Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1875-1993 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
29 boxes, 1 parcel, 1 tube, 1 album.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Hilda Tuxworth, MBE, was a long term resident of Tennant Creek. She was the author of several books on the Northern Territory, particularly the Tennant Creek area. She was an interviewer for the Northern Territory Oral History Committee and a contributor to the Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography. One of her contributions was on Mary Ward, the "Missus of Banka Banka" station. Mrs Tuxworth was the mother of a former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory and MLA for Barkly, the Hon Ian Tuxworth.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1875-1993
Collection alternatively titled as: Hilda Tuxworth Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright applies.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Digital copies of some items held in Fryer Library (Restricted) collection in UQ eSpace.
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Notes area
Note
This collection may contain culturally sensitive words or descriptions, some of which might not normally be used in certain public or community contexts.
Note
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that photographic material may contain images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased.
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Access points
Subject access points
- Tennant Creek (N.T.)
- Warumungu (Australian people)
- Northern Territory -- Social conditions
- Northern Territory -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- History
- Cattle trade -- Northern Territory -- History
- Warumungu people C18
- Banka Banka (North NT SE53-10)
- Tennant Creek (Central NT SE53-14)
- Aboriginal Australians
Place access points
Name access points
- Tuxworth, Hilda (Subject)
- Banka Banka Station (N.T.) (Subject)
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Status
Revised
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, Linda Justo, 23-Jan-2023. Revised, SJB, 22-Nov-2022. Revised, Linda Justo, 5-Mar-2022. Revised, FF, 05-Mar-2021. Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.;