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

Found in 257 Collections and/or Records:

Comprehensive Development Areas: Bunhill Fields, 1950s

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/6
Scope and Contents

Comprehensive development areas: Bunhill Fields consists of:


  1. papers and photographs, ( 1950s )
  2. plans, ( 1950s )
Dates: 1950s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas

Conventillo, Buenos Aires, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/678
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a conventillo, or tenament, in Buenos Aires, Argentina in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Coventry City Council, 1939-1959

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: PJM/CCC
Scope and Contents

Papers and plans relating to the Coventry City Council


  1. papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department ,1939-1944
  2. collected reports and plans regarding Coventry's redevelopment, 1931-1959
Dates: 1939-1959
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection

Coventry housing - house type plans, c1940

 Item
Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/2/4/1
Scope and Contents 6 copy plans showing different house types for Coventry. 3 plans (22cm x 76cm) are by housing director AF Underhill, show small scale floor plans, reduced from 8 inches = 1 foot scale, for 3 different houses and are hand labelled Type A, Type B and Type C. 3 plans (71cm x 71cm) are by city architect Sir Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson, show complete plans for the "three bedroom type" house at 1/8th and 1/12th scale. One of the floor plans was drafted by Percy...
Dates: c1940
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department / Redevelopment of Coventry - housing / Coventry housing - plans

Coventry housing - opening of the Canley Estate houses, 18 December 1941

 Item
Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/2/1
Scope and Contents

Programme for the opening of the houses on the Canley Estate, Coventry on 18 December 1941 which was attended by the City of Coventry Housing Committee and the City Architect Sir Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson, representing the Coventry City Architect's Department.

Dates: 18 December 1941
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department / Redevelopment of Coventry - housing

Coventry housing - photographs of the Canley Estate houses, c1941

 File
Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/2/2
Scope and Contents

This file contains a set of 8 labelled black and white photographic prints (15.5cm x 18.5cm) of the housing scheme at Canley Estate, Coventry, and some of the associated negatives on one sheet. There is also a photograph (11.5cm x 12cm) of a planning drawing, probably of the Canley Estate, and 2 black and white photographic print (16cm x 21cm) showing a block of flats under construction.

Dates: c1941
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department / Redevelopment of Coventry - housing

Coventry housing - plans, c1940

 undefined
Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/2/4
Scope and Contents

Coventry housing - plans consists of:


  1. house type plans, c1940
  2. proposed nursery plans,4 June 1940
  3. panoramic view of Coventry,c1940
Dates: c1940
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department / Redevelopment of Coventry - housing

Coventry housing - press clippings, 1940-1944

 File
Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/2/3
Scope and Contents

This file contains press clippings and journal articles by Sir Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson concerning Coventry City Council's experimental pre-fabricated housing and other new housing developments.

Dates: 1940-1944
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department / Redevelopment of Coventry - housing

Cultivator's House, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/236
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a typical cultivator's house on the side of a hill above some trees with a group of men sitting on the porch in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Daga Grass Hut Building, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1000
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a daga grass hut building in [Zimbabwe?] in the early 20th century. Shows a partially covered structure with some daga grass on the ground around it.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

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