Minutes of meetings, annual reports, circulars, correspondence and financial records, correspondence regarding nomination of trustee, Art Library records, newspaper clippings, press publicity reports, papers on the Queensland Art Fund lunch hour talks.

Two typescript documents : "The John Cooper Collection of Art Source Materials" briefly describes his donation to The University of Queensland library, and "The Career of John Cooper: a biographical sketch".

Letters written from Stockholm, London, Auckland and various towns in Australia.
Accompanied by Grand Central Galleries auction catalogue, 1977, and copies of correspondence relating to Oscar Fristrom and Eddie Hutchison.
Correspondence relates to biographical information on artists exhibiting in Brisbane in the period 1884-1916, particularly Oscar Fristrom; written by relatives or friends in reply to Margaret Maynard or Julie Brown.