GB 0117 IM/GA - Godfrey Argent portrait photographs

Identity area

Reference code

GB 0117 IM/GA

Title

Godfrey Argent portrait photographs

Date(s)

  • c 1930 - present (Creation)

Level of description

Extent and medium

Unknown

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

Walter Stoneman worked for J Russell and Sons, photographers. They were based firstly at 73 Baker Street, London, later at 63 Baker Street, London. They moved to 49 Queens Gate, Kensington, possibly retaining the premises in Baker Street, as photographs dated between 1946 and 1954 bear either address. Walter Bird joined the company at 49 Queens Gate by 1959; Godfrey Argent took over from Bird in 1967. The business was renamed Godfrey Argent Studio (around 1975). Argent moved to 33 Queen's Gate Gardens (around 1972), then to Holland Park, London (1978).

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Archival history

GB 0117 IM/GA c 1930 - present Collection (fonds) Unknown Godfrey Argent Studio

Walter Stoneman worked for J Russell and Sons, photographers. They were based firstly at 73 Baker Street, London, later at 63 Baker Street, London. They moved to 49 Queens Gate, Kensington, possibly retaining the premises in Baker Street, as photographs dated between 1946 and 1954 bear either address. Walter Bird joined the company at 49 Queens Gate by 1959; Godfrey Argent took over from Bird in 1967. The business was renamed Godfrey Argent Studio (around 1975). Argent moved to 33 Queen's Gate Gardens (around 1972), then to Holland Park, London (1978).

Portrait photographs of Fellows of the Royal Society by the Godfrey Argent Studio.

The collection is filed alphabetically by subject. Reference numbers are arranged by photographer:

Baron Baron Studios

CCM Unnamed photographer, Godfrey Argent Studio

EGRS Eleanor Cousins, Godfrey Argent Studio

GAC Unnamed photographer, Godfrey Argent Studio

GGRS Grant White, Godfrey Argent Studio

GRS Godfrey Argent

JGRS Unnamed photographer, Godfrey Argent Studio

RGRS Unnamed photographer, Godfrey Argent Studio

Russell Russell and Sons

SGRS Sebastian Best, Godfrey Argent Studio

TGRS Unnamed photographer, Godfrey Argent Studio

WM Unnamed photographer, Godfrey Argent Studio

WRS Walter Bird

WS Walter Stoneman

R Walter Bird, for the National Portrait Gallery

AR Godfrey Argent, for the National Portrait Gallery

Open.

Copyright belongs to the Godfrey Argent Studio.

Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Feb 2009. History of science Learned societies Fine arts Painting Paintings Portraits Royal Society Godfrey Argent Studio National Portrait Gallery Science of science Associations Organizations Illustrations Visual materials

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Portrait photographs of Fellows of the Royal Society by the Godfrey Argent Studio.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

The collection is filed alphabetically by subject. Reference numbers are arranged by photographer:

Baron Baron Studios

CCM Unnamed photographer, Godfrey Argent Studio

EGRS Eleanor Cousins, Godfrey Argent Studio

GAC Unnamed photographer, Godfrey Argent Studio

GGRS Grant White, Godfrey Argent Studio

GRS Godfrey Argent

JGRS Unnamed photographer, Godfrey Argent Studio

RGRS Unnamed photographer, Godfrey Argent Studio

Russell Russell and Sons

SGRS Sebastian Best, Godfrey Argent Studio

TGRS Unnamed photographer, Godfrey Argent Studio

WM Unnamed photographer, Godfrey Argent Studio

WRS Walter Bird

WS Walter Stoneman

R Walter Bird, for the National Portrait Gallery

AR Godfrey Argent, for the National Portrait Gallery

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright belongs to the Godfrey Argent Studio.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

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Existence and location of copies

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Description identifier

Institution identifier

Royal Society

Rules and/or conventions used

General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

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Dates of creation revision deletion

Language(s)

  • English

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