Personal diaries of Glenn Cooke and papers relating to Cooke's work as an historian and curator of Queensland visual art and crafts, including his research notes about particular artists and lists of their artworks, text and photographic slides for presentations, material relating to exhibitions curated by Cooke, and files documenting exhibitions held at private Queensland galleries. The collection also includes Cooke's own records of the Queensland branch of the Contemporary Art Society, and his personal collection of beverage bottle labels.

This collections contains correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, photographs, ephemera and other material written by or relating to Professor Gordon Greenwood. This includes material about his wife Thora Greenwood (nee Smeal), their family and extended family, friends and academic associates, research material for works by Gordon Greenwood and about Gordon Greenwood and Thora Greenwood. Helen Derrick, their daughter has used much of the material in this collection to produce family history documents; in some cases she has added her own notes to this material. Some of her works are also contained in the collection.