- Price/Price 1/5/2
- File
- 1754-1999
Part of Cedric Price Collection
Antique prints, original artwork, and modern reproductions.
Part of Cedric Price Collection
Antique prints, original artwork, and modern reproductions.
Part of Cedric Price Collection
Apparently posthumous sorting or use file (title from cover label). Contains:
'The Illustrated London News', 15 April 1848 edition, with headline news on the Chartist demonstration and numerous engravings, including the New Holland Ferry on the Humber (Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway). Bears Conduit Street mark and manuscript note (dip pen) of recipient (?), Mr H Beardmore, Upper Tean, Staffordshire; penny duty stamp on p. 242. ['White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire', 1851, includes a Henry Beardmore, a blacksmith at Upper Tean.];
photocopy article, 'The English House of the Future: Views of Leading Architects', 'The Strand Magazine', vol. 26 [December 1903], pp. 673-680;
booklet, 'SCSD: An Interim Report' (School Construction Systems Development), apparently Frank Newby's copy (manuscript name in upper right corner of cover), New York: Educational Facilities Laboratories, Inc., January 1964, with loose article originally inserted at pp. 10-11: 'System Building' (no author named), 'Interbuild', February 1965, pp.24-26;
photocopy article, 'The tall building artistically reconsidered', by Ada Louise Huxtable, 'The New Criterion' (November 1982), pp. 1-25;
photocopy extracts from James Holland, 'Minerva at Fifty: The Jubilee History of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers 1930 to 1980' (Westerham, Kent: Hurtwood Publications Ltd., 1980): title page, pp. 4 and 8 (photographs of the Society's Presidents 1930-1953, including J. F. Price 1939/43, CP's uncle);
Civil Engineering Special Issue of ICE 'Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers', on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link: Planning and People, May 2003, vol. 156, Special Issue 1; marked 'Save--Library' on cover.
Family-related items. Batch was labelled in pencil: 'belonging to C's father?'.
Part of Cedric Price Collection
Handful of photocopies of family-related items including two photocopied obituaries for J.F. Price (Jack, CP's uncle) from 'The Pottery gazette and glass trade review', March 1943; photocopied photographs and cuttings; death notice for CP's sister Mercia from the Independent, 26 Sept. 1989.
Two pencil sketches by Joseph Pike published in The Builder, 16 September 1927 edition.
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'Porches in Laurence Pountney Hill A.D. 1703' (1927) and 'Angel Place, Marshalsea' (1926). With pencil sketches and a few lines of word-play by Price on reverse.
Photocopy photos from postcard originals
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Two A4 size reproductions.
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Blotter, assorted wooden rulers, metal tape measure, pocket lenses, red/blue double-ended pencil, two card wallets containing professional membership cards, a selection of office rubber stamps, a small packet of postage stamps (pre-decimalisation).
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Consists of work dating from Price's school and university years, plus a few early commercial pieces of art.
Part of Cedric Price Collection
Photographs taken by CP and others featuring family members and locations where the family lived. Locations include Stone (and the surrounding area), Braye Cottage, Hythe (and the surrounding area), Harley Street, plus a small number of photographs from CP's time at Cambridge. There are also photographs from a family holiday in Scotland (mostly Lerwick).
Greeting postcards printed with Alleyne's School crest
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Packet of postcards
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Two unused postcards