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 (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- Price
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Title (The name of the record)
- Cedric Price Collection
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1750-2016
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
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Preferred citation: St John's College Library, Cedric Price Collection
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Cambridge University: St John's College Library
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Price, Cedric John (1934-2003) architect
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 40 boxes
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
- 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.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- https://www.sjcarchives.org.uk/personal/index.php/cedric-price-collection
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/f7e3ec6c-1f94-4aee-aa1d-538c50b33981/
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Cedric Price Collection