Accession No

4400

Brief Description

six photographs of Cambridge Instrument Company Works at Carlyle Road, by Cambridge Instrument Company Ltd., English, 1930 (c)

Origin

England; Cambridge; Carlyle Road

Maker

Cambridge Instrument Company Ltd.

Class

ephemera; prints

Earliest Date

1928

Latest Date

1931

Inscription Date

Material

photographic paper; wood (hardboard)

Dimensions

height of each 761mm; breadth of each 506mm

Special Collection

Cambridge Instrument Company Collection

Provenance

Donated by the Cambridge Instrument Company.

Inscription

4400.1: ‘The Machine Shop 1928 [28 crossed out and replaced with 30/1 in pencil]’ (paper label at bottom left hand corner of photograph)
4400.2: ‘The Research Department, 1928 [28 crossed out and replaced with 30/1 in pencil; beneath is written in pencil ‘(Printed Reversed)]’ (paper label at bottom left hand corner of photograph)
4400.3 ‘The Test Room 1928 [28 crossed out and replaced with 30/1 in pencil]’ (paper label at bottom left of bottom photograph); ‘The Buffshop 1928 [same treatment as above]’ (paper label at bottom left of top photograph).
4400.4: ‘Shop H and the New Canteen Building under construction in 1928. Shop F and the old “mess room” can be seen on the left.’ (paper label at bottom left of top photograph); ‘Shop A, 1928 [date treated as before]’ (paper label at bottom left of bottom photograph)

Description Notes

Six photographs of Cambridge Instrument Company Works at Carlyle Road, Cambridge, c. 1930.

Four white-painted boards with photographs pasted to them. Each photograph has pasted caption as above. All photographs in fairly good condition but coming away from backing board.

Condition fair/good; complete

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