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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 Alec Douglas-Home speaking in Penzance, 13 March 1964 (53).
V/2 (Ilford): ditto, numbered 1500-1603, covering various London subjects c. mid/late 1970s, including Indira Gandhi at a dinner (1578) and a demonstration at Islington town hall.
V/3 (Kodak): ditto, mostly 35 mm, 1170-1269, principally mid-70s London subjects and including SW's Thames Water project (1230-2), female industrial workers (1176-8), Kate Millett (1208) and Midge McKenzie (1224-7); also some Cornish shots (1186-8).
V/4 (Kodak): ditto, 35 mm, 902-99, mostly early-70s London subjects, including the Packington Estate, gynaecological self-examination story, various women's liberation events and the passage of the Anti-Discrimination Bill in February 1973 (907).
V/5 (Ilford): ditto, 503/3-618, demonstrations in and around London, late 1960s, including Biafra, the Notting Hill People's Republic (598-600) and other events.
V/6 (Gevaert): mostly Cornish scenes, 62-150, early 1960s.
V/7 (Ilford): ditto, various formats, 1708-1835, 1979-80, including Jill Tweedie (1805), plus numerous test shots.
V/8 (Ilford): various formats, 1098-1169, 1974, scenes in and around London, including the Hampstead Ladies' Pond (1098/1100, 1102-3, 1114, 1125-6 &c).
V/9 (Ilford): various formats, 1400-99, 1976-7, London and park shots, and studies of the pianist Priaulx Rainier (1466-7).
V/10 (Ilford): medium-format shots of W. Cornish coast; also Islington, including various test shots. 1601-96, end 1970s.
V/11 (Kodak): mostly 35 mm, 1000-1100, 1974, London subjects, many connected with SW's project on women in society.
V/12 (Ilford): mostly colour contacts, various formats, mid-1980s, of London and Cornish (?) subjects.
V/13 (Ilford): various formats, 1335-99, 1976, mostly London subjects, including a Jewish occasion attended by Harold Wilson (1355-6), and Pauline Fuller's karate classes at the Women's Free Arts Alliance (1357, 1364-5).
V/14 (Ilford): ditto, 2019-2189, 1980s, Cornish and London subjects, including Janet Leach (2143).
V/15 (Ilford): 35 mm, 2408-53, 1990s, Cornish subjects.
V/16 (Ilford): various formats, and some colour, 1918-2017, early/mid-1980s, London subjects; Judy Chicago (1920).
V/17 (yellow): 35 mm, 153-274, mid-1960s, including some of SW's earliest assignments, notably the musicians Julia Langton (193-7), Graham Treacher (202-4), Andrzej Panufnik (268) and Richard Rodney Bennett (269-71); Victoria Station; and her project on Orthodox Jewish education in London and the North East.
V/18 (Kodak): 35 mm, 401-501, 1967, Cornwall and London, including the Torrey Canyon clean-up (March), hippies, Stokely Carmichael (448-50), a theatrical production, Wonderwall, with Jane Birkin, and coverage of Popham St, Islington (487, 495-6, 499-501).
V/19 (Kodak): 35 mm, 621-733, 1968-70; apart from material on the Islington Boat Club (731-3), mostly London political events.
V/20 (Kodak): 35 mm, 290-397, mid-1960s, including studies of figures in the musical world, Michael Tippett (278-80), Gwyneth Jones (281), Pierre Boulez (297-9), Yehudi Menuhin (316) and Elizabeth Lutyens (338-9); also Oswald Mosley (301-2), E. M. Forster (329); and extensive material on immigration.
V/21 (Kodak): 35 mm and some half-frame, 740-901, early 1970s, on a wide variety of subjects, including CND (747-9); Gay Liberation Front demo. (775-6); Spare Rib/Jill Tweedie (814); Mariella Novotny (819-23); Catherine East (870); Mikis Theodorakis (892-4); Mary Stott (895); the Pankhurst Memorial (897).
Other items:
Transparent bag, marked 2096, of large-format colour transparencies featuring SW's photograph of Barbara Hepworth
20 packets of commercial colour prints from high-street labs, 1988 to mid-90s, designated by RL V/CP..., with following subjects: Hayle Estuary (film 2233) (V/CP1); Penzance, W. Penwith (film 2419) (V/CP2); 'Cars in Lane', 'Thomases' (film 2250) (V/CP3); home-made change of address cards on photos of Middle Georgia Farm, with list of recipients (film 2144) (V/CP4); SW's Reliant car (film 2186) (V/CP5); Hayle (film 2220) (V/CP6); 'Pilgrimage' (film 2148) (V/CP7); negs only: 'Sue Monroe fireplace in M. Georgia' (film 2151) (V/CP8); Hayle - Carnsew Pool (film 2218) (V/CP9); views (film 2333) (V/CP10); horses (film 2418) (V/CP11); wild flowers (film 2420) (V/CP12); ditto (film 2422) (V/CP13); 'stereos' (film 2429) (V/CP14); stereo views (film 2432) (V/CP15); cross-country bikers (film 2441) (V/CP 16); negs only: film 2443 (V/CP17); Cornish views; dead birds; Goonhilly (film 2445) (V/CP18); haymaking, prob. Georgia Farm (film 2447) (V/CP19); Penzance/Penwith; SW's bike (film 2459) (V/CP 20).
V/CP21, cellophane wallet containing packet of prints: views, and men working on a chimney (film 2457); ditto, 'Building wall, Middle Georgia', March 1996 (film 2458) (V/CP22); ditto, swans, March 1999 (V/CP23).
Small Kodak box with 12 card-mounted colour transparencies, 'From N (214) C (?).