Folder GSAA/DIR/9/63 - Empire Exhibition Correspondence

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GSAA/DIR/9/63

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Empire Exhibition Correspondence

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  • Dec 1937-Feb 1938 (Creation)

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1 folder

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Includes correspondence with: Henry Ellis and D M Sutherland, about a possible competition for a Statue symbolic of youth for the exhibition; Sir D Y Cameron and Rev James Taylor, about the decorations of the Church of Scotland Pavilion; Colonel Hugh Spens, about the loan of a portrait of Dr Nathaniel Spens for the Exhibition; Henry Ellis, Basil Spence, and R M Allardyce, about the Mural Decoration for the Education Section of the Exhibition; George A Boswell, Councillor Dollan, Jack A Coia, and Prof T Harold Hughes, about the representation of Architecture at the Empire Exhibition; Captain Graham, General Manager, the Empire Exhibition, about the Exhibition lion; Viscountess Nova, Hutchison asking her to loan one of her Raith Raeburns for the Exhibition.

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This material has been appraised in line with Glasgow School of Art Archives and Collections standard procedures.

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