Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1903-1959 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
6 boxes.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
William Amiet was a Queensland barrister and writer. Born and educated in Victoria, he came to Queensland in 1912, served in World War 1 and from 1920 lived in Mackay where he practiced law and was a weekly contributor to the Mackay Daily Mercury.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1903-1959
Collection alternatively titled as: William Albert Amiet Collection.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
This collection consists of the diaries of William Albert Amiet from 1903 to 1959, scrapbooks of collected newspaper articles by Amiet, incoming correspondence and other works.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged into 4 series by processing archivist:
Series A - Diaries.
Series B - Scrapbooks.
Series C - Correspondence, incoming.
Series D - Other papers.
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Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright applies.
Language of material
- English
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Publication note
Material from this collection has been cited in:
Boylan, Alice-Anne and O'Regan, Jane. (2016). In freedom's cause : the Queensland legal profession and the Great War. Supreme Court of Queensland Library.
Fear, J. (2015). 'Soldiers of law: Amiet, William (Bill) Albert', Proctor, Queensland Law Society, vol. 35 no. 3, pp. 18-21.
Towheed, S., & King, E. G. C. (2015). Reading and the First World War : readers, texts, archives. Palgrave MacMillan.
Publication note
Material from this collection has been exhibited in:
Supreme Court of Queensland Library, In Freedom's Cause: the Queensland Legal Profession and the Great War, Sir Harry Gibbs Legal Heritage Centre, 2016.
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Status
Revised
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, Linda Justo, 3-Jul-2021. Revised, AM, 29-Jul-2020. Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.