Files and recordings relating to administration and publications of the Women in Architecture Association Queensland. Inlcudes: meeting minutes; constitution; correspondence; newsletters; newspaper cuttings; workshop, exhibition and convention documents; audio recordings of radio interviews with Fiona Gardener; recording of a conference workshopin 1983; biographical timelines of Women in Architecture Association (Qld.), Beatrice May Hutton and Fiona Gardiner.

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.

Correspondence, speech notes and arwork related to Bill Curnow. Incoming and outgoing correspondence includes: working with CSIRO as Project Architect for the Australian National Animal Health Laboratory (ANAHL); with Correctional Facilities; Thiess; the University of Newcastle; and references with biographical information such as career highlights.

Speech notes include: Speech given entitled ‘C.S.I.R.O. Laboratory Animals, Their Production, Care and Housing’, 16 Feb 1972; Keynote address given at the occasion of the graduation dinner. Corrective Services Academy, Department of Corrective Services, New South Wales, 2 Dec 1994; Paper presented to the Queensland University of Technology’s Faculty of building Science entitles ‘The Changing faces of Architecture’ [undated]; Handwritten notes for a speech on private prisons entitled ‘Measuring the tangible and intangible benefits of a tender’ [undated]; Handwritten document about the development of private prisons in Australia entitled ‘Southern Cross Corrections’ [undated]; Typed document entitled ‘The Australian National Animal Health Laboratory’ [undated]; Brochure for Wang’s OPEN/image software used by the Royal Commission into the New south Wales Police Service, annotated, [undated]; andPhotocopy of handwritten notes outlining Curnow’s professional achievements and personal life [undated].

There is a caricature portrait of William Curnow, created on 22 Mar 1970 by unknown artist [initials B.Y.K.].

Records, correspondence and photographs relating to the Well Made Plans exhibition of the Queensland Architectural Archive held in the Fryer Library. Included in this file:
Friends of Fryer newsletter, includes article about the Queensland Architectural Archive and upcoming exhibition ‘Well Made Plans’, no. 21, 1988. -- Records relating to the Proposed Exhibition for the Queensland Architectural Archive in the Fryer Library, University of Queensland. -- Copy of the architectural drawing on front cover on ‘Well made plans’. -- Notes and costings for the exhibition. --Three b/w photographs of Lord Mayor Sallyanne Atkinson launching the exhibition, with Don Watson, Ron Voller and other guests.-- Speech notes for a slideshow presentation on Architectural history headed ‘Fryer Talk’. -- 12 colour transparencies and photographic prints of the Exhibition layout. -- 12 b/w negatives and contact prints of the Exhibition layout. -- Letter from Cameron Chisholm & Nicol to F A Pidgeon (cc Don Watson) seeking sponsorship of QAA Exhibition. -- Finlayson brochure with drawings and measurements for the exhibition, costings, and layout of the venue.

Sixty two architectural drawings for twenty seven jobs. Two photograph albums: Photograph album, 1896 to 1908, ‘Family and historic photographs taken and developed by W C Voller, 1896 on', some photographs in this album were taken by Edward Day Bird; and Photograph album, ‘Family and historic photographs taken and developed by W C Voller, 1906 on’, 1906 – 1915. Some captions in this album by Walter Voller, others by one of his children. In these captions Ellen and Walter Voller are referred to as ‘Mum’ and ‘Dad’ and Roderic and Lilla by their first names. Kenneth Voller was born a few years after his siblings Rod and Lilla.

Drawings of residential and commercial buildings in Brisbane and regional Queensland. Includes some Blackburne and Gzell plans. The collection includes plans for Twelfth Night Theatre.

Vibert McKirdy Brown worked as an architect in North Queensland in the first half of the 20th century. He drew plans for churches, schools, presbyteries, residential houses, hotels, stores, the Atherton hospital and silos for the Atherton Tablelands Maize Board. Most of the buildings were constructed. Some have since been demolished. Two have been heritage listed: the 1930s extension to the Bolands Centre in Cairns and Exchange Hotel in Mossman.

Architectural drawings, photographs and some associated records relating to the design and construction of the Torbreck residential complex at Highgate Hill, Brisbane. The Torbreck complex was constructed in 1958-1960, and was the first multistoreyed home unit development in Queensland. Rising prominently from the crest of Highgate Hill, Torbreck comprises 150 units spread across an eightstorey garden block and a fourteen-storey tower block, surrounded by landscaped gardens on a one and a half acre site. The complex was designed by Queensland architects A.H. Job and R.P. Froud, whose design ideas and innovative use of old and new materials were adaptations of the post-war International Style, in particular the North American model. At the time of its conception, Torbreck received support from the Queensland Government which considered high-density residential developments of this kind as one possible solution to Brisbane’s emerging suburban sprawl. After construction, the project’s developer, Torbeck Pty Ltd (later Torbreck Home Units Ltd), retained company title over the units. Unit owners became share holders in the company to the value of their unit’s purchase price, an arrangement that has persisted despite the introduction of the more popular strata title option in 1965. Torbreck remains substantially intact and continues to rank as one of Brisbane’s most prominent architectural landmarks.

Biographical notes on Ted Crofts; two student drawings; twenty x 35mm slides from the early private collection of Ted Crofts (Prangley and Crofts, Architects); seven Christmas cards featuring sketches by Crofts; and drafting equipment.