Research material used for The recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn and Henry Kingsley; papers relating to the establishment of a pharmacy course at the University of Queensland.

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.

Ephemera relating to the work of Ken Campbell-Dobbie. Includes leaflets for: 'The playbox - burnt but boyant' with The Playbox Progress, Feb 1984; 'Metamorphosis : a classic workshop theatre company'; 'Brecht on Brecht' at The Hole in the Wall Theatre (1982); 'Phaedra'; 'My name is Pablo Picasso', performance schedule (1982); 'My name is Pablo Picasso' (1984); 'Uncle Vanya' at The Hole in the Wall Theatre (1981); 'Ring round the moon' (1981?); 'Spring awakening' (1980); two different flyers for 'Commission : a theatrical anthology of poetry' ; photocopied article from Artlook, June 1980; and one leaf with two photocopied newspaper cuttings.

Collection reflects the work of both Max and Thelma Afford, particularly from the early 1930s to the late 1950s. Personal and business correspondence (Max Afford : 1939-1966; Thelma Afford : 1930-1987). Drafts, typescripts and recordings from Max Afford's work for stage and radio. Transcript of interview, "Conversation with Thelma Afford" by Hazel De Berg. Typescript "Adelaide, little theatres of the 1930s and their visionaries" by Thelma Afford. Press books of Max Afford (1929-1936, 1936-1954). Albums of costume designs by Thelma Afford for the Minerva Theatre (1946-1949) and Sydney theatres and television (1938-1958). Family photograph album of Thelma Afford, with images of her early life in Broken Hill and Adelaide, and with Max Afford. Press material relating to Sesquicentenary parades costumed by Thelma Afford.

1479 35mm slide mounted transparencies, most individually captioned. Slides were arranged into subject files by the creator, as outlined below. Also 39 35mm negatives.

==Album 1==
2 pages of notes
Cath Healy, 18 slides
Mrs C-D personal, 21 slides
Papua 1-400, 229 slides
Papua and New Guinea 401-800, 211 slides

==Album 2==
Brisbane, 83 slides
NSW & ACT, 118 slides
USA, 21 slides
France, 12 slides
Pacific isles, 160 slides
Mekeo agricultural development, 211 slides
Mekeo rice project, 39 negatives

==Album 3==
Black and white II [images from PNG], 276 slides
Black and white III [images from PNG], 122 slides

162 colour 35 mm slides featuring buildings of Hayes and Scott.

Photocopy of Hansard transcript from 12 to 13 Sep 1968 regarding the Foco Club at the Trades Hall in Brisbane. It includes some information on the history of the Foco Club, speakers who have presented at the club, and mentions the Society for Democratic Action, Brian Laver, Alan Anderson, Victor Slater, Brisbane Underground Machine, Civil Liberties Co-ordinating Committee, Young Socialist League, among others.

The collection reflects not only the emergence of the central organising body of the Trades and Labor Council of Queensland, achieved in 1947, but the often radical and pioneering nature of the Queensland labour movement itself. This is especially to be seen in documents relating to the 1890s shearers' strikes, the Cosme Settlement, the 1912 tramway strike, the 1946/48 strikes and those of the 1960s. Includes minutes (1922-1984), reports, agenda and decisions, financial records, correspondence, subject files, newspaper clippings, and photographs.
Papers relate to : industrial disputes, Cosme colony, the Eight Hour Day Movement, Communist Party of Australia (Queensland) and Australian Labor Party, Workers' Educational Association, Australian Labor Day Committee, Queensland Industrial Court, Trade Union congresses, and Australian Council of Trade Unions.
Includes issues of The Organiser (1937-1939) and Cosme Monthly (1894-1904).

Photocopies of newspaper cuttings and headlines after debate in House of Representatives on 13 Feb 1968 and other Foco news articles. From 1968 to 1969.

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.