Photographs

Highlights here include photographs from the papers of Robert Edwards (IVF pioneer), photographs of gold prospecting in Alaska (1900-1903) from the papers of Jackie Broome, and Clementine Churchill’s photograph albums.
11th Roskill Memorial Lecture
Reference Code:
CCRF/118/1/12
Date:
2005 (creation)
Description:
Given by Prince El Hassan bin Talal, Crown Prince of Jordan.
Includes text of lecture; photographs [prints and CD-ROM]; correspondence with Prince Hassan and Nicholas Roskill; lists of guests and seating plan for dinner; press release; poster; invitation.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College





Colour group photograph of IVF pioneers
Reference Code:
EDWS 18/4/24
Date:
1990-2000 (creation)
Description:
Showing Atsuo Ogura, David De Kretser, Sean Flaherty, Colin Matthews, Sherman Silber, Alan Trounson, Simon Fishel, Herman Tournaye, Robert Edwards, Michael Tucker, Diana Payne, Gianpiero Palermo, Lars Hamberger and 3 others [unknown].
Occasion unknown.
Collection:
The Papers of Sir Robert Edwards


Colour photographs of Edwards sitting at a microscope [in Bourn Hall]
Reference Code:
EDWS 18/5/18
Date:
1980-1985 (creation)
Collection:
The Papers of Sir Robert Edwards


Colour photographs taken [during clinical research at Oldham District and General Hospital]
Reference Code:
EDWS 18/1/4
Date:
1968-1978 (creation)
Description:
Photographs show Patrick Steptoe and nurses [at Oldham] performing laparoscopy [extracting eggs]; medical equipment; [Edwards and Jean Purdy] looking at [eggs in culture fluid] under a microscope [and possibly fertilising the eggs with sperm]; and a nurse with a bird of prey.
Also includes a large print of a colour photograph of Steptoe performing a laparoscopy with a camera, and a [later] black and white print of the same photograph.
Collection:
The Papers of Sir Robert Edwards


Photograph of Edwards with [Gregory Pincus]
Reference Code:
EDWS 18/5/8
Date:
1966 (creation)
Description:
[At a conference on the Physiology of Human Reproduction, in Venice, 1966].
Collection:
The Papers of Sir Robert Edwards


Photograph of Edwards with J. Sirlin, working together in Edinburgh
Reference Code:
EDWS 18/5/7
Date:
1957 (creation)
Description:
With a note from Sirlin to Fiona Bennet (Reproductive BioMedicine Online) sending the photograph in February 2011.
Collection:
The Papers of Sir Robert Edwards






Black and white photograph of Robert Edwards, taken whilst he was in the Army
Reference Code:
EDWS 18/5/1
Date:
1944-1948 (creation)
Description:
Labelled on the back "RB550".
Collection:
The Papers of Sir Robert Edwards









Family papers
Reference Code:
BRME 14/5
Description:
Including a typescript autobiography; an outline, synopsis and drafts of "Spunyarn", reminiscences from Jackie Broome's life and family history; a chronology giving details of the lives of Louis Egerton Broome and Clara Kathleen (Aimée) Lake (parents) and Frederick Napier Broome (grandfather); and other research notes for "Spunyarn".
Collection:
The Papers of Jackie Broome