Contract and Publicity Photographs

Scope and Content
A collection of files containing photographs, transparencies and supplementary documentation relating to specific contracts, domestic ranges, company publicity and PR campaigns, all of which were stored and used for advertising and publicity purposes. Where original envelope packaging has been annotated, this has also been retained. The vast majority of the files are numbered (from nos 1-357) and dated, and many of the photographs and transparencies relating to specific contracts show completed carpets in situ. Numbered files date from the 1980s to 2005, while those without numbers generally date to the 1960s. The majority of photographs in those files that are not numbered have explanatory captions attached to the reverse. Most of the files relate to contracts and ranges by A F Stoddard & Co Ltd, but there are also files relating to carpets manufactured by subsidiary divisions of the company, such as Stoddard Templeton, Blackwood, Morton & Sons Ltd, Stoddard Mercia Contract and Louis de Poortere. Where carpets relate to subsidiary divisions rather than to A F Stoddard & Co Ltd, this has been noted in the scope and content as additional info.

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