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King's College London College Archives

Photographs of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 TH/PH

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: Photographs of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School

Date(s): [1859-2003]

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: approximately 9 linear metres

Name of creator(s): St Thomas's Hospital Medical School

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Photographs of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, [1859-2003], comprising photographs of notable hospital events, 1892-[2000], including opening of the new wing of the medical school, 1892; theatricals and musicals, 1818-[1980s]; roayl visits 1940s-[1970s]; and of facilities including operating theatre 1896-[1990], wards [1900-1960s]; School of Physiology, 1935-1946; Biochemistry Department,[1950s-1990s];
portraits of staff (photographs and prints)[1750-1980];
photograph albums of hospital scenes and staff, [1880s-1970s];
scrapbooks containing photographs and press cuttings, 1885-1920s;
student photographs including Medical Units, 1924-1939; Clincial year groups,1924-1987; pre-clinical entry students 1972-1981; Final FRCS groups 1957-1963; First MB class,1957-1991; College House groups [1859]-1948;
photographs of sporting clubs including St Thomas's Hospital Mountaineering Club, 1953-1954; St Thomas's Hospital Rugby Football team, 1875-1986; United Hospitals (Rugby) Football team, 1876-[1880s]; St Thomas's Hospital Cricket Club, 1922-1924, 1989; St Thomas's Inter Hospital Cup boxing team, c.1927; St Thomas's Hospital Association Football teams, 1914, 1934-1935, 1985-1987;St Thomas's Hospital Hockey teams, 1921, 1926-1931, 1952-1958; St Thomas's Hospital Rowing Club team and action, [1950s]; St Thomas's Hospital Water Polo team in action, 1953; Croquet team, [1976]; Fencing team, 1958; athletics race, 1920s.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The records are arranged as outlined in Scope and Content

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive and Corporate Record Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Photographs of St Thomas's Hospital are held by King's College Photography and Design Services (St Thomas'). Photographs and prints of St Thomas's Hospital, held by London Metropolitan Archives.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Sources: Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Library of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School (1491-1900) D T Bird (London, 1984). Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

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: September 2002. Revised June 2004


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Hospitals | Health services
Medical education | Higher science education
Medical students | Students
Photographs | Visual materials
Medical institutions
Social sciences
Social welfare

Personal names

Corporate names
St Thomas' Hospital Medical School | London

Places
Lambeth | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Southwark | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe