In 1990 Australian artist Stephen Copland discovered letters, a postcard album and embroidery made in Cuba in 1907 by his maternal grandmother Julia Elias Menayer, and a diary written in 1911 on her arrival in Melbourne from Cuba and subsequent passage to Dunedin, New Zealand to link with family. Both families left Lebanon in the 1890’s.
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Julia’s Diary
In 1990 Australian artist Stephen Copland discovered letters, a postcard album and embroidery made in Cuba in 1907 by his maternal grandmother Julia Elias Menayer, and a diary written in 1911 on her arrival…
- Archive Migration as Art Museum
- Record type Animation