Exhibition buildings - England

Date: 1923-1925

From: Gillies, Alexander, 1891-1982: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1973

Description: Photograph album compiled by Alexander Gillies, circa 1923-1925. Material relates to the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Stadium, sightseeing in London, and a “Medical Tour” throughout continental Europe. Most prints include captions that identify locations or individuals. Some prints have been removed from album. Approximately 35 prints relate to the British Empire Exhibition, 1924-1925. Images show the exterior of Wembley Stadium, a man-made canal, brass bands, and views of exhibition pavilions (India, Burma, Palestine, East Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, British Malaya, and the Canadian Pacific). Other images show members of the British and Italian royal families visiting the exhibition, including King George V leaving in a carriage. Other British royalty photographed at the exhibition are Queen Mary, Prince Henry, the Duchess of York (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon), the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire (Victor and Evelyn Cavendish), and Prince Arthur of Connaught. Photographs of Italian royalty show the King and Queen of Italy (Victor Emmanuel III and Elena of Montenegro). Material related to sightseeing in London includes three sets of tourist photographs showing famous sites and buildings around London. Other commercially produced photographs show “The King’s State Coach” and preparations for a court procession in the Royal Mews. Also contains one printed postcard advertising “Ye Olde George Inn, Southwark". Approximately 55 prints relate to a “Medical Tour arranged by Students International Union July - August 1925”. Images show medical equipment, hospitals and infirmaries in Leiden, Vienna, and Paris, as well as patients receiving treatments, including an “appendectomy under local anaesthetic” and “tuberculous children living on roof of hospital”. Other images show well-known buildings, sites, statues, and views of the places Gillies visited. These include: Leiden (Town Hall, geese, river and windmills); Potsdam (Sanssouci Park, the Orangery Palace, the New Palace); Berlin (Charlottenburg Gate, Brandenburg Gate, Berlin Cathedral); Vienna (Rathaus, the Danube, museums and art galleries); Prague (public gardens); Paris (the Louvre, Versailles, Stade Pershing, "Statue to the Triumph of Medicine over Disease", "Grave of the Unknown Warrior"); Brussels (the Danube, Town Hall, Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula); Zurich (the Limmat); and Amsterdam (canals, Basilica of Saint Nicholas). Portraits of identified individuals include “Professor Barge, Leiden” and “Mrs Zoe Ashurst [Cawdry?] Club 20 Cavendish Square”. Other photographs of people show a sleeping toddler “left at the door of a public house while Mother gets a drink”, people queuing to see “Dr Fosdick at the City Temple” in London, and “street singers”. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 118 b&w original photographic prints and one postcard. Physical Description: One photograph album containing 118 black and white photographic prints, and one postcard, 25 x 31.5 cm.

Date: [193-?]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: PAColl-9864

Description: Interior of Crystal Palace, London. Photograph taken or collected by William Williams (1859-1948). Inscriptions: Verso - top left - Interior of Crystal Palace Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) stereograph. Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 6 x 12.8 cm

Date: 1924

By: Campbell-Gray Ltd; Fleetway Press (London, England)

Reference: Eph-POSTCARD-Ellis-11

Description: Shows a photograph of the outside of the New Zealand Pavilion building featuring arches and columns. Figures walk across along a path towards the left. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 89 x 140 mm.