Anthony Kersting material
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0347 D113 |
Held at | : Wandsworth Heritage Service Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/homepage/215/local_history_and_heritage › |
Full title | : Anthony Kersting material |
Date(s) | : [1940-1949] |
Level of description | : Collection |
Extent | : 1 notebook, 1 folder, 1 poster |
Name of creator(s) | : Please contact the Archive for further information. |
Detailed catalogue | : Click here to view repository detailed catalogue |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Anthony Kersting was an architectural photographer, who was born and grew up in 37 Frewin Road, Wandsworth, on 7 November 1916. He attended Dulwich College and then worked in Lloyds Bank, Sloane Square, before turning to photography full-time. In 1939 he volunteered for the RAF and in 1941 was posted to a photographic unit in Egypt, where he took the opportunity to travel. After the war he became well known as an architectural photographer, and died on 2 September 2008, aged 91.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Notebook containing a record of a trip to Petra in 1944, typescript and handwritten accounts of trips in Syria, Mesopotamia and Amman and a poster for an exhibition of Anthony Kersting's photographs.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
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Conditions governing access:
This material is only available in the Wandsworth Heritage Service search room at Battersea Library. Please contact Heritage Service staff for more information.
Conditions governing reproduction:
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Finding aids:
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Archival Information
Archival history:
Donated to Wandsworth Heritage Service by David Ainsworth, January 2009.
Immediate source of acquisition:
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Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Finding aid created by export from CALM v8.0.2.40 Archives Hub EAD2002. Entry amended by Barbara Ball.
Rules or conventions:
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:
April 2011
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