Blue Care records and photographs

Photographs: Annual General Meeting Blue Nursing Service West End, 1990-2000; Ashgrove Friends of Blue Nursing Service; Buildings in Brisbane area excluding: Salvin Park, Carramar, Tangara, Panorama Lodge and centres for Retirement Living facilities; Fleet and Maintenance Brisbane; Car Handovers- photographs of cars and sponsors; Carramar: building and activities, 130 Hellawell Road, Sunnybank Hills; Celebrity Involvement in Brisbane; Centres for Retirement Living facilites.

Photographs: Chaplains, Brisbane Central; Clinical Work; Staff and patients; Continence advisors and clinic Mt Gravatt; Doorknock appeals Brisbane, including a launch in Queens Street, Southbank; Events; Fun Run 1986 ( SouthBank); Fundraising VIP Lunches and morning teas for donors Brisbane; Nurse and patient in Brisbane; Nurse and patient in West End and Ashgrove; Nurses working with children ( Brisbane); Nursing Staff in Brisbane.

Photographs: Openings of buildings and extensions ( Brisbane and CRL facilities); Palliative Care Brisbane; Panorama Lodge; Physiotherapists at work (Harold Mann Therapy centre and community); Pinewoods aged care facility (CRL facility at Lawnton); Remote Area Dementia respite project at Bollon, Queensland (2002); Respite Centres: Coopers Plains, West End, Mt Gravatt; RNA Show displays/fundraising; Salvin Park: resident activities; Salvin Park : staff; Salvin Park therapy centre building and staff; Skillshare 1992 with Jim Soorley; Staff Brisbane and Division of Aged Care and Domiciliary Services; Tangara Independent living, 35 Sussex Street West End; Two-way radio use; Volunteers; Miscellaneous large photographs: West End and Salvin Park; Miscellanous; Blue Nursing other locations than Brisbane; Miscellaneous photographs: St Stephens Hospital Maryborough, Herberton Methodist Hostel for students, Lifeline Collection and miscellaneous photographs; Management development program.

History of Centres for Retirement Living and other CRL nursing homes; 2 items from Ivy Maddison (nee Robb) about her early days with the Blue Nurses; William Herbert Green’s 'Contribution to the Foundation of Blue Care' as told by his grandson Rev Dr Noel Preston (2015);The Original Opportunity Shop, a handwritten personal history of the Hervey Bay Opp Shop by Evelyn Cook; and 'The Blue Nurses Opportunity Shop', the history of the Hervey Bay opp shop; selection of jubilee and history booklets; the Leichhardt Story; Blue Nursing Service letter accompanying seeking donations, April 1964; Blue Nursing Service Ipswich: 50th anniversary; Blue Nursing Service Council minutes, including index of subject headings and Executive Council minutes covering 3 July 1962 to 7 Feb 1984; Folder (Coolangatta) Branch:The Constitution and Rules of the Blue Nursing Service Blue Care, Deficit Financing Arrangements for participating religious and charitable nursing homes and Allocation of Responsibility Coolangatta Centre; Folder West End: Mission and Congregational early history, minutes of meetings and circulars; handwritten financial report for 'Kewarra' Hospital.

Committee for Retirement Living miscellaneous historical background; Background information about CRL and Mr Ernest E. Rees; Memo regarding the change of name from Committee for Retirement Living to Centres for Retirement Living; History of Centres for Retirement Living (2 typescripts); Blue Care A.G.M. 2001; A.G.M. of CRL's held at Lawnton, 2000; Caloundra, including Waroona Gardens Retirement Village, Caloundra Respite Centre (and newspaper clippings); Aminya Nursing Home, Waroona Gardens, Caloundra retirement Village and Dickey Beach Village Brochure; Southerden Lodge including official opening and anniversary booklet; other centres (Pine Woods, Ninderry, Bli Bli, Boyanda, Merriwee, Ben Bryce Park, Erowal, Kawana, Beaudesert, Southport; Iona,Tarry Brae and Pinjarra; Newspaper articles regarding Centres for Retirement Living; Copies of newspaper articles from Bayside Star; Bound ledger of chart of accounts relating to current Centres of Retirement.

Meeting minutes: National Committee Meeting, Uniting Community Services Australia, Canberra, 1997; Blue Nursing Service Council, Executive Council minutes April 1974 to March 1982.

Minutes of Committee meetings held at Caloundra Blue Nursing Service, August 1987 to the end of 1999.

Nomination of D. Bengston for Premier's Award; Documents about the history of Uniting Care Queensland, Unicare, Wesley Hospital and Board of Welfare Services; Material related to St Stephen's Maryborough; History of St Andrew's Hospital and photographs of graduating nurses; Papers relating to establishment of Division of Aged Care, policy principles and history of Department of Community Services; miscellaneous material, including a mini uniform and badges; Blue Care submission to Standing Committee on Community Affairs; Envelope of photographs used as promotional material; Envelope of photographs and text related to the Blue Nurses Chaplaincy Service; History summary of 'Friends of Blue Nurses, Ashgrove'; Album of photographs of various nursing homes and respite centres, including Maleny RFSCU, Buderim Nursing Home, Buderim N.H., Boyanda at Bli Bli, Beachwood and Elandra RFSCU at Kawana Waters, Waroona Gardens and Aminya at Caloundra, Glebe at Dicky Beach, CRV activity centre, Pine Woods at Lawnton, Merriwee Court and Oxgord Court at Hamilton, Southerden Lodge, Henderson Day Care, Pinjarra Lodge, Tarry Brae, New Haven at Redcliffe, Bowen and Abbott Courts at New Farm, Hardgrave Court at West End.

A history of the 'Friends of Blue Nursing Service, Ashgrove'.

The history of the Southerden family, includingt the opening of Southerden Lodge; Album of photographs relating to fundraising activities, presentation of volunteer awards, palliative care volunteers after completion of training and appreciation lunches; Album of photographs relating to the launch of the book 'Stories from the Heart: Living on Disability Street'; Coorparoo quilters and their quilts, Blue Link breakfast, Life Style Seminar, fundraising events, and staff celebrations.

Album of slides relating to the Blue Nursing Service and showing buildings, nurses, vehicles and clients.

Album of slides relating to the Southerden Lodge and Salvin Park Centres, showing buildings, nurses, vehicles and clients.

Plaques relating to Vera Louise Southerden, Edward Barton Southerden (1859-1944) and his wife Frances (1864-1942), the Southerden Retirement Village and Southerden Lodge Hostel.