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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
16 - Volume XVI : July 1860 - April 1861
17 - Volume XVII : May 1861 - December 1861
1 - 3 May 1861 Minutes of the 75th Meeting of Commissioners
2 - 3 May 1861 Fourth Report of the Commission
3 - 29 May 1861 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
4 - 29 May 1861 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
5 - 29 May 1861 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
6 - 29 May 1861 Mr. Murray to Edgar Bowring
7 - 30 May 1861 Sir C. Phipps to Edgar Bowring
8 - 5 Jun 1861 Programme
9 - 13 Jul 1861 Royal Agricultural Society to Gen. Grey
10 - Jul 1861 Royal Agricultural Society Show
11 - Jul 1861 Royal Agricultural Society Show
12 - 15 Jul 1861 Royal Agricultural Society to Gen. Grey
13 - 15 Jul 1861 Edgar Bowring to Sir C. Phipps
14 - Mortgage
15 - 16 Jul 1861 Edgar Bowring to Sir C. Phipps
16 - 19 Jul 1861 Edgar Bowring to Gen. Grey
17 - 13 Jul 1861 1862 Commissioners
18 - 20 Jul 1861 Edgar Bowring to Gen. Grey
19 - 22 Jul 1861 Edgar Bowring to Gen. Grey
20 - 28 Jul 1861 Gen. Grey to Edgar Bowring
21 - 27 Jul 1861 Col. Hood to Sir C. Phipps
22 - 29 Jul 1861 Note by Earl Granville
23 - 29 Jul 1861 Edgar Bowring to Sir C. Phipps
24 - 30 Jul 1861 Mr Cowper to Edgar Bowring
25 - 1 Aug 1861 Col. Hood to Sir C. Phipps
26 - 3 Aug 1861 Royal Agricultural Society to Sir C. Phipps
27 - 14 Aug 1861 Royal Agricultural Society to Sir C. Phipps
28 - 19 Sep 1861 Mr. Murray (Horticultural Society) to Gen. Grey
29 - Estimates - Horticultural Society
30 - 19 Sep 1861 Edgar Bowring to Gen. Grey
31 - 25 Sep 1861 Gen. Grey to Mr Murray
32 - 10 Oct 1861 Edgar Bowring to Gen. Grey
33 - 23 Sep 1861 Horticultural Society to Edgar Bowring
34 - 10 Oct 1861 Edgar Bowring to the Horticultural Society
35 - 17 Oct 1861 Mr Murray to Gen. Grey
36 - 4 Nov 1861 Gladstone to Prince Albert
37 - 21 Dec 1861 Edgar Bowring to Gen. Grey
38 - 28 Dec 1861 Wentworth Dilke to Gen. Grey
39 - 30 Dec 1861 Gen. Grey to Wentworth Dilke
40 - Prince of Wales to the Horticultural Society
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
C. R. Cockerell
Plan of the Estate 1856
G. Baxter
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