Tagebuch über die Reise nach Australasien und Nord-America in den Jahren 1895/6

Title	Tagebuch über die Reise nach Australasien und Nord-America in den Jahren 1895/6
Subject	Australia--Description and travel Voyages and travels Western Australia Gold mines and mining Mining camps German language--Writing German diaries
Category	1. Settlement 2. National boundaries
Author	Schmeisser, Karl
Current holder	State Library of Western Australia
Period of reference	1895 – 1896
Date	July 12, 1895
Link	https://purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/slwa_b4772470_1
Series number	ACC 9553A
Item number	b4772470_1
Access rights	Digitised
Rights	Copyright or other restrictions may apply. Available for reference; not for loan.
Country of origin	Australia
Place	Albany Coolgardie
Language	German English
Description from source	1 diary (247 pages) + 15 looseleaf inserts (6 in pocket at back of diary), Diary in German. Newspaper cuttings in German or English. Diary entries are handwritten in black ink. Diary also contains newspaper cuttings taken by Schmeisser from local newspapers, with articles discussing the importance of his and Vogelsang's visits to various locations, two hand-sketched diagrams, a looseleaf newspaper cutting dated 8 February 1942 (found between pages 194 and 195), a looseleaf watercolour and charcoal painting of a tree, signed "S. Wencke, Worpswede" (found between pages 82 and 83), a looseleaf handwritten letter signed "Karl" (likely Karl Vogelsang), sent from Melbourne, 27 January 1896 (found between pages 180 and 181), a map "Norddentscher Lloyd, Bremen", a partial sheet of paper with black ink writing in German (found between pages 8 and 9), a looseleaf envelope postmarked around 14 February 1952, addressed to Eugenie Schmeisse, a relative of Karl Schmeisser, and four loose leaf photo-mechanical process photographs relating to Schmeisser's earlier trip to the Transvaal goldfields. Schmeisser's diary, which contains a mass of technical information and commentary relating to gold mining activities on the Western Australian goldfields, formed the basis of his book Die Goldfelder Australasiens (Berlin, 1897) which was translated into English as The gold-fields of Australasia (London, 1898)
Physical format	Diaries Newspapers
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