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Description: | -The museum has extensive social history collections that reflect the social, domestic, working and civil life of St Albans and the immediate area, both urban and rural, and the personal life of local people, including material reflecting the lives of children. Of particular note is the nationally important Salaman Collection of trade and craft tools.;The museum has a good collection of Hertfordshire trade tokens, which includes a number from St Albans.;The museum has a wide collection of ephemera including posters, theatre bills, chap books, mourning cards, official notices from World War II, pamphlets trade leaflets and bills, and bound copies of local newspapers.;There is a small but representative collections of ceramics and glass. Some items of furniture which are of importance to the civic history of St Albans.;The collection includes some agricultural vehicles and implements, such as a wagon by George Casbo of Barley. The Salaman Collection includes a number of agricultural hand tools.;Over 150 oral history recordings of local people talking about aspects of their life in the district going back to the early 1900s. ;The museum has a good collection of costume, which contains some very fine items.
Political posters from the 1840's;The Louis Evans collection features local maps, leaflets and pamphlets;The Hodgson Collection of silver spoons, the Curtis Collection of fans and the Evan Roberts collection of watches.;This nationally important collection was assembled by Raphael Salaman (1906-93), author of two standard works: the Dictionary of Tools used in the Woodworking and allied trades, c 1700-1970, (1975), and the Dictionary of Leatherworking tools, c1700-1950 (1986). The tools date from around 1700 to 1950. It was redisplayed in 1992, with a generous Wolfson Foundation grant.There are particularly good tools from trades which largely vanished during Salaman's lifetime: cooper, wheelwight and blacksmith; but many others are represented, from ladder maker to bricklayer.
- | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Hatfield Road
St Albans Hertfordshire United Kingdom,
AL1 3RR | FAX: | 01727 837472 | Telephone: | 01727 819340 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6515 | Go to resource |
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