Catalogue Number
Collection Record: Labour Party Photograph Collection Inventory,1992
Object Name
Sample 1 of some of the Photographs and categories in the Labour Party Photograph Collection
People
Ramsay MacDonald, James; Middleton, J.S.; Garland, Ken; Palmer, Jenny; Zec, Philip: cartoonist; Clark, Ros; Ramsay MacDonald, James; Hardie, James Keir; Tillet, Ben; Wilson; Harold; Kinnock, Neil; Hatton, Derek; Mulhearn, Tony; Foot, Michael; Hattersley, Roy; Scargill, Arthur; Grant, Bernie; Hart, Judith; Heffer, Eric; Gould, Brian; Bondfield, Margaret; Griffiths, James; Castle, Barbara; Atkin, Sharon: LP Black Section; Megan Llloyd-George; Gaitskell, Hugh; Bevan, Aneurin; Healey, Dennis; others: Crossland, Tony; Straw, Jack; Dewar, Donald; Bondfield, Margaret; Abbot, Diane; Grant, Bernie; Blair, Tony; plus most other Labopur Party figures.
Description
The Labour Party Photograph Collection, received from the Labour Party in 1992, consists of about 80 thousand photographs covering a wide range of subjects, the vast majority in black-and-white; includes 35 mm colour reference slides (quality not always good) and some transparencies and photographs of the Labour Party poster collection, which we also hold; also a few sketches, cartoons, and ephemera in this collection:
Period covered: circa 1904-circa 1989. Received subsequently, period circa 1990 to 2002: not integrated yet. Location PSFG, 2004
Categories include: Atomic Energy, Abortion, Betting and Gambling, Books and Libraries, Buildings, Cars, Cartoons, Catering, Children, Computers, Consumers, Defence, Demonstrations, Docks, Education, Education, Entertainment, Factories, Family Life, Fishing, Handicapped and Disabled People, Hospitals, Housing, Industries, Law & Order, Local Government, London, Local Government, Miners, 1984/5 Miners' Strike, Newspapers, New Towns, Old People, Persons (eg Civil Servants, Academics), Race Relations and Immigration, Royalty, Roads, Strikes, Trade Unions, Unemployment, Water, Women At Work, Youth, ; also Labour Party MPs, Leaders, Ministers, Prime Ministers; Annual conferences, 1906 to 1987; Labour Party organization, Regions, General Elections1906 to 1987; official functions; publications; posters 1900 to 1987; Women.
A 53 page hand-list of all the categories provides access to the photograph collection.
For enquiries and access, contact: Registrar, Peoples History Museum, Left Bank, Spinningfields, Manchester M3 3ER; telephone: 0161 838 9190. E-mail: phild.dunn@phm.org.uk
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