BROWN, Joseph (1802-1874) and Ann Cox Brown (1807-1893)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0402 JAB |
Held at | : Royal Geographical Society Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Collections/Collections.htm › |
Full title | : BROWN, Joseph (1802-1874) and Ann Cox Brown (1807-1893) |
Date(s) | : 1842-1874 |
Level of description | : collection |
Extent | : 2 folders |
Name of creator(s) | : Brown | Joseph | 1802-1874 | banker Brown | Ann Cox | 1807-1893 |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Joseph Brown was born in London and worked as a merchant and banker in the Mediterranean and South America; he set up a gold mining company in Melbourne, Australia, in 1852, then moved to Peru and retired to England in 1867; a talented painter. Ann Cox Brown lived in Turkey from 1841-1847 with the Hanson family.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Joseph Brown and Ann Cox Brown comprise a diary of a short tour in Turkey (1842) by Ann Cox Brown; notes on Constantinople (1843); biographical notes on Joseph and Ann Cox Brown and on Charles Hanson.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Arranged as JAB/1 diaries of journeys to Naples and Constantinople and JAB/2 diary of a short tour in Turkey and biographical notes.
Conditions governing access:
Accessed via the Foyle Reading Room. Free of charge for Fellows, Members and those with valid academic identification. All other users pay a charge and must bring identification in order to register on arrival.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopying at Archivist's discretion, and subject to completion of 'application for copies' form. No reproduction or publication without permission of the RGS-IBG Archivist.
Finding aids:
The RGS archives: a handlist compiled by Christine Kelly. London: RGS, 1977 and full catalogue available online at Access to Archives.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Donated by Mrs F E Hunter.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Joseph Brown pictures within RGS Map Room collection.
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Prepared by an archives volunteer using existing finding aids and edited by Samantha Velumyl, AIM25 project cataloguer.
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:
24 October 2000 and edited May 2008.
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