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Box 4 - Photographs attributed to G. Sherriff 'Tibet and Bhutan'
Sherriff, George
Box 6 - Photographs attributed to G. Sherriff 'Bhutan 1949'
Box 8 - G. Sherriff colour photographs and exhibition display prints
The original G. Sherriff photographs are a range of flora, people and landscape shots. The reverse of the photo often has the date, location, country. If the photograph is of a plant then the name, number of the plant and location will often be written on the reverse. They are stamped on the reverse as being a 'vivid colour print'. The prints of the digital, exhibition display images, have the photo disk number written on the reverse of the print.
Ludlow and Sherriff; Glass plate and lists via Peter Cox
Ludlow and Sherriff; Copies of negatives
Box of photographic material 'Ludlow and Sherriff photographs 1938'
Box of black and white prints, mostly by George Sherriff, but with a few of Sherriff plants at RBGE taken by Robert Moyes Adam, comprising primulas and some related landscapes.
Sherriff, George
Ludlow, F. and Sherriff, G. Collection
This collection consists of material created and gathered from the expeditions of F. Ludlow and G. Sherriff, thought their expeditions of Bhutan and Tibet during 1933-1949.
The collection consists of 5 sub-series: plant documents, expedition documents, diaries, correspondence and visual material.
[1] This series consists of a variety of material which includes plant and seed lists from their expedition with a large focus on Primula, Meconopsis and Rhododendrons, as well as publications gathered by Ludlow and Sherriff which cover their shared interest in the Himalayan region and it's flora and fauna. There is also a garden register donated by the Knox Finlay family detailing the progress of plants/seeds in their gardens acquired from various expeditions including Ludlow and Sherriff's between 1951-52.
[2] This series consists of a variety of expedition documents ranging from itineraries and maps to administration lists and passports.
[3] This series consists of originals and photocopies of the diaries of Sherriff and Ludlow during their expeditions.
[4] This series consists of a variety of correspondence from and to Sherriff and Ludlow over the course of their expeditions.
[5] This series consists of a variety of material including: photographic material, films and videos. Photographic material ranges from prints and negatives taken by Sherriff and Ludlow to prints of digital images taken as exhibition documentation in 2014. The films are..... There have been dvd surrogates made of the films to ensure continued accessibility.
Ludlow, Frank
