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Anne McCosker Papers. File English
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New Guinea photographs, 1936 to 1954.

Photographic prints of people, plantation life and scenery in the Australian Territory of New Guinea. Locations include Matala Plantation, Kolopo and Rugenhafen. Some of the photographs feature members of the McCosker family and their associates. The album also contains a sequence of photographic negatives attributed to Walford King which show Chinese and Japanese fishing boats and cargo ships.

Correspondence 1967-1992.

Personal correspondence of Anne McCosker. Includes letters received and copies of some letters sent. Most of the correspondents are friends, family members and New Guinea associates of her family. Some of the letters contain first-hand information about events and people in the history of Australian New Guinea.

Correspondence undated.

Undated miscellaneous personal correspondence, notes and emphemera of Anne McCosker. Most of the correspondence and notes deal with Anne McCosker's book Masked Eden and debates about aspects of the history of Australian New Guinea.

Letters from Walford King.

Letters from Walford King in 1940 during his war service in Palestine and a photograph of King in AIF uniform in Jerusalem in 1940. The folder also contains a letter dated 25 December 1924 from 'Joe' to Telong, identified as G.T. Heathcote.

Licences and certificates.

A licence to drive a motor vehicle, issued by the Territory of Papua New Guinea to Stanley McCosker; a certificate issued by the Federal Institute of Accountants to Marjorie Martin certifying her as a Provisional Associate of the Institute; a sheet bearing the imprints of two ink stamps: the stamp of the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft Abteiling Bismarck Archipel, and the stamp of the New Guinea Compagnie. The original ink stamps used can be found in Series E, File 1.

Research papers 8.

Letters by Stan McCosker while on military service in New Guinea and North Queensland.

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