Correspondence, diaries, subject files, photographs, drawings, notebooks and scientific records related to entomology and environmental issues.

Photographs of people and scenes, many unidentified. They include studio portraits, wedding and class photographs, family groups and scenes of the Upper Goulburn River district, particularly Mansfield and Jamieson, Melbourne and Tasmania, particularly Port Arthur. Some used as greeting cards, with messages. Some postcards, including World War 1 locations with messages from men serving overseas, presumably family members.

References, typescripts, photographs, publications, and certificates relating to the education and career of R.W.H. Hawken.

Handwritten drafts of the works of George Washington Power. These papers were collected by John O'Keeffe, grandson of George Washington Power. The papers have been put in order as much as possible, but the correct sequence for pages may not always have been identified.

Nine engineering drawings of the new Victoria Bridge designed in 1893. Alfred Barton Brady was the Government Architect and Engineer for Bridges and designed Victoria bridge in these drawings. His staff that assisted with the engineering work of the bridge included J. S. Murdoch, T. Pye, and W. J. Ewart. Eight of the drawings have the title New Victoria Bridge over the Brisbane River. Brisbane.

The new Victoria Bridge was the fourth bridge to span the Brisbane River at the spot running between Queen Street on the north bank and Melbourne Street on the south bank. The first structure was a temporary wooden bridge, constructed in 1865, which lasted only 2 years. Construction of the first permanent bridge, old Victoria Bridge, had commenced in 1864, but it did not open until 1874, operating as a toll bridge until 1877. Old Victoria Bridge was destroyed by the 1893 floods. A second temporary bridge was built in 1893, with construction of new Victoria Bridge beginning soon after. The second temporary bridge was washed away in floods in 1896, by which time the new Victoria bridge was nearing completion. The new Victoria Bridge opened in 1897, and it remained in service until replaced by the current Victoria Bridge in 1969, at which time the new Victoria Bridge was demolished. One of the stone archways which flanked the pedestrian access to the bridge remains on the south side of the Brisbane River, near the entrance to the South Bank parklands.

Consists of correspondence, poetry, programs and invitations, wooden printing blocks, and photographs relating to Noel Macainsh as well as research material, publications and photographs relating to Amalie Dietrich.

Biographical notes, correspondence, poems, diaries, photographs, relating to the McLeod and Stitt families and their connection to Moreheads Ltd. Estate papers of P.H. Maloney; of A.W. Palfreyman; Goldsbrough Mort & Coy Ltd.; Moreheads Ltd., Brisbane; Stevedoring and Wool Dumping Coy. Ltd.

Drawings of residential and commercial buildings, and related files.

Federal, state and local minutes, correspondence, rules, awards, submissions and decisions. Trade Union journals. Photographs. Miscellaneous. Federal and State circulars. Union membership lists and Queensland industry subject files (Construction, dairy, earthmoving, fertilizer, meat, oil, paper & pulp, sugar, timber, waterfront & mining industries)

The collection reflects not only the emergence of the central organising body of the Trades and Labor Council of Queensland, achieved in 1947, but the often radical and pioneering nature of the Queensland labour movement itself. This is especially to be seen in documents relating to the 1890s shearers' strikes, the Cosme Settlement, the 1912 tramway strike, the 1946/48 strikes and those of the 1960s. Includes minutes (1922-1984), reports, agenda and decisions, financial records, correspondence, subject files, newspaper clippings, and photographs.
Papers relate to : industrial disputes, Cosme colony, the Eight Hour Day Movement, Communist Party of Australia (Queensland) and Australian Labor Party, Workers' Educational Association, Australian Labor Day Committee, Queensland Industrial Court, Trade Union congresses, and Australian Council of Trade Unions.
Includes issues of The Organiser (1937-1939) and Cosme Monthly (1894-1904).