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Tate Gallery: Tate Publishing: Correspondence and Publications
Catalogue reference: TG 5
What’s it about?
This record is about the Tate Gallery: Tate Publishing: Correspondence and Publications dating from 1897-c.1975.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- TG 5
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Title (The name of the record)
- Tate Gallery: Tate Publishing: Correspondence and Publications
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1897-c.1975
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records in this series were produced by the Tate Publishing Department and comprise:
- Publications Sub-Committee, 1955-1966
- Correspondence, 1928-1960
- Print production, 1897-1970s
Records held at the Tate Gallery are catalogued more fully in its online catalogue (reference TG 5). Online descriptions of some individual records can also be viewed on Discovery, The National Archives' online catalogue, see TG 5.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Tate Gallery Archive
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 22 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
- The records have either been deposited in the archives via the Director's Office or had previously been transferred to Gallery Records or its predecessors.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Publications Department was established in 1931 as an independent publishing and trading body. It was accountable to the Board of Trustees who were responsible for its policy and finances and was governed on their behalf by the Publications Sub-Committee. The operation was originally financed out of the AH Benson Trust Fund. Since repaying its founding capital to the Gallery in 1955, the operation has financed itself out of profits generated from its activities. On 1 April 1996 Tate Gallery Publishing was incorporated as a company limited by share, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery with its own Board of Directors. TGPL has the status of an exempt charity, supporting the educational objects of the Gallery, and all profits generated by the company are covenanted to the Gallery. In 2001 TGPL became part of Tate Enterprises.
Tate Publishing encompasses shops, publishing activities, licensing, the picture library; internet sales, joint ventures and product development, all in support of the Gallery's programme of exhibitions and displays, and in its wider fields of interest.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Two copies of each Tate publication are held in the Tate Library.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16205/
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Tate Gallery: Tate Publishing: Correspondence and Publications