The Dutch in Deshima and Hirado

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Containers:
Box 5 (MS 6681)
Component identifier:
File 34
Content Summary:
Notes and press cuttings (1953-74) relating to early Dutch and German settlers at Deshima, Nagasaki and the port of Hirado, and to the Netherlands Trading Society and the Dutch East India Company; also notes and photographs of anchor stones for Dutch vessels. There are references to J. Cock Blomhoff and family, M. Donker Curtius, Hendrik Doeff, Engelbert Kaempfer, Dr Philipp Franz von Siebold and Isaac Titsingh.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Harold and Gertrude (Jean) Williams between 1978 and 1995 donated the collection to the Library in numerous instalments. Further material was added in 2002 and 2005.

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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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