Collection SCH - Tony Schilling Collection

Identity area

Reference code

GB 235 SCH

Title

Tony Schilling Collection

Date(s)

  • 1965 - 2005 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

Comprehensive collection; 7 boxes ephemera (notes, correspondence, documentation) & artefacts (ceremonial knives & bowl)

Context area

Name of creator

Archival history

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Content and structure area

Scope and content

7 boxes containing -
•Photographic notes (1965-1966)
•Trek diaries
•Field notes
•correspondence
•Immigration papers and trekking permits
•Notes on living plants and herbarium material sent to Royal Botanic Garden Kew (1965-1966)
•List of publications and papers
•Folders of articles
•Bowl made from leaves
•2 ceremonial Ghurkha knives (access restrictions apply - the scabbards are in poor condition, and in one case has split, making the knives extremely dangerous to handle)

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

•2 VHS videos added to collection, Aug, 2012, “Great Storm Legacy, Wakehurst 1987” and “Dogwood Garden, Ullapool, Summer 2005”
•3 packets of scanned photos and a bundle of 27 loose photos (may be copies of slides in ADS slide collection already held in RBGE library?) added to the collection in January 2020

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Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Collection is open to researchers by appointment, see (right click, open link in new tab:) https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and-conservation/library-and-archives/visiting-the-library/
Access restrictions apply to the knives in this collection as they pose a health and safety risk.

Conditions governing reproduction

Permission required from RBGE.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

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    Physical characteristics and technical requirements

    There is no equipment available to view VHS at present.

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    Dates of creation revision deletion

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