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Photographs of wartime bomb damage in London. Photographer(s): Topical Press Agency, Central Press Photos Ltd, The Daily Mail and others
Scope & Content:
Collection of six loose black-and-white prints, most with typescript labels pasted to the backs, showing bomb damage during the London blitz. Subjects include: 1. A wrecked house in south-west London, with a woman hanging out washing in the garden in the foreground. 2. A London hall destroyed ...
Harfield Collection: 35mm colour slides and prints relating to cemeteries in South-East Asia. Photographer: Alan Harfield
Scope & Content:
A large collection of 35mm colour slides and b/w prints relating to cemeteries in South-East Asia, divided up as follows: Photo 1314/1. 35 mm slides of graves in Fort Canning Cemetery, Singapore. Photo 1314/2. 96 35 mm slides of graves in Penang Cemetery. Photo 1314/3. 76 35 mm slides of grav...
Views of Calcutta. Photographer(s): Samuel Bourne and Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Collection of 27 loose prints, probably made in the 1970s/1980s, from Samuel Bourne and Bourne and Shepherd negatives taken between the 1860s and 1900s. Scenes include Government House, Bengal Secretariat (formerly Writers' Buildings), St Paul's Cathedral, the High Court, the site of the 'Black H...
Snapshot photographs from a disbound photograph album. Photographer(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
Collection of 199 prints of various sizes mounted on loose pages from a broken album, with 20 unmounted prints. This item was found in the India Office Collections, with no information as to its previous history. The contents consist mainly of snapshots dated between 1892-1901. The subjects incl...
Press Agency photographs of English life. Photographers: Topical Press Agency, Planet News, Photopress, Imperial Press Agency, Alfieri Picture Service, Sport and General, Graphic Photo Union, Central Press, Allied Newspapers, Central News, City Press, The Times, London News Agency, Morath's Pictorial Agency, Keystone View Company, Watson's Pictorial Press, Pacific and Atlantic Photos Ltd, and others
Scope & Content:
Collection of 85 loose black-and-white prints, issued by various picture and press agencies in the 1920s. The photographs comprise a varied selection of English scenes, mostly photographed in the mid-1920s, including street scenes in London and elsewhere, children's activities, sports, occupatio...
Sir Clarmont Skrine Collection: Photograph albums relating to the early life and career of Sir Clarmont Skrine
Scope & Content:
Collection of seven photograph albums relating to the personal life and career of Sir Clarmont Skrine between 1908 and 1919. The majority of the photographs are presumably his own work and the collection contains the following material: Photo 1320/1. Album containing 59 family snapshots 1908-09...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908-1919
Extent:
Seven photograph albums, containing a total of 926 photographic prints