Peter Kent papers, 1880-1918

Item

Title
Peter Kent papers, 1880-1918
Subject
Australia--Emigration and immigration—History
Families--History
Immigrants' writings
Correspondence
Australian letter
Pictures
Category
1. Settlement
2. National boundaries
3. World War I
Keywords
Norway
Creator
Kent, Peter
Current holder
State Library of Queensland
Period of reference 
1880 – 1918
Item number
29868
Access rights
Open access
Rights 
Out of copyright. You are free to use without permission. Please attribute the State Library of Queensland.
Language 
English
Norwegian
Description from source
1 packet of photographs and papers, 1 satchel, Some of the correspondence is written in Norwegian.

Letters, photographs and a leather satchel belonging to Peter Kent. These items were left in possession of Frederick and Edith Mills of Longreach who might have been Kent's employers. The collection contains eleven letters from Kent's relatives and and friends, photographs of Kent's relatives in Norway, Germany, New York and South America, several postcards, greeting cards, a Queensland Government Savings Bank passbook and a leather satchel marked 'P. Kent.' Peter Kent went under an assumed name, while living in Queensland; he was baptised Christian Matthias Matiasen Altschwager in 1841 in Norway.
Physical format
Letters
Postcards
Photographs
Logbook