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UQFL 122 Paul Tripcony Collection

Size 9 boxes, 2 parcels

Contents 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.

Biography Paul Tripcony was born at Dunwich on Stradbroke Island in 1901. 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 1975.

Notes 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 7th, 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

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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 1950 – 9 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 1964 – 1971, 16 letters

Folder 4: Correspondence: Incoming (B) Bank of New South Wales, 13 Jan 1964, 1p Barker’s Bookstore, 31 Aug 1943 – 4 Sep 1967, 8 letters Beerburrum State Forestry Survey Gang, 1973 Christmas card Ted and Mrs Bocher, 1955-1959 & 1963-1966, 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 1940 – 7 Nov 1966, 4 letters

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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 1940 – 1 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, 1969-1970?, 1p Jackson and O’Sullivan Pty Ltd, Mar 1961, 2 letters

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John Oxley Memorial Library, 23 Aug 1944 – 19 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 1957 – 10 Jul 1964, 4 letters Serge Penna, 11 Jun 19--, 1p [invitation to a party] People’s Book Shop, 17 May 1949 - 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 1964 – 13 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 1960 – 24 Oct 1969, 7 letters Ruddle-Foster (Photographic) Studios Wynnum, 12 Mar 1952, 1p

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Folder 8: Correspondence: Incoming (S) N.H. Seward [bookseller], 26 Apr 1946 – 18 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 1960 – 12 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 1963 – 11 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 1949 – 12 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

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Box 2 Folder 1: Household and personal accounts/receipts Household and personal accounts and receipts for 1926, 1934, 1941-1973 [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 1948-1965 [incomplete] Income tax, Notices of Assessment: • State Income tax, 1932-1935, 1937 • Federal income tax, 1943-1944 • Group certificate, 1954-1955

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, 1961-1962, 1964-1965, 1968-1969 • 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 1954 - 20 Nov 1958 Barker’s Book Store, 1 Jan 1942 - 6 Jul 1967 Gordon and Gotch (Australasia) Ltd, 30 Aug 1938 Lloyd’s Book Shop, 1 Oct 1946 – 2 Nov 1950 People’s Bookshop, 8 Feb 1963 - 8 Aug 1969 N H Seward Pty Ltd, Feb 1954 – 26 Aug 1964

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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]

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• 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]

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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], 1972-1973 • Australia-China Society [3], 1959 • Australia-New Zealand Congress for Disarmament and International Cooperation [5], 1959- 1963 • Australia- U.S.S.R. Society [1], 1971 • Australian Assembly for Peace [18], 1956-1958 • 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], 1973-1974 • 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--

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• 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], 1969-1970s • 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], 1950-1970s • Union of Australian Women [7], 1951 & 1957 • United Fire-fighters’ Industrial Association [1], nd

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• 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

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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 - 1916, 1936, 1938, 1954, 1959, 1975 Moreton Bay and Moreton Bay Islands, 37 cuttings - undated, 1946, 1949, 1952, 1961-1975 Aborigines, 56 cuttings – undated, 1917, 1951, 1959, 1961, 1961-1965, 1969-1975 Queensland history, 71 cuttings – undated, 1951-1973 Politicians, 24 cuttings - undated, 1955-1975 Politics, 167 cuttings - undated, 1950-1975 Libraries and Archives (Brisbane), 15 cuttings - undated, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1973

Box 7 Folders 1 – 8: Newspaper Cuttings Theatre (Brisbane), 11 cuttings - 1953, 1960s, 1969, 1970 Trade unions, the labour movement, arbitration, 62 cuttings – undated, 1949-1971 Book reviews, 35 cuttings – undated, 1949, 1969, 1971-1974 Australian literature, Australian writers, book censorship, book trade and reading habits, 82 cuttings – undated, 1950-1975 Reports of criminal cases, crime, social issues/ problems, 28 cuttings –undated, 1969-1973 People, 12 cuttings - undated, 1952, 1962, 1971, 1972 Chile, 10 cuttings – undated, 1973

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Printers & Newspapers Bill and Ross Anderson, 17 cuttings - 1953 Australian folk/bush music, anthem, 17 cuttings – undated, 1973 Miscellaneous (includes ecology, war, civil liberties, culture, overseas news, etc), 189 cuttings – undated, 1938-1974

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, 18-30 May 1970 [catalogue] Tribune Art Exhibition, Brisbane, 1969 [entry form]

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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, 20-22 Mar 1953 [program] Launching of John Manifold's book OP 8 - poems from 1961-1969 [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 1854-1954 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

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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 1964-65]

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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, 150th review, Aug 1951

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Box 9 Folder 1 Miscellaneous research notes

Also in box Diary 1943 - 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 1947’ 14. [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 1947’ 17. [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 1925 2. 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

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5. Blackfellow Falls, Springbrook, Qld. Postcard photograph, nd 6. ‘Star of the Sea’ Convent, Southport, Qld. Postcard photograph, nd. Murray Views No. 4. 7. 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 1926. [Original photograph, sepia tones] 14. Dunwich Swimming Team 1926. [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, 1926. [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 1914. Getting ready for the Easter Dance. [Original photograph] 29. Moongalba School about 1913 or 1914. 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]

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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. 1957 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, 1936-1937 [photograph includes Paul Tripcony, Vice-President, front row left]

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