Series 47 - Prints (including some associated negatives)


ProvenanceSir Alec Skempton

Inventory Listing

Photographs labelled ‘Smeaton prints’ [some with reference numbers]
Prints (including some associated negatives)
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control ILL271
Date range No date
Contents of box file labelled ‘Photographs’: includes negatives for Skempton’s ‘History of Civil Engineering’ lectures, black and white prints (many unidentified) and associated correspondence, lecture notes, etc
Prints (including some associated negatives)

Items relating to projects abstracted and put into PRO sequence

Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control ILL260
Date range c. June 1948 - c. Dec 1954
Book of colour photographs of unidentified site in Greece [Mornos dam?]
Prints (including some associated negatives)
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control ILL261
Date range No date
Envelope of negatives for De Lory thesis and natural slope paper
Prints (including some associated negatives)
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control ILL262
Date range May 1957
Four photographs of Imperial College [two by Eric de Maré]
Prints (including some associated negatives)
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control ILL263
Date range June 1964 - July 1966, Two undated
Photographs of Civil Engineering Department staff, pre-war and 1984 (two different)
Prints (including some associated negatives)
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control ILL264
Date range 1930s - 1984
Photographs of Skempton: black and white portrait (‘Royal Society photograph’) and two colour photographs in office
Prints (including some associated negatives)
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control ILL265
Date range No date
Six colour photographs of conference [no details, Skempton in attendance]
Prints (including some associated negatives)
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control ILL266
Date range No date
Framed photographs of A L Bell and Karl Terzaghi
Prints (including some associated negatives)
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control ILL267
Date range No date
Four group photographs of delegates at international conference in Rotterdam, with letter from Prof R Neil Taylor, ISSMGE Secretary General, asking if Skempton can identify any of the people
Prints (including some associated negatives)
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control ILL268
Date range 1948 - 5 Sept 2000
Portrait of Thomas Huxley (in frame and special box), taken by Mayer Brothers of 133 Regent Street, London
Prints (including some associated negatives)
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control ILL259
Date range No date [late 19thc]
Photographs of Palais Royal [Paris], with associated paperwork
Prints (including some associated negatives)
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control ILL270
Date range Oct 1960
Contents of box labelled ‘Photostat negatives spare prints’; also includes photographic prints on various subjects
Prints (including some associated negatives)

Some overlap with ILL274-280

Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control ILL281
Date range No date [1950s]
Photographs labelled ‘Skem[pton] work’ - copies of documents
Prints (including some associated negatives)
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control ILL272
Date range No date
Photographs of historical prints, etc, various civil engineering projects
Prints (including some associated negatives)
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control ILL273
Date range No date
Loose photographs of rivers, canals, water works, etc
Prints (including some associated negatives)
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control ILL274
Date range No date
Thames Navigation illustrations used in Transactions of the Newcomen Society, vol 55, and illustraton used in vol 19 of Lincolnshire History & Archaeology (article on John Grundy), with covering letter
Prints (including some associated negatives)

Skempton’s article, ‘Engineering on the Thames Navigation 1770-1845’

Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control ILL275
Date range c. 1985, Letter dated 11 Mar 1985
Loose photographs of railways
Prints (including some associated negatives)
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control ILL276
Date range No date
Loose photographs of buildings
Prints (including some associated negatives)
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control ILL277
Date range No date
Loose photographs of soil mechanics subjects
Prints (including some associated negatives)
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control ILL278
Date range No date
Photographs of portraits of William Jessop and John Smeaton
Prints (including some associated negatives)
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control ILL279
Date range No date
Miscellaneous and unidentified photographs
Prints (including some associated negatives)
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control ILL280
Date range No date
Set of photographs used as illustrations for Jessop biography
Prints (including some associated negatives)
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control ILL269
Date range No date

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