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Art and design in the local history collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Margaret Girvan
Margaret Girvan*
Affiliation:
Fine Arts Library, Westminster City Libraries
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Abstract

A consideration of the public library local history and archives departments as a potential resource for information on art and design topics, with special reference to the collections of Wesminster City Libraries.

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , Summer 1985 , pp. 74 - 79
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1985

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References

(1) The papers of the great 18th century engineering partnership of Boulton and Watt were deposited in Birmingham Reference Library in 1915.Google Scholar
(2) Archives and Local History Department (South Westminster), Victoria Library, 160 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1W 9UD; tel: 01-798 2180. Chief Archivist: MissSwarbrick, M. J. B.A., A.L.A. Google Scholar
(3) Archives and Local History Department (North Westminster), Marylebone Library, Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5PS; tel: 01-798 1030. Archivist: Bowden, R.A. M.A. Google Scholar
(4) Author of Art and Architecture of London, Phaidon, 1984 and other works on London history and architecture.Google Scholar
(5) Parish registers for North Westminster i.e. the former boroughs of Paddington and St. Marylebone, are either in the Greater London Record Office or with the parish incumbent, since the archives department at Marylebone is not an approved repository.Google Scholar
(6) The standard work on early London trade cards remains Ambrose Heal’s London tradesmen’s tokens of the XVIII century: an account of their origin and use. London, privately printed, 1925.Google Scholar
(7) The Gillow archive is available on colour microfilm, c. 100 reels, estimated price £2290, from World Microfilms, 62 Queen’s Grove, London NW8.Google Scholar
(8) Quality House, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1HP; tel: 01-242 1198.Google Scholar