Photographs of Butetown, Cardiff Dock Residents

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): D/D Xgc 29

Title: Photographs of Butetown, Cardiff Dock Residents

Date(s): 1890 - 1917

Level of description: Fonds

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 50 photographs

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CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AREA

Scope and content: This collection contains 50 photographs.10 are landscape images of the Cardiff Docks, of which 5 include pictures of steamships (Reference D/D Xgc 29/75-83). 40 are portrait and group photographs of Cardiff Dock residents taken between 1890 and 1917 (Reference D/D Xgc 29/1-39 and D/D Xgc 29/74). The photographs were taken by the Cardiff branch of Gale Studio's Ltd. and are mostly studio photographs of family groups and individual portraits of men and women. The majority of photographs have been printed as postcards with the studio's coat of arms design on the reverse. The collection is arranged into batches of either 5 or 10 photographs. 18 of the studio portraits feature images of Black men, women and children of African descent or African and European dual heritage (or mixed 'race'). Particular items of note are the series D/D Xgc 29/21-30 where 9 out of the 10 photographs feature Black residents of Butetown. Items D/D Xgc 29/38-39 are particularly noteworthy because they feature studio portraits of Black men wearing Order of Oddfellows sashes.

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CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE AREA

Conditions governing access: Members of the public can consult this collection in the Document Searchroom of the Glamorgan Record Office, on completion of a requisition form. Visitors are advised to contact the Office in advance to reserve a place in the searchroom. Opening hours are as follows: Tuesday-Friday: 9.30am-5.00pm (4.30pm on Friday); Late opening, by appointment, Wednesday 5.00pm - 7.00pm; Closed Mondays and Bank Holidays

Conditions governing reproduction: © Glamorgan Record Office

Language/scripts of material: English

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Finding aids: Printed list

ALLIED MATERIALS AREA

Existence and location of originals: Glamorgan Record Office, The Glamorgan Building, King Edward Vll Avenue, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NE.

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DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA

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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.

Date(s) of descriptions: 24 July 2001

Interest: Asian; Black

Specific group: Dual/multiple heritage peoples

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Multiple heritage peoples

Dual heritage peoples

Photographs

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Black and Asian seamen

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Order of Oddfellows

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Butetown, Cardiff, United Kingdom