Catalogue description The Ian Hill collection of photographs featuring locomotives in Britain and overseas

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Details of The Ian Hill Collection
Reference: The Ian Hill Collection
Title: The Ian Hill collection of photographs featuring locomotives in Britain and overseas
Description:

The wide ranging coverage includes the Great Northern, Midland, Great Central, LNWR, Great Eastern, Lancashire & Yorkshire, Caledonian, Southern, LB& SCR and the South Eastern & Chatham Railway as well as railways in the United States, Australasia, South Africa and Canada. The albums also include colour plates, cuttings and postcards as well as photographs.
Date: c1880-1950
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Hill, Ian C M, fl 1880-1950
Physical description: Thirty albums containing approx 12,200 prints
Subjects:
  • Railway transport
Unpublished finding aids:

There is a schedule for seven albums, giving details of the railway company and locomotive type, but unfortunately no images are captioned. There are no accompanying negatives. None of the photographs appear to have been taken by Hill, although some images feature in official company collections and the LPC and LGRP collections already held by the NRM.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Ian Hill collection was acquired by the NRM in 1980.

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