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Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 1920 Collections and/or Records:

Photographs of Stepney / Poplar: basic house layouts, 1956

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.1.4d
Scope and Contents

3 black and white photographic prints (19cm x 24cm) showing rudimentary models of housing layouts, all with serial numbers and London County Council Architect's Department Photographic Unit stamped on reverse, and two with London County Council Press Bureau stamped on reverse.

Dates: 1956

Photographs of Stepney / Poplar: east end 1940s, 1940s

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.1.4a
Scope and Contents

10 black and white prints (max 14.5cm x 22cm, min 11cm x 16cm) of the Poplar area in the 1940s. The location of some of the photographs is indicated on the rear. Most show individual buildings or streets, while the rest show bomb damaged and derelict sites.

Dates: 1940s

Photographs of Stepney / Poplar: east end before and after reconstruction, c1947-1961

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.1.4b
Scope and Contents Mixed collection of black and white photographic prints. 53 of the prints (max 24cm x 30cm, min 11cm x 17cm) show old or derelict buildings and waste land before reconstruction, some of which have a location, date or London County Council Architect's Town Planning Division stamp on the reverse. The remainder (21cm x 25) are of completed building projects by London County Council Architect's Department, including flats and housing in Stepney / Poplar, a children's play area, Lansbury market,...
Dates: c1947-1961

Photographs of Stepney / Poplar: historic map of the area, 1950s

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.1.4f
Scope and Contents

Black and white photographic print (17cm x 24cm) showing the eastern sheet of "Cassell's Map of London" c1865. This is accompanied by a large format black and white negative of the same map (12cm x 17cm) and a note by Percy Johnson-Marshall concerning the state of development in Stepney / Poplar at that date.

Dates: 1950s

Photographs of Stepney / Poplar: London County Council Housing Department visit, c1958

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.1.4e
Scope and Contents

Black and white photographic print (15cm x 21cm) showing members of the London County Council Planning and Housing Committees visiting housing in London's Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar.

Dates: c1958

Photographs of student life in the 1950s, Edinburgh University

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1104
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: - b/w mounted group photograph showing the members of the National Council, SUS, 1952-1953, taken in Glasgow, May 1953, including Hills - b/w mounted group photograph showing the members of the Executive Committee of Edinburgh University, SRC, 1952-1953, Old College Quad., including Hills - b/w mounted group photograph showing members of...
Dates: 1949-1954

Photographs of the Booth and Langworthy families, and some of Booth’s missions in Africa, c 1873-1926

 File
Identifier: Coll-210/1/2
Scope and Contents Photographs of the Booth and Langworthy families, and some of Booth’s missions in Africa. Also includes a roll of negatives, a leaf from David Livingstone’s grave and a New Year’s card from the Auckland Baptist Church. 2 files, 1 box, c 1873-1926.In the box is a woodblock with a negative(?) of a portrait of Joseph Booth, with the caption: " Cliché (for reproduction in magazines, etc.) of the head and shoulders of Joseph Booth: formerly in the possession of the Seventh Day Baptist...
Dates: c 1873-1926

Photographs of War-Devastated Caen

 Fonds — Volume Dk.2.1
Identifier: Coll-164
Scope and Contents

The collection of photographs and postcards shows the war devastation of Caen, June-July, 1944. The devastation is shown from different elevations, and feature not only the most prominent buildings but also the extent of the damage beyond the central area of the city. Some of the pictures show the streets and buildings of Caen before the bombings.

Dates: 1900-1945

Photographs of young dark-haired woman in a dramatic pose, c 1910-1930

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Scope and Contents

Photographs of young dark-haired woman in a dramatic pose. Two identical copies of photograph of a young dark-haired woman in a dramatic pose, wearing a loose-fitting archaic white robe and a flower garland in her hair, b/w, 29.5 x 18 cm, both copies mounted on stiff cardboard, one copy marked ‘Mrs Patuffa Hood ?’ on reverse.

Dates: c 1910-1930