In 1967 Cottrell-Dormer was employed by the South Pacific Commission to conduct an agricultural extension survey. The 12 files in this series consist of his personal copies of the reports he wrote and submitted to the Commission between 1967-1973.

Fifty-six architectural drawings relating to St Joseph's Church at Tweed Heads, including sketch plans, working drawings, joinery plans and additional drawings.

Artworks includes paintings, sketches, and drawings. Artwork in folders has not been counted.

These postcards and prints were collected by Daphne Mayo during her travels in Europe and were used to inform her artistic work. The postcards (300), are mostly blank, and are mostly of historical buildings and sculptural art works in Europe. Some postcards have notes written by Daphne Mayo and some are addressed to her from friends. Newspaper cuttings, pictures cut from magazines and a line drawing are among the postcards.

Last days of a wilderness : drafts. Preliminary drafts : handwritten, in 6 notebooks. Final draft : typescript, 294 leaves. ca.1973

‘Rock art of south-east Cape York : drafts and notes, handwritten and typescript, ca.1970.

‘English book’ : draft, handwritten, in 4 foolscap notebooks. Unpublished. Undated.

‘The Cape York Galleries : development or destruction’ : national seminar on Aboriginal antiquities, 1972’ by P.J. Trezise and D. Roughsey. 1 notebook, handwritten.

Quinkan National Park Appeal, 1973 : folder of papers .

Biographical details of Graham de Gruchy, 1974

Kevin and Betty Leyshon's house was designed by Dan Kelvey and was situated at 29 Rossett Street, West Chermside, Brisbane. Kelvey designed a home to fit the climate of Brisbane, built of materials that were readily available, wide overhangs or eaves, downpiping set into the building without being conspicuous, fairly flat roof without many angles and no tiles, concrete floor construction, interiors with natural materials. The file has correspondence, financial details and specifications relating to the land and house. Included is a two page note by Kev Leyshon about Dan Kelvey. There are three architectural drawings. There is an undated drawing of Residence for K. Leshion [sic] Esq at Rosset [sic] St. Chermside by D.W. Kelvey with elevations, sections, foundation plan, floor plan and kitchen details. There is a copy of this drawing with pencil notes. The third drawing is dated Mar 1965 for Proposed car-port extension for Mr. K. Leyshon at Rossett Street Chermside with Brisbane City Council specification attached and architect name not specified.

Handwritten list in exercise book of jobs undertaken by R.W. Voller & John Kershaw from 18 May 1960 to 12 December 1974. It starts with job no. 101 and finishes with Job no. 849. The job number, owner, address of the job, date, and descripiton of work is recorded.

Photographic prints, postcards and some photographic negatives relating to the history of European-Australians involved with the plantation economy of Australian New Guinea. The series include images of Anne McCosker's family and their expatriate associates, local people participating in ceremonial performances, engaged in plantation labour or posing in portrait or group shots, and views of various locations in New Britain, New Ireland and other northern islands of New Guinea where the McCosker family was based. The majority of the photographs were taken in the 1920s, 1930s and the postwar 1940s, and many are captioned. Some were published in Anne McCosker's book, Masked Eden.

There are approximately 1243 b&w photographs, 53 b&w photo postcards and 12 negatives in this series.