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Anthony Kersting material


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0347 D113

Held at: Wandsworth Heritage Service

Title: Anthony Kersting material

Date(s): [1940-1949]

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 notebook, 1 folder, 1 poster

Name of creator(s):

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CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Anthony Kersting was an architectural photographer, who was born and grew up in 37 Frewin Road, Wandsworth, on 7 November 1916. He attended Dulwich College and then worked in Lloyds Bank, Sloane Square, before turning to photography full-time. In 1939 he volunteered for the RAF and in 1941 was posted to a photographic unit in Egypt, where he took the opportunity to travel. After the war he became well known as an architectural photographer, and died on 2 September 2008, aged 91.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Notebook containing a record of a trip to Petra in 1944, typescript and handwritten accounts of trips in Syria, Mesopotamia and Amman and a poster for an exhibition of Anthony Kersting's photographs.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

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Conditions governing access:

This material is only available in the Wandsworth Heritage Service search room at Battersea Library. Please contact Heritage Service staff for more information.

Conditions governing reproduction:

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Finding aids:

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Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Donated to Wandsworth Heritage Service by David Ainsworth, January 2009.

Immediate source of acquisition:

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ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

Finding aid created by export from CALM v8.0.2.40 Archives Hub EAD2002. Entry amended by Barbara Ball.

Rules or conventions: 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: April 2011


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Ancient history | Historical periods
Ancient monuments | Monuments | Architecture
Travel writing | Nonfiction
Literary forms and genres
Photography

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Jordan | Middle East
Mesopotamia | Middle East
Syria | Middle East