The South London Gallery archive contains material documenting the gallery’s activities from its origins in the 1860s onwards. It mainly includes: early reports and correspondence (1880s to 1920s); exhibition files; print and marketing materials; ...
Material relating to the early history of the gallery, including items such as: annual reports, trust deed, correspondence, publications and press cuttings. There is also an accident log book from the 1950s to the 1990s.
A letter from Kenneth Sharpe (Keeper of the South London Art Gallery) to the entertainer Tommy Steele, dated 28 November 1980 (written in response to a letter from Tommy Steele, not found).
A sheet of paper with a copy of a reproduction of the outside of Portland House (the house which William Rossiter bought in 1889 and which opened in May 1891 as the South London Fine Art Gallery), and a copy of a reproduction of the lecture hall a...
A loose flyer advertising Christmas Carols arranged by the gallery, with carols sung by pupils from Oliver Goldsmith Primary School and Lyndhurst Primary School.
The first of two loose pages with attendance figures by day for some exhibitions in 1989 and 1990: Southwark Open 1989, Ireland - The Right to Know, Along the Lines of Resistance, Other Than Itself and Let the Canvas Come Alive.
The second of two loose pages with attendance figures by day for some exhibitions in 1989 and 1990: Southwark Open 1989, Ireland - The Right to Know, Along the Lines of Resistance, Other Than Itself and Let the Canvas Come Alive.
Visitor attendance figures for a 1985 exhibition of work by students from Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts (Christopher Chamberlain Memorial Prize and the Thames & Hudson Prize).