Subject	Australia–Discovery and exploration
	Aboriginal Australians–History
	Gold mines and mining
	Italian diaries
	Autobiography
Category	1. Settlement
Author	Gregorio Scaia
	Effe e Erre
Publisher	Centro studi judicaria
Keywords	migration memories
	work in mines in Western Australia
	regional community
	dialect and regional Italian
	encounter with German and French settlers
	description of landscape and Aboriginal people
Creator	Gregorio Scaia
Current Holder	Fondazione Museo storico del Trentino
Period Of Reference	1881/1953
Date	1881
Series Number	MLMSS 5288 ADD-ON 1938
Access Rights	Digitised (see ordered copy )
Country Of Origin	Italy
Language	Italian
Description From Source	Autobiography that covers the long period from the writer’s birth (1881) to the time of writing (1953). The text favors some narrative threads: childhood memories; the account of an early period of emigration to Australia and of the work in the gold and copper mines; the description of a second and definitive emigration to the United States of America (Solvay, East Coast, Seattle); memories of two trips to different American states and a return trip to Price’s country (1937); the biography of other emigrants from the country and the valley met in Australia and America.
Physical Format	Diaries
	Correspondence
Bibliographic Citation	[EndNote/Zotero link]
Date Accessed	2022-03-15