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Aerial photography

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

 File — DCPP/THO/2

Copies of family photographs including Hugh Hamshaw Thomas, 1913 - 1954

Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/THO/2
Scope and Contents Includes: 1) British Association Botany Section, Birmingham, 1913. Large formal group of unidentified men and women gathered on the steps, Hugh Hamshaw Thomas under lamp, back right (Copyright Whittock and Son?); 2) Hugh Hamshaw Thomas in military uniform (WW1), photographer illegible; mounted photograph of Hugh Hamshaw Thomas with aerial (glass plate) camera, standing beside a plane, WW1; two unidentified men standing in front of a (?WW1) aeroplane; formal group photograph, presumably of...
Dates: 1913 - 1954
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Open
 Fonds — DCPP/THO

Dr Hugh Hamshaw Thomas papers, 1919 - 1920

Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/THO
Scope and Contents

Letters to the Royal Society of Arts, mainly relating to his proposed lectures on (and subsequent manuscripts relating to) aerial reconnaisance, with additional information about his other commitments in Cambridge.

Dates: 1919 - 1920
Conditions Governing Access: Open
 Item

Letter to the Secretary of the Royal Society of Arts with proposed titles for his lectures in early 1920, 1919-10-08

Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/THO/1/2
Scope and Contents

His proposed lectures (in January or February 1920) will be: The taking and production of aerial photographs; The employment of aerial photographs in war; The use of aerial photographs in exploration and survey in times of peace. He intends to cover also the apparatus and methods of the Germans [during the war].

Dates: 1919-10-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Open
 Item

Letter to the Secretary, Royal Society of Arts re lectures on aerial photography, 1919-05-17

Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/THO/1/1
Scope and Contents Letter written from the Air Ministry, Strand, explaining that Major Laws (invited by the RSA to lecture on aerial photography) is too busy and has asked him to undertake the lectures as he gave something similar in India last winter. His proposed lecture would be on 'Aerial Photograph and its application in War and Peace', dealing with his area of expertise, the use of the aeroplane camera in the survey and exploration of unmapped countries. His experience as RAF photographic officer in the...
Dates: 1919-05-17
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Open
 Item

'The Application of Aerial Photography to Ecology as Exemplified by the Natural Vegetation of Ceylon [Sri Lanka]' by V. J. Chapman, 1947-07

Reference Code: GBR/1058/COL/11/3/ChapmanV/13
Scope and Contents

Offprint from the Indian Forester, Volume 74, Number 7.

Dates: Publication: 1947-07