Collected papers on Papua New Guinea history, mining, and independence including interviews with spokesmen of the Highlands Liberation Front, research papers and reports. Includes papers relating to the University of Papua New Guinea Council, transcripts of interviews with Papuan Defence Force personnel and Papuan Chinese on their experiences.

Documents relating to McGrath's work as a land consultant, particularly regarding regions in Micronesia.

Personal records of Gow's life in Papua New Guinea including paper files, film (8mm, 9.5mm and 35mm), photographs and slides, transparencies, paintings and ephemera. Also includes family records. Description of film reels are based on frames at the beginning of each reel and not indicative of the entire content of the film.

The collection was made by James Sinclair in 1973 -1974 from files held by TPNG District Administration, Konedobu. It includes patrol reports, station journals and district annual reports (including selected memoranda), together with various other reports, reviews and studies with detailed indexes compiled by Bob Cole listing patrol number and date, patrol officer and area patrolled, photocopies and some original documents held in binders, departmental correspondence and reports and manuscripts and publications, collected by James Sinclair, together with some Department of District Administration confidential files, and Sinclair’s notes on various archives and secondary sources.

Includes documents given to James Sinclair by Sir John Gunther, J.K. McCarthy, Robert Cole and the family of Sir Donald Cleland.

This series comprises of O'Neill's personal research and work materials compiled during her work in Papua New Guinea, as well as reports, minutes, and materials of the Papua New Guinea Social Workers Association and Council of Social Service of Papua, organisations in which O'Neill was heavily involved. Also included are letters and study materials belonging to friend and peer Michael Robert Grey from his year of study as a Cadet Patrol Officer in Papua New Guinea in 1963.

The collection covers the period 1962 to 1976, when John Duffield was a Patrol Officer, Political Education Officer and District Government Liaison Officer with the Australian Public Service in Papua New Guinea. Included are Field Officer Journals from 1972 to 1976; several Patrol Reports and a very large collection of letters, circulars, reports, telegrams, ephemera, patrol instructions and comments on patrol reports; declarations of Local Government Council elections; as well as many personal records including his appointment as a Local Government advisor; an acceptance letter to ASOPA (the Australian School of Pacific Studies); his appointment letter as a Cadet Patrol Officer and appointment as a Magistrate for Native Matters. There are copies of the 'Black and White Magazine' and posters and ephemera relating to self-government and Independence. Rare publications include: the Western Highlands District Agricultural Society Mount Hagen Show Handbook for the Fourth District Show, dated 1967; Recipe book - 'Entertaining in Papua and New Guinea', published by the Boroko Branch of the Country Women's Association, 2nd Edition, 1968; and the Third South Pacific Games Souvenir Cookery Book, c.1969.

Of particular significance are booklets produced for the Independence celebrations in Port Moresby in 1975, including booklets on the 'State Welcome & Flag Lowering', 'Sport & Culture', 'Royal Tour', 'Guriguri Hebou', 'Bikpela Lotu, 'Flag Raising', 'Installation & Constitutional Ceremonies', 'State opening of the First National Parliament', 16 September 1975, 'Official Programme'.

The collection includes one album of photographs covering the period.

The series consists of 395 images of people, families, villages, social life and customs as well as images taken in the course of Frank Ryan's work as a District Agricultural Officer.

Papers documenting David Bruce Moorhouse's career in Papua New Guinea as a patrol officer, administrator, and land consultant. Includes patrol reports, field officer's journal, mining consultancy papers, correspondence, papers relating to border crossings and territory intelligence, newspaper articles re royal visit by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, publications and maps.

Carbon copy of journal from the commencement of service on 1 June 1964 to or 14 February 1965, including stations at Rabaul, Kokopo, Messawa, Manus (Lorengau), Balluan and Rambutso. Also includes papers related to the creation of the Enga Cultural Centre and the story of the Enga Provincial Flag.

Correspondence, reports, press cuttings, research materials, contracts and employment documents, lecture notes and student essays, conference programs, manuscripts and publications, and interview tapes. Also includes records related to the Tongan History Association.

This series has not been processed

Material relating mostly to Pari and Pari Village Study but also Papua New Guinea in general, particularly health and medical services. Includes research papers, photographs, genetics data, genealogical charts and notes, correspondence, notebooks, clinical data print-outs, serials, audio tapes, video tapes, CDs, index cards and maps. Material relates mostly to health of Pari people and medical services but includes material relating to a wide variety of subjects including genealogy, genetics, geography, Pari Church, anthropology, language, education, legends and stories, history, children and culture. Also includes material relating to Hiri, Motu and Koita people. Includes material in Pari and Motu languages.

Genealogical material, including list of descendants of Sit Joh Guise (d.1865) and Biographical Index for Francis Guise

Various notes, correspondence, and photocopies from primary sources.

Photocopies of correspondence of the 1960s pertaining to Guise family

Index cards with details of Guise Family landholding in PNG; Sedbergh School, a fundraising pamphlet.

Diary filled irregularly to end of year.

The series contains many subject folders arranged by Standish before his death. Electoral politics in Chimbu province of Papua New Guinea are a major component of the series, which contains many candidate posters and other electoral ephemera, especially from 2007. There are also material concerning HIV/AIDS in the region, the Bougainville Emergency and subsequent peace process, and a quantity of correspondence, personal in nature but touching on politics in PNG.
The series also contains a significant quantity of maps, especially of Chimbu province.

Note that A/V material collected by Bill Standish is cataloged in series ANU A 826.

This series consists largely of academic research materials accumulated by Oram from 1962 onwards, and pertains to Papua New Guinea, especially Port Moresby - about which Oram wrote a book, Colonial town to Melanesian city : Port Moresby, 1884–1974 - and the nearby coastal Hula region. There is also a significant amount of material for a study of Reginald Edward Guise, Grandfather of Sir John Guise, first governor-general of independent Papua New Guinea.

A highlight of the collection is the photographic material. In addition of Oram's own photographs of 1960s Port Moresby, there are several albums of remarkable photographs by A. C. English and others of Papua New Guinea c.1900.

Diaries, 1931-2002
Film and theatre albums, 1932-1990s
Personal papers, 1921-2001
Large format material, 1920s-1982
Correspondence, 1956-2005
University research material, 1940s-1950s
Maps
Research materials, 1950s-2000
MAGNT Aboriginal Art Collection, 1960s-1970s
National Museum of Australia catalogue, 1992
Sound recordings, 1960s
Indigenous photographs, 1950s-1960s
Photograph albums, 1923-2005
Slides, 1954-1970
Movie films, 1960-1974
Super 8 films, 1974-1988
Videos, 1990-2000
Obituaries and condolences (for SA Wurm), 2001-2002

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 annual reports, correspondence, meeting minutes and other administrative papers relating to the Department of Human Geography. Also includes, interviews with Professor Oskar Spate.

Papers documenting Gerard Ward's research.

Photographs of people and places in PNG, probably mostly in Port Moresby and Motu regions, but also including Rabaul. Some labelled 'elections '72'. The majority lack identifiers, but a few are labelled 'Delena Goruttu' and 'Rea Rea Pore Porena 1973'.

Photographs of people and places in PNG, probably mostly in Port Moresby and Motu regions. One photo of Nigel Oram. Likely dates 1963-1975.

Photographs of people and places in PNG, probably mostly in Port Moresby and Motu regions. Likely dates 1063-1975.

Text opening 'As written by Alexander H. Drummond 2/29th, 1942. Malaya.' Contains a memoir of Drummond's World War II experiences in 1942 and 1943, including time in 1943 as POW of Japanese. 1942, 173 pages; 1942 unpaginated, ~130 pages.

Regarding details of use of Catalinas in New Guinea.

Includes copy of 'Wantok' no. 175 June 1977 most likely in Tok Pisin, aircraft casualties list from June 1939, government defence scheme for Papua and New Guinea in 1936, program for English & social studies course for members of the house of assembly, patrol report for Iguni Himoda district 1937.

ANU Historical Journal, No.4, Oct 1967.

Includes list of all the Sisters.

Port Moresby: Department of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries (DASF), Extension Bulletin No.1.

Martha Macintyre, 'Matrilineal Structures and Patriarchal Values: Women's Health on Lihir, Papua New Guinea,' from box marked 'Engendering Health. Copyedited pages before final submission in 2005.'

Images of individuals and communities, some pastoral, during workshops on HIV in Goroka, Vunapope, Tsiroge

This collection includes medical, scientific, and government papers and publications relating to Dr Scragg's work, mostly in Papua New Guinea during his Tenure as Director of Public Health, the majority circa 1950-1970. This collection also contains working papers, correspondence, photographs, and some papers of Scragg's wife, Joy.

1 album of 40 black and white photographs taken by a miner associated with the Astrolable mineral field and the Laloki and Dubuna Mines near Port Moresby. The photographs were taken between 1918 and 1924 and include images of mining operations, storage facilities and a tramway, staff housing for the New Guinea Copper Mine, as well as the general images of the landscape and everyday events, including Rouna Falls, Bootless Bay, farming, harvesting and ploughing, a coconut plantation at Bautama (Bootless Inlet) and a funeral procession.

Large number of negatives, in strips and seperated. Most do not seem to correspond to prints elsewhere in the series. Some sleeves labelled 'Prehistory, La Trobe University.' Mostly undated, but one sheet is marked 1973.

Various slides of PNG, probably mostly by Oram in the Port Moresby and Hulu regions, but a few appear to be circa 1900, perhaps by A. C. English.

Folder labelled Letter from JB & Port Moresby as Capital & Tommy Kabu, containing correspondence, academic articles, newspaper clipping.

Research paper by W.R. Stent, La Trobe University, and L. Roy Webb, Melbourne

Lists of lands and villages compiled by Patrol Officer (possibly W.H. Morris), with geneological information

Copies of correspondence, c.1900, regarding West Granville Lands

Court case on Crown Resumption and Acquisition of Land

Notes on Native Land Custom Port Moresby Region, by J.B.C. Bramell, Commissioner. Also contains notes and typescript on land acquisition in Port Moresby

Notes, handwritten and typed, on Motu language, with wordlists.

Articles by Murray Groves

List of Motu names for various fish, birds and animals, together with geneological tables.

22 p. research paper, seemingly unpublished, with J. P. Sinclair handwritten at top.

Handwritten notes

Correspondence chiefly concerning editing and publication of research paper 'Rabia Camp: a Port Moresby migrant settlement.' Correspondents include Nancy Hitchcock, R.G. Crocombe, Susan Faircloth, Tommy Kabu, Peter Lawrence.

Notes and papers on Motu and Koina customs and their legal application, including reference to specific cases. Includes working paper T.E. Barnett, The Application of the Native Customs (Recognition) Ordinance to Three Motu/Koita Family Cases

Typescript of a paper submitted to the journal Pacific Studies, but not published under that name (if at all).

Letter concerning Europeans in Port Moresby in the early 20th c.

 a typescript by Paul Quinlivan on colonialism and ownership of land in New Guinea 

Report on Port Moresby Area

Research materials on land owned by R. E. Guise in PNG

Copies of missionary letters of 1871-1876, dealing with early efforts in PNG, with mentions of difficulties of the mission, death rites, and shipwrecks.

Research materials and correspondence

Printouts, photocopies, and handwritten notes regarding patrol reports of Port Moresby

4 photographs showing communities by the shore and boats

Letters of Luigi Maria D'Albertis during his stay on Yule Island 1875, translated by Rosemary Oram

Several articles, including The Impact of the London Missionary Society on the Central District of Papua, a Talk Given at the Port Moresby United Church by Percy Chatterton, 1967, and copies of letters from the Ratotongan missionary, Piri, of 1878-1880.

Copy of A.C. English, British New Guinea and Description of Lantern Slides, 1904, with handwritten notes on A.C. English photocraphs, and correspondence Re: Oram's collection

Showing process, with many details, of building trading canoe, presumably that used by Oram

MA Thesis of John Mayo, University of Papua and New Guinea

Correspondence and notes regarding photographs by A. C. English

Narrative of Kori Taboro (d.1950) transcribed by Sinaka Goava in 1946.

Printouts of references for Guise study

Printouts of references for Guise study

Copies and originals concerning the history of the London Missionary Society in PNG, last 19th to mid 20th century. Includes an index of Australian Newspaper references to PNG.

Photographs of the construction of a trading canoe, possibly that used by Oram.

Photocopies, printouts of references, handwritten notes concerning Guise in PNG

Correspondence between Oram and Vaiburi Dairi of Port Moresby

Photographs and photocopies of imagery for research projects, esp. trading canoes and sea subjects

Photocopies of late 19th c photographs and related correspondence.

Material pertaining to Oram's book of the same name, e.g. press releases, reviews, clippings, correspondence re royalties.

Material towards a study of Reginald Edward Guise, including many letters from informants.

Material from a folder labelled Guise, containing copies of primary soruces, correspondence, and an early typescript, with annotations, of Oram, Towards a Study of the London Missionary Society in Hula 1875-1968.

55 pages by Oram

Material pertaining to governance and reform in Port Moresby and New Guinea, including comparative material from East Africa, consisting of correspondence, articles, newspaper clippings, reports.

Hand drawn map and family tree of founding family, with duplicates.

Printed draft with extensive annotations, plus additional notes and bibliography

Research notes, correspondence, and drafts of article.

Notes made in response to queries from Oram regarding life in Port Moresby in the early 20th century

Material towards a study of Reginald Edward Guise, including many letters from informants.

Photographs probably by Alfred Charles English (1863-1945) depicting village life with portraits of individuals; captions mention Kopugolo, Babaka, Kapa Kapa, Seri Seri, Keakaro, Tattooing on Polynesian Girls, Perined Band on man.

Photographs probably by Alfred Charles English (1863-1945) depicting village life with portraits of individuals; captions mention House-Boat Bulaa (1898), R.E. Guise, Kiwai, Rigo, Kapa Kapa, BNG Gov't Steamer 'Merrie England,' Velerupu sailing canoe.

Photographs and contact sheets depicting village life and canoes. Captions include Port Moresby, Tanobada, Tupuseli Marine Village, Tyrell, Western Motu, Pari village, Hamuabapa, Elevala village.

Research notes, correspondence, and family trees pertaining to research on Guise family.

Photographs probably by Alfred Charles English (1863-1945) depicting village life with portraits of individuals; captions mention Pari Villagers,Gaile, Keapare, Babaka, trading canoes. Includes photograph attributed to Nixon Westwood (b.1885) and A.C. English. Also contains handwritten note of Oram.