THOMAS CECIL HOWITT (1889-1968) ARCHITECT HOWITT`S ARCHIVE comprising: i) approximately 1,100 fin

THOMAS CECIL HOWITT (1889-1968) ARCHITECT HOWITT`S ARCHIVE comprising: i) approximately 1,100 fine professional photographs of Howitt`s most prestigious civic and other buildings many by the leading architectural photographer Stewart Bale Ltd of Liverpool, 1920s-1950s, arranged alphabetically in sixty files and catalogued, including: The Exchange Buildings and Council House, Nottingham, the Portland Building at the University of Nottingham, the College of Technology for Nottingham and Derby Regional Board [subsequently Nottingham Trent University], alms houses, the one thousandth council house for Eastwood UDC, Pearson Brothers` department store, offices for The Raleigh Cycle Co, the Maudsley Building and Goldsmith House both for Trent Polytechnic, Staythorpe and other power stations, [the rebuilding of the tower of] Morley Town Hall, Leeds, the Bairnswear factory worksop, BTH offices and factory, Leicester, Birmingham Municipal Bank Headquarters, Newport, Birmingham and Oldham Civic Centres, Manvers School, Nottingham, chapels, churches, public and private houses including Howitt`s own ("The Thatch", Wollaton), interior and exterior views and progress photographs, mainly mounted whole plate [c24 x 29cm] and half-plate [c17 x 22cm] vintage silver prints and a similar file of large format photographs of the work of the Liverpool stonemason John Stubbs [when tendering for the Exchange Buildings, Nottingham contract]; a large quantity of miscellaneous photographs of the Howitt practice`s architectural projects, c1930s-70s, mostly identified; ii) a box of material relating to Howitt`s work for Oscar Deutsch`s chain of Odeon Cinemas, including plans/contracts and/or photographs, etc of the Doncaster [1937; £60,000] and Cambridge [1938; £57,600] Odeons iii) approximately 200 building contracts, mostly including plans, specifications and bills of quantities for new buildings and other works, 1930s-60s, arranged alphabetically in eleven boxes and catalogued, the clients including Barclays Bank, The Home Brewery Co, Martins Bank, the University of Nottingham, Messrs J D and W G Player, The Raleigh Cycle Co and James Shipstone & Sons, iv) Twelve ledgers including `Private Ledgers` and four Cash Books, 1929-63 v) Glass photographic negatives by Howitt, taken whilst touring Europe in the early 20th c, all quarter plate [c8 x 11cm], approximately 400, including views of buildings and street scenes in Florence, Rome and other Italian cities, Greece, Austria, Germany and the low countries vi) Approximately 40 framed photographs of the official opening of Howitt`s buildings, by the Prince of Wales [Exchange Buildings, Nottingham, May 1929] the Duke of Gloucester [Birmingham Municipal Bank, November 1933] and the Queen Mother [Oldham Civic Centre, March 1979], mainly large format silver prints, numerous emphera and press cuttings