Fonds

Cedric Price Collection

Catalogue reference: Price

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This record is about the Cedric Price Collection dating from 1750-2016.

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Reference: Price
Title: Cedric Price Collection
Date: 1750-2016
Description: The collection contains files, correspondence, documents, notebooks, drawings, watercolours, photographs and artefacts relevant to Cedric Price's architectural works and ideas. Particular strengths of the collection are material from his childhood and years at university, and bundles of family correspondence, chiefly from his mother.
Note: Preferred citation: St John's College Library, Cedric Price Collection
Held by: Cambridge University: St John's College Library
Creator(s): Price, Cedric John (1934-2003) architect
Physical description: 40 boxes
Immediate source of acquisition: The major portion of the Cedric Price Archive is held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal, to which it was transferred in a number of consignments between 1995 and 2004. This personal section of his archive was given to the College by his consort, Eleanor Bron (''Partner' implies business, whereas 'consort' sounds like you had fun together.'), in 2012, with a further deposit in 2016.
Unpublished finding aids: https://www.sjcarchives.org.uk/personal/index.php/cedric-price-collection
Record URL: https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/f7e3ec6c-1f94-4aee-aa1d-538c50b33981/