Records of the English Association and English Association of Queensland: receipt books, programmes of meetings, reports, newsletters, correspondence, cash books, syllabi, published material, annual reports and minute books.

10 small exercise books containing manuscript notes, text, and drawings. 6 notebooks relate to ' Save me from the Shark'; and 4 notebooks relate to 'Donald Friend in Bali'.

Drawings of residential and commercial buildings in Brisbane and regional Queensland. Collection includes drawings by Atkinson and Conrad, Atkinson, Powell and Conrad, and Atkinson and McLay, together with plans by other architects, including George Brockwell Gill, C. W. Chambers and Lange Powell.

Literary drafts, personal papers, correspondence, research notes, newspaper cuttings, financial records, subject folders, cassette tapes.

Notes, typescript articles, speeches, correspondence, photographs, cards, invitations, programmes. Includes material relating to : Sir Raphael Cilento; University of Queensland events, including Sir Raphael Cilento Oration; Ron Edwards, Jack Lindsay, Patrick White, Douglas Gordon, Percy Trezise. There is also some biographical material about Len and Fedora Fisher.

43 reel-to-reel sound tapes of oral history interviews with police in Papua New Guinea during 1986. Some of the interviews are in local dialects.
Most tapes are from 1986.

Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, reports, newsletters, brochures, subject files, minutes, notes, memos, press releases.

Correspondence, minutes, typescript articles, reports, circular letters, photographs and subject files on issues of interest to the Bacons' including the Communist Party of Australia, International Women's Day, Aboriginal Australians, the peace movement and women's rights. Bulk of collection from 1970s and 1980s.

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.