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Natural History Museum

Photograph Collection


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0060 PH

Held at: Natural History Museum

Title: Photograph Collection

Date(s): [1880]-

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 448 collections or single items

Name of creator(s): Various sources

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 AND 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:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Various

ALLIED MATERIALS

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Photographs | Visual materials
Exhibitions
Museums
Natural history

Personal names

Corporate names
Natural History Museum

Places