Programs, flyers, photographs, posters and newspaper cuttings re: Shakespearian and other productions.

The book is the result of a collaboration between poet Jill Jones and the poet/artist Angela Gardner, and is based on an exchange of poems sent between Australia and the United Kingdom in October and November, 2003. The postcards and cover were digitally produced as an artists book by Angela Gardner. Includes background information about the project and creation of the book ( 1 computer disc with Word document ;1 leaf printout of document, signed and dated by Angela Gardner)

John R. Laverty was a Research Assistant for Professor Gordon Greenwood. In the early 1950s, Laverty produced these research summaries to facilitate Greenwoods work in writing the history of the first twenty years of the Brisbane Municipal Council and some aspects of Brisbane's early history. The two bound volumes were complied by Matthew Fuchs in 2004, and comprise photocopies of carbon copy typescript. Volume 1 contains: a survey of Council activities, evidences of city development, the growth of Brisbane city, animal nuisance issues, the Brisbane Bridge and water supply. Volume 2 contains more detailed information about the city such as cemeteries, ferries, Port of Brisbane, parks and recreation reserves, the Town Hall, roads, sewerage, street improvements and city transport.

This series contains material such as theatre programs, concert notes, invitations and ephemeral items relating to Australian theatres.

Contains material such as art exhibition catalogues, invitations and ephemeral items relating to Australian artists exhibiting in Queensland galleries.
Fryer Library holdings include: Victorian printmakers, n.d. ; A Sense of Touch - Five Queensland jewellers, n.d. ; Brisbane City Council Art collection, n.d. ; Blue Poles by Jackson Pollock, 1974 ; Canada's quilts, 1979 ; William Bustard, 1983 ; How does your garden grow, 1994 ;Charles Blackman, 1994 ; Against the Grain, 2000 ; Potters, Hermannsburg, Aranda artists of Central Australia, 2000 ; Woolly Mantle, 2000 ; Compulsion, Stewart MacFarlane, 2001 ; Seeing Brisbane 1881-2001 ; 21st Century chairs, 2002 ; John Barholomew, 2002 ; Michael Keighery, 2002 ; Jon Molvig 2002 ; Second sight - Eight contemporary Australian photographers, 2003 ; Stella Bowen, 2003 ; Acer Chor, 2003 ; Great expectations, 2003 ; John Nelson, n.d.

This series contains material such as theatre programs, concert notes, invitations and ephemeral items relating to Australian theatres.

Contains professional and personal correspondence in the form of printed faxes and emails ; photographs of Peter Carey ; newspaper cuttings and ephemera. Papers also include articles written by Alison Summers about her first-hand experience on September 11, 2001. Alison Summers was married to Peter Carey at the time, living in New York and had been in the second World Trade building just minutes before the first plane hit the building.

Foco Membership card, newspaper cuttings (original and photocopies) of articles relating to the Foco Club, opening night circular, 'Foco Lives' poster. Also includes material related to the 1985 Foco event: poster for reunion of Foco Club in February 1985, newspaper cuttings, workbook, and notes related to the 1985 event.

Handwritten letter from David Malouf answering three questions that Yvonne Smith had asked: how did An Imaginary Life first come to be published; how were Fly Away Peter and Child's Play published; and in writing Johnno ( what was the possible influence of Peter Paul Ruben's painting The Return of the Peasants from the Fields. As the questions were not included in Malouf's response, Smith has provided a transcript of the handwritten letter with the questions included. Typed transcript of the Diary of David Malouf written while writing Child's Play, Fly Away Peter, and short stories in January / February 1981. The handwritten version of this transcript was shared with Malouf over lunch and he shared information about the content which Smith has included as footnotes.

Contains material such as art exhibition catalogues, invitations and ephemeral items relating to Australian artists exhibiting in Queensland galleries.
Fryer Library holdings include: John Rigby, Rufus Morris, Arthur Evan Read, Lesbia Thorpe, David Schlunke, Carl Plate, Margo Lewers, Ed Smith, Anne Lord, Lionel Lindsay, Norman, 1879-1969 Lindsay, Graeme Inson, Max Hurley, Ian Henderson, Vita Endelmanis, Mykal Zschech, Shirley Miller, Vita Endelmanis, Joyce Hyam, Graham Cox, Beverley Budgen, Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, Judy Cassab, Ed Van Dijk, Tom Gleghorn, John Borrack, Gary Baker, Alan D Baker, Henry Bartlett, Tim Guthrie, Phyl Schneider, June Stephenson, John Turton, David Schlunke, Geoff Williams, Henry Bartlett, Veda Arrowsmith, Irene Amos, Peter Blayney, Ralph Woodforth, Mike Nicholas, Nicholas Mullens, Mervyn Moriarty, Max Nicolson.
Town Gallery / Japan Room.