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Dark red plastic ring-binder II/A with 10 transparent slip-in transparency pockets (in poor condition), containing cardboard-mounted 35 mm transparencies, mostly in colour, some captioned, and covering various subjects including scenes in Cornwall…

20 bundles of 35 mm negatives, mostly contained in plastic or paper bags; 1 Kodak yellow box containing negs in transparent sleeves.

Groups of black-and-white 35 mm and medium-format b/w contact sheets contained in Kodak, Ilford or Agfa photographic-paper boxes. V/1 (Agfa) marked 'Contacts 1 to 60': medium-format and 35 mm Cornish, mostly personal subjects, early 1960s, plus Sir…

A large assortment of  contact sheets, 35 mm transparencies and work-prints of various sizes, some mounted, dating from throughout SW's career from c. 1963. Two packets of 35 mm negatives, nrs. 1706-2074, in a cardboard container. One A3 brown…

VII/1: a large brown envelope containing press publications and cuttings, mostly The Peninsula Voice, and some correspondence, pertaining to environmental and other issues in the 1980s. VII/2 blue cardboard folder marked 'Pre-Historic' containing b/w…

VIII/1 yellow Kodak box marked 'Farm Prints': A4 b/w prints of SW's friends and neighbours at Georgia Farm, and some views. VIII/2 yellow Kodak box marked 'Contacts 2190-' containing b/w contact sheets of W. Cornwall views, standing stones &c,…

Kate Millett, a British born American writer and feminist, author of the bestselling 'Sexual Politics' (1970) and founder of the Women's Art Colony at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Times magazine described her as "the Mao Tse-tung of Womens' Liberation".

Written by Serena Wadham on reverse of print:
"Dr Young of the Thames Water Authority steering their scientific pollution control vessel, "Thames Water'. She is a biologist."

Mrs Pat Hanlon at her shop where she sells and repairs bicycles.

Written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham
'A woman preaches at Speakers' Corner'
(Summer 1975)

"Mrs Watson loves driving her coach. She drives from Addlestone to Stevenage every day. The 70 miles take 3½ hours, and she has 15 minutes to check the money. Her husband drives a bus".

written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham:
"Daisy Nolan Teleprinters P.O. factory in Islington"

Despite an early crash that prevented her becoming a professional musician, Serena Wadham was a lifelong motorcycling enthusiast and belonged to at least one women's biking organisation.

Written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham :
"Ani Gale (R) Captain of the British section of the Women's International Motorcycle Association, welcomes a new arrival at the annual rally near Coventry"

Written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham :
"Pauline Fuller shows a pupil how to angle her legfor a karate kick"

One of Serena's photographs of the characters around her home in Islington in the 1960s and 70s. Written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham : 'Ted Child and Wendy'

Written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham :
"At Guildford the students wired this generator to replace the electricity which had been cut off"

Police remove a student protester. Part of Serena's documentation of 'sit-ins' in art colleges in 1968.

Written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham :
"Entering Powis Square, Notting Hill, just after it had been liberated on the 15th June 1968."