The database comprises history notes on railways, sugar, mining, local history of Queensland. It includes notes from government and private archival records which were on open access to the researcher at the time; newspapers; Government Gazettes; Parliamentary Papers; Railway Public and Working Time Tables; industry journals; minutes of shire councils and ceased companies; oral interviews; diaries in libraries; magazines; notes on photographs etc.

Oral history interviews on cassette tapes and microcassette tapes, and transcripts on floppy disks and CDs. These interviews were conducted with Queensland State and Federal women parliamentarians. McCulloch used these interviews in his publication From Suffragists to Legislators : 100 Years of Women's Suffrage in Queensland.

Academic papers, personal correspondence, personal papers, photographs.

Correspondence, publications, manuscripts and other material written by or relating to Professor Gordon Greenwood.

Contains postcards, greeting cards and letters,1991-1995 from Gwen Harwood to Gregory Kratzmann; draft typescript introduction, typescript and computer disk with manuscript for A Steady Storm of Correspondence published by UQP in 2001; notes by Normal Talbot on transcripts of letters from Gwen Harwood; and draft of talk on Gwen Harwood to VCE students in 2012.

Interview recordings, transcripts and correspondence.

Architectural plan, photographs, and research notes. The Luck family home at 50 Stephen Street, Camp Hill, Brisbane was designed by architect Arthur W F Bligh and built in about 1935.

Super 8 reels, audio reel, notes, digital files.

Minutes, reports, financial records, correspondence, circulars, programmes, seating plans for performances, constitution for the University of Queensland Dramatic Society.

Personal diaries of Glenn Cooke and papers relating to Cooke's work as an historian and curator of Queensland visual art and crafts, including his research notes about particular artists and lists of their artworks, text and photographic slides for presentations, material relating to exhibitions curated by Cooke, and files documenting exhibitions held at private Queensland galleries. The collection also includes Cooke's own records of the Queensland branch of the Contemporary Art Society, and his personal collection of beverage bottle labels.