| Bib ID |
1519128 |
| Format |
Manuscript, Online - Google Books |
| Author |
Gilmore, Mary, Dame, 1865-1962
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| Access Conditions |
Available for reference. Not for loan. |
| Description |
1948.
1 cm (1 folder).
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| Summary |
Typescripts (corrected and later version) of The First (Phantom) Coat of Arms. The Coat-of-Arms was thought out by Mary Gilmore's father, and his kinsman Mr Ogilvie of Yugilbar in about the year 1870-71. It was made as the breast-plate of "Bobby, Chief of the Yugilbar Tribe". Breastplates were given as protection by squatters to the Aboriginal people working for them. Her father cut the model from which the copper breast plate was to be copied. Dame Mary Gilmore presented the breast plate to the National Library. Also includes a letter by Mary Gilmore to William Farmer Whyte regarding the breastplate.
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| Biography/History |
Poet, prose writer and journalist. Born in 1865 at Mary Vale, Woodhouselee, near Goulburn, eldest child of Donald Cameron, a farmer and Mary Ann, nee Beattie |
| Notes |
Manuscript reference no.: MS 9595
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| Related Material |
Associated material: Other Gilmore papers are held in National Library of Australia Manuscript Section at MS 614, MS 633, MS 727, MS 1107, MS 1695, MS 1728, MS 1850, MS 1888, MS 1889, MS 2685, MS 3828, MS 5654. Please consult catalogue. |
| Subjects |
Gilmore, Mary, - Dame, - 1865-1962 - Archives. | Whyte, W. Farmer - (William Farmer), - 1879- - Correspondence. | Women authors, Australian - Archives. | Breastplates - Australia. | Aboriginal Australians - Antiquities.
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| Occupation |
Authors. | Poets. |