Collection: Forster, Richard

Reference:
FOR02
Type:
Collection Containing Photographic Material
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Description

This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.

Coverage : Good quality photographic coverage of floodlighting and interior illumination by Jack "JB" Harris, lighting engineer for the Property Services Agency. Most of the buildings represented are government and civic institutions, for example Horseguards, RAF Sopley and New Scotland Yard, or historic sites such as the Royal Naval College, Fountains Abbey and Dover Castle. There is also some Welsh and Scottish coverage and a small amount of unidentified material.

The majority of the prints are annotated with either PSA "G" or "A" group negative numbers, for which we have most of the accompanying negatives. The Scottish and Welsh prints are numbered but numbers don't seem to match the corresponding negatives in the archive.

Photography Type : Record

Archival History

Received Via : Richard Forster Provenance : Donated 25/05/2001Given by the widow of Jack "JB" Harris who was the principal lighting engineer for the PSA. Harris was an acknowledged authority on decorative floodlighting and illumination and president of the Illuminating Engineering Society. Collection compiled from PSA/MOW photographs as well as lighting contractors such as Philips, Thorn and Holophane and photographic companies (eg. Aerofilms, Snoek-Westwood, Studio Jaanus, etc). See contents list for full details.