Collection reflects Mrs Tuxworth's interest in the local history of the Northern Territory. It includes: correspondence, personal papers, newspaper cuttings, photographs, reel to reel tape, and twenty three diaries of Banka Banka station from 1928 to 1961 (some years are missing)

Hilda Tuxworth obtained some of the Banka Banka diaries around the time Mary Ward was selling the property. This took from 1970 to 1972 when the sold the property. Mary Ward shared the diaries between her niece, Val Edwards, and Hilda. Banka Banka Station was established by Thomas Nugent as a cattle station in 1895. Nugent left the station to his sister, Mary Ambrose. The first diary from 1928 to 1931 would have been recorded during the ownership by the the Ambrose family. The Ambrose Family owned and ran the station until Paddy Ambrose put Banka Banka on the market in 1940. Ted and Mary Ward bought it in 1941. Capital from the Wards' Blue Moon Mine was used initially to purchase and then to undertake improvements and developments of the station. From 1945 weather details began to be recorded in the diaries. Ted Ward died on 17 March 1959. Mary Ward ran the station until 1970. In 1972 the land titles for the pastoral lease were transferred to Nelson Bunker-Hunt.

Business records, letterbooks with prices, wages and accounts, job books for monumental and terrazzo work, photographs for Petrie family business of monumental masonry.

Scrapbooks, photograph albums, cassette tapes.

Papers of Walter Cunningham Hume (1840 – 1921), surveyor and Chief Commissioner for Lands for Queensland; his wife Katie, daughter Ethel, brother Washington Hume, and members of both their families in England. They lived at Drayton, Toowoomba, and Brisbane. Includes personal correspondence, photograph albums, travel journals, diaries, and notebooks.

Correspondence: Personal, pastoral, business; financial records, sermon notes, notebooks, diaries, Christmas cards, postcards, religious cards, printed prayers,travelling desk.

Bound playscript consisting of 96 leaves. The play, in two acts, is based on the biographical novel Wacvie by Faith Bandler. In 1863 Wacvie Mussingkon was kidnapped from a village in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) and sold as a slave to a sugar plantation in Queensland.

Early draft. At top of title page: "This play was workshopped and given a rehearsed reading by Vitalstatistix National Women's Theatre, July 2001". Underneath author on lower part of title page: "Based on material supplied by Shirley Johnson. All rights to this play now reside with Shirley Johnson". The chief characters of the play are Shirley, her father Charlie, and her brothers Tom and John.

Early draft. The chief characters of the play are Shirley, her father Charlie, and her brothers Tom and John.

Early draft, with running title by Doreen Clarke and Shirley Johnson: 'Charlie's Legacy'. The chief characters of the play are Shirley, her father Charlie, and her brothers Tom and John.

Bound typscript of the play Left with Charlie: a one-act play by Doreen Clarke, based on material supplied by Shirley Johnson. Includes afterword and after notes by the playwright. Bound with the play are program, flyer and brochure for performance of play presented by Splash Women Troubadours Inc. in 2001. At top of title page: "This play was work-shopped and given a rehearsed reading by Vitalstatistix National Women's Theatre, July 2001." The chief characters of the play are Shirley, her father Charlie, and her brothers Tom and John.