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

Consists of correspondence, poetry, programs and invitations, wooden printing blocks, and photographs relating to Noel Macainsh as well as research material, publications and photographs relating to Amalie Dietrich.

Correspondence, manuscripts, research notes and other material written by or relating to Lilla Watson.

Research material for thesis (University of Queensland, MA, 1994): “A history of political theatre in Brisbane as part of working-class cultural tradition and heritage: the Workers' Education Dramatic Society and the Student/Unity/New Theatre (1930-1962)". Includes playscripts, mostly performed by Student / Brisbane New Theatre, New Theatre, Unity Theatre; as well as playscripts, skits, and sketches by Jim Crawford.

Research material, drafts and proofs for her book 'Defiance: political theatre in Brisbane 1930-1962' (2000).

Personal papers of Murray Norris, notebooks of Ursula Southwell, and papers concerning George Eaton, Jim Crawford and other prominent figures in labour movement and radical culture circles. Oral history recordings, photographs and other research material relating to the Young Communist League, Eureka Youth League, leftwing bookshops in Brisbane and leftwing political activism. Some records of the Communist Party of Australia. Photographs, pamphlets and other material relating to the 1948 Queensland rail strike. Research material on the post-WW2 peace movement. Articles and speeches by Connie Healy and others are included in the collection as well as some personal correspondence and research material related to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Notebooks, photographs, slides, correspondence, reports and other material relating to land use and conservation, and the establishment of National Parks in Queensland.
It includes images of people (Album 4), stone axes (Album 1 and 4), middens (Album 4), Kata Tjuta and Uluru (Albums 1, 3 and 4), Jane Table Hill (Rirrmerr) (Albums 1 and 4) and burial sites (Albums 1, 3 and 4).

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions. This resource contains images of culturally sensitive sites.

Twenty-five subject files relating to social justice campaigns. Each file may contain correspondence, clippings, copies of articles, and ephemera.

Research materials relating to Central Cape York Peninsular languages collected from 1964 to 2003. Collection includes grammars, lexical material and text material from Oykangand. Materials comprise written notes, critical literature, theses, data CDs, audio cassettes and reel to reel tape recordings.
Collection includes tape list and introduction to collection, both by Dr Sommer. Fryer Library listing provides access to relevant box.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that audio recordings in this resource contain material of a personal or sexual nature which may cause embarrassment or offence. Manuscript papers may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased and could contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms and descriptions.

Playscripts, posters, articles, research notes, transcripts and publications.

Research material (including notes and photocopied archival material) and correspondence relating to Deebing Creek and Purga Aboriginal Missions. Includes transcripts of interviews, photocopies of Queensland Department of Public Instruction records, material for history thesis, and files of Deebing Creek Cultural Committee relating to the Committee's efforts to have part of original Deebing Creek Mission made an Aboriginal reserve. Also includes letters from Frances Wright, and maps. Much of the material was used for Bill Thorpe's book, 'Remembering the forgotten : a history of the Deebing Creek Aboriginal Mission in Queensland 1887-1915'. Includes typescript and CD copies of Thorpe's thesis, 'Archibald Meston and the Aborigines'.

Documents, leaflets, newspaper cuttings and correspondence on various topics, subject files, banners, badges, posters, periodicals, photographic material, constitution and programmes, rules, minutes, agendas, cashbooks, reports of local branches and Queensland Branch of Union of Australian Women, newsletters.

People in the photographs include: Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), Ruth Wallace, Muriel Callofe [? Spelling], Joyce Lightning, C. Smith, M McBride, Sandra McGinness, Margaret Macdonald, Kerrie Davis, Gladys O’Shane, Lynette Macdonald, Margaret O’Shane, Doris Webb, Pat O’Shane, Janet Webb, Josie Dyer, and Marcia Langton.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions. This resource contains images of culturally sensitive sites.