Photography — 1971-12
Pupils at the American School in London
Pupils outside the newly built American School in London in 1971. The School had been founded by Stephen Eckard in 1951. The school grew rapidly from a total of 13 pupils and within 6 months it moved to premises in Chelsea. In 1964 fundraising started for the building of a new school and in 1970 the corner stone of the new school in St John's Wood was laid by the Michael Stuart British Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary. In 1971 Margaret Thatcher, then the Secretary of State for Education and Science opened the school.
- Category:
- Photography
- Object ID:
- HG2718/7
- Object name:
- Pupils at the American School in London
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- Grant, Henry
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- Production date:
- 1971-12
- Material:
cellulose acetate
- Measurements/duration:
- 6x6
- Part of:
- —
- On display:
- —
- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
Purchased with V&A Purchase Grant Fund support.
- Copyright holder:
London Museum
- Image credit:
© Henry Grant Collection/London Museum
- Creative commons usage:
- CC BY-NC 4.0
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