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RC - Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Archive
1 - The Commission - correspondence
2 - Board of Management - Chair
3 - Board of Management - Members' Correspondence
4 - Board of Management, Sub-committees Correspondence
5 - Science Scholarships Committee (Renamed Science and Engineering Fellowships Committee from 2006).
6 - Science Scholarships Committee Members Correspondence (renamed Science and Engineering Fellowships Committee from 2006)
7 - Science Scholarships Committee - Correspondence with External Examiners
8 - The Commission - meetings and memoranda etc
9 - Board of Management
10 - Board of Management Sub - Committees - Minutes
11 - Board of Management - Correspondence re Educational Policy
12 - Medals
13 - Science Scholarships Committee (Science & Engineering Fellowship Committee)
14 - Science Scholarships Committee
15 - Science Scholarships Committee
16 - Board of Management - Industrial Bursaries. Correspondence with Universities
17 - Board of Management - Naval Architecture
18 - British School of Archaeology at Athens
19 - Royal School of Needlework
20 - Royal College of Music
21 - Queen Alexandra's House
22 - Income Tax
23 - Income Tax: Scholars, Fellows and Bursars.
24 - National Insurance
25 - The Institute of Physics, The Physical Society and the Optical Society.
26 - International Education Board
27 - Research Awarding Bodies
29 - Banking
30 - Commissioners' Investments
31 - Auditors
32 - Finance - Miscellaneous
36 - Inter-Trust Conference
37 - Press Announcement of the Award of 1851 Scholarships and Fellowships
38 - 1851 Scholars who became Fellows of the Royal Society
39B - Press Cuttings
40 - National Physical Laboratory
41A - Acquisition of Pictures, Portraits and Papers
41B - Prince Albert Trust
42 - Garton Scheme
44 - British School at Rome
46 - Various Memoranda
47 - Accounts, Notes and Estimates
48 - Kensington Gore Estate: Museums, Exhibitions and Galleries
49 - Scientific Societies, Other Bodies and the Award of Scholarships
50 - Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1853-1989
51 - Archives
52 - Commission's History
53 - Financial Statistics (relating to awards)
54 - Appeals from Organisations and Individuals; Special Awards
55 - Professors' Opinions - Science Research Scholarships, Overseas Scholarships and Research Fellowships
57A - Victoria and Albert Museum
57B - Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries (Formerly Royal Commission on National Museums and Galleries).
58 - Crystal Palace at Sydenham
59 - The Royal Society
60A - Royal College of Organists
60B - School of Art Woodcarving
61 - Scholars' Dinners and Cocktail Parties, and other events.
62 - The Commission's Offices
63 - South Kensington Redevelopment Scheme
64 - Surveyors
65 - Solicitors
66 - Rents
68 - Science Museum
69 - Subways and Railways
70 - Natural History Museum (formerly British Museum (Natural History) )
71 - Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
72 - Prince Consort Statue (Memorial to the Great Exhibition)
73 - Imperial War Museum
74 - Imperial Institute
75 - Royal Albert Hall
77 - Royal Geographical Society
78 - London Building Acts (Consolidation) Bill, 1928-29 Town and Country Planning Act, 1932 London Building Acts (Amendment) Bill, 1939
79 - City and Guilds' College (formerly City and Guilds of London Institute): open space at the rear of the building
80 - Science Scholarships schemes of the 1851 Commission
81 - Whole-time Research Awards
82 - India Museum
83 - Exhibition Galleries
84 - Royal Horticultural Society: Gardens on the Commission's Estate
85 - Free Passages
86 - Charitable Foundations and Trusts, and the Charity Commission
87 - Royal Society Empire Scientific Conference
88 - Printing and Stationery
89 - Hospitality Organisations and Schemes
98 - Estate - Properties outside the Commission's original Estate
99 - Kensington Gore Estate
100A - Albert Court
100B - Albert Hall Mansions
101 - Albert Hall Terraces and Vaults
102 - Cromwell Gardens
103 - Cromwell Road
104 - Elvaston Mews
105 - Elvaston Place
106 - Exhibition Road
107 - Gloucester Road
109 - Jay Mews
110 - Kensington Gore and the Royal College of Art
112 - Queensberry Mews
113 - Queensberry Place
114 - Queen's Gate
115 - Queen's Gate Mews
116 - Queen's Gate Terrace
117 - Thurloe Place
118 - Thurloe Place Mews
119 - 2 Lowther Gardens
120 - Roads on the Estate
A - 1851 Exhibition Correspondence - Letters Received
B - Correspondence and Papers, 1856-1909
C - Signed sets of Minutes of the various Committees of the Commission
D - Housekeeping Records of the Commission's Office
E - Maps, Plans, Drawings and Lithographs
F - Publications
G - Photographs and Lithographic Prints.
H - Collections on Permanent Loan
1 - Prince Albert's Archive
1 - Volume I : July 1849 - December 1849
2 - Volume II : December 1849 - March 1850
3 - Volume III : March 1850 - June 1850
4 - Volume IV : June 1850 - October 1850
5 - Volume V : September 1850 - February 1851
6 - Volume VI : February 1851 - April 1851
7 - Volume VII : April 1851 - July 1851
8 - Volume VIII : August 1851 - October 1851
9 - Volume IX : October 1851 - May 1852
10 - Volume X : May 1852 - January 1853
11 - Volume XI : December 1852 - August 1853
12 - Volume XII : August 1853 - December 1855
13 - Volume XIII : February 1856 - December 1856
14 - Volume XIV : January 1857 - December 1858
1 - 2 Jan 1857 Edgar Bowring to Gen. Grey
2 - 9 Jan 1857 Edgar Bowring to Col. Phipps
3 - 12 Jan 1857 Edgar Bowring to Col. Phipps
4 - Plan Kensington Gore
5 - 4 Feb 1857 Edgar Bowring to Gen. Grey
6 - 6 Feb 1857 Edgar Bowring to Gen. Grey
7 - 14 Feb 1857 Minutes of 66th Meeting of Commissioners
8 - 27 Apr 1857 National Gallery Evidence
9 - 30 Apr 1857 National Gallery Evidence
10 - 8 May 1857 Sir Benjamin Hall to Col. Phipps
11 - 11 May 1857 Edgar Bowring to Gen. Grey
12 - 12 May 1857 Sir Benjamin Hall to Gen. Grey
13 - 13 May 1857 Edgar Bowring to Gen. Grey
14 - 12 - 13 May 1857 Edgar Bowring, Treasury and Sir Benjamin Hall
15 - 13 May 1857 Sir Benjamin Hall to Gen. Grey
16 - 3 Jun 1857 Edgar Bowring to Gen. Grey
17 - 20 Jun 1857 Minutes of 67th Meeting of Commissioners
18 - 15 Jul 1857 Prince Albert to Sir George Grey
19 - 17 Jul 1857 Edgar Bowring to Col. Phipps
20 - 21 Jul 1857 Times Article
21 - 22 Jul 1857 Henry Cole to Col. Phipps
22 - 23 Jul 1857 Henry Cole to Col. Phipps
23 - 31 Jul 1857 Times Article
24 - 12 Aug 1857 Edgar Bowring to Col. Phipps
25 - 13 Aug 1857 Col. Phipps to Edgar Bowring
26 - 21 Aug 1857 Edgar Bowring to Col. Phipps
27 - 21 Aug 1857 Minutes of the 68th Meeting of Commissioners
28 - 5 Sep 1857 Mr Hunt to Edgar Bowring
29 - 2 Oct 1857 Kensington Museum visitors
30 - 18 Oct 1857 Mr Fairbairn to Col. Phipps
31 - 12 Dec 1857 Edgar Bowring to Gen. Grey
32 - 15 Dec 1857 Edgar Bowring to Gen. Grey
33 - 6 Feb 1858 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
34 - 4 Feb 1858 National Gallery and British Museum Correspondence
35 - 18 Feb 1858 Edgar Bowring to General Grey
36 - 12 Feb 1858 Estate Expenditure
37 - South Kensington Museum
38 - 5 Mar 1858 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
39 - 5 Mar 1858 Disraeli to Prince Albert
40 - 15 Mar 1858 Gen Grey to Sir John Romilly, Master of the Rolls
41 - 12 Mar 1858 L. Edmunds to Henry Cole
42 - 15 Mar 1858 Sir John Romilly to Gen Grey
43 - 23 Mar 1858 Sir John Romilly to Gen Grey
44 - 24 Mar 1858 Sir John Romilly to Gen Grey
45 - 24 Mar 1858 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
46 - 24 Mar 1858 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
47 - 28 Apr 1858 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
48 - 30 Apr 1858 Mr Disraeli to Prince Albert
49 - 1 May 1858 Minutes of the 69th Meeting of Commissioners
50 - 4 May 1858 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
51 - 7 May 1858 Lord Salisbury to Charles Phipps
52 - 11 May 1858 Treasury to Edgar Bowring
53 - 14 May 1858 Minutes of the 70th Meeting of Commissioners
54 - 17 May 1858 Prince Albert to Mr Disraeli
55 - 18 May 1858 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
56 - 16 May 1858 Mr Baring to Edgar Bowring
57 - 19 May 1858 Edgar Bowring to General Grey
58 - 22 May 1858 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
59 - 27 May 1858 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
60 - 25 May 1858 Sir Alexander Spearman to Edgar Bowring
61 - Baron de Villars' Mortgage
62 - 5 Jun 1858 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
63 - 8 Jun 1858 Draft Bill
64 - May 1858 Correspondence between the Commission and Treasury
65 - 11 Jun 1858 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
66 - 18 Jun 1858 Sir Alexander Spearman to Edgar Bowring
67 - 21 Jun 1858 Committee Division
68 - 24 Jun 1858 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
69 - 26 Jun 1858 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
70 - 28 Jun 1858 Transfer of Estate Bill
71 - 6 Jul 1858 Edgar Bowring to Charles Phipps
72 - 3 Jul 1858 Edgar Bowring to Mr Jackson
73 - 9 Jul 1858 Edgar Bowring to Col Phipps
74 - 22 Jul 1858 Henry Cole to Charles Phipps
75 - 16 Jul 1858 Conference at Osborne
76 - 23 Jul 1858 Wentworth Dilke to Charles Phipps
77 - 23 Jul 1858 Natural History Collection Memorandum
78 - 23 July 1858 Lord Salisbury to Prince Albert
79 - 29 Jul 1858 Edgar Bowring to Charles Phipps
80 - 31 Jul 1858 Edgar Bowring to Charles Phipps
81 - 4 Sep 1858 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
82 - 9 Sep 1858 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
83 - 8 Sep 1858 Henry Hunt to Edgar Bowring
84 - 8 Oct 1858 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
85 - 11 Oct 1858 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
86 - 26 Oct 1858 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
87 - 13 Nov 1858 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
88 - 28 Nov 1858 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
89 - 8 Dec 1858 Times article
90 - 15 Dec 1858 Wentworth Dilke to Gen Grey
91 - 17 Dec 1858 Gen Grey to Wentworth Dilke
92 - 27 Dec 1858 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
15 - Volume XV : January 1859 - July 1860
16 - Volume XVI : July 1860 - April 1861
17 - Volume XVII : May 1861 - December 1861
18 - Volume XVIII : January 1862 - August 1862
19 - Volume XIX : October 1862 - February 1864
20 - Volume XX : March 1864 - May 1865
21 - Volume XXI : June 1865 - August 1867
22 - Volume XXII : June 1873 - July 1886
A - Box 1
B - Box 2
C - Box 3
D - Box 4
2 - Crystal Palace Drawings
I - Donations and Acquisitions
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Richard Redgrave
Gottfried Semper
Great Exhibition Building 1851
G. Baxter
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