Correspondence, minutes, typescript articles, reports, circular letters, photographs and subject files on issues of interest to the Bacons' including the Communist Party of Australia, International Women's Day, Aboriginal Australians, the peace movement and women's rights. Bulk of collection from 1970s and 1980s.

Material compiled in the course of researching the 1980 PhD thesis A study of Australian descriptive and travel writing, 1929-1945. Includes notes taken during conversations with Ernestine Hill, Louise Campbell, Laurie Hergenhan and others in 1972. Also includes correspondence with Robert Hill and others.
Records and ephemera relating to women in the labour movement and in the arts. Includes material relating to the Organising Committee of the Fourth Women and Labour Conference, the Feminist Film Workshop Resource Book Stage I’, and the Women & the Arts Advisory Committee’

One thousand and fifty two (1,052) 35mm colour slides and original bound manuscript relating to Trotter's publication Cities in the Sun, which were taken while he undertook his Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) Sisalkraft Travel Scholarship in 1963. An additional 147 35mm colour slides are included, which relate to architecture and design in Australia and the Torres Strait.

Contains postcards, greeting cards and letters,1991-1995 from Gwen Harwood to Gregory Kratzmann; draft typescript introduction, typescript and computer disk with manuscript for A Steady Storm of Correspondence published by UQP in 2001; notes by Normal Talbot on transcripts of letters from Gwen Harwood; and draft of talk on Gwen Harwood to VCE students in 2012.