Swedish Historical Material · Historical Correspondence & Manuscripts
The K. H. Wahlgren Correspondence — Swedish Land Surveying, 1915–1917
Gothenburg · Bohuslän · Orust & Tjörn · First World War period
Catalogue details
Description
25 original Swedish postal items (23 postal cards and two envelopes) concerning cadastral administration, property boundaries and professional land surveying meetings. Principally addressed to K. H. Wahlgren at Linnégatan 64 A, Gothenburg. Preserved and offered as a coherent documentary group.
- Date
- Principally 1915–1917
- Location
- Western Sweden; Gothenburg, Bohuslän
- Extent
- 25 items: 23 postal cards and 2 envelopes
- Recipient
- K. H. Wahlgren, land surveyor (lantmätare)
- Address
- Linnégatan 64 A, Gothenburg
- Materials
- Manuscript and typewritten professional correspondence, postal indicia and cancellations, including 5-öre stationery
- Language
- Swedish
- Dimensions
- Measurements gladly provided on request
- Reference
- TBH-SWE-MSS-WAHLGREN-1915-1917
- Condition
- Please consult the photographs for condition. Additional photographs are available on request.
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Historical context & sources
Original historical correspondence
An original group of 25 pieces of Swedish historical correspondence, comprising 23 postal cards and two envelopes, associated with K. H. Wahlgren, a professional land surveyor active in western Sweden during the early twentieth century.
The correspondence is principally addressed to Wahlgren at Linnégatan 64 A, Gothenburg, and documents aspects of Sweden's land-surveying profession, including cadastral meetings, boundary determinations, property administration and official communications.
Boundary determination at Svanesund, 1915
A communication dated 22 October 1915 concerns a meeting to determine the boundaries of the former courthouse grounds at Svanesund, associated with the judicial district of Orust and Tjörn. The courthouse had been destroyed by fire in 1911, making subsequent administration of the property a subject of regional historical interest.
Land surveyors' professional association, 1917
An invitation from the Västra Sveriges Lantmätareförening, dated January 1917, announces a meeting in Gothenburg on 4 February 1917, including questions concerning land subdivision procedures.
Contents
23 original Swedish postal cards; 2 original envelopes; manuscript and typewritten communications; professional and administrative notices; original postal markings and 5-öre postal stationery.
Research significance
A coherent documentary record for collectors and researchers of Swedish regional history, early twentieth-century surveying, cadastral boundaries, property law, Gothenburg, Orust and Tjörn. The collection is offered intact as a single group and will not be divided.
The photographs shown are representative examples only. A complete photographic record of the items in this group can be supplied on request.
