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Item
Commemorative medallion/ coin to mark the end of the First World War (WW1), 1919
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/KEN2/19/1/1
Scope and Contents
King's head on one side, 'Welcome peace 1914-1919' on the other.
Dates:
1919
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Some records series are subject to confidentiality restrictions with the following closure periods:
30 years from date of creation for general administration files, legal records and financial files;
50 years from date of creation for governmental records, including papers of the College Governing Body and College Council, and constituent committees;
100 years from date of creation for personal and personnel records, including tutorial files, staff and fellows files and appointment records, personal finance and pension records. In addition sensitive correspondence and papers concerning College affairs such as disputes and disciplinary matters are closed for 100 years.
Restrictions apply on some personal and private papers.
Found in:
Downing College
File
Family photograph album including Walberswick, wartime and Downing College, 1902 - 1925
File
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/SEW/4/2/3
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs of family life before A. C. Seward became Master at Downing, including at the family's Old Farm Cottage in Walberswick with family, visitors and friends, Seward's lab and the family home (at Westfield, Cambridge), including Marion's studio. Others pictured include: Frances Lupton; Arthur Rackham; Connie and Molly Scott; Bertram Priestman (painting with Marion) and Mrs Priestman; Professor Yapp; Taffy Giles and Betty Willis; Mr Rose and Dr Giles; Mrs Alexander and...
Dates:
1902 - 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Generally open.
Found in:
Downing College
Fonds
Frank Webster Furniss collection, 1917 - 1921
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/FUR
Scope and Contents
Colour copies of photographs, College postcards and (27) letters to and from Clarice Preston, during his time as a student at Downing College. Includes: postcard (2 Nov 1917) soon after Frank's matriculation, saying he had collected his OTC uniform and done his first parade the day before; (22 Jun 1918) description of OTC Camp at Mildenhall; (July 1918) describing helping to unload an ambulance train of wounded soldiers after the Red Cross asked for volunteers - 'We had to prepare over 100...
Dates:
1917 - 1921
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Some records series are subject to confidentiality restrictions with the following closure periods:
30 years from date of creation for general administration files, legal records and financial files;
50 years from date of creation for governmental records, including papers of the College Governing Body and College Council, and constituent committees;
100 years from date of creation for personal and personnel records, including tutorial files, staff and fellows files and appointment records, personal finance and pension records. In addition sensitive correspondence and papers concerning College affairs such as disputes and disciplinary matters are closed for 100 years.
Restrictions apply on some personal and private papers.
Found in:
Downing College
File
Photographs of events and visits, 1914 - 1923
File
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/SEW/4/3/2/2
Scope and Contents
Includes: interior of the Tipperary Club meeting room in Fitzroy Street; several photographs of Tipperary meetings and social events, including women with children and garden party (with children's train track) in Downing Master's Lodge garden and sewing sand bags for the war effort; exhibits for homemade toy exhibition, including dolls' house (2) and Red Cross hospital (6) made by Marion and Margery Seward; visit of Admiral Weekes (in naval uniform), Lady Jellicoe (with Mrs Keynes), Lady...
Dates:
1914 - 1923
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open
Found in:
Downing College
File
Tipperary Club papers, 1915 - 1924
File
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/SEW/4/3/2/1
Scope and Contents
Includes: card announcing visit of Lady French, 30 April 1915; letter from Courtney Kenny accepting invitation to speak, 4 Dec. 1915 (or 1918); names of subscribers of the Tipperary Club, 1916; printed address of M. R. James, Provost of King's College, at the unveiling of the Roll of Honour of the Cambridge Tipperary Club on 12 July 1916; card announcing possible visit of the Queen while on a visit to the First Eastern General Hospital, 4 Oct. 1918; printed address to members of the...
Dates:
1915 - 1924
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open
Found in:
Downing College