Richard Stringer Architectural Photography Archive

Richard Stringers architectural portfolio containing a selection of work from his undergraduate degree at the University of Melbourne School of Architecture. Includes drawings of the following: 

• Seaside house Sorrento;
• Fler Furniture factory Vermont, including architectural blue prints;
• An architects' office;
• A Block of flats, including architectural blue prints;
• A new Town Hall, Camberwell;
• A new architecture school;
• Plans and drawings of a Roman Catholic Church;
• Ned Kelly monument;
• Woods Williams Pty. Ltd. factory;
• Mount Martha boat shed;
• Underground railway entrance;
• Furniture design drawings;
• Typographic design;
• Drawings and poster designs including two for Architect' Revue

Also includes a linocut block from an Architect' Revue poster (Box 15131 O/S)

This item includes:

• Bachelor of Architecture degree, awarded by the University of Melbourne, 1961;
• Royal Australian Institute of Architects certificate granting associate membership,1964.

University of Queensland design report on the proposed new dental school demonstrating Stringer's work as an assistant architect under James Birrell.

One bound assessment titled House lifting and reblocking for trades instruction part IV. 

This item contains one box of 35mm negatives, ranging from job 0018 to 8136. 

This item contains seven boxes of medium format negatives, ranging from job 0016 to 8505. 

This item contains twenty-nine boxes of large format negatives, ranging from job 0810 to 8644.

This item contains one box of half plate negatives, ranging from job 0977 to 5050.

This item contains thirteen boxes of colour transparencies, sorted alphabetically by subject. Some of the subjects have job numbers.

• Subjects: ABA -BOY (Box 24990)
• Subjects: BRA-CLA (Box 24991)
• Subjects: CLA-CON (Box 24992)
• Subjects: CON-FOR (Box 24993)
• Subjects: FOR-HER (Box 24994)
• Subjects: HEW-McCA (Box 24995)
• Subjects: McCO-NIN (Box 24996)
• Subjects: NOE-Q.A.G. (Box 24997)
• Subjects: Q.A.G.-Q.P.A.C. (Box 24998)
• Subjects: Q.P.A.C.-RAG (Box 24999)
• Subjects: RAI-SI (Box 25000)
• Subjects: SMI-WIS (Box 25001)
• Subjects: WIT-YOU (Box 25002)

This item contains a box of 8 x 10 inch negatives, ranging from job 0739 to 5512.

Box 25136 O/S. Custom box being made for cold store (Jan 2026)

This item contains photographic prints on light sensitive paper in the following sizes:

• 285 photographic prints size 13x18cm (box 14207 O/S)
• 460 photographic prints size 21x26cm (box 23847 O/S; 25200 O/S)
• 74 photographic prints sized 31x41cm (box 23614-23613 O/S)
• 595 photographic prints size 41x51cm (box 23648-23652 O/S)
• 197 photographic prints size 51x61cm (box 23615-23623 O/S; 23843-23845 O/S)
• 4 mounted prints on backing board size 41x51cm (box 23848 O/S)
• 1 mounted print on backing board size 51x61cm (box 23848 O/S)

This item contains inkjet prints in the following sizes:

• 83 inkjet prints size 21x30cm (box 23838 O/S)
• 11 inkjet prints size 28x35cm (box 23838 O/S)
• 6 inkjet prints size 31x41cm (box 23838 O/S)
• 61 inkjet prints size 30x42cm (box 23838 O/S)
• 9 inkjet prints size 33x49cm (box 23838 O/S)
• 160 inkjet prints size 42x60cm (box 23839-23842; 23846 O/S)
• 6 inkjet prints size 51x61cm (box 23621 O/S)

Correspondence related to:

• Richard Stringer's architectural photographic business, including commissions, site access and notes of thanks for work completed;
• National Trust work and invitations to associated events.;
• Sessional lecturing work at the University of Queensland school of Architecture;
• Exhibition organisation;
• Partnership settlement between James Birrell and Richard Stringer between 1966-1970.
• James Cooktown Museum's restoration of St. Mary's Convent.

Stationary used throughout career including:

• Letter heads for both architectural photography business and architectural practice, 
• Invoice designs
• Professional charges for photography dated November 1968
• Business cards: 
• Original mockup of business cards and;
• Original drawing of the design used in the business cards.

Hand written invoices, organised in invoice date order. Includes client, sales tax information, price, type of work completed and date invoice was paid. 

Selected ephemera from exhibitions of Richard Stringer's photographic works: 

• Queensland Background, Sutton House includes document about the reason for the exhibition, 1967;
• An exhibition of photogaphs featuring Rockhampton and Mount Morgan, Rockhampton Art Gallery, 1976;
• Clermont Before and After, Institue of Modern Art, 1976;
• Queensland 6 photographers, Queensland Art Gallery 1977;
• The Denison exhibition including catalogue, draft image and didactics, 1985;
• Richard Stringer, Peter Bellas Gallery, 1987 includes clippings, C.V., list of work and record of sales on Bellas Gallery letter head;
• A wedding photography exposition, Image Gallery, 1987;
• Suncorp biennial art awards, 1987;
• Tree images photographic exhibition, 1988;
• Brisbane River Art Exhibition 'Past Presence and Future', 1988 includes correspondence;
• In Full Sunlight for A Glass of Water travelling exhibition, includes correspondence from Luke Roberts and Scott Redford, 1989;
• Queensland University of Technology Andrew Knight Memorial, 1989;
• Industrial Archaeology photographs of Ipswich's industrial heritage posters, Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, 1993;
• Vanishing Queensland: Photographs by Richard Stringer catalogue for a National Trust of Queensland exhibition toured by Regional Galleries Association of Queensland, 2000;
• Industrial Cycle Photographs of the North Ipswich Railway Workshops Peter Liddy: Richard Stringer, 2003.

Various letterheads, some which have been designed by Richard Stringer. 

The following letter heads have RES penciled in and are assumed to be Stringers design:

• National Trust of Queensland; 
• James Birrell and partners; 
• The Incisal Edge: dental management computer systems; 
• Hugh Galloway Chartered accountant; 
• Library Board of Queensland; 
• Rider Hunt and partners and;
• John B Greaves and Greaves solicitors, negative for producing letter heads.

The following letter heads have no pencil marks: 

• MUASC architectural students club; 
• Spectrum photographic colour services; 
• Lord Mayor's Office Brisbane; 
• Arti studio and Fair Dinkum Graphics Arti Studio; 
• Geoffery Pie architect planners pty ltd; 
• mal'com en'right designer; 
• New Earth Designts by Ken Aitken; 
• Lockwood systems; 
• Roger S. Richardson & associates Pty. Ltd.;
• John Railton; 
• Michael Bryce and associates; 
• Codd Hopgood architects industrial designers; 
• Conrad, Gargett & partners Pty. Ltd. architects and;
• Worcestershire sauce label. 

Society of Architectural Historian (ANZ). A conference on towns in Australia and New Zealand held in Brisbane between 30 September-2 October 1994 includes conference proceedings and a print out of papers presented at the conference. 

This item includes course material taught by Richard Stringer at: 

• Queensland Univerysity of Technology course material for photography and visual arts. Material includes class list, curriculum outline, weekly schedule, reference list, assessment schedule and assessment outlines and criteria;
• Griffith University College of Art Department of Photography course material;
• Photography workshops notes run at Caloundra Regional Gallery & Museum of the Riverina Wagga Wagga.

This folder contains material related to 'The art of gardening in colonial Australia: converting the wilderness' an exhibition and publication by Australian Gallery Directors' Council. Includes: 

• Correspondence about the exhibition and publication, including the initial exhibition proposal to the Australian Gallery Directors' Council by Howard Tanner;
• press coverage including clippings,
• lists of works and sales,
• invitation to the Brisbane opening,
• invoices for photographs taken, of the exhibition and for the publication.
• Ephemera related to gardens and homesteads visited by Stringer.

This folder contains material related to the National Trust of Queensland exhibition Vanishing Queensland photographs by Richard Stringer including: 

• Exhibition correspondence, including preliminary expression of interest;
• Letters of appreciation from visitors and photocopy of visitors book from Bathurst, Mourilyan and Redcliffe;
• Exhibition catalogue, ephemera and clippings;
• Teacher's Guide and
• Exhibition notes, including install and repacking guidelines, condition reports, exhibition sequence and list of invitees.

This folder contains material related to the publication A Shifting Town: Glass-Plate Images of Clermont and Its People, compiled by Richard and Marguerite Stringer based on G.C. Pullar’s glass-plate negatives. It also includes material concerning exhibitions of the Stringers’ prints made from Pullar’s negatives.

Research material for the publication Evaluation of photographic resources of potential use to the Heritage Commission of Australia by Richard Stringer. This has been arranged into two folders:

• Folder A contains correspondence, print out of the survey, with correction marks and annotations.
• Folder B: Contains the site index for the proposed listing in the resister of the National Estate.

This folder contains newspaper clippings in this folder relate to Stringer's exhibitions and architectural news,

Newspapers include

• The Daily Mercury;
• The Australian;
• Courier Mail;
• The Sunday Mail;
• The Morning Bulletin Rockhampton;
• Capricornia Local Express. 

Also contained are clippings of Stringer's published photographs in Magazines including:

• Wallpaper International design interiors lifestyle;
• Architecture Australia; 
• Artlines;
• Architectural review;
• Australian Home Journal;
• Architect Queensland;
• Monument Architecture & Design

Print out of the address Richard Stringer gave at the State Library of Queensland Heritage Talk, Richard Stringer: photography, architecture and the archive. 

National trust of Queensland ephemera which includes Stringer's photographs includes  postcards and St. John's Anglican Catheral Brisbane guide book;

Travel ephemera collected on business trips,

miscellaneous photographs: 

• IAP Christmas, 1973 written on the back;
• Photograph of an artwork of a Conrad and Garrett Architects
• Male in Doctorate robes [Walter Stringer?] 

This folder contains clippings, handwritten notes, and a map with location markups related to fretwork pediments, an architectural feature of Queenslander homes. It also includes exhibition invitations for Fretwork Pediments in Queensland by Richard Stringer, held at the University Art Museum, University of Queensland.

This item is a single ring-bound document indexing exhibitions at the Institute of Modern Art photographed by Richard Stringer between 1977 and 2014. Stringer documented the majority of exhibitions at Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art. The index corresponds to negatives held in collection 31590, Richard Stringer Institute of Modern Art Photographic Archive, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.

This folder contains logo and design materials related to sailing, including items for the Oxley Sailing Club, Wynnum Manly Yacht Club, and Mirror Nationals, produced on light-sensitive photographic paper. It also includes burgee (flag) designs, original paper cut-outs, and various design templates in both pennant and guidon shapes, featuring woodworking themes and tools.

Hall and Dods watercolour of the exterior of the proposed Australian Mercantile, Land & Finance Company Limited office building in Creek Street, Brisbane. A digital version is available in job number 1674.

This item contains material related to the Stringer family, Richard and Margarite Stringer and children Toby and Emma Stringer.

• The book of Toby (Box no. 23718)
• The book of Emma (Box no. 23719)

This item contains two Ex Libris bookplates: one in black ink depicting a knight slaying a dragon with the name ‘R. E. Stringer,’ and a second in red ink featuring an elaborate design with the text ‘Ex Libris Marguerite Stringer.’