Roland Edgar Cooper - Photographs - Donation

• Reference:GB 235 REC/4/3
• Dates of Creation:c.1913-1950

• Scope and Content

  • Birthday card dated 15/06/1950 sent to May Kerr by R.E. Cooper including a poem by Cooper and his photograph of Rhoomoo Lepcha with Meconopsis wallichiana (Bhutan 1914).

  • Set of 11 digitised photographs from a private collection showing Cooper, his family including wife Emily and son Bill, the Kerr family and Cooper and William Wright Smith with King George V and Queen Mary; c.1937-1949.

  • Two original photographs showing a snake charmer in Calcutta in 1913.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  These photographs were donated to the RBGE Archives in 2010 from a private collection. There are only three original photographs amongst them; the rest were digitised and returned to the owner and are represented in the collection by a cd and a set of modern prints.