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Mixture of Cedric Price's personal and professional effects, including clothing, pin badges, toys, cigar boxes, posters and prints, ephemera, collected postcards, and some of his iconic detachable collars.

Artwork by Cedric Price, predominantly early work from childhood and university, with a small number of later items and designs for promotional material. Chiefly loose items, many of which were originally bundled into a large portfolio; plus a drawing book. [Note: CP's notebooks may be found at Price 1/8.]

Price showed himself to be an excellent draughtsman from an early age. The work is in a variety of styles: graphic designs, line drawings (including technical), diagrams, doodles and sketches, rough and fine work. Some are abstract subjects, most are concrete; many concern buildings (mostly domestic) observed or imagined, boats and marinas, landscapes and seascapes.

Media includes pencil, coloured pencil, draughting pen, watercolours, biro, prints. Also includes some photocopies (colour and black-and-white) of originals.

Personal and professional correspondence-- the latter significantly hybrid personal-professional-- including letters saved by Cedric Price's mother, Doreen, and subsequently by Price. Some letters from other family members to Doreen are included. Letters have been kept in their original bundles, except where material has been extracted for research purposes after CP's death and their original arrangement is no longer known.

See also the series of Price's office files for additional correspondence.

Material primarily from Cedric Price's childhood and young adulthood, from school to early career. Includes ephemera, mementoes, some photographs and other papers, including those saved by Price's mother, Doreen.

See also other series in the collection for related material, particularly for bundles of correspondence.

Contains, with a few exceptions, items generated after Cedric Price's death: personal material relating to memorial events, publications, exhibition leaflets and related papers. There is necessarily a small amount of overlap with pre-August 2003 material.

Files and loose papers, organised roughly according to Cedric Price's office file numbering system.

His scheme for these 'X Files' is listed below in full to allow the researcher to interpret (or speculate on) Price's and others' organisation and use of his records-- some of which bear multiple filing codes-- and to assist in mapping marked items to other content in Price's archive at the Canadian Centre for Architecture:

X1: Filing System

X2: 38 Alfred Place

X3: Bank

X4: Accountant

X5: Insurance

X6: U.S.

X7: Marloes/ Harley Street

X8: Students

X9: Further Education-- NELP, PC

X10: S.R.H.E.

X11: A.A.

X12: R.I.B.A., ARCUK, U.K.A.A.

X13: (NA) (G.L.C.)

X14: Lectures, Conferences (incl. T.V. and Radio)

X15: Articles

X16: Exhibitions, Galleries, Competitions and CP CV

X17: ICA/ LAC (London Architecture Club)

X18: COID

X19: T.V.-- TEMPO

X20: SIGMA

X21: DLAG

X22: Personal/ Miscellaneous

X23: Staff Enquiries

X24: C.P. Travel

X25: Stationery

X26: Jobs Pending

X27: General Touts

X28: S.E.H.G./ I.S.E. History Group/ Labour Party

X29: C.E.S.

X30: L.F.L.

X31: Science Policy Found/ QCL/ P

X32: H.E.R.G.

X33: London Subterranean Survey Association

X34: IID/ Royal Agricultural Society

X35: Polyark

X36: R.Ae.S./ Working research Min. of Lab.

X37: Society for Underwater Technology

X38: Office Materials

X39: ARFC Engineering

Contains material accumulated during Cedric Price's lifetime. Due to original arrangement, however, the material occasionally continues into years postdating his death.

Personal and professional photographs taken by Cedric Price and others.

Printed matter by or relating to Cedric Price: books, booklets, leaflets, offprints, and cuttings or whole copies of trade journals, newspapers and other serial publications, including reprographic copies. Includes exhibition-related material. See also chiefly Price 1/6/10 ('X15: Articles').