Material relating to the medical career and research of Professor John Pearn. Includes speeches, papers, photographs, medals, curriculum vitae, menus, programmes and other ephemera marking special events.

567 photographs of Papua New Guinea (including Sepik River, Hermit Islands, Marienberg Mission, Central Mountains, Yuat River Warrior, Maramuni River Area and Maron); also photographs of Brisbane 1912-1914. Handwritten descriptive notes by John Murphy on back of Papua New Guinea photographs.

115 black and white photographs of Papua New Guinea, depicting Rabaul, Edie Creek goldfields, Wau, Samarai and Bulolo. 32 photographs record the eruption of Matupi volcano, Rabaul, May 1937. Handwritten identifying notes on back of each photograph.

74 black and white photographs of Papua New Guinea, showing people and places in and around Rabaul, Edie Creek, Lae, Bulolo, Wau and Salamaua. Scenes from Rabaul include indigenous and European people, aeroplanes, buildings and beached whales or porpoises. Photographs of Edie Creek and Bulolo include depictions of mining camps and mining operations. Wau scenes include buildings, pit sawing, the airstrip and a crashed aeroplane. Each photograph has handwritten identifying notes on the back.

50 black and white photographs of Papua New Guinea, depicting landscapes, aeroplanes and airstrips, goldmines and indigenous people. Places depicted include Rabaul, Salamaua, Wau, Lae, Bulolo, Durantina, and Watut. Photographs taken by R.N. Wilson; handwritten identifying notes on the back of each.

Correspondence, meeting minutes, memos, brochures, page proofs for Feeding baby and child : a guide for Australian parents. Material relates to Virginia Thorley's involvement with Queensland Lactation Consultants, Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia, and Queensland Lactation College. Some early material relates to her research on Martin Haley and includes correspondence from him.

Drafts, proof pages, reviews, notebooks, correspondence, newspaper cuttings.

Papers relate to the writing of the book, Oodgeroo, by Kathie Cochrane.

Research material on Peter Carey, correspondence with Barbara Hanrahan, material relating to publication of Uneasy Truces.

Drawings of residential and commercial buildings.