Object Details
- General note
- Journals are handwritten in ink on lined paper and include pasted and loose inserts of ephemera (including printed maps and government forms completed by hand, for hunting licenses etc.), correspondence, postcards, black and white photographs, sketches, and hand-drawn maps.
- Collection Creator
- Train, Russell E., 1920-2012
- Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)
- See more items in
- Russell E. Train Africana collection
- Russell E. Train Africana collection / Series 5: Manuscripts
- Extent
- 8 Volumes (38 cm)
- Date
- 1904 November 3 - 1914 October 7
- Container
- Item M032
- Archival Repository
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Type
- Archival materials
- Volumes
- Collection Rights
- The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu for an appointment.
- Scope and Contents note
- Journals kept by Lincolnshire native Nathaniel Clayton Cockburn, describing his travels and big game hunting adventures primarily in east and southern Africa and India, as well as his trip around the world in 1904-1906 visiting Egypt, India, Burma, Hong Kong, China, Japan, San Francisco, Chicago, New York and other locations. The journals, written in a rather chatty style, describe daily activities and extensive travel details including: accomodations, methods of travel by land and sea, distances covered, social interactions, animals seen and shot, weather, and his personal impressions of countries, governments, political situations, and similar topics. Cockburn includes detailed lists of items that he brought on his trips, as well as information on ships, hotels, native vocabularies, and species of game in various geographic regions.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510890585-1503510890685-4
