IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 IM/GA
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Godfrey Argent portrait photographs
Date(s): c 1930 - present
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: Unknown
Name of creator(s): Godfrey Argent Studio
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Walter Stoneman worked for J Russell and Sons, photographers. They were based firstly at 73 Baker Street, London, later at 63 Baker Street, London. They moved to 49 Queens Gate, Kensington, possibly retaining the premises in Baker Street, as photographs dated between 1946 and 1954 bear either address. Walter Bird joined the company at 49 Queens Gate by 1959; Godfrey Argent took over from Bird in 1967. The business was renamed Godfrey Argent Studio (around 1975). Argent moved to 33 Queen's Gate Gardens (around 1972), then to Holland Park, London (1978).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Portrait photographs of Fellows of the Royal Society by the Godfrey Argent Studio.
ACCESS AND USE
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The collection is filed alphabetically by subject. Reference numbers are arranged by photographer:
Baron Baron Studios
CCM Unnamed photographer, Godfrey Argent Studio
EGRS Eleanor Cousins, Godfrey Argent Studio
GAC Unnamed photographer, Godfrey Argent Studio
GGRS Grant White, Godfrey Argent Studio
GRS Godfrey Argent
JGRS Unnamed photographer, Godfrey Argent Studio
RGRS Unnamed photographer, Godfrey Argent Studio
Russell Russell and Sons
SGRS Sebastian Best, Godfrey Argent Studio
TGRS Unnamed photographer, Godfrey Argent Studio
WM Unnamed photographer, Godfrey Argent Studio
WRS Walter Bird
WS Walter Stoneman
R Walter Bird, for the National Portrait Gallery
AR Godfrey Argent, for the National Portrait Gallery
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright belongs to the Godfrey Argent Studio.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.