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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
15 - Volume XV : January 1859 - July 1860
1 - 1 Jan 1859 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
2 - Society of Arts Letters
3 - 16 Jan 1859 Economist Article
4 - 8 Jan 1859 Maj Gen Grey to Prince Albert
5 - 12 Jan 1859 Edgar Bowring to Sir Charles Phipps
6 - 13 Jan 1859 Edgar Bowring to Sir C Phipps
7 - 18 Jan 1859 Edgar Bowring to Sir C Phipps
8 - 17 Jan 1859 Treasury to the Commissioners
9 - 11 Jan 1859 Maj Gen Grey to Mr Dilke
10 - Proposed 1861 Exhibition
11 - Society of Arts to Mr Dilke
12 - Feb 1859 Population
13 - 16 Feb 1859 C P Roney to Mr Dilke, Society of Arts
14 - Plan South Kensington Railway Station
15 - 19 Feb 1859 Minutes of the 71st Meeting of Commissioners
16 - 19 Feb 1859 Mr Dilke to Gen Grey
17 - Feb 1859 James Veitch
18 - 25 Feb 1859 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
19 - 28 Feb 1859 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
20 - 13 Apr 1859 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
21 - 27 May 1859 Henry Cole to Prince Albert
22 - 27 Jun 1859 Horticultural Society Minutes
23 - Horticultural Gardens - Estimates
24 - 2 Jul 1859 Minutes of the 72nd Meeting of Commissioners
25 - 8 Jul 1859 Edgar Bowring to Sir Charles Phipps
26 - 9 Jul 1859 The Gardeners' Chronicle
27 - Article
28 - Article
29 - Horticultural Gardens Drawing
30 - London Open Spaces
31 - 13 Jul 1859 Edgar Bowring to Sir Charles Phipps
32 - 13 Jul 1859 Edgar Bowring to Sir Charles Phipps
32 - 13 Jul 1859 Edgar Bowring to Sir Charles Phipps
33 - 16 Jul 1859 Edgar Bowring to Sir Charles Phipps
34 - 14 Jul 1859 Dr Lindley to Edgar Bowring
35 - 20 Jul 1859 Lighting Picture Galleries
36 - 20 Jul 1859 Henry Cole to Sir Charles Phipps
37 - 21 Jul 1859 Charles Wentworth Dilke to Sir Charles Phipps
38 - 22 Jul 1859 Charles Wentworth Dilke to Sir Charles Phipps
39 - List of Contributors to Horticultural Society
40 - 4 Aug 1859 Edgar Bowring to Sir Charles Phipps
41 - 18 Aug 1859 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
42 - List of Contributors to Horticultural Society
43 - 28 Sep 1859 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
44 - 28 Sep 1859 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
45 - 21 Oct 1859 Lord Stanhope to Prince Albert
46 - 11 Nov 1859 Charles Wentworth Dilke to Gen Grey
47 - 16 Nov 1859 Henry Cole to Sir Charles Phipps
48 - 17 Nov 1859 Edgar Bowring to Sir Charles Phipps
49 - 14 Nov 1859 Dr Lindley to Edgar Bowring
50 - 15 Nov 1859 Mr Hardwick to Edgar Bowring
51 - 18 Nov 1859 Edgar Bowring to Dr Lindley
52 - 18th Nov 1859 Edgar Bowring to Messrs Fladgate
53 - Society of Arts
54 - 18 Nov 1859 Times Article
55 - 22 Nov 1859 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
56 - 24 Nov 1859 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
57 - 22 Nov 1858 John Nicholls to Edgar Bowring
58 - Nov 1859 Science & Art Department
59 - 25 Nov 1859 Charles Wentworth Dilke to Gen Grey
60 - 28 Nov 1859 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
61 - Nov 1859 List of Contributors to the Horticultural Society
62 - 9 Dec 1859 Gen. Grey to Mr Nesfield
63 - 10 Dec 1859 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
64 - 9 Dec 1859 Mr Nicholls, Greenwich Hospital, to Edgar Bowring
64a - 10 Dec 1859 Mr Nesfield to Gen Grey
65 - Dec 1859 Plan by Mr Nesfield
66 - 13 Dec 1859 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
67 - 19 Dec 1859 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
68 - 20 Dec 1859 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
69 - Horticultural Society Draft Agreement
70 - 1 Jan 1860 Lord Granville to Prince Albert
71 - 20 Jan 1860 Charles Wentworth Dilke to Edgar Bowring
72 - Article
73 - 21 Jan 1860 Edgar Bowring to Sir Charles Phipps
74 - 23 Jan 1860 Mr Gladstone to Prince Albert
75 - 31 Jan 1860 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
76 - 1 Feb 1860 Lord Granville to Gen Grey
77 - 6 Feb 1860 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
78 - 7 Feb 1860 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
79 - 15 Feb 1860 British Museum
80 - 25 Feb 1860 P Le Neve Foster, Society of Arts, to Gen Grey
81 - 8 Mar 1860 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
82 - 9 Mar 1860 Gen Grey to Edgar Bowring
83 - 9 Mar 1860 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
84 - 10 Mar 1860 Gen Grey to Edgar Bowring
85 - 8 Mar 1860 Mr Le Neve Foster to Edagr Bowring
86 - 11 Mar 1860 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
87 - 14 Mar 1860 Memorandum of Estate Costs
88 - 19 Mar 1860 Gen Grey to Edgar Bowring
89 - 21 Mar 1860 Henry Cole Resolution
90 - 3 Apr 1860 Gen Grey to Mr Le Neve Foster
91 - 3 Apr 1860 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
92 - 12 Apr 1860 Times Article
93 - 14 Apr 1860 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
94 - Decennial Exhibitions Propositions
95 - 15 Apr 1860 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
96 - 17 Apr 1860 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
97 - Estimates for Constructing Horticultural Gardens
98 - 10 May 1860 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
99 - Horticultural Garden plan
100 - Horticultural Society Agreement
101 - 19 May 1860 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
102 - Horticultural Society agreement
103 - 17 May 1860 Society of Arts agreement
104 - 19 May 1860 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
105 - 21 May 1860 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
106 - 23 May 1860 Gen Grey to Henry Cole
107 - Bradford Meeting
108 - 22 May 1860 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
109 - 26 May 1860 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
110 - Conservatory Tenders
111 - 19 Jun 1860 Lord Granville to Prince Albert
112 - 21 Jun 1860 Prince Albert to Lord Granville
113 - 22 Jun 1860 Lord Granville to Prince Albert
114 - 28 Jun 1860 Minutes of the 73rd Meeting of Commissioners
115 - 5 Jul 1860 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
116 - 9 Jul 1860 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
117 - Jul 10 1860 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
118 - Society of Arts Correspondence
119 - 21 Jul 1860 Henry Cole to Gen Grey
120 - 24 Jul 1860 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
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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Great International Exhibition 1862
Great Exhibition Building 1851
The House that Paxton Built
G. Baxter
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