises of the main papers which were given to every person who attended the Seminar on Aboriginal Rights. The Seminar was conducted by the International Women's Day Committee in honour of Human Rights Year of July 13th, 1968, at Willard House, Brisbane. Contents: Summary (5 p.); Mr Manfred Cross. MHR. Member for Brisbane (2 p.); International Women's Day Committee [flyer] (1 leaf); Mrs. Kath Walker 'Aborigines need .....' (1 leaf); 'Land Rights for Aborigines...Centenary Place Forum, Sunday 14th July' [flyer] (1 leaf); 'Aboriginal Land Rights - Speakers notes' prepared by Q'ld. Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Islanders from information supplied by the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Straits Islanders, and from our own files', 20 Jun 1968 (3 p.); 'Integration and the rights of the citizen' by Fred P. Bromley, M.L.A. Member for Norman (3 p.); 'Resolutions from the Trade Union Committee meeting at the National Conference, Canberra, April 12-15th, 1968' by the Federal Council for Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (1 leaf); Circular letter and accompanying petition from L McBride, President and Campaign Director for South Queensland for Q'ld Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Islanders (2 leaves); and, Paper on Aboriginal Education, July 13, 1968 (1 leaf).

Approximately 630 minutes of recorded interviews between Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Julianne Schwenke relating to Oodgeroo's life, work and worldview. The interviews were originally recorded as part of Schwenke's PhD research.

Harry Throssell worked for the University of Queensland as a Lecturer in Social Work from 1966 to 1974. This file includes: a letter signed by Harold Throssell, Elizabeth Timms, and Laurie Hayes of the Select Committee on Deserted Wives to the President and Members of the Executive Committee of the Council of Social Services of Queensland, 12 Apr 1967; a carbon copy typescript of the Select Committee on Deserted Wives report with handwritten emendations, April 1967; ‘Deserted wives in Queensland’, 1967’; two poems by Clare Dunne; double-sided leaflet 'A Call for action at the University of Queensland' (regarding the state of emergency declared by the Queensland Government related to the Springbok tour in 1971 with the names of university staff (over 200 staff supported militant action), ending with it will be issued to the workers' rally at 9.30am and at 1pm the students and staff will march from St. Lucia), 1971; copy of a conference proceedings from "Seminar on Family Social Services', 1967?; pamphlet 'Strategy for left action' by Dan O'Neill, 1969; report by Edna Chamberlain, Roisin Hirschfeld and Jill Brown 'Some problems associated with research among urban Aboriginals', July 1973; List by publications by H. Throssell, 1969.