Photographs taken during a world tour by G. M. L., an Australian.

Photocopy of handwritten journal by G.H. Best written on the ship 'Cicero' during a voyage from Plymouth to South Australia as an emigrant in 1883.
Cicero' was a three-masted iron ship built in 1861 by Thomas Vernon & Son, Liverpool.

Bound volume of newspaper cuttings relating to topics in anthropology, taxonomy, meterology, mainly for the period 1883-1893. Includes handwritten index at front of volume.
Presented to the University of Queensland by R.S. Hurd, 20 July 1925.

Incomplete notebook and loose pages of manuscript jottings, photographs, 2 maps and newspaper clippings of lectures given by Captain Elliott on the expedition. Also copy of Ward, Herbert, 1833-1919 : 'My life with Stanley's Rear Guard', 1891, with manuscript addenda by Grant Elliott.

Fryer Family Documents
Box 1 Folder 10:
• Marriage Certificate, Charles George Fryer and Rosina Richards, District of Rockhampton, 1883
• Copy of Certificate of Marriage of Charles George Fryer and Rosina Fryer née Richards, District of Rockhampton, 1883
• Birth Certificate for Elizabeth Stuart Fryer, District of Springsure, 1884
• Birth Certificate of William Thomas Fryer, District of Rockhampton, 1887
• Birth Certificate of Charles George Fryer, District of Rockhampton, 1889
• Marriage Certificate of James Stephen Gilmour and Elizabeth Stuart Fryer, District of Springsure, 1919
• Copy of Certificate of Marriage of James Stephen Gilmour and Elizabeth Stuart Fryer
• Death Certificate of William Thomas Fryer, District of Springsure, 1946
• Memorandum from Queensland Department of Public Correction to Miss Elizabeth S Fryer re admittance to Department as a pupil-teacher, Brisbane, 23 Feb 1899
• Annual examination results between 1900 to 1903 for Miss Elizabeth S Fryer as a pupilteacher
• Examination result, Teacher Third Class for Miss Elizabeth Fryer, 1904
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth S Fryer re appointment as a Teacher Class III, Division 3, 19 Dec 1905
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth S Fryer re appointment as a Teacher Class III, Division 2, 1906
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth S Fryer re appointment as a Teacher Class III, Division 1, 1908
• Department of Public Instruction examination results for Miss Elizabeth S Fryer for the Standing of Class II, 18 Mar 1910
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth Fryer from the Department of Public Instruction re transfer from Springsure State School to Ashgrove State School, 23 Sep 1910
• Springsure State School Committee resolution to Miss E. Fryer on the occasion of her transfer to Ashgrove, Brisbane, 30th Sep 1910
• Department of Public Instruction examination results for Miss Elizabeth S Fryer for the Standing of Class II, 4 Mar 1911
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth S Fryer re appointment as a Teacher Class II, Division 3, 15 Dec 1911
• Department of Public Instruction examination results for Miss Elizabeth S Fryer for the Standing of Class II, 17 Jul 1912
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth Fryer from the Department of Public Instruction re transfer from Ashgrove State School to Springsure State School, 4 Jun 1913
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth S Fryer re appointment as a Teacher Class II, Division 2, 5 Feb 1915
• Military Forces of the Commonwealth Junior Cadet Training Certificate for Miss E. Fryer, 2 Dec 1916
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth S Fryer re appointment as a Teacher Class II, Division 3, 7 May 1918
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth Fryer from the Department of Public Instruction re application to take leave of absence with full pay, 28 Feb 1919
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth Fryer from the Department of Public Instruction re resignation from Department on occasion of her marriage, 22 Jul 1919
• Mrs Rosina Fryer employment references as matron of the Springsure Hospital and as midwife, 1917 to 1925. These references were required by Mrs Rosina Fryer when she sought to obtain her midwifery certificate in the 1920s. She delivered her first baby at 12 years of age. Information supplied by Mrs Alexis R Lear, Mrs Rosina Fryer’s granddaughter, at the time of donation

Box 2
Folder 1
• Magazine clipping: ‘The Stars Look Down on Bangslappers’ re Norman Lindsay, The Australasian Women’s Weekly, 25 Aug 1971
• Hand annotated scores to ‘Waltzing Matilda’ and ‘Dear Lord and Father of Mankind’ by Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour
• Drawing by John D Fryer ‘in his Uni days when he knew P.R. Inky Stevenson entitled ‘The Moaning of the Tied (Tide).’ Donated by Mrs Alexis R Lear, Townsville niece of G. R. Lear, May 1976
• Newspaper clipping, ‘Mrs Wheeler’s work recalled by family’, The Capricornian, 22 Jan 1975
• ‘Crystal Ball’ A poem typed by Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour, 1978 to 1979
• Australian Red Cross Society membership receipt for Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour
• Newspaper cutting: featuring photograph of Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour at a piano on her 95th birthday
• Newspaper cutting: entitled ‘Happy Mother’s Day munching’
• Newspaper cutting: ‘Special tea for some special ladies’
• Newspaper cutting: ‘A mothers luncheon’, 1980
• Newspaper cutting ‘Grandmother is Arts graduate-and all by mail’ [nd]
• Card with Bellevue Homestead on front
• Letters to Mr and Mrs Lear, mainly from relatives

Folder 2
• Unidentified letter dated 1912 [Possibly Lily McCury (?)]. Sender’s address: 3 Spencer Villas, Kingston.
• Unidentified letter page (nd)
• Letter from Lily McCury [?], Spencer Villas, Glenagleary, [Ireland], [nd]
• Card: ‘Greetings from the Camel Corps’ from George Moffit to Elizabeth S Fryer
• Poem: ‘The Supreme Sacrifice’ by John S. Arkwright
• Post card: Patriotic Carnival Procession, (Aug. 26th 1916)
• Christmas Card, ‘Alf - With love to Lizzie’ [December 1917]
• Letter from Aunt Linda Fryer, Clonburrin, Bagnalstown, Ireland to Elizabeth S Gilmour [née Fryer], 19 Oct 1919
• Letter from Aunt Linda Fryer, Ireland to Elizabeth S Gilmour, 9 Dec 1923
• Letter from Veronica Baggaly, Sandgate to Mrs [E. S.] Gilmour, [circa 192?]
• Letter from Aunt Aggie to [?], Sep 1924
• Letter from [Lex Lear?] to [Elizabeth S Gilmour?], 16 Oct 1947
• Letter form Elizabeth S Gilmour to her daughter Lex Lear, 16 Jan 1950
• Letter from Aunt Kitty, [?] Ipswich, Suffolk, England to Elizabeth S Fryer, 15 Feb 1952[?]
• Card from the University of Queensland French Department to Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour re her donation to the Mary Alexis Macmillan [Memorial] Fund, 15 Feb 1972
• Letter from Douglass [Fryer], 32 Jackson St, to Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour, 7 Mar 1979
• Letter from Douglass and Agnes Fryer to Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour, 11 Jun 1979
• Birthday card and letter from Ann and Don Lear [Grandson], Sandgate to Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour, Springsure, 26th Jun 1979
• Envelope with family details of Don and Ann Lear
• Letter from Elizabeth S Gilmour, Townsville to her daughter Lex Lear, 2 Jan 1980
• Letter from Elizabeth S Gilmour to her granddaughter, Stephanie Lear, 4 Feb 1980
• Letter from Don Ryan to Mrs S. Gilmour, 13 Aug 1980
• Letter from Mrs Veronica Sirman [nee Baggerly], friend of JD Fryer, Herstonville Convalescent Home, Herston, to Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour
• Bundle: Assorted letters and cards to Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour
• Twenty postcards + one card (belonging to Rosa Richards [?]) and one small hand painted card (painted by Eunice Gilmour) [previously housed in Kolotex box].

Architectural plans of residential and commercial buildings. Also includes bills of quantities, client files, specification files, job files, miscellaneous papers of A.B. Wilson and R.M. Wilson, and card index of plans by plan numbers, job numbers, and client names. Includes several plans by Alfred Banks.
Also includes rare poster "Victoria Skating Rink, Sandgate". Includes plan of 'University site, St. Lucia. Proposed design', by R.W.J. Hawken, 1929.
Professor Hawken and Alexander Wilson were members of a committee established in 1921 to determine a site for the University of Queensland.

Letter 5 Oct 1883 to Terry Tenison-Woods [his brother] written from Singapore, describing the eruption of Krakatoa volcano, which he witnessed.

Correspondence: Personal, pastoral, business; financial records, sermon notes, notebooks, diaries, Christmas cards, postcards, religious cards, printed prayers,travelling desk.

One volume of handwritten notes and 48 volumes of newspaper cuttings dealing with Queensland legal history.

Miscellaneous copies and correspondence, also some manuscripts, clippings and printed leaflets.