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Deborah Lee-Talbot · @DLeeTalbot
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Is it a book cover? A postcard? A colonial report? No! This scene of women is an excerpt from a celebratory menu regarding the Federation of Australia in 1901. You can read more about its value and materials at www.colourfulhistories.com

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Deborah Lee-Talbot · @DLeeTalbot
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From what looks to be a school notebook c1911-1913 from Phyllis Mander-Jones this we have a brief tribute to the animals' nighttime wanderings. This archive shows PMJ wrote poetry from her teens until late 40s.

Source: @statelibrarynsw, Mitchell Library, ML MSS 4337.

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Deborah Lee-Talbot · @DLeeTalbot
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This is a really interesting State Library of New South Wales find for me as it shows Mander-Jones created more than one bound record about a significant life event, when she learned how to create books (including binding), & her emerging interest in book illustrations. This is an exhibition catalogue create with Heather Sherrie from c1940.

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Deborah Lee-Talbot · @DLeeTalbot
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Mander-Jones liked to create drafts-for articles, reviews, diaries and exhibition catalogs. Lucky for researchers they're archived at the State Library of New South Wales.

Sorting through PMJ drafts like this indicates how her travel diaries were created

Also, it's reassuring; even the greats edit

Source: Mitchell Library, ML MSS 4337, @statelibrarynsw

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Deborah Lee-Talbot · @DLeeTalbot
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Good Goddess, there's so many delights in the Mander-Jones records!

What to do with them all? 🤔

This headline is going to appear in lectures, seminars and, if I can do it, an article. 🤓

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Deborah Lee-Talbot · @DLeeTalbot
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Yesterday was spent in 1940s-50s with Phyllis in the United places- States and Kingdom.

Her letters contain beautiful sketches, drawing the reader's attention to items she really wanted to capture from her tours.

Source:@statelibrarynsw

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Deborah Lee-Talbot · @DLeeTalbot
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Phyllis didn't keep notebook diaries. She wrote of her Pacific and American travels on a note pad, or touring company paper.

Was this because she was fearful of losing her personal books amongst @statelibrarynsw purchases she was making? 🤔

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Deborah Lee-Talbot · @DLeeTalbot
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Oh the places you will go...

I've got my Cherry Docs on and a notebook ready to go. Time to see what treats and temptations the @statelibrarynsw archive of archivist and traveller (historian?) Phyllis Mander-Jones.

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Deborah Lee-Talbot · @DLeeTalbot
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My second-hand Herschel is getting a little rusty after being a catchall for Honours and . But I reckon it's good enough to get me started on this next research adventure.

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Deborah Lee-Talbot · @DLeeTalbot
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I'm looking forward to reading this book as prep for my visit to the State Library of NSW to examine Phyllis Mander-Jones' 20th-century travel journals.

Does anyone have reading recommendations about archivists and librarians creating a personal archive?

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Deborah Lee-Talbot · @DLeeTalbot
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It seems that, in 1934, there was some question in the local papers about Australians' capacity to appreciate Papuan performances for tourists.

Source: Trove, Australia nla.gov.au/nla.news-article117

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