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Photo 134/1

Record Id:

040-003049259

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003049258

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100025648639.0x000710

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 134/1

Title:

Joyce Collection: Cabinet Mission to India, 1946 - volume I. Photographer(s): Press Information Bureau

Scope & Content:

Cloth-covered album, 267x362mm, containing mounted prints with handwritten captions. Album pages are very brittle. The album records the visit to India of a cabinet delegation led by Lord Pethick-Lawrence which met Indian political leaders in New Delhi. The photographs are mainly portraits including those of Gandhi and Jinnah.

Alec Houghton Joyce (1894-1982) was Joint Publicity Officer to the India and Burma Round Table Conferences of 1930-32 and served with the Cabinet Delegation to India of 1946. He was Head of the Information Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office from 1948-54 and subsequently employed in charge of the branch conducting liaison with the UK, Commonwealth and foreign press with the BBC. He retired in 1957. These photographs were presented to Joyce at the time of the 1946 Mission, and subsequently presented by him to the India Office Library.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003049258
040-003049259

Is part of:

Photo 134 : Joyce Collection: Cabinet Mission to India (1946) and Burmese Constitutional Discussions, London (1947) Photographer(s): Unknown

Photo 134/1 : Joyce Collection: Cabinet Mission to India, 1946 - volume I. Photographer(s): Press Information Bureau

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-003049258[0001]/040-003049259

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 134

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

54 items

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Techniques:

Gelatin Silver Print
Photograph
Photographic Print

Start Date:

1946

End Date:

1946

Date Range:

Mar 1946-Jun 1946

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 118 mm x 41 mm to 195 mm x 294 mm

Source of Acquisition:

Presented by Alec Houghton Joyce, March 1958.

Material Type:

Photographs

Legal Status:

Not Known

Names:

Press Information Bureau