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Ordnance Survey: Photographs and Pictorial Images

Catalogue reference: OS 51

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OS 51

This series contains photographic and pictorial images, some of which were created for the covers of published maps or to be published in booklets etc, produced by Ordnance Survey; others were created to record the process of map-production by...

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Reference

OS 51

Title
Ordnance Survey: Photographs and Pictorial Images
Date

1950-1969

Description

This series contains photographic and pictorial images, some of which were created for the covers of published maps or to be published in booklets etc, produced by Ordnance Survey; others were created to record the process of map-production by Ordnance Survey and the history of the Survey itself. The photographic images include a record of the exterior and interior of buildings occupied by Ordnance Survey, and equipment used in the surveying and printing of maps.

Arrangement
Arrangement

The initial transfer will consist of slides. Each of these slides is titled individually, and a full listing of the material will be created with slides grouped in their existing broad subject areas.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Physical description

1537 glass plates

Access conditions

Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated

Immediate source of acquisition

From 2001 Ordnance Survey

Physical condition

The initial transfer of positive black-and-white glass slides will be transferred in its existing case. The case comprises a wooden box, a cube of 50cm sides, with drawers. It is possible these slides will be put onto CD-ROM.

Subjects
Topics
Maps and plans
Accruals

This series will accrue, though after the arrival of the glass slides and the artwork from Ordnance Survey's exhibition centre, it is likely to be only of a minimal nature with a few photographs or solitary original piece of artwork each year.

Selection and destruction information

The initial transfer will consist of about 1,500 lantern slides, ranging in date from about 1950 to about 1968, together with a catalogue. Subsequently, a collection of 35mm transparencies will also be transferred. These two collections provide a unique photographic record of the Ordnance Survey and its work. The artwork for map covers (some of it commissioned from famous artists of the earlier part of the twentieth century), will be selected in its entirety.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15527/

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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew

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Records of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain

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