Identity area
Reference code
GC/AD/01/01
Unique identifier
Title
Date(s)
- 1898-1958 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
10 boxes & 1 folder
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Mainly as used for the illustration of the first six volumes of the Biographical History. These include black and white prints of College plate and astrolabes, the plate audit, Market Hill and Rose Crescent prior to the St. Michael's Court development, the Aston Webb building of St. Michael's Court, 3 West Road, the Gate of Honour during its renovation, Chapel war memorial, memorial to H.K. Anderson, portraits of Jocosa Frankland, William Harvey, J.F. Cameron, E.S. Roberts and H.K. Anderson, deed of Edmund Gonville, Senate House passage and the Gate of Honour, the Gate of Humility, Barraclough's building viewed from Tree Court (Prior to the Waterhouse building) and the exterior of Salvin's Hall as viewed from Trinity Lane.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open access - no restrictions.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
With an alphabetical index prepared in 1955.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
See also photographs of College buildings (PH:B), Wim Swaan's photographs of Caius (PH:P), and Christopher Hurst's photographs of College portraits (PH:POR). See also the astrolabes and the Gonville deed in the Gonville and Caius College Library manuscript collection.
Publication note
See A Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College, Vol. 1-6.