Album of 12 albumen prints, 15.5 x 10.5 cm, mounted on boards. Inscription on verso front end-paper: "From William Shaw to his Aunt Sarah with his best love. Australia, April 1876". Images attributed to Queensland photographer John Deazeley.
Images are:
1: Parliament House from Botanic Gardens ;
2: Panoramic view of City from Wickham Terrace no. 1 ;
3: Panoramic view of City from Wickham Terrace no. 2 ;
4: Panoramic view of City from Wickham Terrace no. 3 ;
5: View from Wickham Terrace "Grammar School" ;
6: City & shipping from Bowen Terrace.
7: Brisbane Bridge ;
8: Queen Street from Edward Street looking east ;
9: View of river and City from Kangaroo Point ;
10: The Fern Island, Botanic Gardens ;
11: Kangaroo Point ;
12: Botanic Gardens & Parliament House from South Brisbane.

Album of 25 albumen prints, 20 x 16 cm, mounted on boards. Charters Towers, Qld : Imperial Studio. No captions on photographs. Images: Rooney & Co., Timber Merchants, Steam Sawmills & Joinery Manufacturers, Townsville, ca. 1887. -- Eaton's Imperial Hotel in Flinders Street, Townsville, ca. 1908. -- Bank of new South Wales and Commercial Hotel, Townsville, ca. 1888. -- View of the east end of Flinders Street, Townsville, ca. 1887. -- East end of Flinders Street in Townsville, Queensland, ca. 1888. -- Eastern end of Flinders Street, Townsville, ca. 1889. -- Wagon carrying sacks of produce, another carriage with Singers Sewing Machines on side. Views of shops in background including National Mutual Australasia. Denham Street in Townsville around 1887. -- Old Town Hall and Post Office buildings, Townsville, 1887. -- Magistrates Court with policeman outside [designed by F.D.G. Stanley]. -- Presbyterian stone Church at base pf Castle Hill. -- Presbyterian stone Church at base pf Castle Hill. -- View of houses , Castle Hill in background. -- St. Joseph's Church and Convent, Townsville, ca. 1888. -- Townsville's Strand viewed from Melton Hill, ca, 1890. -- View of garden and houses in background. -- Harbour with ships and view to Castle Hill. -- Townsville orphanage, Warburton Street, with children in foreground. -- Townsville Grammer School, 1887 [Opened 1888, destroyed by cyclone 1903]. -- Townsville Hospital ca. 1887. -- Sketch of Townsville Harbour. -- View of water with ship at pier, ferry crossing and houses in background. -- Waterfront with logs and small boats. -- View of boat on water and Steam Saw Mills & Joinery Works. -- View of boats at Burn Philps. -- Central State School in Townsville, Queensland, ca. 1888

Album of 29 sepia photographs (15.5 x 11 cm mounted on boards).

Album of twelve sepia photographs of views of North Queensland including Cairns, Herberton, Barron George, Barron Falls, Hambledon and railways in the area. Title handwritten inside album. Album is undated. A handwritten list of captions and supplied item numbers has been inserted prior to the title page. Most photographs appear to be around the construction of the railway to Herberton which began in Cairns in 1886. It finished in Ravenshoe in 1916.

Written on the inside cover the album, presumably by the seller: "In. [Inventory] 5033. Royal Qto. Oblong Purple toned. 10 [shillings]". These type of photographs were often taken by the Queensland Government.

Each photo has caption, supplied information is included in square brackets:

1. Glacier Rock . --
2. [Cairns-Herberton railway] From 28 bridge. --
3. Surprise Creek bridge [Cairns-Herberton railway]. --
4. Cairns end of long tunnel. --
5. The Barron Gorge. --
6. Herberton end of the tunnel. --
7. Near the Barron. --
8. Barron Falls. --
9. Aborigines of Cairns-Herberton district. --
10. Kanaka women working in sugar cane. --
11. Hambledon Sugar Plantation Cairns, general views. --
12. Hoeing weeds in young cane.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this manuscript may contain images or names of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased.

Album of twenty-four albumen prints (20 x 25 cm) mounted on boards. Views include public buildings, University of Sydney, some inner suburbs, and views of the bays. Some photos with caption. With handwritten inscription: "Presented to our friend L.A. Bernays, Brisbane, 26 August 1876. E. L. Montefiore, Jules Joubert, Commissioners for N. S. Wales at Queensland Exhibition"

Album of 15 black and white photographs (various sizes, mounted on boards). Photographic reproduction with number and caption inscribed at foot of photographs. On cover in gold tooling: H.S. Warde Xmas 1908. Harvey Standish Warde (1873-1918) was Mining Inspector for the Central Division in 1908.

Album, mass produced with 'Kodak' on the cover. Contains eighteen real photo postcards, "Kodak Austral" series (13 x 8cm) mounted in between board. Photographic reproduction with caption inscribed at foot of photographs. Inscribed on inside cover: To Mother wishing you a Merry Xmas and very Happy New Year with best of wishes and love, from your loving son, Jack, 1920. Inscribed on back inside cover: Jack's official number 12.400.

Album of 52 albumen prints, (20 x 15cm) mounted on board. Captions include a photographic number and the name of the photographic studio 'Kerry, Photo, Sydney'. Handwritten on the mounting boards are pencil captions, often with less information than the captions on the images and the photographic number supplied by Kerry crossed out and alternative numbering provided. The album itself has been bound and has a handwritten spine title stuck to it "Australian Aboriginal ceremonies". It looks to have been added to the album at a later date, thus not the original title of the album. Photographs are most likely taken between 1875 and 1930.

The images are of Australian Aboriginal people in what appears to be mostly staged poses for Australian Aboriginal ceremonies, corroborees, dance, tracking, fights as well as photographs of various individuals. Some of the photographs have painted backdrops. Some of the people in the photographs were members of "Meston's Wild Australia" (also know as Archibald Meston's "Wild Australia Show"). There are some photographs that were most likely taken in Sydney in December 1892 by Charles Kerry. This is based on the beach setting and the backdrops being identical to those photographs for Archibald Meston's "Wild Australia Show".

Listed below are the contents of the album. The number corresponds to the page number in the album; the title is what appears on the image itself; and in brackets is the Kerry Studio photograph number and the alternative number if provided. Information in square brackets is provided by the processing archivist:

1. Aboriginal ceremony. Death of the deity (Kerry, Photograph number 2804 / 136). --
2. Leaving the bora ceremony (Kerry, Photograph number 2616). --
3. Crossing the mystic figures (Kerry, Photograph number 2614 / 137). --
4. Approaching the kings ground (Kerry, Photograph number 2615 / 138). --
5. Aboriginal ceremony "The sick warrior" (Kerry, Photograph number 2598 / 139). --
6. Aboriginal ceremony "Lying in wait" (Kerry, Photograph number 2608 / 140). --
7. Aboriginal ceremony "Death of the wild boar" (Kerry, Photograph number 2603 / 141). --
8. Aboriginal ceremony "Arrival of the king" (Kerry, Photograph number 2605 / 142). --
9. Aboriginal bora. "Waiting the decision of the king" (Kerry, Photograph number 2617 / 143). --
10. Aboriginal ceremony. "A duel to the death" (Kerry, Photograph number 2610 / 144). --
11. Aborigines worshiping figure of the deity (Kerry, Photograph number 2597 / 145). --
12. Arrival of the novices [unable to decipher writing on photograph] (Kerry, Photograph number 2611 / 146). --
13. Aboriginal ceremony "Warriors in ambush" (Kerry, Photograph number 2600). --
14. Aboriginal ceremony "Opening the Bora" (Kerry, Photograph number 2609 / 147). --
15. Aboriginal ceremony, "Spearing the wild bull" (Kerry, Photograph number 2599 / 148). --
16. Aboriginal corroboree "A battle" (Kerry, Photograph number 2586 / 149). --
17. Aboriginal ceremony "Following the footsteps of the deity" (Kerry, Photograph number 2606 / 150). --
18. Waiting for instructions ([Kerry, Photograph number] 2612 / 151). --
19. Aboriginals "Corroboree" (Kerry, Photograph number 2584). --
20. Aboriginal ceremony, "The Bora tree" (Kerry, Photograph number 2607 / 152). --
21. Aboriginal ceremony, "Spearing the Alligator" (Kerry, Photograph number 2601/ 153). --
22. Aboriginal ceremony, "Gathering wild bird eggs" (Kerry, Photograph number 2602 / 154). --
23. Aboriginals "Corroboree" (Kerry, Photograph number 2585 / 155). --
24. Aboriginal corroboree "Healing the sick warrior" (Kerry, Photograph number 2588 / 156). --
25. [Writing indecipherable] "Drafting sheep" (Kerry, Photograph number 2587 / 157). --
26. Aboriginals tracking ([Kerry, Photograph number] 2583 / 158). --
27. Corroboree Austn Aborigines [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1360 / 159). --
28. "Wermugga Dance" Austn Aboriginals [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1361 / 160). --
29. Aboriginals & Black Trackers (Kerry, Photograph number 1388 / 161). --
30. Group fighting men [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1391 / 162). --
31. Bora Corroboree (Kerry, Photograph number 1390). --
32. Aboriginal Corroboree (Kerry, Photograph number 1367). --
33. Fish Corroboree (Kerry, Photograph number 1393 / 163). --
34. Aboriginals & Black Trackers (Kerry, Photograph number 1378 / 164). --
35. Wermugga Corroboree (Kerry, Photograph number 1392 / 165). --
36. Aboriginals & Black Tracker (Kerry, Photograph number 1389 / 166). --
37. [Writing indecipherable on photograph] Group of Northern Territory natives (Kerry, Photograph number 1368). --
38. An Aboriginal fight (Kerry, Photograph number 2553). --
39. Aboriginals, upper Macleay River (Kerry, Photograph number 2162 / 167). --
40. Aboriginals, upper Macleay River (Kerry, Photograph number 2160). --
41. Aboriginals, upper Macleay River (Kerry, Photograph number 2161). --
42. Darling R. natives (Kerry, Photograph number 141). --
43. Aboriginal climbing tree (Kerry, Photograph number 2126 / 168). --
44. Aboriginal spearing fish (Kerry, Photograph number 2125 / 169). --
45. Native climbing with vine (Kerry, Photograph number 535). --
46. "Wharangoo". Aboriginal, Tenterfield District [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1989 / 170). --
47. "Borree", Aboriginal Chief, Jervis Bay (Kerry, Photograph number 2013). --
48. "Yenohan". Girl, Tumut Tribe, N.S.W. (Kerry, Photograph number 1899 / 171). --
49. Aboriginal women [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1914 / 172). --
50. Aboriginal girl, Brungle [painted backdrop] (Kerry, Photograph number 1913 / 173). --
51. Aboriginal warrior, Bellinger River (Kerry, Photograph number 2014). --
52. Aboriginal with Derri Head dress (Kerry, Photograph number 1371 / 174).

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that photographs may contain images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms and descriptions. The descendants' request was that the subjects of the photos be recognised as Wailwan. None of the descendants expressed any desire to censor or withdraw the photos from general viewing. In particular, women should be cautious when viewing the image as it includes some aspects of traditional Men's Business.

Album of 53 sepia photographs of Samoan people and scenery, (20 x 15cm) mounted on board. Most photographs are captioned, numbered and annotated with imprint of Kerry Photo Sydney. Some have additional pencilled numbering on boards.

Album of 97 albumen prints of Australia, New Zealand, Scotland and United States of America, (19.5 x 14.5cm) mounted on board. Many photographs have printed and numbered captions, and initials F.A.C. Some have additional pencilled captions on boards. On cover: Scraps. One photograph has initials J.V which is attributed to James Valentine (1815-1879)