Photographs, correspondence, diaries, journals, newspaper cuttings, personal papers relating to the Bell Family, Jimbour Station, various Bell Family properties, Jimbour House, and its occupants.

This collection is a statistical record and history of Rugby League football in Rockhampton and Central Queensland. According to Syd Fisher it "began as a quest for club premiership winners then developed into all playing aspects of the game".

Articles, correspondence, manuscripts, radio scripts, note books, newspaper clippings, records of the Advisory Committee on Eastern Trade, the Workers' Educational Association and the University of Queensland Senate.

Diaries, research notes, photographs, personal papers. Includes handwritten notebooks; notes from the Archer family letters; material of Peter Fitzallen MacDonald; research material to her PhD (1986); correspondence, photographs, research notes, newspaper cuttings and/or reviews to her some of her publications including: Cattle Country (UQP, 1988), Rockhampton : a history of city and district (UQP, 1981), A Proud Name, Gladstone : city that waited (Boolarong Press, 1988), Letters of an Australian Pioneer Family, 1927-1880 (written with Graeme Bucknall), West of Matilda (CQU Press, 2001), Magic ships (CQU Press, 1997), Over earth and ocean (UQP, 1999), Treasures in a Tea Tin (privately published), Capricornia sketch book (CQUP, 2001). Also includes typescripts of speeches, talks and papers by Lorna on a variety of subjects; two letters from Elizabeth Gilmour (John Denis Fryer's sister) from 1976; and some correspondence from Judith Wright.

Correspondence, publications, compact discs, research papers and conference papers, book reviews relating to Clive Moore’s work on Indigenous Australians, Pacific Islanders and the Queensland sugar factory history.