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
Bibliographic Citation	https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/6JHHNC83/