IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0505 BC PH1-11
Held at: Royal Holloway, University of London
Title: Photographs relating to Bedford College
Date(s): [1849-1985]
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: c15 boxes
Name of creator(s): Bedford College
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Photographs collected throughout the history of Bedford College.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Photographs of the staff and students of Bedford College, [1849-1985], including academic and domestic staff, members of the governing body, and union committees. Photographs of the buildings of Bedford College, 1849-[1975]. Photographs of special events, 1913-1985, including royal visits, opening ceremonies, garden parties and the final reunion. Photographs concerning academic departments, 1922-1985, and resident students, 1946-1963. Photographs of student activities, 1887-[1970], including sports and drama. Correspondence relating to the photographic material, [1913-1985]. Photographic negatives and lantern slides, [1890-1940].
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged according to subject.
Conditions governing access:
Open to all registered users of the Royal Holloway, University of London Archives.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies may be supplied, subject to the condition of the original. Requests to publish original material should be directed to the College Archivist.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
`A catalogue of the Archives of Bedford College (University of London), 1849-1985', by Claire Gobbi Daunton and Elizabeth Bennett, 1987.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The papers were transferred from the Bedford College Archives when the College merged with Royal Holloway in 1985.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Related material:
Publication note:
Educating women: a pictorial history of Bedford College, University of London, 1949-1985 (Alma Publishers, Surrey, 1991) by Dr Linna Bentley; A history of Bedford College for Women, 1849-1937 (Oxford University Press, London, 1939), by Dame Margaret Jansen Tuke.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the AIM25 project.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with general International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Apr 2000