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Photographs, 1900 - 1986

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Brookes 1/1

Scope and Contents

Circa 100 photographs, including:
Black and white and sepia photos, circa 1900 - 1953, of family and friends, including Roma Brookes and her parents, few dated or identified: they include R B, June 1917 and January 1919 and ‘Roma at Lilford tournament’; and some of R B and contemporaries at Kettering High School, late 1920s / early 1930s.
B/w photograph of a Girton room with a figure [Henriette Bibas] working at a desk by the window (back to camera), back of photo inscribed ‘with my affectionate thanks H Bibas 8.8.46.’;
Christmas card from Helen McMorran to Roma Brookes, 1955, enclosing a b/w snap of H M taken in the grounds of Girton College;
B/w photo by Kenneth Newman Photographer 211 Roman Road E2, showing a man and a woman (R B?) on a boat [on the Thames] captioned ‘Moored at Tower Pier Dec 1966’
Colour photograph of a group in the grounds of a red brick building (not Girton) taken by Cox of Bishops Stortford. Date / place / event unknown - R B may be amongst the group. Some wearing academic dress, some wearing clerical dress - possibly taken to commemorate an ordination? 1980s?
Miscellaneous later colour snaps - no dates or identification but possibly include R B as late as about 1985;
Three colour snaps showing R B [1986] - two at home? and one at an unidentified event.






Dates

  • Creation: 1900 - 1986

Creator

Extent

2 file(s) : photograph

Language of Materials

English

Date information

DateText: [Early photographs of Roma Brookes and photographs of H McMorran and H Bibas are included in File 1; photographs of Roma Brookes in later years are included in File 2.].

Originator(s)

Various

Finding aid date

2014-09-16 09:42:25+00:00

Genre / Form

Repository Details

Part of the Girton College Archive Repository

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