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Photograph Album of Elliott Electrical Instruments in the Science Museum, London, 1951

Inventory Number 13085

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by the Marconi Corporation in 2003. Part of the Elliott Archive.
Primary inscriptions
Printed label on first page: '[Elliott logo] These photographs are of early electrical instruments manufactured by Elliott Brothers and now exhibited at the Science Museum, London, S.W.7 ...'.
Physical material
Paper
Card
Cloth
Object type
Album
Dimensions
Height: 322mm Width: 360mm Depth: 25mm
Inventory No
13085
Accession Number
2003-11

Description

Oblong album bound in brown cloth. 18 black card leaves; 17 photographs (some show 2 instruments) and 18 printed Science Museum labels. The instruments are all 19th-century Elliott Brothers electrical instruments, depicted in some cases from Science Museum stock negatives and in others in new photographs taken in 1951 by Elliott's own photographer.

For fuller descriptive and historical commentary see narratives.

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