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Charles Rawson vainly trying to write up his diary while the cat walks across the page

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  The diary is part of the Rawson Archive held by the State Library of Qld, a collection of handwritten pen-and-ink diaries and photographs of the Rawson brothers and their families, who were early European settlers in the Mackay district. At the time this sketch was drawn media and entertainment were limited, and so diaries, sketches and letters were important parts of the lives of many people. Today such documents provide important evidence of the past. Charles Rawson's two diaries, from 1871 and 1877, detail daily life and are illustrated with humorous pen-and-ink sketches. His brother Edmund was an amateur photographer and their work combines to make a record of Mackay in the 1870s. Source www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewMetadata.action?id=R9199&q=...