Album contains approx 340 photographs showing Stodart family and scenes from their 'grand tour' of Europe, possibly on the ship Buteshire, together with cuttings from souvenir publications. Places visited include Queensland coast, Thursday Island, Colombo, Port Said and Suez Canal, Malta, Sicily, Naples, Pompei, Rome, Florence, Venice, Austria, Dresden, Potsdam, Berlin, Koln, Rhine, Brussels, Paris, Versailles, Switzerland, Oxford, Stratford on Avon, Durham, London, Warwick, Wye Valley, Scotland, Ireland, Brittany and Norway. Captions mention Dr Brown, 4th Officer "Curly", Captain Wheatman, Mr Phillips, Adelaide, Misses McIllwraith Taylor, Mr McKinlay snr and jnr, Miss McPherson Bonmahon and Mrs Hughes.

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

Album of 20 photographs (14 x 11 cm) mounted between boards with handwritten captions. Includes photographs of the first 13 Tasmanian governors, together with governors from New South Wales and South Australia.

Contents:
Colonel David Collins
Colonel William Sorrell
Colonel George Arthur
Sir John Franklin
Sir John Eardley Wilmot
Sir William Thomas Denison
Sir Henry Fox Young
Colonel Thomas Gore Browne
Charles du Cane
Frederick Aloysius Weld
Sir John Henry Lefroy
Major Sir George C. Strahan
Sir Robert G. C. Hamilton
Lord Loftus, Governor of NSW
Sir W. F. D. Jervois, Governor of South Australia
Earl of Jersey, (V.A.G.C. Villiers), Governor of NSW
Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of NSW.
Right Hon. C. R. Carrington, Governor of NSW.
Earl of Kintore, Governor of South Australia
Richard Rossiter, New Caledonia.

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.

Eighty-four sepia and black and white photographs (various sizes) mounted on board. Photographs have no captions. Album contains photographic records of Basedow's childhood, his college days, his family and colleagues, and his participation in the Government North West Expedition in 1903. Includes 4 loose photographs of Melanesian women and men. Inscribed on p.1 in pencil: "Basedow."

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 20 photographs (26 x 35 cm and smaller) of Rugby Union football teams and matches, 1879-1890. Most teams are from Brisbane, some are from New South Wales and overseas. Teams include Brisbane Football Club, Intercolonial Queensland and New South Wales teams, Wanderers, All England team, Wallaroo Football Club, Emu Football Club, Combined Juniors and All England Club, Wasps and Arfomas.

Sepia photographs (various sizes) mounted on board. Some photographs have handwritten captions identifying players.
Includes a proof of an ink and pen drawing with caption: "NB The top part represents Fall's & Rocks. The bottom scratches are the boy's", and two newspaper cuttings on the Pioneers of Moreton Bay. Green album engraved with gold and word Album written on cover.

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 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 52 albumen prints, (20 x 15cm) mounted on board. Written on the images in white capital letters are captions, 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.

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 tile 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.