Photographs
Found in 1938 Collections and/or Records:
Photographs: miscellaneous (1), 1950s
Photographs: miscellaneous (2), 1950s
Photographs of Dr Hastings Banda
Photographs (3): Hastings Banda (undated).
Photographs of Frederick Delius and Percy Grainger, 1927
The photographs are mounted together on a cardboard frame, and are captioned 'Delius at Grez-sur-Loing, Gordon Bryan, 1927'. One photograph shows Frederick Delius sitting in a chair in his garden, with one of his German nurse reading to him; the second photograph shows a young man in the same garden who could be Percy Grainger (Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who was a staunch admirer of Delius); and the third is just a overall view of the garden.
Photographs of Scottish writers
The collection is composed of 6 boxes of photographs (15in. x 12in.) of Scottish writers, mostly noted as either Edinburgh or Glasgow, and dated between 1968 and 1979. The photographs include those of: Helen B. Cruickshank, Hugh MacDiarmid, Norman MacCaig, Liz Lochhead, Billy Connolly, George Mackay Brown, Hamish Henderson, and William McIlvanney.
Photographs of Stepney / Poplar: basic house layouts, 1956
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.
Photographs of Stepney / Poplar: east end 1940s, 1940s
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.
Photographs of Stepney / Poplar: east end before and after reconstruction, c1947-1961
Photographs of Stepney / Poplar: historic map of the area, 1950s
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.
Photographs of Stepney / Poplar: London County Council Housing Department visit, c1958
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.