Archive photograph collections

The BGS archive photograph collections consists of three sub-collections, The British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) photograph collection, Keyworth Library archive collection and the Archive Collection held in National Geological Records Centre (NGRC), Edinburgh. The British Association for the Advancement of Science photograph collection of prints was deposited on permanent loan from the BAAS, the photographs are of important historical interest and range in date from c. 1890 to 1940's. They are mostly field photographs of the UK and Ireland. The negatives were destroyed during the Second World War, the prints are held in the Library at Keyworth. The Keyworth library archive is an interesting assorted collection of historical photographs held in the Library Archive. Collections include subjects in the UK and overseas. Most are donated from external sources. The NGRC Edinburgh collection consists of photographs, mostly prints, held in the Scottish Land Survery Archives collection in Murchison House. They are mostly of historical interest and includes pictures of former staff.
 
Citation proposal
Enquiries (British Geological Survey). Archive photograph collections. https://metadata.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/api/records/9df8df53-2a17-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98

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Date ( Creation )
1870
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13603092

  Distributor

  0115 936 3276 

  Point of contact

  0115 936 3276 

  Distributor

  0115 936 3276 

  Custodian

  0115 936 3276 
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded As needed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Photography
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
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There are no restrictions on the use that may be made of the dataset, although an appropriate copyright acknowledgement must be made when any part of the dataset is reproduced. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely available without any use constraints - inclusion of any third party data / information will affect the copyright acknowledgement that needs to be made.
Denominator
10000
Metadata language
English English
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Reference System Information

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Distribution format
  • Hardcopy - Photograph ()

  Distributor

  0115 936 3276 

  Distributor

  0115 936 3276 
OnLine resource
National Geological Records Centre  

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OnLine resource
National Geological Records Centre (NGRC) | Records and Archives  

Further information on the National Geological Records Centre (NGRC) which holds the 'Archive photograph collections' data can be viewed via the page this URL links to.

Hierarchy level
nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
Other
non geographic dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2011
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
false

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2010-12-08
Explanation
See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
Pass
false
Statement
The collection has been built up by donation or photography within BGS and its predecessor organizations since c 1870s.

gmd:MD_Metadata

File identifier
9df8df53-2a17-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98   XML
Metadata language
English English
Hierarchy level
nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
Hierarchy level name
non geographic dataset
Date stamp
2021-09-17
Metadata standard version
2.3

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Dataset URI
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13603092
 
 

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