- UQFL79
- Collection
- ca.1845-ca. 2019
Photographs, correspondence, diaries, journals, newspaper cuttings, personal papers relating to the Bell Family, Jimbour Station, various Bell Family properties, Jimbour House, and its occupants.
Bell Family
Photographs, correspondence, diaries, journals, newspaper cuttings, personal papers relating to the Bell Family, Jimbour Station, various Bell Family properties, Jimbour House, and its occupants.
Bell Family
Part of Bell Family Papers
This file has 121 items of photographic material that was previously housed loosely in the collection. Most are black and white phototgraphs. The list of photographic material:
[68 to 103.] [36 colour photographs from the opening of the Cellar Door at Jimbour House, April 2002].
[104 to 121. ] [18 colour 35mm negatives from the opening of the Cellar Door at Jimbour House, April 2002].
Bell Family Photographs, oversize
Part of Bell Family Papers
Photographs, mounted on card:
Charles Wilfred Russell Papers
Includes correspondence, incoming and outgoing, public speeches, letters to the press, election campaign material, press clippings; also material relating to Wilfred Adams Russell, chiefly biographical clippings, and election campaign material. A major correspondent was Colin R. Chapman, P.R. and Research Consultant, who was active in Charles Wilfred Russell's election campaigns, and also in the interests of the Australian Democratic Union, Basic Industries Group, Australian Growers' Wool Marketing Committee, and other pastoral and political groups. The collection includes some bulletins and handout material issued by such groups. Also papers relating to history of Jimbour House, and the Bell family.
Russell, C. W. (Charles Wilfred), 1907-1977
Cuthbert Edward Peek at Jimbour House for transit of Venus
Part of Bell Family Papers
Photocopies of extracts from letters written by Cuthbert Edward Peek while on the Queensland and British 1882 Transit Expedition, 29 Oct to 18 Dec 1882, 3 copies. [Cuthbert Edward Peek was a self-funded amateur astronomer who joined the official observers from the Royal Geographical Society that travelled to Jimbour Station and chose Jimbour House as the transit station to observe the transit of Venus; Jimbour House had been recently vacated].
Bell Family
Election material relating to Charles Wilfred Russell's campaign for the State seat of Dalby in 1947
Pamphlets, brochures, newspaper cuttings and photocopies of papers collected by Sir James Killen, who was C.W. Russell's Campaign Director.
Killen, James, Sir., 1925-2007
Part of Bell Family Papers
Photocopies of facsimiles of Jimbour land titles, Bell family wills, receipts and disbursements, 1906 to 1992.
Bell Family
Part of Bell Family Papers
Photocopies of newspaper and magazine articles of Jimbour house, 1959 to 2001. Christmas card depicting Jimbour House, undated.
Bell Family
Jimbour House, 125th anniversary
Part of Bell Family Papers
Order of service for Holy Communion on the 125th anniversary of the family of the Hon. Sir Joshua Peter Bell KCMG MLC commencing residence in Jimbour House on completion of its construction, 7 Apr 2002.
Bell Family
Part of Bell Family Papers
Photocopies, newspaper cuttings, correspondence relating to Jimbour House: Copy of ‘The imperfections of the great’, Mar 1978. --
Newspaper cuttings, 2009 to 2010. -- Copy of photograph of tombstone. -- Photocopies of newspaper cuttings. -- Dedication booklet for the Deborah Russell garden. -- Brochure of ‘Jimbour a walk through history’. -- Information sheets. -- Photocopy of photograph of Jimbour Station. -- ‘The Great wall of Jimbour: heritage and the cultural landscape’, from Public history review, vol 12, pp. 103-110, 2006. -- Printout of Friends of Jimbour – Jimbour e-Newsletter, Sep 2009.
Bell Family