IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0060 PH
Held at: Natural History Museum
Title: Photograph Collection
Date(s): [1880]-
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 448 collections or single items
Name of creator(s): Various sources
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Unknown
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
The Photograph Collection contains images of the galleries, exhibits, staff and visitors from the time of the opening of the Museum onwards.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: N/A
System of arrangement:
Arranged in 448 sections.
Conditions governing access:
By appointment with the Archivist, by email to archives@nhm.ac.uk or by post to the Museum Archivist, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD.
Conditions governing reproduction:
At the Archivist's discretion. Photocopying service available. Digital photography (without flash) permitted for research purposes on completion of a photography permit form.
Finding aids:
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Various
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry copied from the Natural History Museum online catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
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: Sep 2008