Lecture given by Josephine Small (nee Delpratt) to the Queensland Women's Historical Association, 10 November 1966, on the history of the Delpratt family.
Also notes on the history of the family, and photocopied newspaper clippings on the history and sale of Tambourine House, home of the Delpratts. Includes one clipping on Normanby, home of the Macarthurs.

This transcription of the original item was compiled and annotated by Richard Fotheringham. There is a note in the top right-hand corner 'In the posession [sic] of Hon. Joshua Thomas Bell circ. 1908-9'. Footnote on first page: 'Two manuscript notes in different hands are written in the right margin at this point ... indicates that this was compiled c. 1902 (Thomas died Jan 1904).' These recollections were shared with his son, Arthur Hoey Davis (1868-1935) (whose pen name was Steele Rudd) mostly likely in the early 1900's. Thomas Davis was a former convict. His memoir covers the period from 1849 to the separation of Queensland from New South Wales in 1859. Davis initially worked with J. C. Burnett's Survey Party. He recounts stories of the places he visited and their history, various encounters with local indigenous groups and individuals, language and culture of the Aboriginal people of the area, kinship system in the Maronoa and Balonne region, and a list of more than 100 names and phrases in the dialect of the people of the Balonne, Dawson and Comet river. Joshua Peter Bell is mentioned several times in memoir. This and other recollections by Thomas Davis were collected by Joshua Thomas Bell in the first decade of the 20th century.

Typescript notes with handwritten emendations of a presentation in 1959 given by Clem Lack on the story of Queensland journalism beginning in 1846.

This collection is a statistical record and history of Rugby League football in Rockhampton and Central Queensland. According to Syd Fisher it "began as a quest for club premiership winners then developed into all playing aspects of the game".

Articles, correspondence, manuscripts, radio scripts, note books, newspaper clippings, records of the Advisory Committee on Eastern Trade, the Workers' Educational Association and the University of Queensland Senate.

Diaries, research notes, photographs, personal papers. Includes handwritten notebooks; notes from the Archer family letters; material of Peter Fitzallen MacDonald; research material to her PhD (1986); correspondence, photographs, research notes, newspaper cuttings and/or reviews to her some of her publications including: Cattle Country (UQP, 1988), Rockhampton : a history of city and district (UQP, 1981), A Proud Name, Gladstone : city that waited (Boolarong Press, 1988), Letters of an Australian Pioneer Family, 1927-1880 (written with Graeme Bucknall), West of Matilda (CQU Press, 2001), Magic ships (CQU Press, 1997), Over earth and ocean (UQP, 1999), Treasures in a Tea Tin (privately published), Capricornia sketch book (CQUP, 2001). Also includes typescripts of speeches, talks and papers by Lorna on a variety of subjects; two letters from Elizabeth Gilmour (John Denis Fryer's sister) from 1976; and some correspondence from Judith Wright.

Correspondence, publications, compact discs, research papers and conference papers, book reviews relating to Clive Moore’s work on Indigenous Australians, Pacific Islanders and the Queensland sugar factory history.

Photographs, correspondence, diaries, journals, newspaper cuttings, personal papers relating to the Bell Family, Jimbour Station, various Bell Family properties, Jimbour House, and its occupants.

‘Codrington Crawshay’, with note on first page ‘In the possession of the Hon. J. T. Bell. Circ. 1980-9’, typescript, 3 pages, 2 copies, and copy of first page, undated [Extract from ‘The Northern Miner’, Mon 25 Apr 1910]

Notes from Alexander Johnston. Typescript and carbon copy, 4 leaves, with note on first page ‘In the possession of the Hon. J. T. Bell. Circ. 1908-9’, undated. One typescript copy, 3 leaves, undated. Johnston recalls his time on the Darling Downs where he arrived in 1842, his time in Canning Downs, hostilities with Aboriginal Australians including at Soldiers' Flat and Laidley, Jimbour, Dalby, and people such as Ludwig Leichhardt, Henry Dennis, and Warraba.