Documents relating to a claim by Stan McCosker and Walford King to the War Damage Commission for compensation for damage to the Matala Plantation in New Britain during the Japanese military occupation of New Guinea.

Correspondence, statements and asset inventories relating to a claim to the War Damages Commission for war damage to the Matala Plantation during the Japanese military occupation of New Guinea.

Letters from Noel Barry to Marjorie and Robin McCosker.

Letters by Stan McCosker to Walford King, mostly relating to re-establishing the Matala Plantation after the war. The file also contains two letters from the Department of External Territories to Marjorie McCosker granting her permission to return to the Territory of Papua New Guinea.

Photographic prints of plantation life, people and scenery in Australian New Guinea. Locations include Rabaul, Witu, Matala Plantation, Gumyitke Creek (New Britain), and Vunakambi Plantation. Many of the photographs feature Stan and Marjorie McCosker and local people employed as plantation labourers and house servants. The majority of the photographs were taken in the 1920s and 1930s. A small number were taken at Matala Plantation in 1948.

Three photographs taken at a 1949 ceremony in Rabaul for awarding of war medals. Stan McCosker is identified in one of the photographs.

Handwritten draft of a talk delievered by Marjorie McCosker to the Business Professional Women's Club (Brisbane).

Documents relating to the eruption of volcanoes on Vulcan Island and Matupi, near Rabaul, in 1937. Documents include the 4 June 1937 issue of The Rabaul Times, three letters from around that time, a typed account of the events, and two published articles.

Scrapbook of articles by Stan McCosker as printed in The Bulletin. The articles contain descriptions and accounts of life in New Britain. At the back of the scrapbook there are four loose newspaper cuttings from the 1960s and a typed article, 'The Epistle of Father Jerome to the Kiaps'.

Correspondence of Anne McCosker's parents and their New Guinea associates, collected and used as source material for her book Masked Eden.