Philip Bisset Papers

Notebook with artworks, magazine clippings and drawings.

Notebook containing cuttings of comics from magazines, advertisements in colour and sketches for ornamental designs.

Notebook containing cuttings of aeroplanes and school assignments.

Notebook about the history of architecture (Diploma Course in Architecture at the Central Technical College).

Notebook 'History of Architecture, Stage 1'.

Notebook 'First Year: Building Construction'.

Notebook 'History of Architecture'.

Notebook 'First Year: Building Construction'.

Notebook 'Professional Practice: 4th Year'.

Notebook 'Building Construction, Stage 2'.

Notebook 'Materials and Specifications'.

Notebook 'Materials and Specifications'.

Notebook 'Structural Mechanics'.

Notebooks 'Structural Mechanics: Third Year Architecture'.

Notebook 'Standard Specification'.

Notebook with newspaper clippings and sketches for ornamental designs.

Manuscript music notebook with sheet music.

Travel notes kept by Philip Bisset on his trip to Scotland, Ireland and Alaska.

Travel notes kept by Philip Bisset during a cruise on the Murray River on board of 'The Murray Princess'.

Travel diary kept by Philip Bisset on his journey to Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Holland, France, Italy and Austria.

Travel notes kept by Philip Bisset on his journey to Darwin, Perth, the Gold Coast and Sydney.

Typed travel notes kept by Philip Bisset on his journey to Sweden, Holland, Finland, Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland and England. The diary includes architectural drawings of hotels, notes on guidelines for building hospitals and detailed descriptions of the places he visited.

Typed travel notes kept by Philip Bisset on his travels to Scandinavia, England, Hong Kong and China.

Travel notes by Philip Bisset from a trip to the UK and Scandinavia.

Travel notes by Philip Bisset from a trip to the U.S.A.

Travel notes by Philip Bisset from a trip to the UK and Canada.

Travel notes by Philip Bisset from a road trip from Queensland to Western Australia.

Sketchbook with two sketches in pencil.

Sketchbook with artworks drawn by Philip Bisset when he was a child (aged 7 and 8).

Sketchbook with artworks drawn by Philip Bisset (in pastel).

Sketchbook with artworks drawn by Philip Bisset (in pastel).

Sketchbook with artworks drawn by Philip Bisset (in pastel).

Sketchbook with drawings of ornamental designs.

Sketchbook with drawings in pencil.

Sketchbook with drawings of scenes in Sandgate (in pencil).

Sketchbook with artworks drawn by Philip Bisset (in pastel).

A sketchbook with drawings of landscapes (in pencil).

Sketchbook containing loose sketches, clippings, oil paintings, tracings, woodblock prints.

A green paper stencil in the shape of a eucalyptus leaf.

A paper stencil in the shape of a flower.

A paper stencil in the shape of a woman's head.

A paper stencil in the shape of a branch with flowers.

A paper stencil.

A folder with seven small paper stencils.

 A small pencil and watercolour drawing of a koala.

A drawing of the Queensland coat of arms.

A sketch for an ornamental design.

Drawing for a school assignment: 'Self trust is the first secret of success'.

School assignment: 'A Soft Answer Turneth Away Wrath'.

Coloured drawing for a school assignment.

A drawing for an ornamental design.

Two coastal landscape sketches (on one sheet of paper).

A sketch of a landscape.

A watercolour drawing.

A landscape with a sailing boat.

A watercolour drawing of a landscape.

A watercolour drawing of a bushfire.

A drawing of a forest scene.

A watercolour drawing of a landscape with palms.

School assignment: 'Cheerfulness is Essential to Good Health'.

School assignment: a drawing of an arch.

School assignment: a drawing of an arch.

An embroidery sampler made by Margaret (Ettie) Smith, Philip Bisset's aunt.

Plan of proposed design of symbolic empire carpet for The Crèche and Kindergarten Association of Queensland'.

40 sketches and plans done by Phillip Bisset while an architecture student. Includes:

• "Design of a city café for a well known catering firm" (2 sheets)
• "Plan of proposed estate agent's office" (3 sheets)
• "School hall for 500 people" (2 sheets)
• "Plan of proposed camp school of standard unit construction in country areas" (2 sheets)
• "Working drawings of proposed business men's club" (10 sheets)
• "Plan for a proposed works office for a large building project"
• "A stall at the Edward Street entrance to the Botanical Gardens"
• "Design for a wood residence & interior" (2 sheets)
• "Bus terminal"; "Plan of brick residence" (2 sheets)
• "Sketch elevation of proposed bank"
• Relationship of solid and void"
• "A Presbyterian church design" (2 sheets)
• "A garden gate"; "A factory office" (3 sheets)
• "Design for a ventilating cupola"
• "Design of a city cafe for a well known catering firm"
• Design for proposed loggia adjoining a swimming pool"
• "Perspective of residence"
• "Site for proposed housing development"
• "Plan of porch".

38 sketches and plans done by Phillip Bisset while an architecture student. Includes;

• "An administrative office building" (3 sheets
•  "House suitable for Queensland" (2 sheets)
• "Town planning problem" (3 sheets)
• "The boardroom of an insurance building" (2 sheets)
• "Drinking fountain on a golf course"
• "An office building" (4 sheets)
• "Headquarters for a royal society" (2 sheets)
• "Proposed tramway shelter" (2 sheets)
• Plan of tuckshop
• Plan of proposed residence
• "Perspective sketch and plan of lounge communal buildings for a holiday lodge"
• "Plan of airplane hangar" (2 sheets)
• "Proposed new position for monument of King George V" (2 sheets)
• "Design for a business centre" (4 sheets)
• "Design for a cinema and cafe in a small town" (4 sheets)
• "State School for 360 pupils"
• "Cross section through typical classroom with playing area under"
• Design of two storey house for Queensland" (2 sheets).

Miscellaneous student sketches and unidentified sketches and plans. Student work includes charcoal drawings, furniture designs, architectural renderings and construction plans.

Sketches and plans for residences. Includes:

• 25 sheets relating to Phillip Bisset's own residence at Abbotsleigh Rd, Holland Park.
• Plans for residences at Northcliffe Tce, Southport (2 sheets)
• Central St, Southport (2 sheets)
• Seventh Ave, St Lucia (4 sheets)
• Point Lookout; Vista Ave, Wellers Hill (6 plans)
• Corsica St, Moorooka (14 sheets)
• Mill Hill Rd, Montville (3 sheets)
• Maple Ave, Mapleton.

Sketches and plans for residences. Includes: residences at:

• King St, Shelley Beach (5 sheets)
• Indooroopilly
• Wyreema Tce, Caloundra
• Hillside Tce, St Lucia (2 sheets)
• Wakefield St, Sandgate (2 sheets)
• Virginia Ave, Hawthorne
• Southport
• Pacific Highway, Miami (3 sheets)
• Old Burleigh Rd, Surfers Paradise
• Zillmere Rd, Zillmere
• Bilsen Rd, Wavell Heights
• Plus sketches and plans of other miscellaneous residences.

Folder also includes 8 sheets of plans for Housing Commission of New South Wales, and a plan, sketch and clipping relating to house plan competitions run by newspapers.
 

51 sketches and plans for Townsville hospital buildings. Architects include Donoghue & Fulton; Donoghue, Cusick & Edwards; and Edwards, Bisset & Partners. Buildings include Nurses quarters, Thoracic block; Maternity block etc.

53 sketches and plans for Townsville hospital buildings. Architects include Donoghue & Fulton; and Donoghue, Cusick & Edwards. Buildings include Casualty Dept. and new dispensary; Nurses quarters; Animal house; Convent, boiler house and laundry block; Pathological laboratory.

57 sketches and plans for Cairns hospital buildings. Architects include Donoghue & Fulton; and Donoghue, Cusick & Edwards. Buildings include Nurses headquarters; Animal house; Kitchen block; Operating block; Pathological laboratory; Cairns Thoracic Hospital; Tuberculosis Hospital.

Sketches and plans for hospital buildings at Dalby (13 sheets), Mt Isa (9 sheets) and Toowoomba (11 sheets). Architects include Donoghue, Cusick & Edwards; and Edwards, Bisset & Partners.

Sketches and plans for hospital buildings at:

• Mt Gravatt (2 sheets)
• Rockhampton (6 sheets)
• Maryborough (2 sheets)
• Ayr (4 sheets)
• Bowen (7 sheets)
• Dirranbandi (7 sheets)
• Jandowae (2 sheets)
• Kingaroy (6 sheets). 

Architects include Donoghue & Fulton; Donoghue, Cusick & Edwards; and Edwards, Bisset & Partners.

Miscellaneous sketches and plans for mostly unidentified Queensland hospitals.

Sketches and plans for commercial projects. Includes:

• a proposed service station at Robinson and Sandgate Rds., Virginia, (8 sheets)
• premises at Hudson Rd, Albion for J. R. Wylie & Sons (11 plans)
• proposed roadside snack bar, Sandgate Rd, Virginia (11 sheets)
• proposed shops and workshop for F. Beard at St Paul's Tce, Brisbane (8 sheets)
• premises for Camera Craft, Fortitude Valley (10 plans)
• plans relating to industrial kitchens for Metters Ltd, Sydney (7 plans).

Architects include Donoghue & Fulton; and Donoghue, Cusick & Edwards.

Sketches and plans for commercial and civic projects. Includes:

• proposed designs of municipal offices and assembly hall for Rockhampton
• proposed hall at Cleveland St, Stones Corner for the Danish Association Heimdal
• The Australian Estates Company
• Cairns workshops for Queensland Railways (2 sheets)
• proposed Townsville People's Palace (1912)
• Catholic church at Tenterfield; church at Goondiwindi
• Nursing home and aged persons hostel at Chelmer for Salvation Army
• proposed cottage 'native quarters' and garage, Madang, P.N.G.
• proposed child welfare building at Cherbourg, Glendilla Homestead (2 sheets)
• proposed St Vincent de Paul in Gotha St, Brisbane (2 sheets)
• alterations to premises in Mary St, Brisbane, for Metter Limited (3 sheets)
• proposed cabaret for soldiers, Wickham Tce, Brisbane (2 sheets)
• Downlands College, Toowoomba (3 sheets)
• Loreto Convent, Coorparoo (2 sheets)
• proposed Catholic church at Kyogle (2 sheets)
• premises on St Pauls Tce for Waverley Press (3 sheets)
• Drawing Cathedral (2 sheets)
• Catholic school, Toowong (3 sheets)
• Department of Anatomy, University of Queensland (5 sheets)
• St Ursula's College, Toowoomba (7 sheets)
• and other miscellaneous unidentified plans

Architects include Donoghue & Fulton; Donoghue, Cusick & Edwards; and Edwards, Bisset & Partners.

Diploma in Architecture awarded to Philip Yeats Bisset in 1946 by The University of Queensland.

Certificate stating that Philip Yeats Bisset was elected Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1950.

Certificate stating that Philip Yeats Bisset was elected Associate of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in 1948.

Certificate stating that Philip Yeats Bisset was elected Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in 1961.

Diploma in Architecture awarded by the Technical Education Branch of the Department of Public Instruction Queensland to Philip Yeats Bisset in 1943.

Certificate awarded by Gray's School of Art to Philip Yeats Bisset, aged 18, for attendance of a drawing course.

Certificate awarded by Gray's School of Art to Philip Yeats Bisset, aged 19, for attendance of a drawing course.

Certificate awarded by Gray's School of Art to Philip Yeats Bisset, aged 19, for attendance of a drawing course.

Certificate of Registration issued by the Board of Architects of Queensland to Philip Yeats Bisset, stating that he was registered as an Architect on 7 April 1943.

Certificate summarising the history of the surname Bisset.

Ornate blue velvet covered photograph album with photographs from the 19th and early 20th century (unidentified). Many of these photographs are cartes-de-visite taken by prominent South East Queensland photography studios.

Ornate, hardcover photograph album with portraits from the 19th and early 20th century, some of them identified. Most of these photographs are cartes-de-visite taken by prominent South East Queensland photography studios.

Photograph album 'Philip Yeats Bisset 20 August 1921: a little history' (photographs of Philip Bisset as a child at Indooroopilly; photographs of the houses the Bisset family owned; photographs of buildings designed by Bisset; several photographs of the Commonwealth Games in Brisbane in 1982.

Assorted photographs, many unidentified, relating to the Bisset Family, collected in an album. Photographs include family portraits (many printed as postcards), school photographs, social events, recreational outings, road trips and holidays. Includes early photographs of Crows Nest and district. Other locations include Brisbane, Indooroopilly, North Queensland, Northern NSW. Later photographs include Wivenhoe Dam and a large number of photographs documenting the building of extensions to the house at 17 King Street, Shelly Beach, re-building of a house at 13 King Street, Shelly Beach in 1996-1997.

Small photograph album containing images of the Bisset Family at and around Crows Nest. Photographs include portraits (many wearing costumes), the family house, and outdoor recreation.

Small photograph album containing images of the Bisset Family. Photographs include images of Crows Nest and holiday pictures.

Aerial photograph of Caloundra in 1960.

10 large black and white photographs of people posing at various locations along what is assumed to be Perseverance and/or Cressbrook Creeks in what is now Crows Nest National Park

Three large photographs. One of a woman sitting side saddle on a horse. 'Aunt Ettie' is written on the back. One unidentified portrait of a young man by Marlborough Studios of Melbourne. One damaged photograph of an unidentified outdoors social gathering.

One folder of architectural papers relating to 15-17 King St. Caloundra. Contains plans, blueprints, sketches.

One folder of documents, correspondence and plans relating to building work at 17 King St. Caloundra.

One folder of documents, sketches and plans relating to building work at 13 King St. Caloundra.

One envelope of loose plans and documents relating to extensions at 17 King St. Caloundra.

1 ring bound file. Specifications for Alterations and Additions to Residence at 17 King St. Caloundra for Philip Bisset by Edwards Bisset & Partners, Architects and Project Consultants.

Specifications for shops and dwellings at Melbourne & Cordelia Streets for Mrs. M. Mansour by Lucas & Cummings Architects.

Specifications for residence at Crescent Rd. Hamilton for F. Bruce Lucas Esq. by Lucas & Cummings Architects.

Notebook detailing the experiences of George Bisset on a voyage from Liverpool to Melbourne on board the S. S. Essex

Thumb-o-graph' book in which signatures and thumbprints of people are collected. The book contains dozens of entries.

Extract of an Entry in a Registry of Births for George Yeats Bisset, born 1884 in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Book of clippings from newspapers and magazines. Topics covered are: places in Queensland, Tasmania, New Zealand, Canada and Germany.

1 biographical paper on Philip Yeats Bisset. The document has been amended and added to in pencil.

Digitised photographs. Some of the images are not in hard copy in the collection.

Digitised documents and correspondence. Some of the images are not in hard copy in the collection.