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Murray Island Fisheries Limited Records

  • UQFL49
  • Collection
  • 1929-1934

Correspondence; financial records; articles of Association and Prospectus of Company; newspaper cuttings; photograph album; and photographs.

Murray Island Fisheries Limited

George Sampson Papers

  • UQFL50
  • Collection
  • 1884-1959

Manuscripts, addresses to organizations, Buckingham Palace certificate, letters, biographical notes, annual report, programmes, clippings, conductor's baton, metronome, portrait.

Sampson, George, 1861-1949

Elaine Marlay Papers

  • UQFL98
  • Collection
  • 1936-1975

Papers on the history of dental education in Queensland, dental health and fluoridation of public water supplies.

Marlay, Elaine, 1915-1977

John Joseph Murphy Papers

  • UQFL99
  • Collection
  • 1932-1985

Diaries, correspondence, reports and photographs, relating to Murphy's service in the Australian administration of Papua New Guinea in a number of official positions between 1936 and 1969. Includes material relating to John J. Murphy's book, The book of Pidgin English; also a small amount of family history papers relating to the Campbell, Boyd and Pratt families, including letters from Austin Pratt written after his evacuation from Gallipoli.

Murphy, John J. (John Joseph), 1914-1997

Andrew Lang Petrie Papers

  • UQFL101
  • Collection
  • 1903-1983

Business records, letterbooks with prices, wages and accounts, job books for monumental and terrazzo work, photographs for Petrie family business of monumental masonry.

Petrie, Andrew Lang, 1854-1928

Hilda Tuxworth Papers

  • UQFL102
  • Collection
  • 1875-1993

Collection reflects Mrs Tuxworth's interest in the local history of the Northern Territory. It includes: correspondence, personal papers, newspaper cuttings, photographs, reel to reel tape, and twenty three diaries of Banka Banka station from 1928 to 1961 (some years are missing)

Hilda Tuxworth obtained some of the Banka Banka diaries around the time Mary Ward was selling the property. This took from 1970 to 1972 when the sold the property. Mary Ward shared the diaries between her niece, Val Edwards, and Hilda. Banka Banka Station was established by Thomas Nugent as a cattle station in 1895. Nugent left the station to his sister, Mary Ambrose. The first diary from 1928 to 1931 would have been recorded during the ownership by the the Ambrose family. The Ambrose Family owned and ran the station until Paddy Ambrose put Banka Banka on the market in 1940. Ted and Mary Ward bought it in 1941. Capital from the Wards' Blue Moon Mine was used initially to purchase and then to undertake improvements and developments of the station. From 1945 weather details began to be recorded in the diaries. Ted Ward died on 17 March 1959. Mary Ward ran the station until 1970. In 1972 the land titles for the pastoral lease were transferred to Nelson Bunker-Hunt.

Tuxworth, Hilda

W. Hodgen and Hodgen Records

  • UQFL116
  • Collection
  • 1898-1943.

Specifications correspondence, tenderbooks and related business records, and architectural plans and drawings. Includes some plans of other architects including Atkinson and McLay, Addison and MacDonald, and E.P. Trewern.

W. Hodgen and Hodgen

Daphne Mayo Papers

  • UQFL119
  • Collection
  • 1897-1982.

In this collection belonging to Daphne Mayo, there are over 100 folders of correspondence: 13 of these folders relate to Daphne Mayo's commissioned and uncommissioned sculptural works. There are over 1400 items of correspondence from Daphne Mayo's parents, Bill and Lila Mayo. There are over 1220 items of correspondence from friends and family of Daphne Mayo. A small number of outgoing letters or drafts are in the collection. There are financial records and related correspondence, bank records, tax records relating to the finances of Daphne Mayo regarding her artistic works, property investments, and investments in bonds and shares. Personal documents of Daphne Mayo are present such as: permits; identification documents; diaries; calendars; handwritten notes, writings, scribblings; and copious lists for all areas of Daphne Mayo's life. There are portrait photographs of Daphne Mayo and of her works from 1919-1974; as well as two albums of photographs taken by Judith McKay when Daphne Mayo's Sydney studio was packed up. Included in the collection are 48 sculpting tools used by Daphne Mayo. The most prolific of Daphne Mayo's works of art in the collection are her drawings and paintings with over 436 artworks, as well as 22 sculptures, and 46 sketchbooks. Retained in the collection are publications, inscribed by Daphne Mayo and others, exhibition catalogues, and newspaper and magazine cuttings given to Daphne Mayo or collected by her. Additionally material that is presumed to be from the estate of Lila Mayo, Daphne Mayo's mother, form part of the collection and this includes 6 folders of letters from 1930 to 1959 from Daphne Mayo to her parents.

Mayo, Daphne, 1895-1982

Thelma Forshaw Papers

  • UQFL77
  • Collection
  • 1923-1978

Certificates, war service papers, journal, correspondence, notebooks and clippings books, manuscripts of stories, pictures and photograph.

Forshaw, Thelma, 1923-

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