IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 G/Photographs
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: Photographs of Guy's Hospital Medical School
Date(s): [1850s-1981]
Level of description: Series of Guy's Hospital Medical School
Extent: 27 albums of photographs, and approximately 3 linear metres of loose photographs
Name of creator(s): Guy's Hospital Medical College
CONTEXT
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CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Photographs of Guy's Hospital Medical School, [1850s-1981], comprising photograph portraits of physicians and surgeons of Guy's Hospital, [1850s-1935]; photographs of Deans of the Medical and Dental Schools, 1874-1945; photographs of 'Guy's men', [1862-1948], mainly surgeons and physicians; photographs of dental students, 1983-1987; Guy's Hospital staff, 1891, 1893, 1925; Guy's Hospital Dressers, 1889, 1895; Guy's Hospital Resident staff, 1905-1967, with names of individuals; Guy's Hospital Firms and Units, 1906-1930, with names of individuals; Guy's Hospital students from FRCS courses (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons), 1937-1961, with names of individuals; first year students, 1942-1958; Medical and Dental school first and second year students, 1955-1971, most giving names of individuals; Medical Preliminary Clinical Classes, 1930-1963, with names of individuals; students as blackface minstrels, 1905-1937; Guy's Royal Dental Corps, 1914;
photographs of staff and students of Guy's Hospital Dental School, comprising photograph of the School staff and students, 1947; Dental School staff, 1949; students from Second MB and Dental Technique courses, 1967-1968, with names of individuals; Preliminary Clinical Class in Operative Dentistry, 1948-1971, with names of individuals; Dental House Officers and House Surgeons, 1911, 1946-1959, with names of individuals; students from Prosthetics' classes, 1958-1969; first year, first BDS and LDS students, 1936-1956; students on first clinical appointments, 1968-1969, with names of individuals; second year students, 1948-1972, most with names of individuals; third year, BDS and LDS students, 1955-1967, with names of individuals;
photographs of sporting clubs of the Medical and Dental Schools, 1878-1979, comprising photographs of teams including from the Football, Cricket, Shooting, Rugby, Swimming, Tennis, Hockey and Athletics Clubs;
albums of group photographs of medical and dental students, 1941-1971, with lists of names; albums of group photographs of medical students, 1955-62, including preliminary clinical period classes and first clinical appointment groups; album of groups of Dental School students, 1968; albums of medical and dental students, 1951-1986, including Guy's Hospital Residents, 1951-1963 and sports teams, 1970-1986, some with names of individuals;
albums of photographs of Guy's Hospital surgical and medical ward clerks, 1907-1933, with names of individuals; albums of Medical and Dental School staff and student groups, 1947-1968;
exterior views of Guy's Hospital and Medical School buildings, 1890-1958; interior views, [1892]-1903, including scenes of wards, staff and patients; photographs of the Medical School's sports ground at Honor Oak Park, including bomb damage, [1941];
photographs of Guy's Hospital events and functions, 1912-[1980s], including Christmas celebrations; photographs of informal groups of students and staff, 1941, 1958; photographs of drawings of external views of the Hospital, 1947-1948.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in the scope and content.
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive and Corporate Record Services.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Detailed catalogues are available in the reading room of the College Archives.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
The photographs have come from a variety of sources. The albums of group photographs of medical and dental students, 1941-1971, were given by Professor MacDonald.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from Guy's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Date(s) of descriptions: February 2002