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Royal Geographical Society

BROOKE, Winifred May A (1893-1975)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0402 SSC/12

Held at: Royal Geographical Society

Title: BROOKE, Winifred May A (1893-1975)

Date(s): 1910-1911

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 large box with 17 files

Name of creator(s): Brooke | Winifred May A | 1893-1975 | artist and botanist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Winifred May A Brooke was an artist and botanist and was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society 1969-1981.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Winifred May A Brooke, 1910-1911, comprise historical and topographical notes on Switzerland including five printed guidebooks written or translated by Brooke.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Accessible 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 the discretion of the Archivist and subject to completion of 'application for copies' form. No reproduction or publication without permission of the RGS-IBG Archivist.

Finding aids:

Collection information can be accessed online at Access to Archives and a hard copy catalogue and card list can be found in the Foyle Reading Room at the Royal Geographical Society.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Natural History Museum archives Ref: L MSS BRO.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Prepared by Archives volunteer using existing finding aids and edited by Samantha Velumyl, AIM25 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: 10 January 2002 and modified April 2008.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Topography | Geomorphology
Travel writing | Nonfiction
Literary forms and genres

Personal names
Brooke | Winifred May A | 1893-1975 | artist and botanist

Corporate names

Places
Switzerland | Western Europe | Europe