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Navigational aids

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

Adams: Notebooks and papers of Edgar Tarry Adams

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/ADA
Dates: 1901-1925 mainly
Found in: Downing College
 Item

Catalogue of navigational instruments collected by Adams, 1906 - 1925

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/ADA/2
Scope and Contents Signed inside the cover 'E. T. Adams, 2 Mar 1906'. Includes itemised list of individual instruments, with details of their operation, history, provenance and (in some cases) sale, with list of 18th and 19th century 'works with reference to navigation and shipbuilding' inside the cover. Includes various loose enclosures: 'Another change in Fleet Street' (The Bookseller, January 1883) re the closure of the print shop at No.53 Fleet Street; list of items 'for photographs'; press cuttings re...
Dates: 1906 - 1925