Series: NMR County Backlog

Description

This collection contains an estimated 49000 negatives. It was set up by the NMR in the 1970s to store negatives that were not catalogued or printed up and added to the Red Boxes. It is arranged alphabetically by county (and then in some instances by place) Postcards and photographs were added to the collection in latter years. Not all of the content is identified: if an unidentified item could be narrowed down to a county, it would have been added to that county.

The following complete collections or parts of collections are present: L. Birley, B.T. Batsford, Council for Care of Churches, S.A. Cutlack, J. Daniels, Ruth Dobson, E.J. Bedford, E.R. Bull, E. Godman, F.E. Howard, J.J. Edmunds, C.E. Keyser, E.C. Le-Grice, A.J. Loughton, Proctor, A.E. Richardson, Victoria County History, Newton and Co, E. Dockree, E. Yates, Worcester-Drought, Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, Barley, Corder, Daniel, Pitcher, Wills, Newton & Co., A.J. Loughton, Ken Gravett and, Council for the Care of Churches. There are also parts of collections compiled by RCHME and Ministry of Works investigators and photographers including F.E. Howard, Egerton-Ryerson, Rigold and Dymock. The NMR had arrangements with county councils to acquire copies of their photographic surveys and some of these are included. The subjects covered tend to be churches, cathedrals, pretty villages and country houses but there are a few vernacular surveys including C. Godfrey's coverage of Wisbech and Ken Gravett's survey of listed buildings in Kent. Formats range from 12x10 glass plates through glass quarter plates to rolls of 35mm strip negatives.

Archival History

The collection was compiled between 1973 and about 1999.

Content

This is part of the Collection: RCH01 Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME) Archive

This Series contains the following materials:

Photograph (Negative): 49,400

Rights

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