IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 974
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Burton, Esmond
Date(s): c1955
Level of description: collection
Extent: 7 plaster miniatures and fourteen photographs
Name of creator(s): Burton | Esmond | fl 1930-1955 | sculptor
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
No information was available at the time of compilation.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Esmond Burton, c 1955, comprise seven plaster miniatures of working men and women prepared by sculptor Edmond Burton, relating to the bas-reliefs on the three frontages of Bentham House, residence of the Faculty of Laws at University College London. The buidling was originally the headquarters of the General and Municipal Workers' Union (now part of GMB), and was designed by Hubert Lidbetter. Fourteen black and white photographs of the bas-reliefs and construction of the building. Note that the right-hand figure in the 'group of five' photograph is Hubert Lidbetter.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged as in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Closed due to the fragility of the miniatures.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Please contact the University Archivist for details.
Finding aids:
No addional finding aids exist.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Unknown
Immediate source of acquisition:
Unknown
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Samantha Velumyl.
Date(s) of descriptions: April 2008