Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 1977–2008 (Création/Production)
Niveau de description
Étendue matérielle et support
approximately 2,000 photographic slides and 4 boxes of index cards
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Mary Frances Tennant (1927–2018), née Goddard, was a New-York-born painted dial restorer and conservator, and the author of two books on the subject: Longcase Painted Dials: Their History and Restoration (1995) and The Art of the Painted Clock Dial (2009).
Frances specialised in art and dance during her time at the Brearley School in Manhattan, and emigrated to England after her marriage in 1949 to David Alan Tennant, a British Navy officer. They eventually settled at The Stone House in Rossett, Wales, where they set up their studios after David retrained as a horologist, and Frances began applying her artistic skills to the painting of enamels and the restoration of painted clock dials. Using innovative restoration techniques, she always started the restoration process with a record of photographs when the dial was received, and concluded with images of the completely restored dial. Frances contributed to an exhibition on dials held at Prescot Museum and lectured widely on these subjects.
Histoire archivistique
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Deposited at AHS by Graham Tennant, Frances’s son, via Keith Scobie Youngs.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
This collection comprises over 2,000 framed 35mm colour slides with images of clock dials made mainly but not exclusively by Birmingham makers, taken by Frances Tennant. It also includes four boxes of index cards compiled by her, which were the original finding aids and which have been used in the compilation of this catalogue. The occasionally quirky descriptions of the dials are Frances Tennant's own.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
No further deposits are expected.
Mode de classement
The collection is arranged into three series
TEN/A: Photographic slides: Birmingham dial makers
TEN/B: Photographic slides: Other dial makers
TEN/C: Index cards
The photographic slides series are further divided into subseries, with each subseries corresponding to a different maker. This reflects Frances Tennant’s original arrangement of the slides.
Originally, the slides were arranged into 25 drawers, with a small number of loose additional slides. The slides were numbered chronologically by the date of image capture, but arranged by dial maker and dial type. This catalogue retains the original numbering: the original slide number is the final element of the reference number.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
Original slides are available for public access by prior appointment.
Conditions de reproduction
Langue des documents
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
English
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Instruments de recherche
Générer l'instrument de recherche
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
The slides have been digitised and are available on this catalogue.
Unités de description associées
Zone des notes
Identifiant(s) alternatif(s)
Mots-clés
Mots-clés - Sujets
Mots-clés - Lieux
Mots-clés - Noms
Mots-clés - Genre
Zone du contrôle de la description
Identifiant de la description
Identifiant du service d'archives
Règles et/ou conventions utilisées
Statut
Niveau de détail
Dates de production, de révision, de suppression
Langue(s)
Écriture(s)
Sources
Note de l'archiviste
Catalogued in 2024–25 by the AHS Archivist, using a database compiled from the original index cards. Only a part of the slide collection is currently available on this catalogue. More material will be added to it regularly.