UQFL 122 Paul Tripcony Collection

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1 UQFL 122 Paul Tripcony Collection Size Contents Biography Notes 9 boxes, 2 parcels Certificates and testimonials, outgoing and incoming correspondence, photographs, financial papers, booksellers' catalogues and newsletters, publishers' announcements, political and pressure group leaflets, maps of Moreton Bay Islands, notices and plans of Moreton Bay land for sale, newspaper cuttings, subject files on people and organisations, notes and notebooks. Most papers cover the period from the 1950s to the 1970s. Paul Tripcony was born at Dunwich on Stradbroke Island in He worked as a grader driver, machinery man, and road maker. Tripcony was interested in Australian aborigines and their culture and collected aboriginal artefacts. He had an extensive collection of both Australian and overseas literature, which covered his wide range of interests from politics to poetry. His collection included many limited editions and rare items. He died in Open access Box 1 Folder 1: Certificates and Testimonials Certificate of competency, Second Class Refrigeration, no 776, issued to Paul Tripcony by Thomas Alford, Chairman of the Board of Examiners, 23 Sep 1938 [two copies] Certificate of Competency, Second Class Internal Combustion, no 2710, issued to Paul Tripcony by Thomas Alford, Chairman of the Board of Examiners, 23 Sep 1938 Testimonials from: Bottomley Brothers Ice Manufacturers, 8 Jul 1938 [Paul Tripcony worked there from 8 Feb 28 May 1938] [typescript copy of reference provided along with original] Premier Ice and Ice Cream Coy Pty Ltd, 23 Aug 1938 [Paul Tripcony worked there assisting the engineer Jun Aug 1938] [typescript copy of reference provided along with original] Industrial Court of Queensland authorisation for Paul Tripcony being an Officer of the Federated Liquor Trade Employees Union of Australasia (Qld Branch) Union of Employees to enter places of employment, 12 Feb 1930 Two red ribbons marked Labour Day, May 7 th, 1928 Motor Spirit ration tickets [4], valid until 30 Sep 1948 Commonwealth of Australia, application for the issue of a new ration card to replace one that has been lost, stolen, destroyed or defaced, nd Last updated: 17/08/12 University of Queensland 1

2 Folder 2: Correspondence: Outgoing Draft of note thanking staff of Greenslopes Repatriation Hospital, Reverend Crossman, relatives and friends on the occasion of a bereavement, nd, 1p Postcard to Rt Hon J Francis, M H R Canberra, opposing re-armament of Japan, 1950s Letter to Mr K. Cameron, Hon. Secretary, Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 20 May 1961, 3p [gives details of Paul Tripcony s family history, especially his grandfather, Thomas Barton Tripcony, one of the first settlers in Bribie Passage] Letter to Kath Walker, 20 Jan 1972, 1p Letter to Kath Walker, 1970s, 3p [incomplete] Letter to Miss Barbara Swan answering her enquiry about stone artefacts donated to the University of Queensland, 18 Jul 1970, 4p [incomplete] Letter to State Librarian of South Australia sending subscription for South Australiana, $2 postal order and addressed envelope attached, letter not sent, Jul 1975 Folder 3: Correspondence: Incoming (A) Bob and Isobel Anderson, 23 Oct Aug 1966 [1 undated], 6 letters [Bob Anderson was Paul Tripcony s nephew] Australia China Society, 2 tickets for Friendship Ball, 2 Oct 1959 Australia, Ministry of Post-War Reconstruction, Fisheries Section, 15 Jan 1946, 1p Australasian Book Society (Brisbane), 13 May 1955, 1p Australasian Book Society (Melbourne), 18 Nov 1953 Oct 1955, 5 letters [including 3 enrolment forms] Australian Book Society (Sydney), Sep 1960 [invitation to launch of new edition of Price Warung s Convict Days] Australian Poetry Lovers Society, 17 Jun 1956, 1p Australian Military Forces, Feb - Jun 1942, 3 letters [two notifications to report for a medical examination, the second noting that Tripcony was excused from serving] Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 17 Jun , 16 letters Folder 4: Correspondence: Incoming (B) Bank of New South Wales, 13 Jan 1964, 1p Barker s Bookstore, 31 Aug Sep 1967, 8 letters Beerburrum State Forestry Survey Gang, 1973 Christmas card Ted and Mrs Bocher, & , Christmas and New Year cards Book Collectors Society of Australia, Jun 1958 Feb 1963 [6 items including notices of meetings, book announcements] Brisbane City Council, 28 Mar Nov 1966, 4 letters Last updated: 17/08/12 University of Queensland 2

3 Brisbane Realist Writers Group, 28 Nov 1966 [2 tickets to annual social at Manifold residence] Building Workers Industrial Union of Australia (Queensland Branch), 17 Oct 1962, 1p Bush Music Club, Jan 1957 Apr 1968, 25 items [including letters, newsletters, notices of meetings and concerts] Folder 5: Correspondence: Incoming (C-G) Challenge [periodical], letter from Bill Fleming, 17 Apr 1955, and subscription renewal notice, Nov 1955 Harry F Chaplin, 27 Feb 1959 and 10 Mar 1959, 2 letters Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia, 7 Apr 1964 [account statement] Daily Standard, 1925 and 1927 Christmas cards, also a drawing of the Daily Standard Newspaper building (45 x 27 cm) James Dally [bookseller], 6 Sep 1962, 1p G F Doyle, 1967, 2 Sincere Thanks cards M Doyle, 6 Mar 1958, 1p [with newspaper cutting] Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen s Association of Australasia (Qld. Branch), 22 Oct Sep 1966, 13 letters Federated Liquor & Allied Trade Employees Union of Australasia, 24 Jan 1934 & 25 Jan 1937, 2 letters Foco Club, 1960s, 1p [poster] Foyle s Book Clubs, nd, 1p Georgian House Pty Ltd [publishers], 18 Jun 1947, 1p Gold Coast Island Resort Developments Pty Ltd, nd, 1p [with attachment] Gold Key Card Pty Ltd, 26 Jun 1974, 1p [with card] Golden Casket (Brisbane), 15 Mar 1955 and 18 Sep 1956, 2 letters Gordon and Gotch (Australasia) Ltd, 8 Sep 1938, 1p Gympie City Council Town Clerk, 8 Sep 1967, 1p [with attachment giving details of Gympie Centenary Souvenir Book] Folder 6: Correspondence: Incoming (H-N) R M Harney, 17 Dec 1965, 1p Henry Lawson Memorial and Literary Society (Melbourne), nd, 1p [appeal for funds to erect a bust of Lawson] Nils M Holmer, 29 Apr 1974 (postcard) and 2 Christmas cards, nd Inverell and District Historical Society, ?, 1p Jackson and O Sullivan Pty Ltd, Mar 1961, 2 letters Last updated: 17/08/12 University of Queensland 3

4 John Oxley Memorial Library, 23 Aug Dec 1947, 4 letters Len Keogh M.H.R, 15 Sep 19--, 1p Merv Lilly, 7 Dec 196-, 1p [with Berkelouw s business card] Mann s Bookshop (Sydney), 8 Apr 1964, 1p Alf Martin, 1 Aug 1961, 1p Mr and Mrs J. Mitchell, 18 Jan 1951 [plaque with picture of Post Office, Stanthorpe, Qld and inscription] John Murphy [bookseller], 21 Oct 1958, 1p Stephen Murray-Smith [editor of Overland], 8 Aug 1962 & 21 Nov 1963, 1 invitation and 1 letter National Folk, 11 Jul 1970, 1p National Parks Association of Queensland, 29 Feb 1952, 1p New Theatre Club (Brisbane), 12 May 1962 & 1 Oct 1962, 2 tickets to The Shifting Heart and 1 letter Folder 7: Correspondence: Incoming (O-R) Outlook: an Australian Socialist Review, 6 Dec 1958, 1p Overland, 25 Feb Jul 1964, 4 letters Serge Penna, 11 Jun 19--, 1p [invitation to a party] People s Book Shop, 17 May Jul 1975, 20 letters [including 3 tickets] T Perrott and Sons, 29 Sep 1954, 1p Catherine E Perry, 4 Jun 1965, 1p Queensland Authors and Artists Association, 1955, 1p [circular announcing a poetry competition] Queensland Department of Health, 12 Oct Apr 1965, 4 letters Queensland Department of Education, Technical Correspondence School, 29 May 1958, 1p Queensland Department of Public Instruction, Technical Education Branch, nd [1 letter providing course information] Queensland Museum, 29 Feb & 8 Aug 1944, 2 letters [acknowledging donations of aboriginal artefacts] Queensland Premier and Chief Secretary s Office, nd, 1p [notice about book Three Decades of Queensland Political History] Queensland Public Curator s Office, 3 Dec 1958, 1p [re: estate of Thomas Buchanan Tripcony, Paul Tripcony s father] Queensland Taxation Department, 1 Aug 1941, 1p Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 15 Sep Oct 1969, 7 letters Ruddle-Foster (Photographic) Studios Wynnum, 12 Mar 1952, 1p Last updated: 17/08/12 University of Queensland 4

5 Folder 8: Correspondence: Incoming (S) N.H. Seward [bookseller], 26 Apr Mar 1965, 32 letters Shell Company of Australia Limited, 29 Sep 1938, 1p [with attachment] State Government Insurance Office, 11 Nov 1955, 1p Steele Rudd Memorial, nd, [circular from the Queensland Authors and Artists Association raising funds to erect a memorial to Steele Rudd in Toowong Cemetery] Bill Sutton, 28 Sep 1966, 1p J A Sutton [optometrist], 7 Mar Nov 1962, 3 letters Folder 9: Correspondence: Incoming (Ta-Trib) Technical Training International Pty Ltd, 1968, 1p Theatregoer: a monthly magazine of the live theatre arts, nd, 1p Pene Thrower [Paul Tripcony s niece], 29 Jan Dec 1967, 3 letters and 4 Christmas cards [2 undated] Tighe & Co [solicitors], 14 Feb and 25 Feb 1947, 2 letters Tribune, 21 Oct 1971 and 31 Oct 1972, 2 letters Folder 10: Correspondence: Incoming (Tripcony, A) Anastasia Tripcony [Paul Tripcony s sister], 14 Jun Nov 1968, 33 letters [2 undated] and 1 Christmas card, nd Folder 11: Correspondence: Incoming (Tripcony, V Z; unidentified correspondence) Vince Tripcony, 27 Nov 1945 & 26 Jul 19--, 2 letters Donald Tugby, 14 Oct 1959, 1p Union of Australian Women Manly Branch, Nov 19-- [invitation] Union Trustee Company of Australia Ltd, 12 Feb 1960, 1p [re: estate of T B Tripcony, Paul Tripcony s father] Ann Unsworth, 7 Jul 1945, 1p Uttley Open-Bible Programme, 8 Apr [196?], 1p [with attached flyer] Workers Educational Association New South Wales, 6 Feb 1950, 1p Wynnum Methodist Church Circuit, Jul 1958 [circular] Teddy [Edgar Arthur Thrower, nephew of Paul Tripcony], 17 Apr 1941 & 31 Jul 1942, 2 letters Les and Bev unidentified, 19 Dec 1959, 1 Christmas card Last updated: 17/08/12 University of Queensland 5

6 Box 2 Folder 1: Household and personal accounts/receipts Household and personal accounts and receipts for 1926, 1934, [includes accounts for rates and insurance, medical expenses, household items, building materials and hardware, clothing, etc] Folder 2: Wage statements and income tax assessments Wage statements from [incomplete] Income tax, Notices of Assessment: State Income tax, , 1937 Federal income tax, Group certificate, Folder 3: Other personal accounts/receipts Rent receipts detailing rent paid to James Elliott by V Tripcony, Mar 1947 Mar 1948 Receipts for donations, memberships and subscriptions: Australian Poetry Lovers Society 1957, 1958, 1961, 1964 Book Collectors Society of Australia 1963 Bush Music Club 1965, 1968 Communist Party of Australia Special Fund 1964 Jackson & O Sullivan Pty Ltd, 25 Mar 1961 Overland 1964 Realist Writer, 7 Jun 1954 Royal Historical Society of Queensland 1947, , , V. A. (subscription to V.A.) 1967 Folder 4: Bookstore accounts/receipts Angus and Robertson, 23 May 1975 Australasian Book Society Pty Ltd, 26 Nov Nov 1958 Barker s Book Store, 1 Jan Jul 1967 Gordon and Gotch (Australasia) Ltd, 30 Aug 1938 Lloyd s Book Shop, 1 Oct Nov 1950 People s Bookshop, 8 Feb Aug 1969 N H Seward Pty Ltd, Feb Aug 1964 Last updated: 17/08/12 University of Queensland 6

7 Folders 5 9: Booksellers Catalogues, Announcements and Newsletters Material from the following booksellers: American Book Store Australian Book Publishers Association Barker s Book Store Bonner, Eric M (Belsize Park Gardens, London) Brimmell, R A (Surrey) Dally, James Dymock s Foyles Book Club Geoff K. Gray Pty Ltd King, Louise Littles Pocket Book Store Lloyd s Book Shop Mann s Bookshop Pty Ltd Martin Mary Martin Bookshop Morrison, Greta Box 3 Folders 1 10: Booksellers Catalogues, Announcements and Newsletters Material from the following booksellers: People s Bookshop [3 folders] Queensland Book Depot Seward, N H Pty Ltd [6 folders] Thomson s Book Store Third World Bookshop Vickery, Herbert Box 4 Folders 1 9: Publishers Announcements Announcements from the following publishers [number in brackets indicates number of announcements]: American Heritage Publishing Co [3] Angus and Robertson [9] Association for International Co-operation and Disarmament [1] Australian Broadcasting Commission [1] Australian Life Review [1] Blue and White Collar Records [1] Book Collector [1] Butterworth s [1] Cassell [1] Cheshire [1] Collins [3] Last updated: 17/08/12 University of Queensland 7

8 Constable [1] Corgi [1] Cumpston, J S [1] Current Books Distributors Pty Ltd [1] Dent (Everyman) [5] Edwards and Shaw [2] Elek Ltd [1] Encyclopaedia Britannica [1] Forsyth, W D [1] Georgian House [1] Government Printing Office [1] Great Books of the Western World [1] Grenville Publishing Co Pty Ltd [1] Hodder and Stoughton Ltd [1] Jacaranda Press [3] Libraries Board of South Australia [18] Life Science Library [1] Longmans [1] Macmillan [1] Martindale Press Pty Ltd [5] Melbourne University Press [5] Mitchell Library [1] Movement (Sydney) [1] Pacific Publications [1] Pan Books [2] Panther [1] Penguin [ca 43] Public Library of New South Wales [2] Rams Skull Press [1] Rigby [2] Royal Geographical Society of Australasia [1] Scientific American Offprints [1] Seven Seas Books [ca 45] Stone Copying Company [1] Sun Books [1] Time/Life Books [2] Wattle Grove Press [1] Wattle Recordings [6] Wentworth Books [2] Wolfe Publishing Ltd [1] Last updated: 17/08/12 University of Queensland 8

9 Box 5 Folders 1 10: Political and Pressure Group Leaflets Leaflets published by the following groups [number in brackets indicates number of leaflets], with approximate dates: Alliance of Revolutionary Communists [1], 1970s Amalgamated Engineering Union [1], 1960s Amalgamated Postal Workers Union [1], 1951 Anti-War Activists Conference [2], Australia-China Society [3], 1959 Australia-New Zealand Congress for Disarmament and International Cooperation [5], Australia- U.S.S.R. Society [1], 1971 Australian Assembly for Peace [18], Australian Convention on Peace and War [1], 1953 Australian Council of Trade Unions [7], 1960s Australian Labor Party [68], 1940s-1970s Australian Meat Industry Employees Union [4], 1950s-1961 Australian Tramway and Motor Omnibus Employees Association [1], 1960s Australian Union of Students [1], 1970s Black Co-ordinating Committee [1], 1970s Boilermakers Union [1], 1950s Borneo Evangelical Mission [1], 1940s Brisbane Freeway Protest and Compensation Committee [4], Builders Labourers Federation [4], 1970s Building Workers Industrial Union [3], 1951, 1963 & 1974 Campaign against Nuclear Power [2], 1970s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament [1], 1970s Central Rail Disputes Committee [15], 1940s-50s Chain of World Peace Organisation [1], 19-- Christian Mission to the Communist World Ltd [1], 1973 Citizens for Freedom [1], 1970s Citizens Municipal Organisation [8], 1960s Civic Progress Party [3], 1950s Civil Liberties Co-ordinating Committee [2], 1960s Committee in Solidarity with the Vietnamese [1], 1970s Committee for Free Speech and Democracy [2], 1940s Communist Arts Group [6], 1970s Communist Film Group [1], 1960s/70s Communist Party of Australia (Qld and NSW Branches) [192], 1940s-1975 Conscientious Objectors Advisory Bureau [1], 1960s Democratic Labor Party [4], 1960s-1970s Disarmament Research Action Group [1], 1962 Draft Resisters Union [3], 1970s English Electric Disputes Committee [5], 1950s Eureka Youth League [1], 19-- Last updated: 17/08/12 University of Queensland 9

10 Fabian Society of Queensland [2], 1960s Federal Pacifist Council of Australia and the Fellowship [1], nd Freeway Protesters Defence Fund [1], 1974 Gibson Island Workers [3], 1953 High School Students against the War in Vietnam [1], 1969 Hiroshima Day March Committee [3], 1960s Hospital Employees Union of Queensland [1], 1970s Indochina Solidarity Committee [2], 1970s Joint Women s Action [1], 1970s Liberal Party of Australia (Queensland Division and Federal Secretariat) [22], 1950s-1970s Metal Trades Federation [3], 1970s National Party [1], 1970s New South Wales Peace Committee for International Co-operation and Disarmament [1], 1962 New South Wales Peace Council [3], 1950s October 25 Committee [1], 1968 Outlook [2], 1960s Pensioner Power Association of Australia [1], 1970 Queensland Building Trades Group [6], 1950s-1970s Queensland Colliery Employees Union [2], 1949 Queensland Committee on Political Prisoners [1], 1970 Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders [4], 1970s Queensland Labor Party [8], 1950s Queensland Ministry for Lands [1], 1952 Queensland Peace Committee for International Co-operation and Disarmament [12], 1960s- 1970s Queensland Peace Council [14], 1950s-1960s Queensland Rationalist Society [1], 19-- Queensland Vietnam Moratorium Campaign Co-ordinating Committee [39], 1970s Queensland Young Socialist League [1], 1968 Radical Ecology Conference [1], 1975 Railway Disputes Committee [2], nd Resistance [1], 1970s Revolutionary Socialist Students Alliance and Revolutionary Socialist Alliance [2], 1970s Seaman s Union of Australia [3], 1960s Social Democratic Vanguard [9], nd Socialist Humanist Action Centre [2], s Society for Democratic Action [8], 1960s South Brisbane Social and Discussion Group [1], 1948 Students for Democratic Action [4], 1966 Sydney University Australian Labor Party Club [1], 1960s Sydney Vietnam Action Campaign [1], 1960s Trades and Labour Council of Queensland [59], s Union of Australian Women [7], 1951 & 1957 United Fire-fighters Industrial Association [1], nd Last updated: 17/08/12 University of Queensland 10

11 United Nations Association [1], nd United Protestant Association of Queensland [1], 1950s Vietnam Action Committee [1], 1966 Vietnam Moratorium Campaign [1], 1971 Waterside Workers Federation [9], 1950s-1960s Women s Liberation [1], 1970s Wynnum District May (Labor) Day Celebration Committee [3], nd Wynnum Peace Committee [1], nd Young Socialist League [3], 1968, 1969 Youth Carnival for Peace and Friendship [3], 1952 Youth Forum for Peace and Friendship [1], nd Folder 11: Political and Pressure Group Leaflets Leaflets with no group acknowledged as author. Leaflets on the following issues: peace, conservation, building industry, green bans, industrial dispute at the Northgate cannery, U.S. foreign policy, aboriginal housing, Springbok tour, Vietnam, radical students, 1951 referendum, Get out Menzies! For a peaceful Australia stickers, 56 leaflets, 1950s-1970s Leaflets about referendums: May 1948 referendum 22 Sep 1951 referendum 27 May 1967 referendum 8 Dec 1973 referendum 18 May 1974 referendum Leaflet: Postal voting: directions to elector and authorised witness Extract from Toowoomba Chronicle, 20 Jun 1959, answers by Professor Walter Murdoch Box 6 Folder 1: Maps of Moreton Bay Islands Town of Amity, Parish of Stradbroke, County of Stanley, Survey Office, Department of Public Lands, Brisbane, Nov 1953 [Brisbane and Moreton Bay], 20 and 40 Chain Series, Survey Office, Department of Public Lands, Brisbane, Jun 1949 Town of Point Lookout, Parish of Stradbroke, County of Stanley, Survey Office, Department of Public Lands, Brisbane, Jan 1954 Town of Dunwich, Parish of Stradbroke, County of Stanley, Survey Office, Department of Public Lands, Brisbane, Nov 1949 Shell Road Map - Queensland Plan of Brisbane Town - Moreton Bay, 1839 Last updated: 17/08/12 University of Queensland 11

12 Folder 2: Notices and plans of Moreton Bay land offered for sale Notice and plan of land offered by Government sale: Allotments in Sections 3, 7, 8, 9 and 10, Town of Dunwich, Parish of Stradbroke, County of Stanley, 26 Nov 1953 Allotments in Section 1, 4, 7 to 10, and 12, Town of Dunwich, Parish of Stradbroke, County of Stanley, 21 Mar 1958 Allotments in Sections 1, 4, 7, 8 and 10, Town of Dunwich, Parish of Stradbroke, County of Stanley, 8 Dec 1959 Notice of sale of land, Allotments 16, 15, 21, 29, 32, 34, 4, 11, Town of Dunwich, County of Stanley, Parish of Stradbroke Allotments 38, 39 and 40, Town of Amity, Parish of Stradbroke, County of Stanley, Flinders Beach Estate, Crown Developed Allotments Allotments 6 and 8 of Section 12, Town of Dunwich, Parish of Stradbroke, County of Stanley, Government Sale Business Sites and Residential Sites Town of Dunwich, 8 Apr 1971 Allotments 2 and 3 of Section 27, Town of Dunwich, Parish of Stradbroke, County of Stanley, Government Sale Industrial Sites Town of Dunwich, 11 Nov 1971 Folders 3 9: Newspaper Cuttings The newspaper cuttings have been sorted into the following categories: Paul Tripcony and the Tripcony Family, 7 cuttings , 1936, 1938, 1954, 1959, 1975 Moreton Bay and Moreton Bay Islands, 37 cuttings - undated, 1946, 1949, 1952, Aborigines, 56 cuttings undated, 1917, 1951, 1959, 1961, , Queensland history, 71 cuttings undated, Politicians, 24 cuttings - undated, Politics, 167 cuttings - undated, Libraries and Archives (Brisbane), 15 cuttings - undated, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1973 Box 7 Folders 1 8: Newspaper Cuttings Theatre (Brisbane), 11 cuttings , 1960s, 1969, 1970 Trade unions, the labour movement, arbitration, 62 cuttings undated, Book reviews, 35 cuttings undated, 1949, 1969, Australian literature, Australian writers, book censorship, book trade and reading habits, 82 cuttings undated, Reports of criminal cases, crime, social issues/ problems, 28 cuttings undated, People, 12 cuttings - undated, 1952, 1962, 1971, 1972 Chile, 10 cuttings undated, 1973 Last updated: 17/08/12 University of Queensland 12

13 Printers & Newspapers Bill and Ross Anderson, 17 cuttings Australian folk/bush music, anthem, 17 cuttings undated, 1973 Miscellaneous (includes ecology, war, civil liberties, culture, overseas news, etc), 189 cuttings undated, Box 8 Folder 1 Containing blank Christmas cards (Aboriginal): Book mark greeting cards [5] Loose blank Christmas cards [15] Packet containing 5 blank Christmas cards and envelopes Albert Namatjira souvenir portfolio - 6 watercolours Folder 2 Containing programmes, catalogues & flyers for cultural and social events: New Theatre, Brisbane A most important letter by Jim Crawford & The fourth by Konstantin Simonov [programme] The painter by Nance Macmillan, 1961 [programme, 2 flyers, ticket, 2 newspaper cuttings] Billets or badges by Jim Crawford [programme] The shifting heart by Richard Beynon [flyer] Reedy River by Dick Diamond [flyer, programme] The Wild Colonial Boy by Joan Clarke and John Meredith [programme] Three one act plays, Tinkers Wedding, Hewers of Coal and Bedtime Story, 1958 [programme] Pacific Paradise by Dymphna Cusack [2 posters] Under the Coolibah Tree by Dick Diamond [poster] Harlequin Theatre's Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring, Brisbane, 1957 [programme] Harlequin Theatre's first green-room play programme, 1957 [flyer] Wynnum Mercury Theatre's Sleeping Beauty by Martin Overson, 1956 [programme] Fifth annual Henry Lawson concert, Como, 1958 [programme] Variety Concert, Union of Australian Women, Brisbane, 26 Oct 1962 [programme] Bush Music Club - assorted posters, flyers (12) Australian Traditional Films presentation of "Three in One", Brisbane [flyer] Studio G, Greenslopes, exhibition of paintings by Elsie Gibson, Gwen McKay & Mignonne, May 1970 [catalogue] Tribune Art Exhibition, Brisbane, 1969 [entry form] Last updated: 17/08/12 University of Queensland 13

14 Queensland Art Gallery, USSR Contemporary Graphic Art, 1962 [catalogue and invitation] Olympic Games, Melbourne, 1956 [souvenir program] Cloncurry Centenary Celebrations, 1967 [programme] Rockhampton Centenary Celebrations, 1955 [programme] Festival of China, [invitation], nd Eureka Youth League Xmas Camp, 1954 [leaflet] Australia USSR Society, Brisbane Branch, 100th Anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin, 1970 [leaflet] Australian Labor Day Sports, Brisbane, 4 May 1970 [official program] The University of Queensland Macrossan Lectures for 1963 to be given by Dr F W Robinson on The Idea of the Antipodes and the Naming of Australia [leaflet] The Book Collectors' Society of Australia launch of The Australian Encyclopaedia, Sydney, 18 Jun 1958 [souvenir menu] Visit of Mrs Hatsue Nonomiya, 1957 [leaflet] Guardian-Tribune Festival Concert, nd, [programme] Queensland Guardian Festival, Mar 1953 [program] Launching of John Manifold's book OP 8 - poems from [invitation, 2 copies] Australian Russian society, Magnificent Soviet colour film, nd [flyer] Folder 3 Songs, folklore and Bush Music Club material Banjo Paterson celebration, 90th anniversary, 1953 Folder 4 Poems by John Manifold - 5 loose sheets, book Six Sonnets on Human Ecology [inscribed Paul T from an old friend John Manifold ] Folder 5 Eureka Centenary Celebrations Play, 3rd December Henry Lawson Folder 6 The Good Looking Bookseller & the Ugly Society, a talk by Bill Sutton, 1973 [inscribed to Paul Tripcony from Bill Sutton] Book lists (handwritten): includes books wanted, books presented to John Oxley Memorial Library, book prices, etc Last updated: 17/08/12 University of Queensland 14

15 Folder 7 Stradbroke Island Symposium [programme] Presented paper Hydrogeology of North Stradbroke Island by J.W. Laycock Folder 8 Brisbane City Council Award Queensland Government Gazette, 7 Aug 1939 Folder 9 Queensland Historical Associations: National Trust of Queensland, Wolston House Restoration Fund Royal Historical Society of Queensland, Constitution [1959] Folder 10 Political Organizations: Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement, 5th National Conference Report [3 copies] Trades and Labour Council of Queensland, Decisions of A.C.T.U.Interstate Executive at Hobart, 4 Feb 1959 Trades and Labour Council of Queensland, Summary of Unemployment Figures, 1958 Equal Pay Committee, supplementary agenda Address to the Queensland Trade Union Congress, 24 Oct 1958, presented by K. Abednego, President, Thursday Island Trades and Labour Council Folder 11 Fabian Society of Queensland: Discussion Bulletin No. 12 (Nov 1957) and 21 (Aug 1962) Folder 12 Book extracts, book drafts, speeches (Political topics): The Housing Position in Queensland as outlined by the State Treasurer, Hon E.J. Walsh, M.L.A. Seamen s Strike at Sydney [photocopy] Khrushchev on Stalin by Isaac Deutscher The Unions Role in the era of Technology, a paper delivered at A.C.T.U. Youth Week 1969 by Mr Ken Turbet, ALP candidate for Petrie, Federal elections, 1969 Draft of Buried Treasure by Pete Thomas [2 copies, 1 annotated re: Mt. Isa Mines dispute ] Last updated: 17/08/12 University of Queensland 15

16 Folder 13 Miscellaneous leaflets: Free Pablo Neruda People's Market [1952], 1953 [2 copies] Queensland Book Club and Fact and Fiction Library Queensland Health Education Council, The Truth about Molokai (Hansen's disease) Tribune's Jubilee - 50 years [1973] African Leader speaking in Brisbane July 24 (tour of Herbert Chitepo) Tell it like it was: 26th January 1788 by Edna Maher, nd Aboriginal Scholarship Scheme Folder 14 Engineers' and Engine Drivers' Examinations, Brisbane Polytechnic, Refrigeration Course, 1938 Folder 15 Papers from Third Tractor School, [Brisbane] Questions and answers on Boilers [2 copies] Folder 16 Queensland Engineering School, Internal Combustion Certificate Papers Engineers' and Engine Drivers' Examinations, specialised coaching for high standard passes, Brisbane Polytechnic, Internal Combustion Engines Course, Oil 1938, Gas 1942 Folder 17 The fight against Communism in Australia, Political Information Series, Nos 1, 4 Man Junior, Vol 18 no 6, Jul 1949 Democratic News, Nos 1, 3 (1950) Information Bulletin (Legation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) No 15 (146), 14 Apr 1959 Present-day events and their meaning from the Bible, 150 th review, Aug 1951 Last updated: 17/08/12 University of Queensland 16

17 Box 9 Folder 1 Miscellaneous research notes Also in box Diary almost unused Notebook - Australian Slang Dictionary Notebook - Australian Aboriginal Stone Implements and Specimens, Stradbroke Island 15 assorted notebooks, miscellaneous topics Photographs Photograph album and photographs of boats, unidentified people: 1. [Sailing boat, moored], nd 2. [View of jetty from water], nd 3. [Sailing boat, moored], nd 4. [Sailing boat, moored], nd 5. [Sailing boat, moored], nd 6. [Sailing boat, moored near beach, man sitting on roof], nd 7. [Steam boat approaching jetty], nd 8. [Sailing boat, moored near beach, man sitting on roof.dinghy on beach in foreground], nd 9. [Sailing boat, moored], nd 10. [Small boat with dinghy attached. Man sitting on boat, another person in the water], nd 11. [Small boat with dinghy attached, side view], nd 12. [Woman standing in field wearing white coat and hat. Dog in foreground], nd 13. [Woman and man standing on jetty holding a string of caught fish],inscribed Seaway [Two men, one woman (standing) and dog on steps of wooden house possibly Vince, Paul and Anastasia Tripcony], nd 15. [Man sitting on veranda of wooden house with dog], nd 16. [Sailing boat on the water], inscribed Seaway [Photograph of land from the water], nd 18. [Small boat in water, moored], nd 19. [Sailing boat in water, moored], nd 20. [Two men, one woman sitting in motor vehicle (two cats sitting on bonnet). Wooden house in background], nd 21. [Sailing boat (moored) with two men on board], inscribed Countess at Southport, nd Other photographs: 1. Glass negative bust of A.T. [Albert Tripcony?], 18 Jul Pelicans, Southport, Qld. Postcard photograph, nd 3. Grand Hotel, Labrador, Southport, Qld. Postcard photograph, nd 4. View from Lookout, showing Twin Sisters, Springbrook, Qld. Postcard photograph, nd Last updated: 17/08/12 University of Queensland 17

18 5. Blackfellow Falls, Springbrook, Qld. Postcard photograph, nd 6. Star of the Sea Convent, Southport, Qld. Postcard photograph, nd. Murray Views No The Pier, Southport, Qld. Postcard photograph, nd 8. Dunwich water works. Two Mile Yerool Creek, nd [close-up] 9. Dunwich water works. Two Mile Yerool Creek, nd [long view] 10. [Creek, with marker to show depth], nd 11. [View of Moreton Bay?], nd 12. [Waves breaking over rocks], nd 13. Dunwich Swimming Team [Original photograph, sepia tones] 14. Dunwich Swimming Team [Print] 15. [Unidentified woman standing on verandah of house] [Original photograph] 16. [Unidentified woman standing on verandah of house] [Print] 17. Wynnum Central 1888 [copy of original photograph made by Ruddle-Foster Studio] [shows cleared land on the beachfront with two men in foreground, one sitting in a horse-drawn buggy, the other standing with a dog] 18. Wynnum Central 1912 [copy of original photograph made by Ruddle-Foster Studio] [at low tide, showing jetty and houses along the foreshore] 19. [Sailing boat], nd [2 copies] 20. Queensland State School Girls Swimming Association, Dunwich Team, Champions 1924, 1925, [2 copies] 21. [Professional photographic portrait of unidentified man, possibly Albert Tripcony, taken by Sidney Riley, Queen Street, Brisbane], nd 22. Photographic portrait of Thomas Welsby [copy of original photograph made by Ruddle- Foster Studio], nd 23. [Woman, identified as Sydney Rollands (died 1917) by reader Faith Walker, with source of reference given as The Queenslander of 17 Nov 1917], nd 24. [Small house in bush], nd 25. [Group of aboriginal Australians in front of corrugated iron hut], nd 26. Group of scientists and naturalists arriving at Amity Point on Nancy III [boat], nd 27. Naturalists and scientists at Point Lookout at cottage, the home of Billy North, nd 28. Moongalba School about 1913 or Getting ready for the Easter Dance. [Original photograph] 29. Moongalba School about 1913 or Getting ready for the Easter Dance. [Print] 30. [Four men sitting on tree trunk] [copy of original photograph by Ruddle-Foster Studio] [negative and identification provided: (From left to right) Thomas Dalton, Bert Levinge (youth at rear) Richard Dalton, Harry Lea. Thomas Dalton born Moreton Island in 1878; Bert Levinge born on Stradbroke Island; Richard Dalton born Myora in 1875 and Harry Lea (half-brother, same mother) born at Myora. The three brothers in foreground had the same mother Matilda (no last name known). She was believed to be a woman of the Undambie Tribe (Caloundra Glass House Region). Information provided by Ken Dalton, a direct descendant of Thomas Dalton.] 31. [Unidentified wooden and tin huts with group of people], [copy of original photograph by Ruddle-Foster Studio], nd 32. [Group of aboriginal Australians in front of huts] [copy of original photograph by Ruddle- Foster Studio, original photograph by J. Lang, taken at Bugano? (inscription undecipherable), 29 May 1891] 33. [Group of four aboriginal women], nd [copy of original photograph by Ruddle-Foster Studio] [Seated woman identified as Paul Tripcony s grandmother who died in 1917 by Paul Tripcony s nephew, Robert Anderson] Last updated: 17/08/12 University of Queensland 18

19 34. [Negative and print. Group of people], nd [Identified by reader Faith Walker, 21 Nov 1994, without source of reference given, as the first intake of the Myora Mission, Stradbroke Island] 35. Stradbroke Island approach from jetty Calendar, with the compliments of Doug Anning, Stradbroke Butchery. 36. [Beach with dog in foreground, two people in background, Stradbroke Island?], nd. Postcard photograph. 37. [Ship Mirimar approaching jetty, Stradbroke Island?], nd. Postcard photograph. 38. [Ship Mirimar at jetty, Stradbroke Island?], nd. Postcard photograph. 39. Mirimar at Amity. First visit 19 [inscription on back of photograph], nd 40. [Cabarita, Tweed Coast?] [inscription on back: Taken by Frank Caddy, 19 Station Street, Waratah, NSW], nd One page of notes re: photos, 10 Oct 1952 Parcel 1 Queensland Civil Defence Organisation, Certificate to certify that Paul Tripcony was enrolled as a member of the Essential and Emergency Services Organisation of Queensland, signed by Thos. A Foley, Minister for Civil Defence, 30 Apr 1945 Parcel 2 [Photograph of group of soldiers], nd. Name and address on back of photograph: Mrs. T. B. Tripcony, Sutton Street, Kangaroo Point. Photograph of Federated Liquor and Allied Trades Employees Union of Australasia, Queensland Branch Executive, [photograph includes Paul Tripcony, Vice-President, front row left] Last updated: 17/08/12 University of Queensland 19