Series 2 - Silver and Plate

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SJCR/SJPH/2

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GB 1859 SJCR/SJPH/2

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Silver and Plate

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  • 1954-2001 (Creation)

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2 sub-series. Paper, film and glass.

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Name of creator

(1946-1983)

Administrative history

Edward Leigh was born in 1913 and died in 1998. Edward Leigh was one of the few professional photographers to obtain a prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society as well as a Fellowship of the professional photographer's own body, then entitled the Institute of British Photographers.His photographic career spanned over 50 years. Before the Second World War he worked as a fashion photographer and a stills cameraman for Fox Film Studios, later 20th Century Fox. During the war his printing skills were employed by RAF Oakington to process aerial recognizance photographs which were assembled into the mosaic maps used by Bomber Command.
Following the war Leigh open his own studio on Kings Parade in Cambridge. He did a great deal of work for the Colleges and the University. Leigh was also recognised as a skilled architectural and industrial photographer. In the 1960s, Leigh also worked as a 'stringer' for the Times Newspaper providing photographs for local news stories.

When he retired in 1983, his son John Edward Leigh continued the business until 1985 when the studio closed.
For more information see: http://www.fadingimages.uk/photoLe.asp

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Gift from Prof G.E. Briggs in 1983 and by Ruth Daniel in memory of her husband Glyn Daniel in 1986. The photographs were taken by Gwill Owen, from the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology.

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Includes: mounted prints; negatives; glass negatives; lantern slides and slides. Also includes 3 albums containing black & white prints of College silver donations.

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There is a handlist of some of the photographs in the albums available in Finding Aids 11.

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GPH2.1.1-2.5

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