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Diary - Setsutaro Hasegawa

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Title
Diary - Setsutaro Hasegawa
Subject
Australia--Emigration and immigration—History
Japan--Emigration and immigration
Immigrants' writings, Japanese
Japanese diaries
Category
1. Settlement
2. National boundaries
Author
Hasegawa, Setsutaro
Current holder
Museums Victoria Collections
Date
1900
Link
https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/1406369
Item number
HT 22196
Access rights
Digitised
Rights
In Copyright / All Rights Reserved.
Country of origin
Australia
Language
Japanese
Description from source
125 mm (Width), 171 mm (Height), Extensive Japanese text.

Brown soft covered booklet with Japanese characters in black ink on both sides and a string binding. The pages are possibly rice paper, and are most blank. The second and third pages feature Japanese text in ink and pencil. The fourth page has 19 postage stamps glued in, 17 of which are from various Australian states, the other two are from Sweden and Egypt. The stamps are mostly dated 1898.

Diary belonging to Setsutaro Hasegawa, used circa 1900. It contains a page of postage stamps, which are mostly dated 1898, indicating an interest by Setsutaro in collecting stamps from around the pre-Federated states.
Physical format
Diaries