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Typescript. Also includes two b/w photographs of "clock with fusees, indicating Nürnberg hours" and "flint and steel alarm" from Germanisches Museum, Nürnberg.

Printed.

Handwritten.

3 b/w photographs, captioned, taken by L.S. Northcote and Dr Mercer.

9 b/w photographs, captioned.

Typescript and printed.

Printed. Cassette not included. Issued to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers' charter.

3 b/w photographs. File also includes a typescript cover letter from Jennifer Blain of Strike One Limited.

4 b/w photographs.

Typescript and printed. Also includes 3 b/w photographs.

Printed.

Handwritten. Lectures given by Dr Ward at Chester on 28 September 1979, Cardiff in November 1979 and Leicester on 4 December 1981.

Typescript photocopy. Two copies.

6 b/w photographs, captioned. Originally in an envelope captioned "Blair photos".

1 b/w photograph and 1 colour postcard. Also includes Dr Moore's letter to Musée du Château de Blois, with request for a photographic copy of another painting (photo not included).

Typescript. Envelope annotated "Inf. from Bedini".

13 b/w photographs, captioned. Also includes original exhibition captions for Martin Bylica's torquetum and Hans Dorn's celestial globe; Dr Ward's article on "The Earliest String-Gnomon Sundials" (reprint from Antiquarian Horology June 1976), and correspondence with Bayeriches Nationalmuseum, Tiroler Landesmuseum Innsbruck, and H. von Bertele. Typescript, printed and handwritten.

6 b/w photographs, captioned.

Printed.

19 b/w photographs, captioned.

Photocopy typescripts.

Handwritten.

Typescript. Also includes related postcards, negatives, exhibition catalogues, captioned photographs of exhibits; and "Gothic Clocks", a bound article by H. Alan Lloyd from "The Antique Collector" (June 1962).

Typescript.

Typescript.

2 b/w photographs, captioned.

Photocopy typescript. With a cover letter from the AHS addressed to Dr Ward.

The exhibition took place at the Science Museum, London, in May–August 1964. The forms include detailed description of exhibits (mainly bracket and longcase clocks), lenders' names and addresses, delivery arrangements and insurance values.

1 colour card, captioned.

Typescript.

Handwritten and typescript. Also includes photographs of a clock in a painting by Pontorno, and of the market square in Haarlem.

Handwritten. Also includes a newspaper cutting re. the sale of the Hampton Court Estate, Leominster, by Viscount Hereford (The Daily Telegraph 3 Jan 1972). The envelope is also annotated "Ickwell Bury 1683".

Typescript and handwritten.

Handwritten. Also includes one colour photograph and sketches.

Mostly typescript, one handwritten. Lectures include "Physics in Time Measurement"; "Bells and Bell Founding" by Douglas Hughes; "Captain Cook's Timekeepers" and "The Clocks of Greenwich Observatory 1675–1930" by Lt. Cdr. H. D. Howse; and two untitled ones. Also includes a description of sidereal clock made by John Shelton.

Typescript.

2 copies of b/w photographic postcard, in an envelope dated 14 Dec 1967.

Mostly handwritten, some typescript.

Handwritten.

39 b/w photographs, captioned. Includes astronomical clocks, table clocks, Tompion bracket clock, monstrance clocks, rack clocks, globe clocks, and watches. Some photographs captioned "AHS property".

8 b/w photographs, captioned. Includes Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Technical Museum, Österreichisches Museum für Angewndte Kunst, Hans von Bertele Collection and Sobeck Collection. Also includes a page from "Deutsche Uhrmacher Zeitschrift" (May 1961). Typescript and handwritten

Typescript. Also includes printed brochures.

18 b/w captioned photographs and 3 postcards. Includes regulator clocks, pendulum clocks, astronomical clocks, reconstructions of Hugyens' marine clocks, airpumps, apparatus for measuring centrifugal forces, and Christiaan Hugyens portrait. All photographs endorsed 'Copyright Rijksmuseum voor de Geschiedenis der Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden'.

Handwritten. Used in Dr Ward's lectures on "Early clocks and clock dials as shown in illuminated manuscripts", given at the Science Museum.

Printed.

Typescript and handwritten.

Typescript. With Dr Ward as the Honorary Treasurer.

Printed, typescript and handwritten.

Handwritten. Includes: Deutsches Museum Munich, Bayerische Nationalmuseum Munich, Leiden Museum, Swiss museums and private collections (1957), Amsterdam 'Het Atoom' (1957), AHS German Tour 1959, AHS Austrian Tour 1961, and AHS Swiss-Italian Tour 1963.

4 b/w photographs, captioned. Originally in an envelope marked "Science Museum Property".

1 b/w photograph. From Ferninandeum Museum Innsbruck. File also includes the original envelope.

2 b/w photographs.

2 b/w photographs. Originally in an envelope labelled "Two photos from B. Bopp".

51 b/w photographs, mostly of groups, events and tours, some captioned. Also includes a poster for "300 Years of Pendulum Clocks", a special exhibition at the Science Museum (Dec 1956–Feb 1957); and a trade card of Joseph Stainton Watch Material Warehouse, Birmingham.

2 b/w photographs. "St Jerome with Clock" is based on Albrecht Dürer's 1514 engraving "St Jerome in His Study"; and "Sir Thomas More and His Descendants" on a copy of a lost 1527 painting by Hans Holbein the Younger.

2 b/w photographs. From the Science Museum.

15 b/w photographs. Guests include the Duke of Wellington, Lord Harris, Dr Ward and others. File also includes a bound article on the Wuppertal Clock and Watch Museum by Allan Lloyd, from "The Antique Collector" (Oct 1966).

38 b/w photographs, with film negatives.

Printed. Includes five b/w photographs and the following articles: "The earliest string-gnomon sundials" (1976); "An early pocket sundial illustrated in art" (1979); "A 15th century Italian 'clockmakers'' workshop" (1980); "A sixteenth-century clock illustration" (1982); "An interior church clock dial in Haarlem" (1984); and "Clocks in the paintings of Titian" (1985).

Handwritten, typescript and printed.

Typescript. Two copies.

Printed and typescript.

3 b/w mounted photographs, captioned.

Typescript.

Typescript and printed. Also includes notes, handwritten on the backs of unrelated correspondence.

Handwritten. Also includes correspondence regarding required images, photocopy images of the Coster clock at the Science Museum, six b/w photographs of an Italian night clock from the British Museum, and printed 27th annual AHS report.

Handwritten. Also includes a typescript letter from the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, regarding Dr Ward's request for a photograph (not included), and the Museum's postcard showing a Roman vertical disc dial c.250 AD.

Handwritten. Also includes a newspaper cutting on the re-opening of V&A's Jewellery gallery, and a catalogue of V&A jewellery lantern slides.

Photocopy typescript and handwritten. Also includes correspondence.

Typescript. Also includes cover letter from The National Trust.

Printed and typescript, some handwritten.

This collection comprises Dr Ward's correspondence, reports, lecture notes as well as printed material and photographs. They mostly document various horological tours and exhibitions organised by him, and his cataloguing and consulting work.

Printed. Lot 115 in the auction of fine watches, clocks and scientific instruments on 4 October 1977.

9 b/w captioned photographs and 4 postcards. Also includes handwritten notes.

4 b/w photographs, captioned in English. File also includes a typescript letter from the museum director and a seemingly unrelated postcard, written in French, from Musee du Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris.