Arthur Jones Collection 1890s-1970s

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Arthur Jones Collection 1890s-1970s

1,827 images, 1 archive box

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6293965

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Arthur Jones

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Keppel-Jones, Arthur

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Arthur was the librarian of the original fairground enthusiast organisation the Friendship Circle of Showland Fans (FCSF). His role was to coordinate the borrowing of photograph albums and books. The nature of the prominence of certain individual members in the FCSF, and its over-riding imperative to document a 'bygone era' through its rapid disappearance meant that much of the photographic material of the FCSF became homogenised. Arthur's own photographs, taken in and around his Burton-on-Trent...