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Description: | The photographic section of the Core Collections is housed as an alphabetical sequence arranged by name of individual or of theatre production. A sub-section is devoted to dance but its arrangement mirrors that of the main sequence. The Core photographic collection contains hundreds of thousands of photographs covering all aspects of theatre from the 19th century onwards, including the extraordinary records of pre-1914 Drury Lane productions, a huge collection of postcards from the Edwardian heyday of the postcard beauties, extensive coverage of fringe theatre in the late 1980s and early 1990s donated by Time Out and of general theatre in the same period donated by the Daily Telegraph.
This core collection is based on an amalgamation of the photographic sections of the Theatre Museum's founding collections (those of Gabrielle Enthoven, London Archives of the Dance, Society for Theatre Research, British Theatre Museum Association, etc). It also incorporates the photographs of the Theatre Museum's in-house photographer, Graham Brandon, who has documented stage productions since the 1980s. However, material is added continuously, often as a result of gifts by donors of miscellaneous material which does not justify retention as discrete archives.
In addition to the Core photographic collections, the Theatre Museum holds many specialised photographic collections, which are the subject of separate Collection Descriptions:
Gordon Anthony - Dance; Cyril Arapoff - Dance; Anthony Crickmay - Dance, drama, opera, fashion, advertising; J W Debenham - Drama, dance, some opera; Denis de Marney - Dance; Baron Nicholas de Rakoczy - Circus; Lisel Haas - Drama, especially Birmingham Repertory Theatre; Guy Little Collection - theatre, opera, dance in 19th century; Edward Mandinian - Dance, especially the Sadler's Wells (now Royal) Ballet; Duncan Melvin - Dance; Houston Rogers - Dance, drama, opera; The Windmill Theatre collection - revue and night clubs. | Format: | Photographs (miscellaneous) Black and white negatives Postcards Photographs (production) Photographs (portrait) Colour negatives | Subjects: | Theater - Great Britain - History -19th century; Theater - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Actors; Ballet - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Modern dance; Ballets companies; Dance companies; Photographers - Great Britain - History - 20th century | Temporal: | 19th century 1850- 20th century 21st century | Source: | Backstage | Address: | Blythe House, 23 Blythe Road, London,
W14 0QX | Identifier: | www.backstage.ac.uk/records/collection/c | Language: | en | Format: | Photographs (miscellaneous) Black and white negatives Postcards Photographs (production) Photographs (portrait) Colour negatives | Go to resource |
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