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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)AC6/8/1-72
TitleChamberlain and Dundas family photographs, press cuttings, and miscellanea
Extent72 items
Date[early 19th century]-1937
DescriptionPhotographs, press cuttings, and miscellanea of the Chamberlain and Dundas families including: publications, speeches [may contain notes and drafts], religious services, programmes, menus, postcards, newspaper and publication cuttings, family memorabilia, etc

Includes: /1 Publication on Shrewsbury and Liberal Unionist Association Demonstration, 1909; /3 Service for the unveiling of memorial to Joseph Chamberlain [Rt. Hon. Joseph Austin; father of Austen Chamberlain] in Westminster Abbey, 1916; /5 'Third Supplement to The London Gazette', relating to Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, First World War, including map, 1915; /6 Banquet programme commemorating Austen Chamberlain's accession to Leader of the House and completion of 30 years' membership of House, with photographs and biographical sketch, 1922; /7 Funeral service for Beatrice Mary Chamberlain [sister of Austen Chamberlain], 1918; /8 Separate container holding wedding souvenir of Austen Chamberlain and Ivy Chamberlain [nee Dundas; wife of Austen Chamberlain], 1906; /9-/12 Wedding, christening and funeral services for children and family relations of Austen and Ivy Chamberlain, 1912-1937; /13-/16 Services and programmes for various occasions relating to Royalty, 1934-1935; /17-/36 Photographs of immediate family, friends, relations and ancestors, including Kodak film wallet, [early 19th century-early 20th century], one dated 1877 and nd for the rest; /37-/44 Bookplate and picture postcards, nd; /45, /47-49 Photographs of unidentified [relations] and gravesite of Mrs. Dundas [mother-in-law of Austen Chamberlain], nd; /51 Lock of hair of [Ida Dundas] [?grandmother of Ivy Chamberlain], sealed in transparent envelope, [1885]; /52 Newspaper cutting and lock of hair of Lawrence Endicott Chamberlain [son of Austen Chamberlain], sealed in transparent envelope, 1918; /53-/72 Newspaper and publication cuttings relating to Austen Chamberlain's appointment as Leader of the House, domestic details, various political topics, wives of political leaders, Italian Art Exhibition, charities, poems by Rudyard Kipling, etc, including photographs of Austen Chamberlain, Ivy Chamberlain and family, political leaders and their wives, etc, circa 1906-1930
Access StatusOpen
Physical Description/17-/36, /45 and /47-/49 are photographs; /52-/72 are newspaper and publication cuttings; /51 and /52 are or including locks of hair sealed in transparent envelopes

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