The Royal Engineering College, Cooper's Hill: Calender for 1895-1896
Scope & Content:
Calendar, containing a syllabus of the courses of study. The volume has been annotated in several places, and the front board and first flyleaf are inscribed with the names 'S. A. M. Bowden' and 'A L Shirra Gibb'.
Enclosed in the volume is a letter from the Secretary of the Institution of Royal Engineers to the Principal of Cooper's Hill, announcing the award of the 1965 Cooper's Hill War Memorial Essay Prize to Colonel I D S Brown.
Volume of technical drawings by A H Whyte, RIEC, 1899-1901
Scope & Content:
Front board recto contains the bookplate of 'K S Gaikwad, Printer, Ruler & Bookbinder, Ganpatgalli, Belgaum'. Contains sketches, plans, drawings and elevations of the RIEC Gym building: Flooring (this drawing in two parts) Gym Roof Open Newel Staircase 9 foot culvert Drawings of machine det...
GALES, Sir Robert Richard (pupil 1883-86): album inscribed on cover "The Construction of the Lower Ganges Bridge at Sara 1908-15 - Sir Robert Richard Gales FCH, Chief Engineer". "Presented to the Cooper's Hill Society by Sir Maurice Brayshay". Contains photos of construction, inauguration ceremon...
MULLINGS, Sir Clement Tudway (pupil 1892-95): the Mettur Dam, Madras of which he was Chief Engineer. Also contains group photo of the staff of the Chief Engineer's Office Dated as: 1926; 1932-34; 1937 [Transferred to Prints, Drawings and Photographs. Order by new shelfmark: Photo 1123/10]
NARIMAN, Rustam Kai Khushro (pupil 1896-99): the Sinai Peninsula and Berbera. Also contains various postcards from the Middle East and one of Bombay, others with stamps and postal district and date markings, and various foreign bank notes Dated as: no date
NARIMAN, Rustam Kai Khushro (pupil 1896-99): with postcards and photos of India, the Middle East and elsewhere. Portrait photograph of John W Ottley dated 1906. Tickets for college prize-giving ceremony, Indian postage stamps, and enrolment certificate to the Punjab Rifles AFI Dated as: no date
NARIMAN, Rustam Kai Khushro (pupil 1896-99): two copies of his paper "Some Aspects of Minor Canal Irrigation in India, its problems and recent practice" and one sheet published in Russian Dated as: no date
WITT, David O (pupil 1893-96): embossed with Coopers Hill on cover, including college activities and interior of chapel, student rooms and surveying class [Transferred to Prints, Drawings and Photographs. Order by new shelfmark: Photo 1123/14]