Personal photographic prints, slides, negatives and postcards created or collected by Ray Sumner relating to her research on Amalie Dietrich and natural history. The images include reproductions of photographs, architectural plans, and perspectives of Landhaus J.C. Godeffroy and Museum Godeffroy; views of Siebenlehn, Hamburg, Dresden, Freiburg, Sächsische Schweiz (Saxon Switzerland), and other locations in Germany; members of the Godeffroy and Dietrich families; other individuals associated with Amalie Dietrich; Amalie Deitrich memorials, monuments and gravesite; specimens collected by Dietrich, primarily housed in the Herbarium Hamburgense at the time of capture and originally held in the Museum Godeffroy; museum labels, displays, and interiors in Germany; human remains, weapons, tools, and other artefacts, possibly of Aboriginal Australian origin; and views of Rockhampton, Canoona, Gracemere, Lake Elphinstone and other locations around Queensland.

Item 91 and Item 92 are copies of posed studio portraits of unidentified Aboriginal Australians, believed to be from Moreton Bay, Brisbane, taken by Amalie Dietrich in the 1860s.

Includes 84 black-and-white prints, 23 x 17 cm and smaller; 6 postcards, colour and black-and-white; 1 card; 2 mounted 35mm slides; 77 black-and-white negatives, 13 x 10 cm and smaller; 4 colour negatives, 13 x 10 cm; 65 black-and-white 35mm strip negatives; 8 black-and-white contact print proof sheets, 31 x 21 cm and smaller; 11 black-and-white strip contact print proofs. Many of the prints are from the negatives and the proofs.

Box 4
Four albums of largely unused postcards collected during World War I. Also includes postcards addressed to Eric Shapcott, Harold Shapcott's younger brother who died in a shooting accident at Glasshouse Mountains in 1918.
Album 1
96 unused postcards in a modern card album. Subjects include landscape views and buildings in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Tenerife, Perth (W.A.) as well as a few comical cards
Album 2
108 unused postcards in a modern card album. Subjects include landscape views and buildings in France.
Album 3
96 unused postcards in a modern card album. Subjects include landscape views and buildings in the United Kingdom.
Album 4
180 postcards, some used, in an old album. Includes mostly greeting cards, but also 52 views of Australian towns and cities.

These postcards and prints were collected by Daphne Mayo during her travels in Europe and were used to inform her artistic work. The postcards (300), are mostly blank, and are mostly of historical buildings and sculptural art works in Europe. Some postcards have notes written by Daphne Mayo and some are addressed to her from friends. Newspaper cuttings, pictures cut from magazines and a line drawing are among the postcards.