Papers mostly concerned with the history of Albany and its surrounds, and ships and shipwrecks along the WA coast. Includes letters re old farm at Strawberry Hill; histories of islands of Amsterdam and St Paul, Pyrmont House (headquarters of the Albany CWA), and fortifications of Albany; notes on the coastline of WA, including charts of coast and index to ships and shipwrecks, with photographs of ships; scrapbooks re Albany and Strawberry Hill; shipping papers of Bethell Gwyn & Co., Hungry Goose Line, Trinder, Anderson & Co. with photographs of ships and emigrants arriving in Fremantle and Albany.