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- Permanent Link:
- https://digital.soas.ac.uk/SSPA010168/00001
Material Information
- Title:
- New buildings for the School of Oriental Studies
- Creator:
- Adams Holden and Pearson, Architects
- Publication Date:
- 01/03/1938
- Language:
- English
- Technique:
- 6 black and white drawings framed together
Notes
- General Note:
- Preferred Citation: SOAS University of London. Archives & Special Collections. SOAS Picture Archive. SOAS/SPA/1/168. Map cabinet 3, drawer 1
- General Note:
- Item level information: Old Building, Russell Square: plans of basement, ground floor, first floor, second floor, third floor, and one perspective
- General Note:
- Extent: 6 architectural drawings (framed together)
- General Note:
- Europe -- United Kingdom -- England -- Greater London -- London -- Camden -- Bloomsbury
- General Note:
- SOAS is the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London
- General Note:
- Archival Hierarchy: SOAS (Collection) -- SOAS Picture Archive (Sub-collection) -- SOAS Buildings (Series)
- General Note:
- Sub-Collection description: The SOAS Picture Archive became an official collection in 1990, based on photographs and other visual media held by the School and the School photographer. As of 2016, it consists of over 1,400 images in a range of formats, including prints, negatives, slides, postcards, mounted and framed prints, display boards and printed materials. -- Exterior and interior views of the School of Oriental Studies, formerly the London Institution, at Finsbury Circus are available from its inception, including an engraving of the London Institution by Robert Wilkinson in 1820. A number of photographs record the preparation for and construction of the Philips Building, and the interior of SOAS Library from its first use to the present day is well-represented. -- There are early groups of staff and students with the first two Directors, Sir Denison Ross and Sir Ralph Turner. During the 1930s to 1970s there are few images of students, although staff are better represented (particularly in the 1930s and 1950s), and some staff group photographs outside the Bloomsbury Building exist from the 1980s. Several key events at SOAS are pictured, including the inaugural event at Finsbury Circus in 1918, the official opening of the Philips Building and the opening of the Special Collections Reading Room, as well as a number of other events both social (such as Sir Cyril Philips' 80th birthday party) and academic.
- General Note:
- Series description: This Series comprises photographs and other images of SOAS buildings, from the London Institution at Finsbury Circus (including images dating from before the opening of the School of Oriental Studies in 1917), to the addition of the Special Collections Reading Room to the SOAS Library, Philips Building. A variety of views of the Finsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Building and Philips Buildings, both internal and external, are included, including images of the construction of the Philips Building. There are also images of the Brunei Gallery, Percival David Foundation exhibition spaces, No. 30 Russell Square, the Round Room of the former Public Record Office, Senate House (University of London), University of London Union, and some unidentified street scenes. As of 2016, this Series includes 456 images, of which there are -- Color: 102 prints, 2 mounted prints, 12 negatives, 1 drawing, 6 display boards and 19 slides -- Black and white: 157 prints, 32 mounted prints, 58 negatives and 2 engravings -- Framed pictures: 10 framed pictures with 31 black and white prints -- Printed: 4 magazines and print drafts with 24 black and white prints -- only a selection have been digitised.
- General Note:
- UK Repository ID: GB 0102 (SOAS University of London)
- General Note:
- VIAF (name authority) : University of London., School of Oriental and African Studies : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/126246578
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Holding Location:
- Archives and Special Collections
- Rights Management:
- © Adams Holden and Pearson, Architects, 1938 (Copyright managed by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA))
- Resource Identifier:
- SOAS/SPA/1/168 ( archival reference )
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