Includes minutes of meetings, agenda papers, annual balance sheets, reports to conferences and minute books.

Bound album, 28 x 25 x 6 cm, of 167 black and white photographs. Appears to be a record of Appel's voyage while Home Secretary in the Queensland Government Steamer "Otter" in 1914 which went as far north as Daru on the coast of south-western Papua. Title embossed on cover of album. Several pages are without photographs. Photographs have been pasted to the mid-weight card and none have captioning. Photographs include: Baron Falls; a lighthouse (possibly Booby Island Light); possibly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples from Northern Queensland and Papuan New Guinea peoples; and places from his travels.

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Photograph album, 26 x 33 cm, of the city and suburbs of Brisbane in the 1893 flood. It contains seventy two (72) black and white photographs mounted on boards in a blue album. Photograph number 45 is missing. The album is inscribed inside with "C. Hurworth, Richmond, Bowen Hills, '93 Floods." Mr Christopher Hurworth (1834–1898), resided in his family home "Richmond" on the corner of William and George Streets, Bowen Hills. He was a former Head Master of Boys' State School, Fortitude Valley.

Most of the photographs have come loose from the album. Original order:
1: Brisbane River (from North Quay).View to South Brisbane, damaged Victoria Bridge on left of image.
2: Brisbane River (from North Quay cont.) View to South Brisbane, many homes and businesses under high flood waters.
3: Brisbane River (from North Quay cont.) View to South Brisbane and West End, many homes and businesses under high floodwaters. Tall building in centre is West End Brewery.
4: Brisbane River (from North Quay cont.) View of fast moving Brisbane River across to South Brisbane and West End.
5: Botanic Gardens & Alice Street [on left]. Smellies Machinery Depot on corner of Alice Street, with view to Kangaroo Point. Row of Bunya Pines can be seen lining the river bank.
6: Albert Street. From Queen Street to Botanic Gardens. On right: Royal Exchange Hotel, Oriental Hotel.
7: River from Parliament House (roof). View to [old] Government House and Kangaroo Point cliffs across the swollen Brisbane river.
8: Old Race-Course (New Farm) [now New Farm Park. People wading and rowing in floodwaters.
9: Queen Street, looking towards the [Petrie’s] Bight. Large group of people standing in foreground at the edge of the floodwaters.
10: Queen Street, looking towards Bridge [Victoria Bridge]. Men in rowboat and bystanders behind rope at edge of floodwaters. Criterion and Bank of Queensland buildings on right.
11: Queen Street looking towards Bight [Petrie’s]. Includes men in row boats, some holding sign “Queen St Brokers Floating The New Loan” in foreground.
12: Queen Street, looking from Bight [Petrie’s]. Includes men with drays, carts and horses in flooded street.
13: Queen Street, Finney Isles Corner. Includes men in row boats in foreground.
14: Edward Street & Adelaide Street Corner. Includes group of men and several horses in foreground.
15: Creek Street [towards river] Gresham Hotel [on right]. Includes several lads paddling on debris.
16: Charlotte Street and Eagle Street.
17: Edward Street. Looking towards Smellies Machinery Depot.
18: Margaret Street. Watson Brothers Building on the right at 127 Margaret Street.
19: Alice Street [towards river]. View of debris and Smellies Machinery Depot. Goods being dried out on roof.
20: Elizabeth Street (Albert Street corner). View of men and boys (some in row boat) in foreground.
21: Creek and Eagle Streets. Water level almost to top of lamp posts.
22: AUSN Wharf [Australasian United Steam Navigation Company]. Mary Street. In foreground two row boats with men, in background SS Corea.
23: Adelaide Street. In foreground, children wading in flood waters and paddling on debris.
24: Creek and Adelaide Streets (AUSN Wharf). In foreground two row boats with men. Flood water almost up to top of lamp post.
25: Market Street. Looking towards AUSN building. In foreground, children and dog wading in flood waters.
26: Mary Street. On right, BD Moorhead Building an AUSN Building.
27: Mary Street. In foreground, people wading and paddling in flood waters, in background Oriental Mills Building.
28: Charlotte Street. Children wading in floodwaters in foreground.
29: Charlotte Street. J.A.S. Campbell & Sons warehouse on right, children wading in flood waters in foreground.
30: [?Wharf Street looking towards Eagle Street]. Thompson Smith & Co (Eagle Street) in background, children wading in flood waters in foreground.
31: D.L. Brown’s Wharf [Eagle Street]. David Laughlan Brown imported goods and distributed merchandise to the Tweed River district and the South Sea Islands.
32: Boats in the Gardens. Queensland Government gunboat HMQS Paluma whilst undergoing a refit in the Brisbane River was swept away and grounded in the Brisbane Botanic Gardens along with SS Elamang & unidentified hulk believed to be the "Mary Evans".
33: [Ship stranded in the Gardens]. Vessel stranded in the Botanic Gardens. Bunya pine trees are visible behind the ship HMQS Paluma in the centre of the image.
34: The Gardens from Kangaroo Point. Brisbane Botanic garden, with four stranded vessels, three others moored. Parliament House at right of image.
35: The “Gabo” on Wharf [SS Gabo]. Vessel moored at [unidentified] wharf, Brisbane 1893, view of Bowen Terrace in background.
36: Kangaroo Point view of roof tops and saw mill submerged in flood waters.
37: Victoria Bridge, high flood. Close up view of bridge from Queen Street end, before bridge washed away. Sign in background advertising “The People’s Cash Store”.
38: Pettigrew’s Saw Mill. Corner of William and Margaret Streets, Brisbane, the mill has been inundated by flood waters.
39: Ann Street [Fortitude] Valley. People wading and rowing in flood waters. Includes several figures mounted on horse and cart.
40: Ann Street [Fortitude] Valley. People seated in and around rowboat including uniformed police officers, in floodwaters.
41: Breakfast Creek. View of inundated valley, many submerged houses and people picnicking on creek/river bank.
42: Kingsholme, New Farm. Kingsholme [Street], view of submerged houses.
43: Kingsholme, New Farm. Kingsholme [Street], view of submerged houses.
44: Swan Hill [Windsor]. View of inundated valley and submerged houses.
46: Gasworks Newstead. Gas works and houses surrounded by floodwaters. At this time Bulimba straddled both sides of the river.
47: Stratton Valley, Stratton Estate. Later - Stratton Street, Fortitude Valley.
48: Breakfast Creek. View of inundated valley, Brisbane River to the right.
49: Swan Hill [now Windsor] View across the flooded Enoggera Creek which flows to Breakfast Creek and the Brisbane River.
50: Albion. View of high flood waters and submerged houses.
51: South Toowong. View of very high flood waters, Brisbane River and submerged houses.
52: West End Gasworks. Shows severe damage to the gas works that were located at 321 Montague Road, West End.
53: Montague Road [West End]. Image shows path of destruction from flood waters. Many plots having only stumps remaining of houses that have been washed away.
54: Montague Road [West End]. Two lads standing in debris of wrecked homes.
55: West End Brewery. The tall brick building on the left is what remained of the West End Brewery, the surrounding timber buildings were destroyed. The damaged Montague Hotel is in the background at the corner of Montague Road and Hope Street.
56: Melbourne Street [South Brisbane]. Small group standing amongst mud and debris, with horse and cart “Alexander & Co. Confectioners, Melbourne St”.
57: Melbourne Street [South Brisbane]. Similar image to 56. Group standing amongst mud and debris with horse and cart “Alexander & Co. Confectioners, Melbourne St”.
58: Russell Street South Brisbane. View of dislodged homes and buildings, some washed up against fences.
59: Hope Street South Brisbane. View of estate with many houses washed away, just stumps remaining.
60: Orleigh Estate, South Brisbane, West End. View of estate across the Brisbane River to Toowong.
61: Orleigh Estate, West End. View of estate across the Brisbane River towards Toowong. Ferry crossing can be seen at right on other side of river.
62: Rosalie. View of flooded valley, looking towards Bardon?
63: Annie Street, Torwood [now Rosalie, Auchenflower]. View of flooded street, some homes completely underwater.
64: Milton from Cook Terrace. Men in rowboat, floodwaters up to eaves of houses.
65: Railway Station Toowong. Flooded railway station and line, looking towards Brisbane. Rowboats being paddled underneath the overhead foot bridge.
66: South Toowong. View of high flood waters and Brisbane River.
67: South Toowong cont. View of high flood waters and Brisbane River. Cattle grazing in foreground.
68: Toowong, shewing Gailey’s house. Architect Richard Gailey built his home, “Glen Olive” on the banks of the Brisbane River in Toowong.
69: Indooroopilly Bridge before flood.
70: Indooroopilly Bridge during flood.
71: Indooroopilly Bridge broken. Shows bridge missing several spans.
72: Indooroopilly Bridge broken. Shows bridge from one end, missing several spans.
73: Indooroopilly Bridge broken. Shows bridge with many spans missing and debris caught underneath.

Album, 32 x 28 x 5 cm, of ninety-two (92) black and white photographs presented to William James Gall of the official trips by James Stopford. The photographs feature James Stopford and William James Gall, as well as others possibly during the period from 1923 to 1928. Stopford was Home Secretary in the Queensland Government from 1923 to 1929. Gall worked as under-secretary for home affairs and protector of Aborigines from 1913 until possibly 1926.

Includes photographs of: Stopford Home for Aboriginal Girls at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement (now Cherbourg); Yhurri Gurri ceremonial arch at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement, 3-May-1928; Cherbourg Hospital; Cobbo Williams play acting with Mr Stopford at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement ca. 1925; a resident of Barambah giving a speech to welcome the members of the parliamentary party at the opening of the Stopford Home for Aboriginal Girls (The bandsmen, left to right, are Eddie Gilbert, Freddy Martin and Jimmy Dodd); the G-AUER air plane, called Hermes; photographs of a mine; and many unidentified Aboriginal and Torres Straits islander peoples.

Only the last six photographs have notations indicating that the photographs were taken by/belonged to E.W. Dabelstein. The album has the title embossed on the cover with the photographs pasted, generally two per page, onto the leaves which are made of green mid-weight card. There are some panorama photographs which have been folded to fit in the album.

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Photograph is related to the Brisbane to Burketown report.

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Manila folder with 112 mounted 35mm slides stored across 6 sleeves. Slides feature images of University of Queensland Undergraduate Library (now the location of the Central Library) staff members and interior spaces, interspersed with text slides that describe the images, identify people in the images, or provide information on using the Library. One slide features an exterior shot of the Duhig Tower entrance to the Library. Some images of students making use of Library resources and services. Slides were used for The University of Queensland Library's Undergraduate Library orientation and information sessions in 1975 and 1976. In 1997 the Undergraduate, Multimedia and Central Libraries were amalgamated into a single Social Sciences and Humanities Library. Credits: produced by Marjorie Roe, Library Audio-Visual Services Officer; directed by Joy Guyatt, Undergraduate Librarian.

Series of lectures bound into one volume. Rebound by The University of Queensland Library in 1962 according to a pencil annotation on the paste-down inside the front cover. The lectures, handwritten in ink on laid paper, discuss the anatomy, physiology and pathology of horses. Includes some advice on how to care for them, from sheltering to shoeing. Lectures are inconsistently numbered (up to fourteen) and dated. Dates range between 1815 (with a lecture titled 'introduction') to the final lecture on 2 May 1917.

Report of an eight-month-long world tour undertaken by the author, along with workmate Sir Maurice Alan Edgar Mawby, as representatives of the Zinc Corporation in Broken Hill. Details information gathered on underground and metallurgical operations carried out by other mining companies at sites across North America, Europe and Africa. Compiled for and presented to the Managing Director and Board of Directors at the Zinc Corporation. Roneoed typescript bound into cloth hardcover boards. Contains a pullout world map with the marked journey, as well as copies of black and white photographs and illustrated diagrams and plans. Contains a loose insert compliments card that reads 'The enclosed with the compliments of Mr W.S. Robinson, Collins House, Melbourne' (possibly belonged to William Sydney Robinson).

Handmade book of 16 short fictional stories relating to Australians in the Boer War, bound in stiff paper wrappers. Handwritten title, copyright and contents page in black pen. 'Purely imaginary!' noted in pen at the bottom of the title page. Book constructed from cuttings of stories from The Leader published throughout 1899 and 1900, pasted on backing paper, with handwritten titles. Handwritten annotations and corrections throughout. Titles of the stories, listed in order presented on contents page: 'The kiss of battle'; 'Miss Simpson's hero'; 'The bull of the regiment'; 'The corporal's comrade'; 'Compatriots'; 'The scout'; 'John Jones, bushman'; 'St Patrick and another'; 'Them 'Straliens'; 'Commandeered'; 'A coward's courage'; 'A veldt idyll'; 'Worth threepence and a fortune'; 'A soldiers of the bush'; 'The temptation of Anthony'; and 'Bettje's mission'.

Five handmade notebooks on conchology in brown paper wrappers. Numbered with pencil as volumes 1 to 4 on the front of each; fifth notebook is labelled as 'rough copies'. First volume describes classes of shells, their placement in broader biological classifications, and instructions on how to collect them. Handwritten notes in black pen, accompanied by elaborate diagrams and illustrations. Also has a glossary of shell-related scientific terms at the rear. Second, third and fourth volumes contain mostly pen and pencil diagrams and illustrations, many watercolour. Fifth volume contains illustrations and rough notes in black pen and pencil. First and fourth volumes contain loose duplicate bookplate inserts that state the volumes were 'presented to the University of Queensland Library by the descendants of Albert John Hockings and James Thompson Tilbury, 1966'. Dates found within the notes, as well as an insert of a folio from a 1944 edition of the British Medical Journal, indicate the notebooks were created between 1937 and 1944.