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| Entity Type: |
Corporate |
| Name: |
Alpine Club |
| General statement about the institution: |
Formed in 1857 The Alpine Club has amassed a valuable collection of historic material comprised of archives, artefacts and printed collection relating to its members and their activities. The Library catalogue and Archive catalogue are available online. Work is in progress to produce a Photo Library Catalogue and to digitise the AC records. Further information about the Alpine Club is published in its official history "Summit - 150 years of The Alpine Club", by George Band, 2006. |
| Mountain Heritage collections: |
Records of the Alpine Club and of its members and their activities including Constitution (1857), Minute Books (1857-present), Membership Lists (1857-present), club records, newsletters (1857-present), correspondence (dating from 1780), diaries (from 1784), expedition reports (1960-present), postcards (1900s-present), lectures (1777-present), after dinner speeches (1900s-present), newspaper cuttings (1786-present), scrapbooks (1860s-present), sketchbooks (1850s-present), maps (1500s-present), equipment lists (1913-present) Guides Carnets/Führerbücher (1850-present), climbing guidebooks (1863-present) and travel journals (1760-present). There is also a collection of photographs (1860s-present), slides (1890s-present), video (1970s-present), cine film (1900s-present) and paintings (1732-present). Artefact collections comprise climbing equipment (1850s-present), boots (1900s-present), clothing (1930s-present), tents (1860s-present), rucksacks (1930s-present), snow goggles (1950s-present), compass (1760-present), lanterns (1930s-present), cooking equipment (1940s-present), rescue equipment (1940s-present), ice axes/alpenstock (1850-present) and oxygen equipment (1920s-present). Printed materials are comprised of books (1600s-present), periodicals (1930s-present), journals (1863-present), poems (1752-present), plays (1781-present), literary works (1860s-present) and ephemera (1850s-present). |
| Access conditions: |
By appointment. Visit fee: £5 per day, students £2.50, AC members free |
| URL: |
http://www.alpine-club.org.uk |
| Contact details: |
Librarian or Honorary Archivist |
| Postal address: |
55 Charlotte Road, London |
| Postcode: |
EC2A 3QF |
| Telephone number: |
020 7613 0755 |
| Email address: |
library@ alpine-club.org.uk or archives@alpine-club.org.uk |
| Created: |
2006-08-06 00:00:00 |
| Creator: |
Maxine Willett |
| Access Points: |
Alpine Club Alpine Club Journal Alpine Regions Alps Club |
| Related Items: |
: : Alpine Club Journal : Alpine Club Journal Indexes : Approach to the hills : Bregaglia East : Bregaglia West : Early Travellers in the Alps : K Fellfarers and High House : On high hills : Memories of the Alps : Playing the Man - a biography of the Mountaineer Captain John Percy Farrar D.S.O : The Alps in 1864 : The Artists of the Alpine Club - a biographical dictionary : The Pinnacle Club Journals 1924-2008 |
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