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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
1 - 23 Oct 1851 Henry Roberts to Col. Grey
2 - 24 Oct 1851 Prince Albert to Lord Shaftesbury
3 - 25 Oct 1851 Lord Shaftesbury to Prince Albert
4 - The Morning Chronicle Article
5 - 24 Oct 1851 Henry Cole to Col. Grey
6 - 25 Oct 1851 Col. Grey to Henry Cole
7 - 25 Oct 1851 Morning Chronicle Letter
8 - 27 Oct 1851 Professor Edward Solly to Col. Grey
9 - 16 Oct 1851 Lloyds Register of Shipping to the Executive Committee
10 - Memorandum on a Trades Collection
11 - 3 Nov 1851 Sir C. Wood to Col. Grey
12 - 4 Nov 1851 Lyon Playfair to Col. Grey
13 - 31 Oct 1851 Sunderland Herald Article
14 - Draft of Report to Queen Victoria
15 - Times Article
16 - Letter to the Times
17 - President of France
18 - 6 Nov 1851 50th Meeting of Commissioners
19 - Morning Chronicle Article
20 - Times Article
21 - 8 Nov 1851 Edgar Bowring to Col. Grey
22 - Playfair Lecture
23 - 11 Nov 1851 Edgar Bowring to Col. Grey
24 - 15 Nov 1851 Lord Granville to Col. Grey
25 - Lord Granville to Commissioners
26 - 17 Nov 1851 George Grove to Col. Grey
27 - 17 Nov 1851 Edgar Bowring to Col. Grey
28 - 18 Nov 1851 Queen Victoria to Emperor of Austria
29 - 18 Nov 1851 Lyon Playfair to Col. Grey
30 - 18 November 1851 Col. Grey to Lyon Playfair
31 - 21 Nov 1851 Lord Granville to Col. Grey
32 - Purchase of Land
33 - 22 Nov 1851 Edgar Bowring to Col. Grey
34 - 23 Nov 1851 Col. Grey to Lord Granville
35 - 24 & 26 Nov 1851 Edgar Bowring to Col. Grey
36 - 26 Nov 1851 Lord Granville to Col' Grey
37 - 28 Nov 1851 Lord Seymour to Prince Albert
38 - 4 Dec 1851 Edgar Bowring to Col. Grey
39 - 6 Dec 1851 Lord Granville to Col. Phipps
40 - Col. Phipps to Lord Granville
41 - French Articles
42 - 6 Jan 1852 Lyon Playfair to Col. Grey
43 - 7 Jan 1852 Stafford Northcote to Col. Grey
44 - 9 Jan 1852 Stafford Northcote to Col. Grey
45 - 14 Jan 1852 51st Meeting of Commissioners
46 - Col. Grey Memorandum
47 - 28 Jan 1852 William Cubitt to Col. Grey
48 - 29 Jan 1852 Col. Grey to William Cubitt
49 - 3 Feb [1852] William Cubit to Col Grey
50 - 7 Feb 1852 William Cubit to Col Grey
51 - 5 Feb 1852 Mr Aldridge to Mr Kelk
52 - 11 Feb 1852 William Cubitt to Col Grey
53 - 12 Feb 1852 Col Grey to William Cubitt
54 - 12 Feb 1852 William Cubitt to Col Grey
55 - 10 Feb 1852 Edgar Bowring to Col Grey
56 - 13 Feb 1852 Mr Aldridge to Mr Kelk
57 - 13 Feb 1852 Lyon Playfair to Col Grey
58 - 14 Feb 1852 Edgar Bowring to Col Grey
59 - 14 Feb 1852 Lyon Playfair to Col Grey
60 - 14 Feb 1852 Society of Arts to the Surplus Committee
61 - 15 Feb 1852 Col Grey to William Cubitt
62 - 17 Feb 1852 William Cubitt's visit
63 - 17 Feb 1852 Col Grey to Edgar Bowring
64 - 17 Feb 1852 Col Grey to Lyon Playfair
65 - 20 Feb 1852 Edgar Bowring to Col. Grey
66 - 22 Feb 1852 Col Grey to Edgar Bowring
67 - 23 Feb 1852 William Cubitt to Col Grey
68 - 24 Feb 1852 Col Grey to William Cubitt
69 - 23 Feb 1852 Edgar Bowring to Col Grey
70 - 23 Feb 1852 Lord Seymour to Col Grey
71 - 6 Mar 1852 G. Grove, Society of Arts, to Col Grey
72 - 9 Mar 1852 Col. Grey to G. Grove, Society of Arts
73 - 11 Mar 1852 Edgar Bowring to Col. Grey
74 - 1 Mar 1852 Minutes of 52nd Meeting of Commissioners
75 - Newspaper article
76 - Daily News Article
77 - 15 Mar 1852 Edgar Bowring to Col Grey
78 - Daily News article
79 - 26 Mar 1852 Edgar Bowring to Col. Grey
80 - 28 Mar 1852 Lord Granville to Col Grey
81 - Article from the Times
82 - Newspaper article
83 - Times article
84 - 3 Apr 1852 Edgar Bowring to Col Grey
85 - 5 Apr 1852 Henry de la Beche to Col. Grey
86 - Times Article
87 - 5 Apr 1852 Fox & Henderson to the Commission
88 - 7 Apr 1852 William Cubitt to Col. Grey
89 - 2 Apr 1852 Minutes of 53rd meeting of Commissioners
90 - 6 Apr 1852 Henry Cole to Col. Grey
91 - 10 Mar 1852 Department of Practical Art to J. W. Henley MP
92 - 8 Apr 1852 Edgar Bowring to Col. Grey
93 - 8 Apr 1852 William Cubitt to Col. Grey
94 - 10 Apr 1852 Times Letters
95 - Warrington Local Committee
96 - 12 Apr 1852 Lord John Manners to Prince Albert
97 - Legal Opinion
98 - Times Letters
99 - 14 Apr 1852 Lord John Manners to Prince Albert
100 - Times Letters
101 - Preservation of the Crystal Palace
102 - Times Article
103 - Times Article
104 - 17 Apr 1852 Times Article
105 - Times letter
106 - 20 Apr 1852 Times letter
107 - 24 Apr 1852 Minutes of 54th Meeting of Commissioners
108 - Times Article
109 - Times Article
110 - 29 Apr 1852 Times Article
111 - 29 Apr 1852 Edgar Bowring to Col. Grey
112 - 29 Apr 1852 William Cubitt to Col. Grey
113 - 3 May 1852 Edgar Bowring to Col. Grey
114 - Report
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
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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Estate Plan c.1862
Poster
Great Exhibition Building 1851
G. Baxter
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