Catalogue description The H W F Richards collection of railway negatives, prints and lantern slides

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Details of The Richards Collection
Reference: The Richards Collection
Title: The H W F Richards collection of railway negatives, prints and lantern slides
Description:

The collection is composed of a small number of 35mm and 6cm film negatives, black and white and colour prints and lantern slides. If features views of titled trains such as the 'Irish Mail', 'Bournemouth Belle' and 'The Capitals Ltd'; drivers in cabs or posed alongside locomotives; LNER engines and passing trains; locomotives trapped in snow drifts, and a number of postcards.

 

The collection is not listed.
Date: 1909-1954
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Richards, H W H, fl 1909-1954
Physical description: approx 90 negatives; 240 prints; 10 lantern slides
Subjects:
  • Railway transport
Administrative / biographical background:

The work has originated from a variety of sources, including H Fayle, whose work is represented separately in the NRM Collection, and C J Mills. The collection was acquired by the NRM in 1988.

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