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Title
Date(s)
- [198-] (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
2 boxes.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Elsie Roughsey (Labumore), of Lardil descent, was born on Mornington Island in Queensland. She was taken from her parents and placed in the local mission school at the age of eight. When the missionaries were evacuated during the war, she returned to her family and lived in the bush learning Lardil customs. In 1946 Elsie married Dick Roughsey. In 1984 she published her autobiography An Aboriginal mother tells of the old and the new. -- excerpted from the Australian Women's Register
Name of creator
Biographical history
Professor Paul Memmott is an anthropologist and architect and is the Director of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (AERC) at the University of Queensland.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers relating to"An Aboriginal mother tells of the old and the new" by Elsie Roughsey, [198-]
Collection alternatively titled as: Paul Memmott Collection.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Manuscript of Labumore (Elsie Roughsey), An Aboriginal mother tells of the old and the new. Includes the original handwritten and typed manuscripts, edited drafts, deletions from edited version , final typescript of the book, and the editorial folder.
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Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
Script of material
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Note
This collection may contain culturally sensitive words or descriptions, some of which might not normally be used in certain public or community contexts.
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Name access points
- Roughsey, Elsie (Subject)
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Status
Revised
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, SJB, 18-Nov-2022.
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.