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The Fourteenth Nicholas Bacon Memorial Lecture

Copy print from an album presented to the Society in 1951 by Miss Ethel Symonds of St Albans, through the agency of Mr W G Ardley. Photographs in album taken during and after Lieutenant General Sir F Roberts advance to Kabul, Afghanistan. Album sold 1989/90.

The Exhibition was held in the galleries of the Royal Academy and was organised jointly by the RSA and the Royal Academy. The objects of the exhibition were to 'impress upon the public the importance of good design in articles of everyday use; to show that British manufacturers, in co-operation with British artists, are capable of producing in all branches of industry, articles which combine artistic form with utility and sound workmanship; to encourage British artists to give to industry the benefit of their talent and training so that the objects with which we are surrounded in our daily lives may have an appearance which is not only attractive but is based on genuinely artistic principles'. The exhibition was held under Royal Patronage and with the active participation of HRH the Prince of Wales as President of the General Committee\n\nRecords comprise photographs and copy photographs of items displayed at the Exhibition

The British Art in Industry exhibition was held at Burlington House in conjunction with the Royal Academy of Arts from January to March 1935. The Faculty of the Royal Designers for Industry was established after the exhibition.\n\nIncludes correspondence about display of items, administrative arrangements, funding and sponsors, accounts and ticket sales, comments and complaints about selection of artists and exhibits, correspondence with John de la Valette (Honorary Organising Secretary). Printed material includes a prospectus outlining the purpose of the exhibition and proposed classification of objects, a catalogue detailing exhibits (with index) and further illustrated catalogues

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1851 Great Exhibition

The Award was established to complement RSA student award activities at undergraduate level by the active encouragement of outstanding design projects/studies, related to communications, at postgraduate level. It was also hoped that it would enhance the status of such postgraduate studies and that the results of these studies might benefit the community at large and /or British Telecom in particular.\n\nAdministrative correspondence relating to the establishment of the RDI/British Telecom Design Awards (Royal Designers annual awards in communications).

Page 1333 from Volume 4 of 'Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851. Reports by the Juries' (Great Exhibition 1851)

Bequeathed to the Society by Viscount Bennett, President, on his death in 1947, had been presented to him by the Kiwanis Club of Calgary in 1939. On indefinite loan to the Ranchmen's Club of Calgary since 1967

Bequeathed to the Society by Viscount Bennett, President, on his death in 1947, had been presented to him by the Kiwanis Club of Calgary in 1939. On indefinite loan to the Ranchmen's Club of Calgary since 1967

Page 407 from Volume 2 of 'Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851. Reports by the Juries' (Great Exhibition 1851)

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