Four scrapbooks containing Australian and English literary and historical material of the late 19th century. Includes original photographs; a telegram from Wm Tasker to John McGregor, solicitor, announcing the capture of the Kenniff Brothers (Patrick Kenniff and James Kenniff), dated 1902 (located in volume three); newspaper cuttings from, mostly, unidentified newspapers with poetry and some articles. The articles include: 'Our Men of Mark', Daily Observer, 188-? (v.1) ; and 'Where the pelican builds' by Mary Hannay Foott (signed holograph with comments about poem) (located in volume three). Most of the material in the scrapbooks is from before Katharine was born and is most likely created by one or both of her parents, John George McGregor, solicitor, and Catherine Elizabeth, née Ferguson. The last scrapbook contains: newspaper cuttings of results from University of Queensland students which include Katharine's, from the early 1920s as well as articles written by Jon Michie; a letter from Isabel Michie (dated 31 Jul 1946) thanking Katharine for her letter after the death of her husband John Michie; a carbon copy typescript letter by John McGregor (dated 7 Jan 1920) to his agent in Edinburgh which mentions among other things that he is sending a copy of book of poems by Henry Lawson (whom John McGregor met in a bookseller's shop in Sydney); a note to John McGregor from Littleton Groom (dated 10 Jan 1924); and a letter to Miss McGregor (dated 26 Mar 1971) from Eric Davis (the youngest son of Arthur Davis).

Two minute books of the Brisbane Shakespeare Society including:- AGM minutes, receipts and expenditure, council meeting minutes, syllabus committee minutes, programmes for productions and elocutionary competitions, newspaper clippings.

Photocopied typescript. Addresses 'What the white man needs to know about Aboriginals' and 'What Aboriginals need to know about themselves'. Discusses Aboriginal spirituality, and the need for research into Aboriginal history and culture. Steele makes several references to Janie Sunflower.

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Photocopied typescript. Concerns the social organisation of traditional Aboriginal society.

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This collections contains correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, photographs, ephemera and other material written by or relating to Professor Gordon Greenwood. This includes material about his wife Thora Greenwood (nee Smeal), their family and extended family, friends and academic associates, research material for works by Gordon Greenwood and about Gordon Greenwood and Thora Greenwood. Helen Derrick, their daughter has used much of the material in this collection to produce family history documents; in some cases she has added her own notes to this material. Some of her works are also contained in the collection.

Records of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union (Queensland Branch) and its predecessor organisations, and arbitration court records relating to cases involving the AMIEU.