Summary
British passport dated 1881, issued to Henrietta Garbett. The passport allows the holder, a British subject, to travel on 'the Continent'.
This passport provide an insight into the processes required for movement around Europe and, more significantly, represents the type of documents required by people wishing to travel in or migrate to Australia. This passport acted as an identity document, and illustrate how the requirement to provide proof of identity to government authorities in order to migrate has been a constant throughout Australian immigration history.
Physical Description
A4 page document with printed black text, with some spaces filled in black ink.
Significance
This passport provide an insight into the processes required for movement around Europe and, more significantly, represents the type of documents required by people wishing to travel in or migrate to Australia. This passport acted as an identity document, and illustrate how the requirement to provide proof of identity to government authorities in order to migrate has been a constant throughout Australian immigration history.
More Information
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Collecting Areas
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Acquisition Information
Purchase
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Issued To
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Issued By
United Kingdom: Government, London, England, Great Britain, 1881
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Inscriptions
Printed: We Granville George Earl Granville Viscount / Granville Baron Levson, a Peer of the United Kinddom of Great / Britain and Ireland a Member of Her Britannic Majesty's Most / Honourable Privy Council, Knight of the Most Nobel Order of the Garter, / Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Constable of Dover Cstle, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Ec. Ec. Ec. / Request and sequire in the Name of Her Majesty, all those whom it may concern to allow / Miss Henrietta Garbet (British Subject) travelling / on the Contient / to pass freely without let or hindrance, and to afford her every / assistance and protection of which she may stand in need. / Given at the Foreign Office London the 6 day of January 1881
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Classification
Migration, Processing - planning & departure, Identification
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Category
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Discipline
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Type of item
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Overall Dimensions
38 cm (Length), 28.5 cm (Width)
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Exhibition Collection Management
380 mm (Length), 285 mm (Width)
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Primary support
285 mm (Width), 380 mm (Height)
Measurement From Conservation. Size Before Treatment
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Keywords
British Immigration, Identifications, Immigration, Immigration Selection, Travel, Travel & Tourism
