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Share the Story of James Cook and His Voyages
This appeal closed on 31 March 2017. Any donations received after this date will be directed towards The National Library of Australia Fund, which supports conservation and digisation of the Library s collection.
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Read about our Cook treasures from the Rex Nan Kivell collection on display in the Treasures Gallery in our Behind-the-scenes blog.
Captain James Cook, F.R.S. (179-?), nla.gov.au/nla.obj-135953591
James Cook’s
Endeavour journal is perhaps the most famous item in the Library’s collection, the first manuscript to be acquired for the Library, purchased from a London auction in 1923 on the instructions of Prime Minister Stanley Bruce. In 2001 it became one of the first two Australian items to be inscribed on the UNESCO international register for the Memory of the World, with the Mabo Papers, also
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On Daily Life in County Line, A Former Freedmen’s Colony
Beatrice Upshaw’s memoir A Biscuit For Your Shoe seeks to preserve the history and heritage of one of East Texas’ first freedmen’s colonies.
A portrait of Beatrice Upshaw from 1976. Courtesy Upshaw family
Beatrice Upshaw’s memoir A Biscuit For Your Shoe seeks to preserve the history and heritage of one of East Texas’ first freedmen’s colonies.
A portrait of Beatrice Upshaw from 1976. Courtesy Upshaw family
A long time ago, or so it seems, I went to County Line for the first time and met the Upshaw family. County Line, also known as the Upshaw Community, is in northwest Nacogdoches County in Deep East Texas. That was 1988. I was looking for a photo project to do in East Texas while visiting my parents in Nacogdoches. A family friend told me about African American land-owner communities dating from the Emancipation, places established by emancipated African Americans on land they owned.
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