Photograph Collection

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0060 PH
Held at	: Natural History Museum   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/library-and-archives.html ›
Full title	: Photograph Collection
Date(s)	: [1880]-
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 448 collections or single items
Name of creator(s)	: Various sources
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

The Photograph Collection contains images of the galleries, exhibits, staff and visitors from the time of the opening of the Museum onwards.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
N/A

System of arrangement:

Arranged in 448 sections.

Conditions governing access:

By appointment with the Archivist, by email to archives@nhm.ac.uk or by post to the Museum Archivist, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD.

Conditions governing reproduction:

At the Archivist's discretion. Photocopying service available. Digital photography (without flash) permitted for research purposes on completion of a photography permit form.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Various

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry copied from the Natural History Museum online catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

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:
Sep 2008