Catalogue Number
Collection Record: Labour Party Photograph Collection Inventory, 1992
Object Name
Sample 2 of some of the Photographs, categories and posters in the Labour Party Photograph Collection
People
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 Labour 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, Buildings, Cars, Cartoons, Catering, Children, Computers, Defence, Demonstrations, Education, Fashion, Festival Of Britain, Health, Hospitals, Housing, Industries, Law & Order, Local Government, Miners, 1984/5 Miners' Strike, Old People, Persons (eg Civil Servants, Academics), Race Relations and Immigration, Royalty, Roads, Sports, Hunting, Stock Exchange, Strikes, Trade Unions, Unemployment, Vagrants, War Graves, 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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