The collection consists of research works and papers by Shineberg; files of general research material arranged by subject including Andrew Cheyne's Trading Voyages, cargo cults, decolonisation, Fiji, French Polynesia, Hawaii, Kiribati/Gilbert Islands, pacific labour trade, Marquesas Islands, Micronesia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Tonga, Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides); undergraduate teaching resources and lectures; correspondence (including with Bronwen Douglas), photographs, computer disks, microfilm prints, material related to Shineberg's career, copies of archival material dating from the 18th century, card indexes and miscellaneous reprints.

Includes the following papers from the 1991 France in the Pacific Conference at the ANU: Chesneaux, Jean "The Function of the Pacific in the French Fifth Republic's "Grand Design" Theory and Practice of the "Puissance Mondiale Moyenne"; Rallu, J.L. "Historical Demography of the French Overseas Territories in the Pacific"; Panoff, Michel "Des Plantations a la Francaise"; Saura, Bruno "The Tahitian Churches and the Problem of the French Presence (as of 1991)"; Bobin, Frederic "Caldoches, Metropolitans, and the Mother Country"; von Strokirch, Karin "The Politics of Nuclear Testing in French Polynesia"; Shineberg, Dorothy ""Noumea no good. Noumea no pay": An Aspect of New Hebridean Indentured Labour in New Caledonia, 1865-1925"; Pillon, Patrick and Sodter, Francois "L'Impact des politiques administratives coloniales sur les pratiques sociales autochtones a Tahiti et en Nouvelle-Caledonie"; Muller, Karis "New Caledonia, Another Corsica?"; Laugier, Patrick "Le Parti Socialiste Francais et la Question Kanak"; Laracy, Hugh "The Pentecost Murders, Vanuatu 1940"; Forster, Colin "French Penal Policy and the Origins of the French Presence in new Caledonia"; Chanter, Alaine "The Media and Politics in New Caledonia - the Past Decade"; Merle, Isabelle "The Foundation of Voh 1892-1895: French Migrants on the West Coast of New Caledonia".

Includes the following papers: Stephen, Michele "Cargo cult hysteria: symptom of despair or technique of ecstasy?" Occasional Paper No. 1, Research School for Southwest Pacific Studies, 1977; Epstein, A.L. and T.S. "A Note on Population in Two Tolai Settlements" Journal of the Polynesian Society extract from Vol. 71, No. 1, March 1962; Shlomowitz, Ralph "Infant Mortality and Fiji's Indian Migrants" unpublished paper submitted to Shineberg for comment, 1985; Shlomowitz, Ralph "Differential Mortality of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the Pacific Labour Trade" unpublished paper submitted to Shineberg for comment; Fenbury, David "The White Cassowary" short story from New Guinea and Australia, the Pacific and South east Asia, March/April 1966; Edmondson, C. "The Diaries of S.M. Smith, Government Agent: A New Light on the Pacific Islands Labour Trade" Lectures on North Queensland History No. 4, james Cook University of North Queensland, 1984 ; Sekiguchi, Noriko (trans) "Papalagi - The Speech Collections by Tuiavii Who Saw the western Covilization for the First Time" 1979; Meehan, Maria "Aspects of Feminism in my Family" unpublished paper; Deckker, Paul "Au Sujet de al Perception de la France dans le Pacifique Insulaire: Pour une Contribution a l'Histoire de Temps Mal Conjugues" Rev. Franc. d'Hist. d'Outre-mer, LXXVI, 1989; McCreery, David "Hegemony and Regression in Rural Guatemala, 1871-1940", Peasant Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3 spring 1990; Kohlr, J.M. "L'Heurs et Malheurs du Nationalisme Canaque" unpublished paper; Deklin, Frances "Historical Theories and the Study of Pacific History" unpublished paper; Reid, Anthony "Europe and Southeast Asia: the Military Balance" Occasional Paper No. 16, South East Asian Studies Committee, James Cook University of North Queensland, 1982; McTaggart. W. Donald "A Social Survey of Noumea, New Caledonia" Depertment of Geography, ANU, 1961

Handwritten notes, photocopies of maps and photocopies of photographs concerning New Hebrides; photostat copies of journal pages; "Nagriamel Federation... a question of puppets and strings", special information paper from the New Hebrides National Party.

Photostat copies of 19th century journal pages; R. D. Bedford "Appendices to New Hebridean Mobility: a Study of Circular Migration" Research School of Pacific Studies ANU, 1973"; student paper by Brian Reader "What were the causes of the first John Frum movement on Tana?"

Handwritten note (list of books) titled "Wallis Island Bibliography, from Ms. Collier 1974".

Photocopied papers relating to Tahiti, including maps and a list, "Dates of visits of European ships, 1767 to 1789, from Corney, intro and vol 1., p. xxxiv"; English copy of Pomare, Tahitian Code of Laws of 1819."

Large file of computer print outs of ASCII art/lettering from the Coombs Computing Services at the ANU. Presumably test pages for Shineberg.

Includes notes and official memoranda by Shineberg to the ANU School of Pacific History; handwritten note "Research project Submitted by Michel Panoff"; newspaper clippings from the Australian, the Sun and the Age regarding the massacre of Kanaks in 1984; glossy brochure for Les Archives Territoriales de Nouvelle Caledonie; typed manuscript "Index to Pacific Items in the 'Annales de Notre Dame de Sacre-Couer' 1881-1975'; other miscellaneous papers.

Handwritten notes and photostat copies of pages from various 19th and 20th century chronicles, journals and books.

Thesis examiners' reports by Shineberg and others for: Cameron, Stuart B "Aborigines of the Far South Coast of New South Wales in the 19th Century"; Puloka, Kasanita "The Role of Roger Page in the History of Tonga Between the World Wars"; Broadbent, Lucinda M: "Faith on Fire: A Comparative Study of the Charismatic Renewal Movement and the Pentecostal Chruches in Singapore"; Higgins, Bernard "Presenting Aborigines in the Pastoral North"; Barnes "Cartographic History".

Reports by Shineberg on her various study leave trips.

Notes, correspondence and material realting to the Academy of Social Sciences project "Australia and the South West Pacific." Also "Australia's Near East: Our Island Neighbours."

Material supporting Shineberg's application for a grant for "An analysis of the French indenture of Javanese labour for works in New Caledonia, mainly during the period 1890-1939".

Reports and computer print outs regarding research funding.

Drafts and research material from Shineberg's Australian Dictionary of Biography article for Rpbert Towns. Includes typed drafts of the article; photocopied extract from English Reports to the Privy Council "Towns v. Wentworth", 1858; index card; photograph of Town's obituary (newspaper unidentified); handwritten and photocopied notes; list of Towns' children; letter to Shineberg from the Northumberland County Archivist regarding baptismal records for Robert Towns.

Includes handwritten notes and a small notebook with notes taken from item 69 of the Towns papers, correspondence with Brooks and Co.

Contains a typed summary of Robert Towns' life, and a photostat of a letter, presumably from Mair to Towns.

Handwritten notes taken from an unidentified reel of the Towns papers.

Handwritten notes and photostat pages taken from the Towns papers, reel U.

Handwritten notes taken from reel P of the Towns papers.

Handwritten notes and index cards taken from the Towns papers. Regarding correspondence between Paddon and Towns.

Two handwritten pages headed "Reel D", sub-headed "Towns to (various names)".

Handwtitten notes, typed extracts and photostat copies of pages from the Towns reels.

Photocopies of letters from Ballande to his father.

Handwritten notes and printed copy of a seminar paper "Ballande and the Bishops."

Receipts for subscriptions, e.g. Smith Family charity. Also includes an enevlope with a negative and a test strip print, of what appears to be pages from a French periodical.

Photocopies and newspaper clippings of articles by Dorothy and Barry Shineberg in the Canberra Times and other newspapers, on the topic of New Caledonia.

Personal correspondence. Includes postcards, letters and envelopes to Shineberg from various people.

Two pages of typewritten notes about Raymond Allan Paull. Possibly a relative of Shineberg.

Printed draft of workshop paper.

Handwritten and typed drafts of paper for the 14th South Pacific Forum in Canberra. Also includes paper given on the 130th anniversary of French Settlement in Noumea; 1984 newspaper clippings from the Melbourne Age about a massacre of Kanaks; photo of men in traditional dress.

Two papers by Dorothy Shineberg: "French Colonization in the Pacific (with special reference to New Caledonia)", given at the conference Australia and the Pacific in Sydney; "Un nouveau regard sur la demographie historique de la Nouvelle-Caledonie", conference paper given at the Societe des Oceanistes November 25 1981.

Handwritten notes taken from various sources about the efficacy of the firearms used by colonial sailors.

Correspondence with and summaries of collections from various libraries in the USA, including the Nantucket Historical Society; Baker Library Harvard University; San Francisco Maritime Museum; Library of Congress. Typed page "Notes from Saul's shipping notes". All items are concerned with shipping lists.

Handwritten notes, index cards, and some manuscripts concerning James (Jim) O'Connell, and Irish sailor who lived amongst the Ponapean Islanders and published a book about his experiences. Includes extract from "Journal of the Brig "Spy" of Salem", author unknown; and Saul H. Risenberg, "The Tattooed Irishman".

66 page extract from H. Roche "Description of the New Hebrides Group of Islands in the South Pacific Ocean: showing the advantages to be derived from a settlement on one of the Islands: with a brief notice of the objects of the New Hebrides Company". Concerning "objects etc. of the New Hebrides Company".

Typewritten summaries of the Records of the Australia Naval Station. Topics of interest include New Guinea, New Hebrides, Tonga and Fiji, kidnapping and slavery, and more.

Handwritten seminar notes; photocopies from various books regarding the labour trade; British Colonial Office Papers, "An Inquiry into the Alleged Kidnapping of Pacific Islanders by the Captains of the Velocity and Portenia of New South Wales in 1847; Microform pricelist from Pacific Manuscripts Bureau; student papers; notes for students on essay writing and topic choice.

Photostat of alphabetical list of ships and captains, source unknown; handwritten notes by Shineberg; typed summaries of the Australian Agricultural Company, Goldsbroug, Mort and Company and other collections from the Australian National University Archives.

Typed notes taken from the "Jaredine Matheson archive"; edited version of Jane Roth's notes on Jardine Matheson (done for Mr. Maude); letters from Herjeebhoy Rustomjee to Jardine Matheson and Co.; letters from Thacker and Co.; letters from G. W. Cole to Magniac and Co., Canton.

Photocopied pages from Letter XVI "Why do the Natives Leave their Islands?" in "A Year in the New Hebrides" by F.A. Campbell. In a folder labelled "New Projects" in Shineberg's handwriting.

Handwritten notes by Shineberg and an extract from "Historical Records of Australia, Gipps to Russell" 1840, regarding the death of Captain Croker of 'The Favourite' in Tonga.

Typed copy of Andrew Cheyne's journal; article by Neil Gunson "Missionary Interest in British Expansion", The Journal of Religious History, Vol. 3 1964-5.

Handwritten notes by Shineberg, and photostats of 19th century journals regarding Joseph Charles Byrne.

Contains an extract from chapter VII of "Last Cruise of the Wanderer", annotated by Shineberg "1868?" Describes the death of Captain Boyd and a battle between white sailors and tribal people from Guadalcanal. Also contains photostats of 19th century journal pages concerning Boyd's death.

Handwritten notes in English and French regarding Andre Ballande.

Material copied from the Bordereau de Versement aux Archive Territoriales, Republique Francaise Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependances; correspondence between Shineberg and people at the ANU and Pacific officials; notes on material found in French archives.

Contains one 49cm x 45cm map of the South Pacific by the Colonial Survey Office, 1948; 7 photocopied maps from various sources of Pacific locations including Vanuatu and Santa Cruz, dating between 1567 and 1948.

Contains handwritten notes and graphs on foolscap and graph paper, concerning arrivals (to New Caledonia?).

Contains two lists: Women known to have had children in New Caledonia on December 12th, 1991; Men known to have fathered children in New Caledonia on December 12th, 1991.

One of Shineberg's notebooks labelled "Papers", contains handwritten notes some on ANU letterhead.

Shineberg's notebook, cover labelled "D.L. Shineberg, History Dept."

Contains photostats and handwritten notes regarding shipping in the Pacific in the 19th century. English and French. The significance of "E.C." in the title is unclear.

Material in English and some French, including photocopies, handwritten notes and one photographic print of the ruins of a fishing booth in Scotland connected to Andrew Cheyne. The material is all related to Australian Dictionary of Biography entries Shineberg was requested to write. Folder is title "Mendana research notes" but the relevance of the title is not clear.

Various photocopies of publications including Warwick M. Tompkins, Sr. and Captain Edmund French Clay ""Blackbirding" in New Guinea"; "A Day in the Life of a Beche-de-Mer Fisherman Half a Century Ago", author unknown; newspaper clippings regarding Captain John Strachan; Captain McKenzie "Observations on Making the Passage to the Eastward Through Torres Strait, and the Monsoons in the Timour (sic) Sea", The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, March 1847; "Trepang", Nautical magazine 1870; "Massacres at the Sandalwood Islands", Sydney Morning Herald, June 24, 1850; and more

Draft of country profile of Papua New Guinea by R. Hunter, for the purposes of assessing educational qualifications. Submitted to Shineberg for comment.

Correspondence and supporting papers where Shineberg was asked to advise on the assessment of overseas qualifications

Handwritten thesis notes; J. W. Davidson "History, Art or Game? A Comment on the "Purity of the Historical Method"", Australian National University (no date); D. L. Hillaird, History III lecture programme from the Flinders University of South Australia School of Social Sciences, 1968

Contains 2/3P Pacific History Reading List - Early Explorations; two student essays: Hewitt, Wilma "Synoptic Essay 1982", Fulivai, Salamo "Labour Trade"; bibliography from unknown title.

Photocopied extract from "How Natives Think" by Lucien Levy-Bruhl, chapter entitled "The Functioning of Prelogical Mentality".

The ANU Faculty of Arts, Pacific History 2/3P second sememster handbook 1979, marked by Shineberg "scribble copy".

Material for Masters in Pacific History at the ANU, including suggested essay and seminar topics, and notes from various seminars by Dr Hugh Laracy.

Papua New Guinea Reference Reading list for History 2/3P (Pacific); Pacific History 2/3P Course Guide, 1978; Pacific History 2/3P Reading Guide, 1975.

Notes in preparation for the Pacific History course at the University of Melbourne.

Correspondence between Shineberg and others, including a letter to Murray Groves from Jim Davidson, about a proposed course on Tonga for public servants.

"Captain Edward Woodin and the Sandalwood Trade of the South-West Pacific", paper read to "the Association(?)" on 8 August 1964 by Dorothy Shineberg

Material relating to the Shineberg's work with the ABC reviewing the book on French nuclear testing "Poisoned Reign" by Bengt and Marie-Therese Danielsson, Penguin Books 1986. includes engagement contracts and copies of Shineberg's review.

Photostat copies of pages from various journals colelcted by Shineberg. Includes J. Williams, "Samoa to Enomanga"; Engacott "Cook Islands 1842"; George Turner, "New Hebrides 1842-43"; untitled journal

Photostat pages collected by Shineberg from the journal of Reverend A. Tidman

Copies of pages of "Voyage of the Novara" including "Haunts of and Mode of Catching Trepang" and "Shocking Inhumanity of a British Captain".

Shineberg's handwritten notes taken from the papers of David Porter. No dates.

Contains handwritten note "Early Pidgin - examples of, Beach La Mare, Langue de la Cote"; P. Muhlhausler, J A Bennett and D T Tryon, "Some English-based Pidgins in the Southwestern Pacific", booklet with no date.

Notes and correspondence on James Paddon for book chapter; includes unpublished draft of chapter

Two papers by Neil Gunson: "On Practical Genealogy", Canberra and District Historical Society, 1964; "Missionary Interest in British Expansion in the South Pacific in the Nineteenth Century" no date; reference list and map of Tahiti and Moorea, from The History of the Tahitian mission 1799-1830

Photostats and photocopies of press clipping on massacres in the Pacific Islands, predominantly 19th century

Handwritten notes by Shineberg regarding information collected from trade papers from the 1850s.

Photographs of pages from manuscript "Description of the Islands of Tanna and Erromanga, New Hebrides, When Visited by Captain Cook and Captain Dillon", from the copy in the Mitchell Library; copy of correspondence from Captain Dillon to the editor of the Bengal Hurkaru, Oct 14th 1826

Shineberg's review of James Clifford "Person and Myth: Maurice Leenhardt in the Melanesian world", Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1982

Handwritten notes by Shineberg on Andrew Cheyne and Palau for early articles; cover refers to a Gunson article and material from Palau

Handwritten notes by Shineberg on Brenchley, Grimshaw, Salisbury and Anderson's observation of Fiji and New Caledonia in the 19th century

Peter Biskup, "Hermann Detzner: New Guinea's First Coast Watcher", in Journal of the Papua and New Guinea Society.

Photographs of pages of George Bennett's "A Recent Visit to Several of the Polynesian Islands", from The United States Journal; Shineberg's handwritten notes regarding Bennett's manuscript

Handwritten foolscap pages (presumably by Shineberg) regarding Andrew Cheyne.

Correspondence in French with various staff at the Archives Nationale, and related material such as notes in English.

File that contains notes and material for The Trading Voyages of Andrew Cheyne", including a copy of the acknowledgements; mailing list of "names and addresses for book advertisement"

Small file of research notes from Shineberg's books that were in at the time of the file. Includes dust cover of "The Trading Voyages of Andrew Cheyne, 1841-1844"

Correspondence bwteen Shineberg and publishers and booksellers at Melbourne University Press. Includes discussion of the difficulties facing the bookselling industry.

Correspondence (some financial) between Shineberg and the ANU Press; report by Shineberg on "Robert Louis Stevenson and Samoa" by K S Mackenzie, requested by ANU Press; summary, list of illustrations and one photographic print from the "Voyages of Andrew Cheyne".

Letters and notes in English and French regarding the translation into French and (positive) public reception in Noumea of "They Came for Sandalwood".

Personal and professional correspondence, including references and discussions of student book purchases.

Personal and professional correspondence including with Ken Inglis; some financial material (a sealed pay slip).

Personal and professional correspondence, including correspondence with publishers (ANU Press) regarding Trading Voyages.

General, research and academic correspondence. Includes some financial and personal material.

Personal, research and academic correspondence from 1968

Correspondence between Shineberg and various people in 1967; personal correspondence, academic and research correspondence, some financial material

Correspondence between Shineberg and various people, mostly librarians and other research professionals at various institutions

Correspondence with various people including Neil Gunson, Jane Roth and John Stanley Cumpston