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Identity statement

Reference code(s)

GB0100 KCLCA KH/APP, KH/INV, KH/KEHF, KH/PRG, KH/OS, KH/SER, KH/CSA, KH/NHSC, KH/CAT, KH/HAN, KH/SAP, KH/TST, KH/REG, KH/PUB, KH/OB, KH/LEC, KH/PHOT, KH/MEU, KH/RPT, KH/PC, KH/PICT, KH/MAP, KH/ADM, KH/CEN, KH/EPH, KH/GNF, KH/AS, KH/PN, & KH/SYL

Title

KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL: Ephemera

Date(s)

Created 1742-1998

Level of description

Series of King's College Hospital

Extent and medium of the unit of description (quantity, bulk, or size)

14m3

Context

Name of creator(s)

King's College Hospital

Administrative / Biographical history

Ephemeral literature, serial publications including reports, and visual material were created or collected by staff of King's College Hospital in the conduct of their business.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

King's College Hospital.

Content & structure

Scope and content

Appeals for funds and publicity for events held in aid of King's College Hospital, [1907-1992], (KH/APP); invitations, 1897-1992, (KH/INV), for Hospital/Medical School occasions, and invitations, menus etc relating to festival dinners; King Edward's Hospital Fund for London ephemera, 1931-1979, (KH/KEHF), including annual reports and guides; internal and external programmes, 1852-1992, (KH/PRG), for ceremonies and events of King's College Hospital and of University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria; orders of service, and associated papers, 1909-1991, (KH/OS), for memorials, thanksgivings, dedications; serials, 1904-1992, (KH/SER), internal publications and external journals and articles, including King's College Hospital Gazette; Acts of Parliament and legislation, 1851-1973, (KH/CSA), relating to King's College Hospital and National Health Service Acts; National Health Service Circulars and enclosed circulars/documents, 1948-1982, (KH/NHSC); internal and external lists of catalogues and directories, 1875-1989, (KH/CAT); handbooks, [1900-1995], (KH/HAN); Society of Apothecaries papers relating to courses and lectures, 1970-1978, (KH/SAP); testimonial booklets, (KH/TST); internal rules and regulations procedures, constitutions and standing orders, 1877-1982, (KH/REG); publications, 1890-1993, (KH/PUB), consisting of internal and external publications, and publications of the Department of Health and Social Security, General Nursing Council, Ministry of Health, Office of Health Economics, Royal College of Nursing, National Health Service, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Voluntary Hospitals Commission/Committee; obituaries, 1928-1996, (KH/OB); lectures and addresses, [1922-1977], (KH/LEC); photographs, [1890-1991], (KH/PHOT), of hospital buildings and wards, groups of staff, treatment of patients, special events, building and wards of St Giles Hospital; postcards, [1820-1990], (KH/PHOT), including views of old Camberwell and the chapel at Denmark Hill, London; internal and external menu cards, 1932-1998, (KH/MEU); reports, 1839-1994, (KH/RPT), including annual reports of King's College Hospital, the Medical Department, and the Hospital Funds and Guilds, other reports about the development and service of the Hospital, some external reports; press cuttings, 1805-1993, (KH/PC), relating to King's College Hospital, from various publications; pictures, 1742-1968, (KH/PICT), of King's College Hospital buildings and buildings not directly relating to the Hospital, portraits, events, and albums of sketches of London; maps and plans relating to King's College Hospital, [1910-1992], (KH/MAP); administration and correspondence relating to the Hospital, 1913-1967, (KH/ADM); ephemera, 1793-1992, (KH/EPH), including certificates and pictures; Hospital guides and information for patients, [1958-1985], (KH/GNF); coats of arms and seals, (KH/AS); posters and notices, 1896-1991, (KH/PN); 150th anniversary celebrations of King's College Hospital papers, 1990-1991, (KH/CEN); prospectuses and syllabuses, [1910-1972], (KH/SYL), of the Medical School, School of Dental Surgery, School of Radiography and Radiotherapy, School of Nursing, Private Patients Wing, Midwifery Training, Operating Theatre Management Course, special departments, and prizes and awards.

System of arrangement

Arranged in sections as above.

Conditions of access & use

Conditions governing access

Administrative and committee papers are closed for 30 years from the last date on file.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.

Language/scripts of material

English

Finding aids

Box list available in the reading room of the College Archives.

Allied materials

Existence and location of originals

King's College London College Archives

Description control

Rules or conventions

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

This catalogue is made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License. This catalogue may be updated from time to time in order to reflect additional material and/or new understandings of the material.

Date(s) of descriptions

Mar 2000