35 boxes plus loose bags:
A POSTCARDS
These, estimated to number over 14,000, are housed in 25 cardboard boxes, three two-drawer filing units, and seven albums as follows:
Boxes
Boxes 1 - 16 contains Croydon cards arranged topographically.
Boxes 17 - 25 contain Croydon cards arranged thematically.
[1] AD Addington (including New Addington)
AS Addiscombe (including Park Hill)
[2] CN Coulsdon
[3] CA Croydon Airport
[4] CC Croydon central
[5] CC Croydon central
[6] KY Kenley
NY Norbury
[7] OT Old Town (including Waddon and the river Wandle
[8] PY Purley
[9] PY Purley
[10] ST Sanderstead and Selsdon
[11] SH Selhurst
SY Shirley
[12] SC South Croydon including Croham Hurst
[13] SN South Norwood
[14] TH Thornton Heath
[15] UN Upper Norwood
[16] WC West Croydon
WS Woodside
[17] ADV Advertising and message cards
AE Aerial views
ALM Almshouses
BOU Bourne flows
CAF Cafes
CEM Cemeteries and crematoria
[18] CHU Churches
[19] COM Composite / multi-view cards
EVE Events
FIR Fire brigade and fires
FLO Floods
[20] GRO Groups
[21] HOS Hospitals
HOU Houses
HUM Humorous and novelty cards
[22] LET Letter-cards
MIS Miscellaneous subjects and buildings
PAL Croydon Palace
PEO People
[23] PUB Public houses
RAD Radio amateurs contact cards
SCH Schools
[24] SHO Shops and other business premises
THE Theatres and cinemas
TOW Town Hall
[25] TA Transport (all modes)
WAR Wartime hospitals and other wartime scenes
WOR Works and factories
Two-drawer filing units
The total of six drawers contain cards relating, mostly, to districts near Croydon but beyond the LB Croydon boundary; also Collectorcard and Pamlin Prints cards, and some modern cards.
Albums
The seven albums contain cards as follows:
[1] C.H. Price cards numbered 20001 - 20099
[2] C.H. Price cards numbered 20100 - 20399
[3] C.H. Price cards numbered 20400 - 20720
[4] C.H. Price cards numbered 30000 - 30299
[5] C.H. Price cards / Croydon Airport
[6] Croydon Times cards
[7] South London cards
B PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS
Numerous photographic prints, currently on a LSLAS trolley, in course of cataloguing and processing. All are being labelled as the property of / on loan from Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society Ltd. As catalogued and labelled they are filed in the main LSLAS files of photographic and other images.
C SLIDES
Photographic slides including those deposited by the Society and those deposited directly by John Gent before his death.
John B. Gent
