Correspondence, minutes, typescript articles, reports, circular letters, photographs and subject files on issues of interest to the Bacons' including the Communist Party of Australia, International Women's Day, Aboriginal Australians, the peace movement and women's rights. Bulk of collection from 1970s and 1980s.

Typescript articles on sociology and psychology of sport, especially surfing ; notes ; poems.

Correspondence, literary and artistic papers, poems [by Gardner and others] photographs, diaries and artwork with includes the triptych Madonna of the Springbrook Rain.

One volume of handwritten notes and 48 volumes of newspaper cuttings dealing with Queensland legal history.

85 photographs of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. Includes photographs of the volcanic eruptions near Rabaul in 1937.
Bulk are from 1937.

Material compiled in the course of researching the 1980 PhD thesis A study of Australian descriptive and travel writing, 1929-1945. Includes notes taken during conversations with Ernestine Hill, Louise Campbell, Laurie Hergenhan and others in 1972. Also includes correspondence with Robert Hill and others.
Records and ephemera relating to women in the labour movement and in the arts. Includes material relating to the Organising Committee of the Fourth Women and Labour Conference, the Feminist Film Workshop Resource Book Stage I’, and the Women & the Arts Advisory Committee’

One thousand and fifty two (1,052) 35mm colour slides and original bound manuscript relating to Trotter's publication Cities in the Sun, which were taken while he undertook his Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) Sisalkraft Travel Scholarship in 1963. An additional 147 35mm colour slides are included, which relate to architecture and design in Australia and the Torres Strait.

Correspondence, ephemera, newspaper cuttings, personal papers, photographs and other documents relating to the life and career of landscape architect Harry Oakman as collected by his friend and fellow landscape architect Malcolm Bunzli; papers relating to Malcolm's assistance with research projects on Harry Oakman, Karl Langer and the history of landscape architecture in Queensland; papers relating to the Harry Oakman Award; and lecture notes and papers created and collected by Malcolm during his studies in landscape architecture at Durham University, England, as well as during his career as the originator then coordinator and lecturer of the Graduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture course at the Queensland Institute of Technology (now known as the Queensland University of Technology or QUT).

Papers were originally stored in three plastic spiral bound folders and one two-ring binder.

Five handmade notebooks on conchology in brown paper wrappers. Numbered with pencil as volumes 1 to 4 on the front of each; fifth notebook is labelled as 'rough copies'. First volume describes classes of shells, their placement in broader biological classifications, and instructions on how to collect them. Handwritten notes in black pen, accompanied by elaborate diagrams and illustrations. Also has a glossary of shell-related scientific terms at the rear. Second, third and fourth volumes contain mostly pen and pencil diagrams and illustrations, many watercolour. Fifth volume contains illustrations and rough notes in black pen and pencil. First and fourth volumes contain loose duplicate bookplate inserts that state the volumes were 'presented to the University of Queensland Library by the descendants of Albert John Hockings and James Thompson Tilbury, 1966'. Dates found within the notes, as well as an insert of a folio from a 1944 edition of the British Medical Journal, indicate the notebooks were created between 1937 and 1944.

Material produced by the United Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress (UAICC) March 88 Committee for the march in Sydney to protest the Australian Bicentenary celebrations in 1988.