Guide to manuscripts on Ipswich, Queensland

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Armitage, Lilian Mary Letter to Mrs. Anders, 19441944 Letter 23 July 1944 to Mrs. Anders thanking her for two book prizes, discussing essays of school pupils. Letterhead: Girls Grammar School, Ipswich.F1292
Barker, Thomas Letters 1921-1922 Letters (2) 2 July 1921, 18 Oct. 1922 to W. J. Gall re a copy of Early settlement of Queensland, and a history of Ipswich. UQFL43 /F/271
Binnie family Colliery Records 1902-1966 Consignment books, sales journals, ledgers, cash books, receipt books, wages/salaries books, insurance registers, day books, petty cash books. Mine record books, agenda books and minutes. Note books from the Blackheath Colliery, Bonnie Dundee Coal Company, Harts Aberdare Collieries Ltd., Caledonian Collieries, Edward S. Cornwall Colliery and Rothwell Haigh Colliery. Maps and plans of above collieries and geological and topographical survey maps. UQFL195
Bundamba Colliery Record of coal output from Bundamba Colliery 1885-1905 Includes monthly records of coal output by individual miners, coal sales at pit 1885-1890, miners pay 1899, coal got by daymen 1901-1905, output of dross 1885-1900. F2431
Gall, William James Papers 1851-1860 Diaries, newspaper clippings 1892-1934, official and private correspondence, photographs, records, Prizewinners list from Ipswich Grammar School, financial papers, invitations and programmes; inter-departmental memoranda from period as Under-Secretary for Home Affairs and Protector of Aborigines; manager and inspector list from Bank of New South Wales, mining and share prospectuses, reports and circulars; notes on Queensland and Australian history. UQFL43
Gill, George Brockwell Architectural drawings in the Conrad and Gargett Collection 1923? Architectural drawings of Ipswich buildings including Cribb and Foote, and E. Bostock and Sons UQFL228
Haenke, Martin William Architectural Drawings 1900-1944 Coding sheets, photos of plans ; Newspaper clippings, mining claims, Balgowan letters ; Publications, bulletins on agriculture, mines and roads ; Catalogues, papers, plans of Texas Brick Company Plant ; Receipts, letters, leases associated with Takura, accounts and minutes connected with Rhondda Colliery Miscellaneous reports and journals ; Papers relating to Pratten Gold Mine, and Rosewood, Palmers Aberdare, and Ipswich City Collieries, and Blair Athol notebook ; Books of letters 1915-1944, Westvale Collieries Bore Hole records Tractor manuals ; Machinery booklets, Rhondda Colliery coal cleaning buckets ; Annual reports of Bankstown Brick and Tile Company, prospectuses, standards and patents ; Cash book for Balgowan Collieries, journal 1913-1918, ledger 1908-1914 and journal of coal deliveries 1914-1918 ; Brick making machinery booklets and letters ;Building, construction catalogues ; Account book 1913-1918. Architectural plans (ca. 280)UQFL115
Harris, George Reminiscences of my early days in Ipswich 1923? Personal memoir of an early settler of Ipswich. Describes Ipswich and surrounds in the 19th century, including accounts of contacts with local indigenous people. Includes account of 1893 flood of Brisbane River. F344
Hayes, Edward Leo The Ipswich TradeNo Date Written by F.W.S. Cumbrae-Stewart UQFL2/76
Ipswich Hospital for the Insane Nurses leave of absence forms 1929Pages of Nurses attendance register noting, also, leave of absence on a weekly basis.F3210
Jefferies Family Papers 1929 Scrapbook contains newspaper clippings and concert programmes relating to musical societies in Brisbane and Ipswich 1870's-1890's ; notes on Brisbane Musical Union; family financial statements. Photograph is of R.T. Jefferies's headstone and correspondence between Jefferies’s great-grandson and Prof. Malcolm Gillies, University of Queensland, relates to provenance of scrapbook and gives details of family history. F1792
Kendall, Peter H. N. The Camerons and Rankens : from the Hunter, N.S.W. to the Fassifern District, Boonah and Ipswich/Toowoomba, Queensland : 1830s to 1920s 1988 Compilation of typescript and holograph articles and notes by various authors, maps, and certificates F3116
Lancaster, Maude General exercise book 1895 Black covered exercise book, mss in ink. Daily work book of a pupil teacher in North Ipswich, Queensland, Feb-May 1895. F869
Langer, Karl Architectural drawings 1947-1968 Architectural drawings, financial records, correspondence, biographical and personal notes, articles, speeches, job photos, subject files, diaries, journal and newspaper cuttings. Buildings which drawings and files relate to include St. Peters Lutheran College, Brisbane; Ipswich Girls Grammar School; Ipswich Boys Grammar School; Lennons Hotel, Brisbane and Lennons Hotel, Broadbeach. UQFL158
Littler, J. W. Excursion notebook 1946 Handwritten excursion notebook for geology field trips. Contains details of excursions including Kalinga, Ipswich, and Mt. Tamborine during 1946, some photographs included. F967
  Notes on Claremont 19?? Notes on the historic house Claremont F1756
Parry, Nerida A. The Brynhyfryd story 1979 About the castle of Brynhyfryd at Blackstone in the Ipswich district and its owner, Lewis Thomas M.L.C. F326
Siemon Family Albums No date Bound volumes containing press clippings, obituary notices and correspondence (letters and cards of condolence) relating to the deaths of family members F770
Welsby, Albert Ernest Papers 1903-1964 Newspaper cuttings, 1904-1924, form bulk of the collection. Also included : personal diaries relating to Ipswich social life and Welsby's railway duties, 1906-1914; notebooks, receipts, brochures, notices, papers relating to Queensland Party, correspondence. UQFL40
White, Helen Biographical note 1975 Biographical note on her retirement as headmistress of Ipswich Girls Grammar School F1127
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