Imperial Institute Photographs 1914-1939

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Imperial Institute Photographs 1914-1939

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Approximately three thousand glass plate photographs, plus reference prints of some parts of the collection.

eng,

University of Exeter

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SNAC Resource ID: 6298440

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Imperial Institute (Great Britain)

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Imperial Institute

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The Imperial Institute was founded in 1887 'as a monument to the emerging imperial sentiment'. It acted partly as an educational instrument, with extensive gallery spaces promoting the Commonwealth, but was also an important research base for the Empire, exploring the potential for industrial commercial operations in the Dominions and Colonies. The Institute was sited in a building in South Kensington, London, and was purpose-designed by Thomas Colcutt (1840-1924) in a similar style...