IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4313
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: TURTLE, Sylvia (fl 1980-1990)
Date(s): 1941-1990
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.07 linear metres.
Name of creator(s): Turtle | Sylvia | fl 1980-1990 | amateur photographer
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
These sketches and photographs were taken by Sylvia Turtle in the 1980's and 1990's as part of a photography course and also because of her interest in the Clerkenwell area and its development over the years.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Photographs and sketches of the Clerkenwell area by Sylvia Turtle, showing the development of the area including images of storm damage in Charterhouse Square in 1987 and a poster produced during office developments in the 1990's showing a skull formed out of buildings and the words 'Death by Development'.
The collection also includes a letter written in 1941 to Sylvia Turtle's aunt from Simpkin Marshall Book Centre regarding their old fashioned service and their 'Dickensian Staff' and displaying War time spirit '... to show the Germans that they cannot part old friends with their bombs, and fires, and bloody murder.'
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Collection divided into two sections: LMA/4313/A: Photographs and Sketches; LMA/4313/B: Correspondence.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Gifted to the Archive in November 2001.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note:
Date(s) of descriptions: Records prepared May to September 2011.