Archive of Louis Gandolfi and Sons Ltd
- Made:
- 1930-2000
- maker:
- Louis Gandolfi and Sons Ltd
This collection relates to the family camera-making business Louis Gandolfi and Sons Ltd and Fred Gandolfi's relationship with the Science Museum around the time of an exhibition commemorating 100 years of the Gandolfi business.
The business records in the collection including financial ledgers, sales books, petty cash documentation and correspondence. There are also photographs of the Gandolfi family, their workshop and cameras. The collection also includes publications and reports, and some reproduced adverts for Gandolfi cameras. There are also some original stamps for the business.
The second large part of the collection relates to the relationship between Fred Gandolfi and the Science Museum, who hosted an exhibition celebrating a centenary of Gandolfi cameras in 1980. This part of the collection includes research, exhibition plans, correspondence between the two and reproduction prints of photographs.
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- Extent:
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Two bankers boxes, three clamshell boxes and two framed photographs
- Identifier:
- GAN
- Access:
- Access is given in accordance with the NMeM access policy. Material from this collection is available to researchers through the museum’s Insight facility.
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The collection is currently undergoing cataloguing and a system of arrangement has yet to be established. This field will be updated at a later date.
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Copies may be supplied of items in the collection, provided that the copying process used does not damage the item or is not detrimental to its preservation. Copies will be supplied in accordance with the NMeM’s terms and conditions for the supply and reproduction of copies, and the provisions of any relevant copyright legislation.