Subject: Games / Material Type: Photographs - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: 8908.c.19(3)
Title:: See-saw. Photographer: Keighley, Alexander
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Pictorialist study of five children, playing with a makeshift see-saw in a field. With descriptive letterpress: 'See-saw was suggested by a group of village children enjoying themselves in their own happy way, with all the fresh delight and earnestness of childhood, ...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1890
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 8908.c.19(4)
Title:: Gee-up! Photographer: Keighley, Alexander
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Pictorialist study of three children playing with a wooden cart in a country lane.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1890
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49352(134)
Title:: [Japanese family playing a game of Go.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio portrait of family members seated around the board.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Godwin Photo 1(362)
Title:: Arthur Koestler, 1978, UK novelist, philosopher. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Close-up of Koestler sitting at a chess table with bookcases running along the length of the wall behind; he looks straight at the camera.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1978
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Godwin Photo 1(363)
Title:: Arthur Koestler, 1978, UK novelist, philosopher. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Koestler sits at an angle behind a chess table, which also has his glasses and an ashtray on top. In the background are several books in cases and piled up on tables.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1978
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Godwin Photo 1(719)
Title:: Salman Rushdie, 1986, at home in London, while writing The satanic verses for which he was condemned by Fatwa only a few months later. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Rushdie stands by a window with his arms folded across his chest. Behind him, there is a chest of drawers with a chess board on top and a hand-held Indian fan fixed to the wall.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1986
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Godwin Photo 1(720)
Title:: Salman Rushdie, 1986, at home in London, while writing The satanic verses for which he was condemned by Fatwa only a few months later. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Rushdie is in three quarter profile; the left side of his face being lit by sunlight. Behind him are a chess board and a hand-held Indian fan that is fixed to the wall.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1986
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Godwin Photo 1(721)
Title:: Salman Rushdie, 1986, at home in London, while writing The satanic verses for which he was condemned by Fatwa only a few months later. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Rushdie is in three quarter profile; the left side of his face being lit by sunlight. Behind him are a chess board and a hand-held Indian fan that is fixed to the wall.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1986
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Godwin Photo 1(722)
Title:: Salman Rushdie, 1986, at home in London, while writing The satanic verses for which he was condemned by Fatwa only a few months later. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Rushdie is in three quarter profile, the left side of his face being lit by sunlight. Behind him are a chess board and a hand-held Indian fan that is fixed to the wall.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1986
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Godwin Photo 2(289)
Title:: Arthur Koester, 1978. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Handwritten in pencil on verso: 4014-1-36 Genre: Portrait Photography Koestler sits at a chess table, looking downwards, he contemplates his next move; bookcases run along the length of the wall behind.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1978
Extent:: 1 item

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