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Description: | The Arts and Crafts Movement archives form an important part of the archive collection. They include letters; drawings; photographs; printed ephemera; exhibition catalogues; articles; unpublished research material; history files on individual designers, makers and collectors; and reference books.
The Emery Walker Library has a large supporting archive of material including trial proofs by William Morris in developing the Kelmscott Press and documents on the early Socialist Movement with which Walker and Morris were both connected.
There are also important archives relating to the composer Gustav Holst and the explorer Edward Adrian Wilson; and one of the largest collections of 19th century theatre playbills in a provincial museum. Other archive material comprises printed ephemera relating to Cheltenham and Gloucestershire. | Subjects: | Archives | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Clarence Street
Cheltenham,
GL50 3JT | FAX: | 01242 262 334 | Telephone: | 01242 237 431 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:3689 | Go to resource |
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