Identity area
Reference code
JCPP/Picken/4/2/13
Title
Jesus College postgrads, C staircase
Date(s)
- Aug 1977-Sep 1977 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
23 items; colour photographic prints
Context area
Name of creator
(1909-2007)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Photographs were evidently gathered in a wallet and annotated on the back by the unnamed lady pictured in the final image sitting next to Laurence Picken.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Photographs of Laurence Picken in his rooms on C staircase, Jesus College, typing at his desk and playing the piano. Also of a gathering attended by LP at 40 Lower Park Street (for the 'first setting' of a pre-1500 table) with postgraduate students from the College and other academic colleagues/friends, including Richard and Margaret Widdess of SOAS, Elizabeth Markham, Rembrandt Wolpert and Harvey Turnbull. Also a further gathering in the Fellows Entertainment Room at Jesus, organised by Laurence Picken.