IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0366 EL
Held at: Institute of Education
Title: LANE, Elsie Victoria (née Leak) (c 1900-1981)
Date(s): 1881-1973
Level of description: collection
Extent: 4 boxes
Name of creator(s): Lane | Elsie Victoria | c 1900-1981 | hairdresser, wigmaker and teacher
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Elsie Lane was appenticed to a wigmaker in 1912 and had a long career as a hairdresser, wig-maker and teacher of wig-making, including in her own school in Mile End Road, London.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Elsie Lane, including personalia, autobiographical notes and correspondence about her life, training, career and views on education and training, 1912-1973; also a few cuttings about the National Association for Gifted Children; also includes her father's apprenticeship indentures as a print cutter, 1881.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
A reader wishing to publish any quotation of information, including pictorial, derived from any archive material must apply in writing for prior permission from the Librarian or other appropriate person(s) as indicated by the Archivist. A limited number of photocopies may be supplied at the discretion of the Archivist.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Collection level description available on-line at the Institute of Education website
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Given by Elsie Lane, 1978-1981.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Created 06/9/1999, modified 12/6/2000