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Penguin Books Ltd: photographs, negatives and slides
A collection of photographs, negatives and slides, many of which were reproduced in the ‘Fifty
Penguin Years’ exhibition and book created to celebrate the 50th anniversary in 1985 of Penguin
Books Ltd. Additional photographs, many duplicates or parts of the same series, can also be found
in DM1819/23/6.
Arranged as follows:
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People associated with Penguin Books Ltd.
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Groups of people associated with Penguin Books Ltd.
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People reading Penguin books
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Penguins
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Events associated with Penguin Books Ltd.
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Premises in the UK associated with Penguin Books Ltd.
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Premises overseas associated with Penguin Books Ltd.
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Bookshops associated with Penguin Books Ltd.
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Transportation, vending machines and display stands
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Penguin point-of-sale displays and advertisements
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Penguin book covers
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American Penguin book covers
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Non-Penguin book covers and advertisements
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Proofs of ‘Border Ballads’
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Examples of typography of Penguin books
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Illustrations from Penguin books
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Advertisements for and inside Penguin books
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Penguin books and World War Two
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Press cuttings relating to Penguin Books Ltd.
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Photographic negatives
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Slides
DM1294/2/1: Photographs of people associated with Penguin Books Ltd.
Photographs of authors, editors and employees of Penguin Books Ltd., as well as Allen Lane and
his family, arranged alphabetically by surname. [Negatives of some of these photographs can be
found in DM1294/2/20/1].
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Margery Allingham (author): two portrait photographs, n.d.
Photographer: Peter Hampshire. (2 x black and white
photographs).
n.d.
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H.L. Beales (editor): n.d. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black
and white photograph).
n.d.
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Edmund Clerihew Bentley (author): photograph of Allen Lane
with Edmund Clerihew Bentley at the first independent Penguin
Book Exhibition, 117 Piccadilly, London, November 1950.
Photographer: Camera Press Ltd. (1 x black and white
photograph).
November
1950
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Ron Blass (sales director and vice chairman, Penguin Books
Ltd.):
n.d. [1950s.
1970s?]
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DM1294/2/1/4/1 – photograph of Ron Blass with Bob Davies,
n.d. [1950s?] Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in Martin
Yates (ed.) ‘The Penguin Companion’ Penguin Collectors’
Society, 2006)]. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/1/4/2 – photograph of Ron Blass with Nikos
Pemberton, n.d. [1970s?]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black
and white photograph).
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John Buchan (author): portrait photograph, n.d. Photographer:
unknown. (2 x black and white photographs).
n.d.
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Noel Carrington (editor): informal photograph of Carrington
sitting on the ground holding a camera, n.d. Photographer:
unknown. [Reproduced in Steve Hare (ed.) ‘Penguin Portrait:
Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors 1935-1970’ Penguin, 1995)].
(1 x black and white photograph).
n.d.
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Peter Carson (editor): photograph of Peter Carson with Philippa
Harrison, n.d., and Peter Carson [with Laurie Lee?], n.d.
Photographers: Tara Heinemann and Susan Greenhill. (1 x black
and white photograph and sheet of contact prints).
n.d.
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Raymond Chandler (author): photograph of Chandler holding a
black cat, n.d. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
n.d.
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G.K. Chesterton (author): two portrait photographs, n.d.
Photographer: Elliott and Fry. (2 x black and white photograph).
n.d.
DM1294/2/1/10 Agatha Christie (author): portrait photograph, n.d. Photographer:
National Portrait Gallery. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d.
DM1294/2/1/11 Margaret Drabble (author): eight photographs of Margaret
Drabble with Allen Lane, Kingsley Amis, C.P. Snow and
Anthony Burgess [at the launch of ‘The Garrick Years’,
September 1966?]. Photographer: unknown. (8 x black and
white photographs).
[September
1966?]
DM1294/2/1/12 Rowland Emett (illustrator): photograph of Rowland Emett with
Allen Lane at the first independent Penguin Book Exhibition, 117
Piccadilly, London, November 1950. Photographer: Camera
Press Ltd. (1 x black and white photograph).
November
1950
DM1294/2/1/13 Susan Ertz (author): portrait photograph, n.d. Photographer:
National Portrait Gallery. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d.
DM1294/2/1/14 William Faulkner (author): two photographs of Faulkner stood in
front of the University of Virginia, n.d. Photographer: Ralph
Thompson, Virginia University, Charlottesville, USA. (2 x black
and white photographs).
n.d.
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DM1294/2/1/15 Eunice Frost (editor):
[c.1940,
1960]
DM1294/2/1/15/1 - photograph of Eunice Frost seated at her
desk, n.d [c.1960]. Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in
‘Penguins Progress, 1935-1960’ (Penguin, 1960)]. (1 x black and
white photograph).
DM1294/2/1/15/2 – photograph of Eunice Frost and Allen Lane
looking at cartoons by David Low for ‘Europe since Versailles’,
published in 1940. Photographer: Hulton Picture Library. (3 x
black and white photographs)
DM1294/2/1/16 Alan S.B. Glover (editor):
[c.1940s,
1960]
DM1294/2/1/16/1 – photograph of A.S.B. Glover seated at his
desk, n.d. [1960]. Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in
‘Penguins Progress, 1935-1960’ (Penguin, 1960)]. (1 x black and
white photograph).
DM1294/2/1/16/2 – photograph of a side profile of A.S.B. Glover
seated at his desk, n.d [1947?]. [Reproduced in Steve Hare (ed.)
‘Penguin Portrait: Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors 19351970’ (Penguin, 1995)]. Photographer: Pictorial Press. (1 x
black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/1/16/3-5 - three informal photographs of A.S.B.
Glover and a group of people enjoying a meal/party?, n.d.
[c.1940s]. Photographer: unknown. (3 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/1/17 Eleanor Graham (editor): Eleanor Graham seated at her desk, n.d.
[1960]. Photographer: Sam Lambert. [Reproduced in ‘Penguins
Progress, 1935-1960’ (Penguin, 1960)]. (1 x black and white
photographs).
[1960]
DM1294/2/1/18 Graham Greene (author): five portrait photographs of Graham
Greene at various ages, n.d. Photographers: National Portrait
Gallery and Amanda Todd. (5 x black and white photographs).
n.d.
DM1294/2/1/19 G.B. Harrison (editor): two photographs of G.B. Harrison seated
at his desk, n.d. Photographer: National Portrait Gallery. (2 x
black and white photographs).
n.d.
DM1294/2/1/20 Ernest Hemingway (author): eight photographs of Hemingway in
1918, 1930s, n.d. Photographer: Thomson Newspapers and
unknown. (8 x black and white photographs).
1918, 1930s,
n.d.
DM1294/2/1/21 V.K. Krishna Menon (editor): two photographs of Krishna
Menon, n.d. Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in ‘Fifty
Penguin Years (Penguin, 1985) and Jeremy Lewis ‘Penguin
Special: the life and times of Allen Lane’ (Viking, 2005)]. (2 x
n.d.
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black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/1/22 Sir Allen Lane (founder of Penguin Books Ltd.):
1939-1960s
DM1294/2/1/22/1 –Allen Lane in India, 1939. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/1/22/2 –Allen Lane at work in his Harmondsworth
office, 1940. Photographer: Tunbridge, London. These
photographs were published in an article in ‘The Bystander’, 10
January 1940. (5 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/1/22/3/1 – Allen Lane leaving Waterloo Station for
America, being presented with a model Penguin by Miss Doris
Barry, sister of the ballerina Alicia Markova, n.d. [1930s].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1204/2/1/22/3/2 - Allen Lane and Nora Lane during their trip
to Aden and India shortly after the outbreak of the Second World
War, n.d. [c.1941]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and
white photograph).
DM1294/2/1/22/3/3 – engagement photograph of Allen Lane and
Lettice Orr with their Fox Terrier, n.d. [engagement announced
19 April 1941]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
DM1294/2/1/22/4 – portrait photograph of Allen Lane in profile,
n.d. [c.1940s]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
DM1294/2/1/22/5 – Allen Lane in his Harmondsworth office,
1947. Photographer: John Gay. (2 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/1/22/6 – Allen Lane seated at his desk, n.d [late
1940s]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
DM1294/2/1/22/7 – two portrait photographs of Allen Lane, n.d.
[late 1940s]. Photographer: unknown. (2 x black and white
photograph).
DM1294/2/1/22/8 – Allen Lane, December 1950. Photographer:
Topham Photographic Library. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/1/22/9 – Allen Lane at the Sunday Times Book
Exhibition, November 1955. Photographer: Douglas Glass. (1 x
black and white photograph and contact sheet of prints).
DM1294/2/1/22/10 – Allen Lane in Australia, n.d [c.1960].
Includes photographs of Allen Lane holding an Australian Fairy
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Penguin reading a copy of the Penguin edition of 'The Thin Man';
feeding Australian Fairy Penguins; and trying to approach two
King Penguins in a zoo. Photographer: Associated Newspapers
Ltd, Sydney. (4 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/1/22/11 – Allen Lane [at Priory Farm, Beech Hill,
Berkshire?], 1961. Photographer: Daily Herald. (2 x black and
white photographs).
DM1294/2/1/22/12 – Allen Lane with Leslie Munro, 23 February
1961. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
DM1294/2/1/22/13 – Allen Lane with Canon H.G.G. Herklots,
Canon of Peterborough Cathedral, 1961. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/1/22/14 – Allen Lane seated at his desk, n.d [1960s].
Photographer: Harold King Ltd., London. (1 x black and white
photograph).
DM1294/2/1/22/15 – two portrait photographs of Allen Lane, n.d.
[1960s]. Photographer: unknown. (2 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/1/22/16 – two portrait photographs of Allen Lane, n.d.
[1960s]. Photographer: unknown. (2 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/1/22/17 –photograph of a portrait of Allen Lane by
Bryan Kneale, n.d. [1960s]. Photographer: James Mortimer. (1 x
black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/1/23 John Lane (sales manager, Penguin Books Ltd.): two photographs 1940
of John Lane at work in the Export Sales department,
Harmondsworth, 1940. Photographer: Tunbridge, London. One
of the photographs was published in an article in ‘The Bystander’,
10 January 1940. (2 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/1/24 Richard Lane (manager of Penguin Books, Australia):
1940-1960
DM1294/2/1/24/1 – Richard Lane puzzling over Shaw’s draft
contract for ‘Pygmalion’ at Harmondsworth, 1940.
Photographer: Tunbridge, London. This photograph was
published in an article in ‘The Bystander’, 10 January 1940. (2 x
black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/1/24/2 – Richard Lane fishing in the river Colne at
Silverbeck, 1940. Photographer: Tunbridge, London. This
photograph was published in an article in ‘The Bystander’, 10
January 1940. (1 x black and white photograph).
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DM1294/2/1/24/3 – Richard Lane smoking a pipe, n.d. (1940s)
Photographer: Gilbert Adams. [Reproduced in Steve Hare (ed.)
‘Penguin Portrait: Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors, 19351970’ (Penguin, 1995)]. (3 x black and white photograph and
negative).
DM1294/2/1/24/4 – Richard Lane with two unidentified men [at
the launch of the 1000th Penguin, Edward Young’s ‘One of our
submarines], n.d [1954]. Photographer: Kenneth Pratt Ltd,
Portsmouth. (2 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/1/24/5 – Richard Lane seated at his desk, n.d. [1960]
Photographer: Athol Smith, Melbourne, Australia. [Reproduced
in ‘Penguins Progress, 1935-1960’ (Penguin, 1960)]. (1 x black
and white photograph).
DM1294/2/1/25 Lane family:
1940
DM1294/2/1/25/1 – Allen Lane, Richard Lane and John Lane
fishing in the river Colne at Silverbeck, 1940. Photographer:
Tunbridge, London. [Reproduced in Jeremy Lewis ‘Penguin
Special: the life and times of Allen Lane’ (Viking, 2005)]. (1 x
black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/1/25/2 – Allen Lane, Richard Lane and John Lane
studying building plans at Silverbeck, 1940. Photographer:
Tunbridge, London. (2 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/1/25/3 – Allen Lane and John Lane with their dog at
Silverbeck, 1940. Photographer: Tunbridge, London. (1 x black
and white photograph).
DM1294/2/1/25/4 – back view of Allen Lane, Richard Lane and
John Lane fooling around on the Aust Ferry, n.d. (1940s).
Photographer: Nora Bird (nee Lane). [Reproduced in Steve Hare
(ed.) ‘Penguin Portrait: Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors,
1935-1970’ (Penguin, 1995)]. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/1/26 Vladimir Lenin (author): n.d. Photographer: unknown. (1 x
black and white photograph).
n.d.
DM1294/2/1/27 Eric Linklater (author): portrait photograph, n.d. Photographer:
Howard Corten. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d.
DM1294/2/1/28 Compton Mackenzie (author): portrait photograph, n.d.
Photographer: National Portrait Gallery. (1 x black and white
photograph).
n.d.
DM1294/2/1/29 Ngaio Marsh (author): Ngaio Marsh with Tom Driberg at a party
to celebrate the publication of a Penguin edition of one million
copies of ten of her books, July1949. Photographer: Robin Adler.
(3 x black and white photographs).
July1949
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DM1294/2/1/30 William Somerset Maugham (author): portrait photographs, 1928
and c.1960; with a photograph of a pencil and charcoal sketch of
Maugham. Photographers: unknown. (5 x black and white
photographs).
1928, c.1960
DM1294/2/1/31 André Maurois (author):
DM1294/2/1/31/1 – portrait photograph, n.d. [c.1920].
Photographer: Alboil?. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d [c.1920]
DM1294/2/1/31/2 – portrait photograph, February 1958.
Photographer: Lipnitzki. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/1/32 Peter Mayer (chief executive of the Penguin Group): portrait
photograph of Mayer, and meeting of Mayer and the Penguin
directors, 25 August 1985. Photographer: Richard Dudley-Smith,
Times Newspapers Ltd. (2 x colour photographs).
25 August
1985
DM1294/2/1/33 Peter Messer (editor): Peter Messer and [Eunice Frost?] crossreading proofs of a new Penguin book, n.d. [c.1940].
Photographer: Pictorial Press, London. (1 x black and white
photograph).
n.d [c.1940]
DM1294/2/1/34 Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell (author): portrait photograph, n.d.
[1940]. Photographer: Howard Coster. (1 x black and white
photograph).
n.d [1940]
DM1294/2/1/35 Beverley Nichols (author): portrait photograph, n.d. [1929]
Photographer: Howard Coster. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d [1929]
DM1294/2/1/36 Jill Norman (author): publicity photographs of Jill Norman
cooking while wearing a Penguin apron, n.d. [1960s?]
Photographer: (3 black and white photographs).
n.d [1960s?]
DM1294/2/1/37 George Orwell (author): portrait photographs, n.d. [1940s].
Photographer: unknown. (2 x black and white photographs).
n.d [1940s]
DM1294/2/1/38 H.F. Paroissien (Penguin Director):
1960, 1970
DM1294/2/1/38/1 – Paroissien relaxing in a chair, smoking a
pipe, n.d. [1960]. Photographer: Sam Lambert. [Reproduced in
‘Penguins Progress, 1935-1960’ (Penguin, 1960)]. (1 x black and
white photograph).
DM1294/2/1/38/2 – Allen Lane with Paroissien at his retirement
party, 1970. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
DM1294/2/1/39 Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (author, editor):
c.1950-1973
DM1294/2/1/39/1 – Pevsner working at his desk, n.d. [1960].
Photographer: [Sam Lambert?]. [Reproduced in ‘Penguins
Progress, 1935-1960’ (Penguin, 1960)]. (1 x black and white
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photograph).
DM1294/2/1/39/2 – portrait photograph, n.d. [1950s?].
Photographer: Robin Adler. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/1/39/3 – Pevsner posing with two piles of his
Buildings of England series of books, n.d. [1973]. Photographer:
Frank Herrmann. [Reproduced in Steve Hare (ed.) ‘Penguin
Portrait: Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors, 1935-1970’
(Penguin, 1995)]. (2 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/1/40 J.B. Priestley (author): photographs of a party to celebrate the
publication and performance of the first model theatre play, ‘The
High Toby’, written by J.B. Priestley and designed by Doris
Zinkeisen. The play was performed in a theatre at Heal’s
Mansard Gallery, n.d. [1948/49?]. Photographs feature J.B.
Priestley, Sir Ralph Richardson, Peter Murray Hill, Phyllis
Calvert, Meriel Forbes, Esmond Knight, Doris Zinkeisen, George
Speaight and A.D. Peters. Photographers: Tom L. Blau for Photo
Camera Press; Daily Graphic; Sunday Pictorial; Press
Illustrations. (24 x black and white photographs).
n.d.
[1948/1949?]
DM1294/2/1/41 Betty Radice (editor): Betty Radice working at her desk, n.d.
[1980?]. Photographer: William Radice. [Reproduced in Steve
Hare (ed.) ‘Penguin Portrait: Allen Lane and the Penguin editors,
1935-1970’ (Penguin, 1995)]. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d.[1980?]
DM1294/2/1/42 E.V. Rieu (editor):
c.1950s,
1960
DM1294/2/1/42/1 – portrait photograph, n.d. [1950s?].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/1/42/2 – Rieu seated at his desk, 1960. Photographer:
Sam Lambert. [Reproduced in ‘Penguins Progress, 1935-1960’
(Penguin, 1960)]. (3 x black and white photographs and 1 contact
sheet of prints).
DM1294/2/1/43 Dorothy L. Sayers (author): portrait photograph, n.d. [1938].
Photographer: Howard Corten. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d [1938]
DM1294/2/1/44 Hans Schmoller (typographer): Schmoller reading a copy of
‘Penguins in America’, 1959. Photographer: [Sam Lambert].
[Reproduced in ‘Penguins Progress, 1935-1960’ (Penguin,
1960)]. (1 x black and white photograph).
1959
DM1294/2/1/45 Sir Stanley Unwin (author): portrait photograph, 1956.
Photographer: National Portrait Gallery. (1 x black and white
photograph).
1956
DM1294/2/1/46 Evelyn Waugh (author): two portrait photographs, n.d.
Photographer: unknown. (2 x black and white photographs).
n.d.
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DM1294/2/1/47 Kaye Webb (editor):
c.1970s
DM1294/2/1/47/1 – portrait photograph of Kaye Webb holding a
pile of Puffin Books at the Children’s Book Centre, Church
Street, Kensington, n.d. [c.1967]. [Reproduced in Steve Hare
(ed.) ‘Penguin Portrait; Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors,
1935-1970’ (Penguin, 1995)]. Photographer: Tom Hanley,
London. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/1/47/2 – Kaye Webb at a sales conference with Hans
Schmoller, Patricia Neal, Roald Dahl and Theo Dahl, December
1972. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photographs)
DM1294/2/1/47/3 – Kaye Webb with Michael Bond, n.d. [late
1970s?]. Photographer: unknown. (2 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/1/48 Sir William Emrys Williams (editor and Penguin director):
c.1960s
DM1294/2/1/48/1 – portrait photograph of Bill Williams in
profile, leaning against a bookcase with a cigarette in his hand,
n.d. [c.1960]. Photographer: Lotte Meitner-Graf, London.
[Reproduced in ‘Penguins Progress, 1935-1960’ (Penguin,
1960)]. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/1/48/2 – Bill Williams in front of the TV cameras,
n.d. [1960s?]. Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in G.
Williams ‘W.E. Williams: educator extraordinary’ (Penguin
Collectors’ Society, 2000)]. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/1/48/3 – portrait photograph of Bill Williams, n.d.
[1960s?]. Photographer: Hulton Picture Library. (1 x black and
white photograph).
DM1294/2/1/49 The Hon. C.M. Woodhouse (author): portrait photograph, 1960.
1960
Photographer: Sam Lambert. [Reproduced in ‘Penguins Progress,
1935-1960’ (Penguin, 1960)]. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/1/50 P.G. Woodhouse (author): two portrait photographs, n.d.
Photographer: unknown. (2 x black and white photographs).
n.d.
DM1294/2/1/51 Edward Young (author and Penguin production manager): portrait n.d [1940s]
photograph of Lieutenant Commander E.P. Young, D.S.O.,
D.S.C., of the ‘Storm’ in uniform, n.d. [1940s]. Photographer:
Imperial War Museum. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/1/52 Emily Hilda Young (author): two portrait photographs, n.d.
[1930s?] Photographer: unknown. (2 x black and white
photographs).
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n.d. [1930s?]
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DM1294/2/2: Photographs of groups of people associated with Penguin Books Ltd.
[Negatives of some of these photographs can be found in DM1294/2/20/2]
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Photographs of a Penguin editorial meeting in W.E. Williams’s
office at 117 Piccadilly, London, 1946. Featuring Allen Lane,
W.E. Williams, Tanya Schmoller, J.E. Morpurgo, Richard Lane,
Eunice Frost and Alan Glover. Photographer: Photo Pictorial
Press, London. (9 x black and white photographs).
1946
DM1294/2/2/2
Newspaper cutting of a hand-coloured photograph of a Penguin
editorial meeting, n.d. [c.1950]. Featuring A.S.B. Glover, Allen
Lane, W.E. Williams and Eunice Frost. Photographer: unknown.
(1 press cutting).
n.d.
[c.1950]
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Photographs of a Penguin editorial meeting in W.E. Williams’s
office at 117 Piccadilly, London, n.d. [c.1950]. Featuring R.B.
Fishenden, Noel Carrington, Allen Lane, A.S.B. Glover, E.V.
Rieu, Eunice Frost, A.W. Haslett?, Michael Abercrombie?, W.E.
Williams, Eleanor Graham, C.A. Mace, J.E. Morpurgo and
Nikolaus Pevsner. Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in
Jeremy Lewis ‘Penguin Special: the life and times of Allen Lane’
(Viking, 2005)]. (2 x black and white photographs).
n.d.
[c.1950]
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Group photograph of Penguin staff and editors, n.d. [c.1955].
Featuring Bernhard Baer, E.V. Rieu, John Cramel?, Grace
Hogarth, Noel Carrington, Roger Maxwell?, J. Overton, Gordon
Jacob, J.E. Morpurgo, R.B. Fishenden, Ralph Hill, A.S. B. Glover,
W.E. Williams, Lettice Lane, Richard Lane, Allen Lane, Estrid
Bannister and Edward Crankshaw. Photographer: Reutersphoto.
[Reproduced in Jeremy Lewis ‘Penguin Special: the life and times
of Allen Lane’ (Viking, 2005)]. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d.
[c.1955]
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Photograph of Rodrigo Moynihan’s painting ‘After the
Conference: the Penguin editors’, 1955. Featuring E.V. Rieu,
Allen Lane, J.E. Morpurgo, R.B. Fishenden, W.E. Williams,
Richard Lane, Noel Carrington, Eunice Frost, A.W. Haslett,
A.S.B. Glover, C.A. Mace, Michael Abercrombie, Nikolaus
Pevsner, Gordon Jacob, Alfred Ayer, M.L. Johnson, Eleanor
Graham, Max Mallowan, John Lehmann. Photographer:
unknown. [Reproduced in Steve Hare (ed.) ‘Penguin Portrait:
Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors, 1935-1970’ (Penguin, 1995)].
(1 x black and white photograph).
1955
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Photograph of H.F. Paroissien, Hans Schmoller, Lettice Lane,
Allen Lane and Leslie Paisner at Prague airport in 1966.
Photographer: unknown. (2 x black and white photographs).
1966
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Photograph of Allen Lane with [?Hans Schmoller] and [?H.F.
Paroissien], n.d. [1960s?]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and
white negative).
n.d. [1960s]
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DM1294/2/2/8
Photograph of a Penguin party at the first independent Penguin
Book Exhibition at 117 Piccadilly, London, November 1950.
Including Lettice Lane, Estrid Bannister, Bill Williams, Eunice
Frost, Tanya Schmoller. Photographer: David Gurney. (1 x black
and white photograph).
1950
DM1294/2/2/9
Photograph of a group of Penguin staff on a visit to Hachette Livre n.d. [1938]
[in Paris, France?] n.d. [1938]. Photograph includes Allen Lane,
John Lane, Richard Lane, Bill Radley (London rep.), Stan Olney
(secretary), Peter Kite (credit control), Jack Summers, Percy Amos
(trade office), Edward Young, Harry Ellis (sales manager), Jim
Fox (van driver), Harry Fry (despatch), Jim Cracknell (packer),
Boby Maynard (trade office), Fred Fray (packer), John Vox
(looker out). Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
DM1294/2/3: Photographs of people reading Penguin books
[Negatives of some of these photographs can be found in DM1294/2/20/3].
DM1294/2/3/1
Photograph of a woman sitting in a deck chair in a park reading a
Penguin book, n.d. [c.1930s?]. Photographer: Hulton Picture
Library. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d.
[c.1930s?]
DM1294/2/3/2
Photograph of a young man with long-hair and a beard reading a
copy of the Penguin edition of George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen EightyFour’ [Penguin no. 972], n.d. [1960s]. Photographer: Topham
Picture Library. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d. [1960s]
DM1294/2/3/3
Photograph of a boy [Martin Ellert] reading a copy of the Puffin
edition of ‘Tiger in the dark’ by Mary Elwyn Patchett [Puffin
Books PS 151, published September 1966] and a girl [Vicky
Lodge] reading a copy of the Puffin edition of ‘White boots’ by
Noel Streatfeild [Puffin Books PS 188, published March 1963] at
the Children’s Book Centre, Church Street, Kensington, n.d.
[c.1967]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
n.d.
[c.1967]
DM1294/2/3/4
Photograph of two girls and a boy reading copies of the Puffin
edition of ‘Three Little Funny Ones’ by Charlotte Hough [Puffin
Books PS 265, published October 1966] in a bookshop, n.d.
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d.
[c.1966]
DM1294/2/3/5
Photograph of a boy sat cross-legged on the floor of a bookshop
reading a book, n.d. [c.1970s]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x
black and white photograph).
n.d.
[c.1970s]
DM1294/2/4: Photographs of penguins
A collection of photographs of live penguins put together by Penguin Books Ltd.'s press office.
DM1294/2/4/1
Photograph of the Penguin Pool at London Zoo, designed by
DM1294/2: photographs, negatives and slides
June 1934
19
Berthold Lubetkin in 1934, with [Adelie and Magellanic?]
penguins, June 1934. Photographer: Zoological Society of
London. [Reproduced on page 16 in ‘Fifty Penguin Years’
(Penguin, 1985)]. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/4/2
Photograph of the Penguin Pool at London Zoo, designed by
Berthold Lubetkin in 1934, n.d [1950s]. Photographer: [?S.
Mannus]. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d [1950s]
DM1294/2/4/3
Photographs of Sisson’s bookshop, Nottingham, Penguin window
display featuring three live [Magellanic?] penguins from Dudley
zoo, n.d. [1970s]. Photographer: Layland Ross Ltd., Nottingham.
(4 x black and white photographs).
n.d. [1970s]
DM1294/2/4/4
Photograph of five King penguins [at London Zoo?] reading the
newspaper, 24 October 1951. Photographer: Mirrorpic, London.
(1 x black and white photograph).
24 October
1951
DM1294/2/4/5
Photograph of three King penguins and one [Magellanic?] penguin
at London Zoo, n.d. [1950s]. Photographer: Dorien Leigh Ltd.,
London. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d [1950s]
DM1294/2/4/6
Photograph of three [Magellanic?] penguins in a zoo, with a man
and woman approaching them, n.d. [1950s]. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d [1950s]
DM1294/2/4/7
Photograph of an African penguin holding a pipe in its beak,
walking past five King penguins, n.d. [1950s]. Photographer:
Mirrorpic, London. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d [1950s]
DM1294/2/4/8
Strip of three photographs of a [Magellanic?] penguin stood beside n.d. [1950s]
an igloo in a zoo, n.d. [1950s]. Photographer: Mirrorpic, London.
(1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/4/9
Photograph of nine King penguins going for a walk at Whipsnade
Zoo, 11 July 1952. Photographer: Mirrorpic, London. (1 x black
and white photograph).
11 July
1952
DM1294/2/4/10 Photograph of several species of penguins, including two King
penguins from Edinburgh zoo, in their swimming pool at Bristol
zoo, 20 December 1951. Photographer: Mirrorpic, London. (1 x
black and white photograph).
20
December
1951
DM1294/2/4/11 Seven photographs several species of penguins and pelicans in
captivity, n.d. Photographer: P.A. Reuther Photos Ltd., London.
(7 x black and white photographs).
n.d.
DM1294/2/4/12 Photograph of a stuffed Macaroni penguin, n.d. Photographer:
British Museum (Natural History). (1 x black and white
photograph).
n.d.
DM1294/2/4/13 Photograph of six King penguins in the snow [in a zoo?], 8
8 December
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20
December 1952. Photographer: Mirrorpic, London. (1 x black
and white photograph).
1952
DM1294/2/4/14 Photograph of a Ringed penguin with her chick at Edinburgh Zoo,
1 July 1954. Photographer: Mirrorpic, London. (1 x black and
white photograph).
1 July 1954
DM1294/2/4/15 Photograph of a member of the French Antarctic Expedition to
Adélie Land, shaking the wing of an Emperor Penguin, n.d.
[1950s]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
n.d. [1950s]
DM1294/2/4/16 Photograph of a flock of King penguins, n.d. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d.
DM1294/2/4/17 Photographs of [Gentoo?] penguins stood beside a copy of the
Penguin edition of W. Somerset Maugham’s ‘The Moon and
Sixpence’ [Penguin no.468], and of a man reading a Penguin book
while seated beside the penguins and with ‘The Moon and
Sixpence’ by his side, n.d. [1970s?]. [Negatives of these
photographs can be found in DM1294/2/20/4]. Photographer:
unknown. (3 x black and white photographs).
n.d.
[1970s?]
DM1294/2/5: Photographs of events associated with Penguin Books Ltd.
[Negatives of some of these photographs can be found in DM1294/2/20/5]
DM1294/2/5/1
Photograph of the “12 years of Penguins” Penguin Books stand at
British Industries Fair, May 1947. [Held at Olympia and Earls
Court, London, 5-16 May, 1947. Organised by the Export
Promotion Department of the Board of Trade]. Photographer:
Leonard G. Taylor, Southall. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/5/2
Photograph of a Christmas party for the employees of Penguin
December
Books Ltd., at Harmondsworth, December [1947?]. Photographer: [1947?].
unknown. [Reproduced in Steve Hare (ed.). ‘Penguin Portrait:
Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors, 1935-1970’ (Penguin, 1995).
(2 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/5/3
Photograph of Allen Lane, Richard Lane, Jimmy Holmes, Bill
Rapley, Peter Kite, Bill Williams, Stan Olney, John Overton, Bob
Hill and Jack Summers dressed as bar staff a Christmas party for
the employees of Penguin Books Ltd., at Harmondsworth,
December [1947?]. Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in
Jeremy Lewis ‘Penguin Special: the life and times of Allen Lane’
(Viking, 2005). (1 x black and white photograph).
December
[1947?].
DM1294/2/5/4
Photograph of the Penguin ‘merry-go-round’ book stand at the
Sunday Times National Book Exhibition, Grosvenor House,
London, 31 October-14 November 1949. Photographer: unknown.
[Reproduced in ‘The Penguin Story, 1935-1956’]. (1 x black and
white photograph).
1949
DM1294/2: photographs, negatives and slides
May 1947
21
DM1294/2/5/5
Photograph of Allen Lane and two unidentified men standing in
n.d.
front of the ‘Penguins for All Occasions’ Penguin exhibition stand, [c.1952]
designed by Andrea Breese for the National Book League
exhibition, n.d [c.1952]. Photographer: Gifford Boyd, Hastings.
(1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/5/6
Photographs of the launch of the 1000th Penguin, Edward Young’s
‘One of our submarines’ [Penguin no.1000, published on 30 July
1954]:
July 1954
DM1294/2/5/6/1-5 – Edward Young signing copies of his book
‘One of our submarines’, 1954. Photographer: Kenneth Pratt Ltd.,
Portsmouth. (5 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/5/6/6-10 – window display for the launch of Edward
Young’s ‘One of our submarines’, 1954. Photographer: Parr
Photographer Ltd., London. (4 x black and white photograph, 1 x
black and white negative).
DM1294/2/5/7
21st anniversary of Penguin Books Ltd., 1956:
1956
DM1294/2/5/7/1 – five photographs of ‘Penguins Come of Age
1935-1956’ displays and devices, 1956. Photographer: unknown.
(5 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/5/7/2 – two photographs of the ‘Penguins Come of Age
1935-1956’ window display at Stuttaford’s bookshop, Cape Town,
South Africa, 23 July-4 August 1956. (2 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/5/7/3 – photographs of a garden party held for Penguin
employees at Silverbeck to celebrate the 21st anniversary of
Penguin Books Ltd., 1956. Photographer: unknown. (9 black and
white photographs).
DM1294/2/5/7/4 - photographs of a garden party held for Penguin
employees at Silverbeck to celebrate the 21st anniversary of
Penguin Books Ltd., 1956. Photographs include Ashton Allen,
Allen Lane, Bill Williams and Stan Olney. Photographer:
Middlesex County Press. (10 black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/5/8
Photographs of Allen Lane [at a book fair/launch in Cork?], n.d.
[late 1950s?]. Photographer: Cork Examiner. (2 x black and
white photographs).
n.d. [late
1950s?]
DM1294/2/5/9
Photographs of Allen Lane at the Penguin exhibition at Van
Stockum, The Hague, February 1960. Photographer: J.A. Van
Kretschmar, Voorburg, Holland. (2 x black and white
photographs).
February
1960
DM1294/2/5/10 Photographs of a garden party held in Bedford Gardens, London,
DM1294/2: photographs, negatives and slides
June 1949
22
to celebrate the publication of the 50th volume in the King Penguin
series (Edwin Christensen’s ‘Popular Art in the United States’
King Penguin K50), to which artists, authors and printers of King
Penguins were invited, June 1949. Photographs include Allen
Lane, Nikolaus Pevsner and R.B. Fishenden with two penguins
from London Zoo, Eunice Frost, Betty Radice, E.V. Rieu, Mrs
Rieu, Sir John Rothenstein, Feliks Topolski and W.E. Williams.
Photographer: Robin Adler, London. (9 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/5/11 25th anniversary of Penguin Books Ltd, 1960:
1960
DM1294/5/11/1 – photographs of book displays and devices for
Penguins 25th birthday, 1960. Photographer: Stereograms Ltd.,
London. (7 black and white photographs).
DM1294/5/11/2 – photograph of Allen Lane with Olivia Manning
and Arnot Robertson at a party at High Hill given to celebrate the
25th anniversary of Penguin Books Ltd, October 1960.
Photographer: Sydney J. Weaver. (1 x black and white
photograph).
DM1294/2/5/12 The ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ trial: Regina v. Penguin Books
Ltd., 1960:
OctoberNovember
1960
DM1294/2/5/12/1 – photographs of people queuing outside the
Old Bailey for the ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ trail, 20
October1960. Photographer: Topham Picture Library. [Negatives
of some of these photographs can be found in DM1294/2/20/5/3].
(2 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/5/12/2 – photographs following the acquittal of
Penguin Books Ltd. on the charge of publishing an obscene article
on 2 November 1960. Includes photographs of the “Now YOU
can read it” publicity; people queuing to purchase copies of the
book; packing and loading copies of the book at Harmondsworth;
a lady burning copies of the book outside an Edinburgh bookshop;
cover of the ‘Daily Sketch’ of the verdict; interview with Allen
Lane by Desmond Zwar; portrait photograph of D.H. Lawrence.
Photographers: Topham Picture Library and Keystone Press
Agency Ltd. [Negatives of some of these photographs can be
found in DM1294/2/20/5/3]. (18 black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/5/12/3 – publicity photographs of Allen Lane at
Harmondsworth, following the ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ trial ‘not
guilty’ verdict, 2 November 1960. Photographers: Daily Express,
Bert Hardy, Topham Picture Library and Popperfoto-Paul Popper
Ltd. (14 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/5/12/4 – ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ victory party at the
Arts Council, 4 St. James’s Square, 1960. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
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23
DM1294/2/5/13 Photograph of Allen Lane at a cocktail party given in his honour in n.d [c.1960]
Johannesburg, South Africa. Pictured with Mrs D. Dorman and
Mrs G. Stegman, n.d. [c.1960]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x
black and white photograph and 1 x newspaper cutting).
DM1294/2/5/14 Photographs of Allen Lane [?at the launch of the paperback
editions of ‘The Pelican History of Art’ series], n.d. [1966?].
Photographer: unknown. (4 x black and white photographs).
n.d. [1966?]
DM1294/2/5/15 Photographs of the Penguin Exhibition in Prague, 27 September11 October 1966. Photographer: unknown. [Negatives available
in DM1294/2/20/5/2]. (18 black and white photographs).
1966
DM1294/2/5/16 Celebrating 25 years of uninterrupted printer-publisher between C. 1966
Nicholls & Co. of Manchester and Penguin Books Ltd.
Photographs of Bernard Nicholls presenting Allen Lane with a pair
of silver wine coasters at Penguin’s Harmondsworth office on 17
November 1966. Photographer: unknown. (5 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/5/17 Visit by the Overseas Booksellers’ Mission to Harmondsworth,
n.d. [late 1960s?]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
n.d. [late
1960s?]
DM1294/2/5/18 Photographs of a joint 65th birthday party for Nikolaus Pevsner
and Allen Lane, 1967. Photographer: unknown. (8 x black and
white photographs).
1967
DM1294/2/5/19 Presentation to Allen Lane of the Queen’s Award, 1967.
Photographer: Advertiser-Gazette. (8 x black and white
photographs).
1967
DM1294/2/5/20 Photographs of a staff buffet-dance at Harmondsworth to mark Sir
Allen Lane’s 50 years in publishing and his retirement as
Managing Director of Penguin Books Ltd., 18 April 1969.
Photographs include a presentation to Allen Lane by Christopher
Dolley and H.F. Paroissien of a watercolour painting by David
Gentleman of the Bodley Head Office in Vigo Street; and H.F.
Paroissien and Kaye Webb dancing. Photographer: unknown. (3
x black and white photographs).
1969
DM1294/2/5/21 Reception at the Stationers’ Hall, London, given on 23 April 1969
by the Directors of Penguin Books to celebrate Sir Allen Lane’s
fifty years in publishing. Photographs include Sir Allen Lane,
Lady Lettice Lane, W.E. Williams, Nikolaus Pevsner, Eleanor
Graham, E.V. Rieu, Kenneth Clark, and Mortimer Wheeler.
Photographer: British Official Photograph. (8 x black and white
photographs).
1969
DM1294/2/5/22 Penguin office party at The Savoy, London, 1971. Photographs
include Alan Aldridge, Ron Blass, Dolley Boyle, Kenneth Clark,
1971
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24
Naomi Mitchison, Maggie Ross and Kaye Webb. Photographer:
unknown. (66 x black and white photographs and sheets of
contact prints).
DM1294/2/5/23 Photographs of a farewell lunch for Dieter Pevsner (editor) and
Oliver Caldecott (Joint Chief Editor, Penguin Books), 28 June
1972. Photographer: unknown. (2 x black and white
photographs).
1972
DM1294/2/5/24 Photographs of a reception at the Royal Institute of British
1974
Architects (R.I.B.A) in honour of Sir Nikolaus Pevsner to mark the
completion of ‘The Buildings of England’ series, 8 July 1974.
Photographs include Patrick Gibson, Nikolaus Pevsner, E.J.B.
Rose, Jennifer Sherwood, Dr Berthold Wolpe and Margaret
Wolpe. Photographer: Mark Gerson (Photography) Ltd., London.
(3 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/5/25 Lunch to celebrate Jack Summer’s 40 years with Penguin Books
1975
Ltd., 23 December 1975. Photographs include Eunice Frost, Harry
Paroissien, Jim Rose, Jack Summers and Bill Williams.
Photographer: unknown. (3 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/5/26 Launch of ‘The Incompatibles: trade union militancy and the
consensus’ [Penguin Special S253, published May 1967], n.d.
[1967]. Photographs include Alexander Cockburn and Robin
Blackburn (Joint editor of ‘The Incompatibles’), Paul Johnson
(editor of ‘The New Statesman’), Chris Jenkins (General Secretary
of ASSET), Karl Miller (editor of ‘The Listener’). Photographer:
unknown. (3 x black and white photographs).
n.d. [1967]
DM1294/2/5/27 Walthari Penguin Bookshop, Freiburg, Germany: an album of
colour photographs of Michael Schwanhauser’s window displays
for a competition held on 10-28 May 1984. Photographer:
[?Michael Schwanhauser]. (1 album).
1984
DM1294/2/5/28 Photograph of the Penguin stand at an exhibition [?in Manchester,
10 October 1984]. Photographer: J.E. Harvey, Manchester. (1 x
black and white photograph).
1984
DM1294/2/5/29 Photograph of a Penguin stand at an educational exhibition
organised by Horace G. Commin Ltd., Bournemouth, n.d.
[c.1960]. Photographer: John Etches, Bournemouth. [Reproduced
in ‘Penguins Progress, 1935-1960’ (Penguin, 1960)] (1 x black
and white photograph).
n.d [c.1960]
DM1294/2/5/30 Photograph of the Penguin stand at an unidentified exhibition, n.d.
[c.1963]. Photographs include an Isokon Penguin Donkey mark 2
[produced in 1963]. Photographer: unknown. (10 x black and
white photographs).
n.d.
[c.1963]
DM1294/2/5/31 50th anniversary of Penguin Books Ltd:
[Negatives of some of these photographs can be found in
1985
DM1294/2: photographs, negatives and slides
25
DM1294/2/20/5/6]
DM1294/2/5/31/1 – “Fifty Penguin Years exhibition” held at the
Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank Centre, London, 21
September-27 October 1985. The exhibition was designed by
David Lloyd Jones and Simon Barker. Photographs include test
colour snapshots of the exhibition for the proposed shoot and
photographs of visitors looking around the exhibition.
Photographer: Michael Dyer Associates Ltd., London. (111 x
black and white and colour photographs and sheets of contact
prints).
DM1294/2/5/31/2 – display of promotional material produced to
celebrate the 50th anniversary of Penguin Books Ltd., 1985.
Photographer: unknown. (2 x colour photographs).
DM1294/2/5/31/3 – Robert Bateman presenting his painting of a
penguin to Peter Mayer, n.d. [1985]. Photographer: Christina
Hartling, Toronto. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/5/31/4 – Peter Mayer unveiling a plaque at the Bodley
Head’s offices in Vigo Street, London, to mark the fiftieth
anniversary of the founding of Penguin Books Ltd., 30 July 1985.
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph)
DM1294/2/5/31/5 – Peter Mayer talking to Eunice Frost at
Penguin UK’s first official fiftieth anniversary event at a reception
for booksellers at the BA Conference in Brighton on 1 May 1985.
Photographer: Chris Lord. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/5/31/6 – Phillips’ auction of Penguin books, 1985.
Photographer: Chris Lord. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/5/31/7 – Peter Mayer talking to Roger McGough at
Penguin’s fiftieth anniversary party at the Royal Festival Hall,
London, and Peter Mayer opening the exhibition, 19 September
1985. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/5/31/8 – photograph of Peter Mayer and Sir John
Kingman signing an agreement between Penguin Books Ltd and
the University of Bristol to deposit Penguin’s editorial files up to
the end of 1960, together with a collection of albums, photographs,
documents and other memorabilia relating to Allen Lane in the
University of Bristol Special Collections; and a photograph of an
exhibition of Penguin-related material in Special Collections to
mark the event, 5 November 1985. Photographer: Chris Lord. (1
x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/5/31/9 – Peter Mayer talking to guests at an
unidentified event, 1985. Photographer: unknown. (2 x black and
white photographs).
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26
DM1294/2/5/31/10 – displays of the first ten Penguin Books in
both their original format and in a facsimile edition produced to
mark the fiftieth anniversary of Penguin Books Ltd., 1985.
Photographer: unknown. [Colour slides available in
DM1294/2/21/2]. (12 black and white and colour photographs).
DM1294/2/5/31/11 – a special trip on the ‘Waverley’ paddle
steamer for former Penguin staff, 20 August 1985. Photographs
include the ‘Waverley’ going underneath Tower Bridge in
London, and of Eunice Frost. Photographer: Sound Stills Ltd., and
unknown. (1 x black and white, 1 x colour photograph).
DM1294/2/5/31/12 – H. Arnold’s collection of Penguin books,
n.d. [1985]. Photographer: unknown. [Negatives available in
DM1294/2/20/5/5]. (15 colour photographs).
DM1294/2/5/31/13 – Penguin’s fiftieth anniversary party at the
Royal Festival Hall, London, 19 September 1985. Photographer:
Tra Heinemann. (3 x black and white contact print sheets).
DM1294/2/6: Photographs of premises in the UK associated with Penguin Books Ltd.
[Negatives of some of these photographs can be found in DM1294/2/20/6].
DM1294/2/6/1
No.8, Vigo Street, Westminster, London [formerly the offices of
The Bodley Head (1887-1935) and later of the Allen Lane The
Penguin Press (1966-1971)]:
1966-1985
DM1294/2/6/1/1 – photograph of Allen Lane’s signature on a
window pane in the former Bodley Head offices at Vigo Street.
The window pane was signed by Allen Lane with a diamond stylus
on 14 February 1921, n.d. [c.1966]. Photographer: unknown. (3 x
black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/6/1/2 – photograph of the exterior of no. 8 Vigo Street,
31 August 1966. Photographer: S. Tauber. [Reproduced in
Jeremy Lewis’s ‘Penguin Special: the life and times of Allen Lane
(Viking, 2005)]. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/6/1/3 – photograph of a watercolour painting by David
Gentleman of the exterior of no.8 Vigo Street, n.d. [c.1969]. The
painting was presented to Allen Lane by the directors of Penguin
Books when he completed fifty years of publishing in 1969.
Photographer: unknown. (2 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/6/1/4 – photograph of the exterior of no.8 Vigo Street,
n.d. [c.1970]. [On the wall beside the door is a plaque for the
Allen Lane The Penguin Press, which moved in 1971 to Grosvenor
Street, London]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
DM1294/2/6/1/5 – photograph of the plaque outside the former
DM1294/2: photographs, negatives and slides
27
offices of The Bodley Head in Vigo Street marking the fiftieth
anniversary of the founding of Penguin Books Ltd. on 30 July
1985, n.d. [1985]. Photographer: Chris Lord. (1 x black and white
photograph)
DM1294/2/6/2
Holy Trinity Church crypt, Marylebone Road, London [formerly
used as a store by The Bodley Head (-1935), then the warehouse,
accounts department and distribution centre for Penguin Books
Ltd.(1935-1937) before it was moved to Harmondsworth]:
c.1937,
c.1970
DM1294/2/6/2/1 – photograph of the exterior of Holy Trinity
Church, showing the despatch of Penguin books by horse-drawn
wagon, n.d. [c.1937]. Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in
‘Shelf Appeal’, August 1937 (see DM1294/1/6) and in ‘Fifty
Penguin Years’ (Penguin, 1985)]. (1 x black and white
photograph).
DM1294/2/6/2/2 – photograph of the interior of the crypt, showing
the fairground slide used to deliver parcels from the printers to the
crypt, n.d. [c.1937]. Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in
‘Shelf Appeal’, August 1937 (see DM1294/1/6) and in ‘Fifty
Penguin Years’ (Penguin, 1985)]. (3 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/6/2/3 – photograph of the interior of the crypt, showing
piles of Penguin books stacked in front of memorial plaques and
vaults, n.d. [c.1937]. Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in
‘Shelf Appeal’, August 1937 (see DM1294/1/6) and in ‘Fifty
Penguin Years’ (Penguin, 1985)]. (4 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/6/2/4 - photograph of the interior of the crypt, showing
piles of Penguin books stacked in front of the family vault of Mr
Henry Archer Raymond, n.d. [c.1937]. [Reproduced in ‘Shelf
Appeal’, August 1937 (see DM1294/1/6)]. Photographer:
unknown. (4 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/6/2/5 - photograph of the interior of the crypt, showing
piles of Penguin books stacked in front of the vaults and packaging
all over the floor, n.d. [c.1937]. [Reproduced in ‘Shelf Appeal’,
August 1937 (see DM1294/1/6)]. Photographer: unknown. (3 x
black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/6/2/6 - photograph of the interior of the crypt, showing
a young man putting together an order of Penguin books, n.d.
[c.1937]. Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in ‘Shelf
Appeal’, August 1937 (see DM1294/1/6) and in Steve Hare (ed.)
‘Penguin Portrait: Allen Lane and the Penguin editors 1935-1970’
(Penguin, 1995)]. (2 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/6/2/7 – photograph of the exterior of Holy Trinity
Church, n.d. [c.1970?]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and
DM1294/2: photographs, negatives and slides
28
white photograph).
DM1294/2/6/3
Headquarters of Penguin Books Ltd., Bath Road, Harmondsworth,
Middlesex (1937-2004) [the site was requisitioned during the
second World War and the offices were moved to West Drayton.
The whole site was demolished in 2004 and divided between the
Pearson Distribution Centre in Rugby and 80, The Strand,
London]:
c.1940-1980
DM1294/2/6/3/1 – a series of photograph taken at Penguin Books
Ltd.’s headquarters in Harmondsworth, n.d [1940]. Includes
photographs of Allen Lane, John Lane and Richard Lane standing
outside the headquarters of Penguin Books Ltd.; the exterior of the
main entrance to the headquarters building; the exterior of the new
factory and warehouse building; the interior of the dispatch
department; two men preparing the Lord Mayor’s Fund
consignment of Penguin Books for the British Expeditionary
Force; three men working in a warehouse surrounded by stacks of
Penguin books; looking through the production department
window from outside at night, with David Low’s “Blackout?
Bah!” cartoon on the wall; Allen Lane, Richard Lane and Mr
Maynard discussing David Low’s cartoons for his latest book,
‘History of Europe Since Versailles’; Dorothy Goodenough
checking the catalogue while standing in front of the shelves
containing a copy of every Penguin book published by the firm; a
man carrying a parcel of Penguin books destined for Suva in the
Fiji Islands; Sydney Payne packing books for export; Penguin
books being loaded for export; a stack of copies of the reprinted
‘The Physical Basis of Personality’ by V.H. Mottram in the
despatch department; a Powers-Samas accounting machine sorting
cards of books in stock. Photographer: TunbridgeSedgwick/Topham Picture Library. [Many of these photographs
were published in an article in ‘The Bystander’ on 10 January
1940 (see DM1294/1/6)]. (22 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/6/3/2 – a series of photographs of women working in
the Penguin offices, including operating the Powers-Samas
accounting machine, n.d [1940s]. Photographer: Harold King
Ltd., London. (5 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/6/3/3 – a series of photographs of people working
machinery in the Penguin factory, n.d [1940s]. Including the
machines used to sew and cover books, the monotype casting
machine and the delivery end. Photographer: Brenard
Photographic Service, Feltham. (8 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/6/3/4 – a series of photographs of people at work in the
Penguin offices and warehouse, n.d. [1950s]. Including Miss E.
Knight, June Pipe, Jimmy Holmes and John Overton in the
production department; a man feeding boxes of Penguin books
through the Pakseal Auto-Band strapper machine; men sorting
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customer orders in the warehouse; and a man labelling boxes of
Penguin books. Photographers: Larder and Stevens Ltd., British
Official Photograph. (8 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/6/3/5 – a series of photographs of people at work in the
Penguin offices, warehouse and factory, 1955. Including Agnes
Faulker labelling Penguin books, men working in the Penguin
warehouse; stack of parcels of ‘The Metamorphoses of Ovid’
[Penguin Classics L58, published July 1955]; stacks of labels for
overseas shipments; Allen Lane in a meeting; Photographer: Guy
Gravett, Hurstpierpoint. (23 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/6/3/6 – photographs of Allen Lane laying the
foundation stone for the new warehouse at Harmondsworth, n.d
[1958?]. Photographer: unknown. (4 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/6/3/7 – a series of photographs of people working in
the Penguin offices, warehouse and factory, 11 May 1960.
Including a woman “looking out” customer orders; Vic Kenton in
the warehouse; selecting labels for sending books abroad from the
Penguin warehouse; loading new stock in to the bulk warehouse;
checking orders against customers’ invoices; Allen Lane seated at
his desk; Photographer: The Times. (18 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/6/3/8 – a series of photographs of women working at
the Penguin offices, n.d. [1960]. Including a woman selecting
labels for sending books abroad from the Penguin warehouse; a
woman stood beside a stack of parcels containing ‘Room at the
Top’; a view down the aisle of stack of books in the warehouse.
Photographer: Sam Lambert, London. (9 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/6/3/9 –photographs of women sorting customers’
orders, n.d [1960s?]. Photographer: Middlesex County Press. (3 x
black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/6/3/10 – photographs of the demolition of the original
(1937) Penguin headquarters building in December 1970, and of a
lead box and its contents found on 31 December 1970 during the
demolition of the building, 1970. The box, which contained
Penguin 1, Pelican A1-2, Penguin Shakespeare B1, and ‘Daily
Telegraph’ for 29 July 1937, was loaned permanently to the
Museum of London. Photographer: unknown [Hans Schmoller?].
(4 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/6/3/11 – photographs of the buildings and people
working on the Harmondsworth site, n.d. [1970s]. Including the
exterior of the Penguin office block; a woman boxing Penguin
books on a conveyer belt; women processing book orders in the
warehouse; men driving forklift trucks in the warehouse;
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30
Photographers: Chris Lord and Foto-Call. (28 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/6/3/12 – a series of photographs of the interiors and
exteriors of the new Penguin office buildings, n.d [1970s].
Photographer: Peter G. Dorrell
DM1294/2/6/3/13 – aerial photographs of the Penguin Head
Office site at Harmondsworth, including Heathrow Airport, n.d.
[1970s]. Photographer: unknown. (3 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/6/3/14 – photographs of the new Penguin office
building, n.d [c.1979]. Photographer: Cement and Concrete
Association, London. (5 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/6/3/15 – photograph of the canteen mosaic at
Harmondsworth, n.d [1970s/1980s]. The mosaic included pieces
of typeface. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
DM1294/2/6/3/16 – a series of photographs of the production of
Penguin books in the factory, n.d. [1980s]. The photographs were
published in a colour brochure. Photographer: unknown. (23 x
colour and black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/6/3/17 – photographs of the new bulk warehouse at
Harmondsworth, completed in July 1967, n.d. [1967]. Including
of Allen Lane standing in the building site, and of the interior of
the completed building. The area measured 70,000 square feet
with a height of 31 feet 6 inches and a capacity to store 45 million
books. Photographer: unknown. (7 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/6/4
Penguin Books Ltd. book depot, Southport, Lancashire:
n.d [1940s]
DM1294/2/6/4 – photograph of the interior of the book depot in
Southport, n.d. [1940s]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and
white photograph).
DM1294/2/6/5
Penguin Group headquarters, 27 Wright’s Lane, London:
1986
DM1294/2/6/5 – contact prints and negatives showing the damage
caused during a break-in [?at the Penguin Group’s new
headquarters at 27 Wright’s Lane], 1986. Photographer: Edgar
Jones Photography/Publishing News. (2 x black and white contact
prints and negatives).
DM1294/2: photographs, negatives and slides
31
DM1294/2/7: Photographs of premises overseas associated with Penguin Books Ltd.
[Negatives of some of these photographs can be found in DM1294/2/20/7].
DM1294/2/7/1
Australia – Penguin Australia was established in 1946 in a tin shed
in South Melbourne, Victoria and was for many years a
distribution branch of Penguin UK. In 1953 it was moved to a
new office and warehouse in Mitcham, and in 1963 to the
Maroondah Highway in Ringwood. In 1965 Penguin became a
public company and Penguin Books Australia Ltd. was
established. In 2002 its head office operations were moved to
Camberwell, Victoria, with distribution operations moving to
Scoresby. An office was opened in Sydney in 1955 and sales
offices in Sydney and Adelaide in 1973.
1946-1985
DM1294/2/7/1/1 – photograph of Penguin’s original warehouse in
South Melbourne, 1946. Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in
‘Fifty Penguin Years’ (Penguin, 1985), p.50]. (1 x black and
white photograph).
DM1294/2/7/1/2 – photograph of a sign announcing “A Sanctuary
for Penguins and Pelicans is being erected on this site by John
Holland & Co., Pty. Ltd. engineers and master builders, 28
Haughton Rd., Oakleigh”. The sign was put up outside the
building site of the new Penguin office and warehouse at Mitcham,
1953. Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in ‘Fifty Penguin
Years’ (Penguin, 1985), p.50]. (2 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/7/1/3 – photograph of Penguin staff at Harmondsworth
opening a container of parcels from the Hiroshima Food Britain
Fund, which was set up in 1948 by Australian booksellers who
donated profits from the sale of John Hersey’s ‘Hiroshima’, 1948.
Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in ‘Fifty Penguin Years’
(Penguin, 1985), p.50]. (2 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/7/1/4 - photographs of the inside of the Penguin
warehouse [at Mitcham?] showing stacks of Penguin books, n.d.
[1950s]. Photographer: unknown. (3 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/7/1/5 – photographs of the exterior of an unidentified
Penguin office in Australia, n.d. [1960s]. Photographer: unknown.
(2 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/7/1/6 – photograph of Christine Lane laying the
foundation stone at Penguin Books Australia’s offices in
Maroondah Highway, Ringwood, watched by her father Allen
Lane, n.d. [1960s]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
DM1294/2/7/1/7 – photograph of the exterior of Penguin Books
Australia Ltd.’s offices at Maroondah Highway, Ringwood, n.d.
[1980s?]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
DM1294/2: photographs, negatives and slides
32
photograph).
DM1294/2/7/1/8 – photograph of a man dressed in a penguin
costume eating a fish, n.d. [1985]. Written on the back of the
photograph: “Uninvited guest, Melbourne”. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x colour photograph).
DM1294/2/7/2
India – Penguin established an agency in Calcutta as early as 1936. c.1940-1984
Penguin India was set up in 1985 as a joint venture between
Penguin and Aveek Sarkar of the Ananda Bazar Patrika Group.
Penguin Books (India) are now [2008] based in New Delhi.
DM1294/2/7/2/1 – photograph of Mr D. Mehra in his office in
Calcutta, 1984. Photographer: [Mona Chowdhury?]. (1 x black
and white photograph).
DM1294/2/7/2/2 – an unidentified young man stood in front of a
bookshop selling Penguin books [in India?], n.d. [1940s]. (1 x
black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/7/2/3 – news cutting: “Fifty years of Rupa, 19361986”.
DM1294/2/7/2/4 – photograph of a display of Penguin books in
the window of the bookshop of E.D. Galgotia & Sons, booksellers,
Connaught Place, New Delhi, 1971. Photographer: Janyta, New
Delhi. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/7/2/5 – photograph of a Penguin book display at SNDT
Women’s University, Bombay, 1972. Photographer: Studio
Concept, Bombay. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/7/2/6 – photograph of a Penguin stand at the first
World Book Fair, New Delhi, 1972. Photographer: unknown. (1
x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/7/2/7 – photographs of the India movie star, Shramila
Tagore, opening a Penguin exhibition and display in Bombay, 23
April 1976. Photographer: unknown. (3 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/7/2/8 – photographs of Sudhir Bansal being awarded
first prize for excellence for the Penguin stand at the fourth World
Book Fair, New Delhi, 1980. Photographer: unknown. (2 x black
and white photographs).
DM1294/2/7/2/9 – photographs of the Penguin stand at the sixth
World Book Fair, New Delhi, February 1984. Photographer:
unknown. (3 x colour photographs).
DM1294/2/7/2/10 – photographs of the Penguin exhibition
arranged at the British Council, Kathmandu, 1983. Photographer:
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33
Kalpana Photos. (2 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/7/2/11 – photographs of Rupa & Co.’s bookshop,
Calcutta, and bookstalls in College Street, Calcutta, selling
Penguin books, 1984. Photographer: Zamir Ansari. (14 x colour
photographs).
DM1294/2/7/3
United States of America – Penguin Books Inc. was established in
New York in July 1939 under Ian Ballantine, initially for the
import and distribution of UK titles. He was soon joined by Kurt
Enoch. In 1949 a new operation, based in Baltimore was reestablished by Harry Paroissien and remained there until 1976.
c.1950s
DM1294/2/7/3/1 – photograph of the original Penguin warehouse
at Clipper Mill Road, Woodbury, Baltimore, in a building once
used by the sail makers of the Baltimore clippers, n.d. [1950s?].
Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in ‘Fifty Penguin Years’
(Penguin, 1985) p.48] (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/7/3/2 – photographs of a statue of a King Penguin
sculpted by Grace Turnbull, with a plaque reading “Grace
Turnbull, King Penguin, 1956. Presented to the City of Baltimore
by Penguin Books whose American home was here from 1949 to
1976”, 3 June 1986. Photographer: Stewart Bros., Inc., Rockville.
(2 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/7/4
Europe –
c.1950-1984
DM1294/2/7/4/1 – photograph of the Penguin stand at an
exhibition [in Norway?], n.d. [1950s?]. Photographer: Olav Lorck
Eidem, Oslo. (1 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/7/4/2 – photograph of Harry Paroissien opening a
Penguin bookshop in Stockholm, Sweden, 1966. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/7/4/3 – photographs of a Penguin window display in a
bookshop in Gianotten, Tilburg, Netherlands, n.d. [1980s].
Photographer: unknown. (10 black and white and colour
photographs).
DM1294/2/7/4/4 – photographs of a Penguin window display in a
bookshop in Zurich, Switzerland, 1985. Photographer: Miss R.
Zaugg. With covering letter from Miss R. Zaugg, Librairie Payot,
Zurich, 2 November 1985. (5 x colour photographs).
DM1294/2/7/4/5 – photographs of 50th anniversary Penguin
window displays in bookshops in Germany, as part of the 1984
window display competition, 1984. Photographs sent to Penguin
by Anthony Moggach, European Sales Manager, with related
correspondence. Photographers: various. (32 documents).
DM1294/2: photographs, negatives and slides
34
DM1294/2/8: Photographs of bookshops associated with Penguin Books Ltd.
[Negatives of some of these photographs can be found in DM1294/2/20/8].
DM1294/2/8/1
Collet’s bookshops in London:
c.1935,
1970s
DM1294/2/8/1/1 – photograph of the exterior of Collet’s bookshop
[“late The Bomb Shop”], no.66 Charing Cross Road, London, n.d.
[c.1935]. A man is standing outside the shop looking at a window
display of Penguin books. Photographer: Penguin Books Ltd. (4 x
black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/8/1/2 – photographs of the window display and interior
shelves of Penguin books in a Collet’s bookshop, London, n.d.
[1970s]. Photographer: Penguin Books Ltd. (4 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/8/2
The Penguin Bookshop, Covent Garden, London, opened in 1980:
1980-1985
DM1294/2/8/2/1 – exterior of the Penguin Bookshop, Covent
Garden possibly on its opening night in 1980. Photographer:
[Hannah Cinamon?]. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/8/2/2 – exterior of the Penguin Bookshop, Covent
Garden, n.d. [1985]. Photographer: Chris Lord, East Barnet.
[Reproduced in ‘Fifty Penguin Years’ (Penguin, 1985), p.101]. (1
x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/8/3
W.H. Smith, booksellers:
1848-1967
DM1294/2/8/3/1 – photograph of a sketch of the first W.H. Smith
bookstall at Euston station, London, in 1848, n.d. [c.1985].
[Original picture held in the W.H. Smith archive]. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/8/3/2 – photograph of a W.H. Smith bookstall at
Blackpool North station, 1896. Photographer: unknown. (1 x
black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/8/3/3 – photographs of a W.H. Smith bookstall at
King’s Cross station, London, 1937. Photographer: unknown. (3
x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/8/3/4 – photographs of a W.H. Smith bookstall at
Waterloo station, London, n.d. [1940s]. Photographer: Topham
Picture Library. (2 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/8/3/5 – photograph of a W.H. Smith bookshop at
Towton, North Yorkshire, 1948. Photographer: unknown. (1 x
black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/8/3/6 – photographs of a W.H. Smith bookstall at
King’s Cross station, London, 1967. Photographer: unknown.
DM1294/2: photographs, negatives and slides
35
[Original pictures held in the W.H. Smith archive]. (2 x black and
white photographs).
DM1294/2/8/4
Paperback Parade bookshop, Reading, Berkshire:
n.d [1960s]
Photographs of the opening party at Paperback Parade, Reading,
n.d. [1960s]. Including Leslie Hanson, Julian Smithells and Hans
Schmoller, Photographer: Terence Le Goubin, London. (5 x black
and white photographs).
DM1294/2/8/5
The Book House, Whitehall, London:
n.d.
[c.1960]
Photograph of the interior of The Book House, Whitehall, showing
a Penguin book display fixture designed specially for the shop,
n.d. [c.1960]. Photographer: Hubert Davey, London.
[Reproduced in ‘Penguins Progress 1935-1960’ (Penguin, 1960)
p.55]. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/8/6
R. Ridgill Trout, university and general bookseller, Gower Street,
London:
1937
Photographs of a Penguin window display in R. Ridgill Trout’s
bookshop, 1937. Photographer: unknown. (2 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/8/7
Students’ Bookshop, Tottenham Court Road, London:
1937
Photographs of a Penguin window display in the Students’
Bookshop, 1937. Photographer: unknown. (2 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/8/8
Mitchell’s Bookstore, Buenos Aires, Argentina:
n.d. [c. late
1930s].
Photograph of the exterior of Mitchell’s Bookstore, n.d. [c. late
1930s]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph). [A negative of this photograph is located at
DM1294/2/20/8].
DM1294/2/8/9
Dunsters Bookshop, Lyme Regis, Dorset:
1949
Two photographs of a Penguin Book display stand designed by Mr
P.F. Tunstill for Dunsters Bookshop, August 1949. The
photographs show Mr and Mrs Tunstill and Sir Allen Lane
standing beside the bookstand inside the shop. Photographer:
unknown. (2 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/8/10 Paperback book stall, Main Square, Nakuru, Kenya:
1984
Colour slide of the paperback book stall, April 1984. The slide
shows a number of Penguin books on sale on the stall.
Photographer: Hans Schmoller. (1 x colour slide).
DM1294/2: photographs, negatives and slides
36
DM1294/2/9: Photographs of transportation, vending machines and display stands related to
Penguin Books Ltd.
[Negatives of some of these photographs can be found in DM1294/2/20/9].
DM1294/2/9/1
Penguin delivery vans:
n.d.
[c.1938]
DM1294/2/9/1/1 – photograph of a Penguin delivery van,
registration no. ELB 59, n.d. [c.1938]. [The van is either a Seddon
or a Dennis van]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
DM1294/2/9/1/2 – photograph of a Penguin delivery van, with a
poster on the side advertising that it is delivering rush orders for
the new Penguin Special, ‘Europe and the Czechs’ by S. Grant
Duff [Penguin Special S9, published September 1938]: “The
swiftest feat of book publishing ever!” [The van is either a
Seddon or a Dennis van]. Photographer: H.W. Obemdorfer. (1 x
black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/9/2
Photograph of Allen Lane on board his yacht, ‘Penguin’ [a 9-ton
auxiliary yawl], n.d. [c.1936]. Photographer: unknown.
[Reproduced in Jeremy Lewis ‘Penguin Special: the life and times
of Allen Lane’ (Viking, 2005)] (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d.
[c.1936]
DM1294/2/9/3
Penguincubator: a coin-operated vending machine for Penguin
books:
1937, 1958
DM1294/2/9/3/1 – photograph of Allen Lane purchasing a
Penguin book from the first Penguincubator situated outside
Collet’s bookshop in Charing Cross Road, July 1937.
Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in ‘The Bookseller’ (21
July 1937), ‘The Listener’ (5 January 1938) and in Jeremy Lewis
‘Penguin Special: the life and times of Allen Lane’ (Viking,
2005)] (3 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/9/3/2 – photograph of a lady purchasing a Penguin
book from a Penguincubator in Charing Cross Road, 1937.
Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in ‘The Sphere’ (28 August
1937)]. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/9/3/3 - photograph of a lady purchasing a Penguin
book from a Penguincubator in Charing Cross Road, 1937.
Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in ‘The Daily Herald’ (7
October 1937)]. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/9/3/4 – newspaper cutting from ‘The Times’ of a
photograph of man purchasing a book for half-a-crown from a
Penguin slot-machine at the National Stationery and Book Trades
Fair, 11 February 1958. Photographer: unknown. (1 x newspaper
cutting).
DM1294/2/9/3/5 - newspaper cutting from ‘The Times Weekly
DM1294/2: photographs, negatives and slides
37
Review’ of a photograph of man purchasing a book for half-acrown from a Penguin slot-machine at the National Stationery and
Book Trades Fair, 20 February 1958. Photographer: unknown. (1
x newspaper cutting).
DM1294/2/9/4
Isokon Penguin donkey bookcase. The Penguin Donkey mark 1
was designed in 1939 by Egon Riss and Jack Pritchard to hold
Penguin books. Mark 2 was designed in 1963 by Ernest Race,
with a flat top to allow it to be used as a side table.
n.d
[c.1963],
1984, 2008
DM1294/2/9/4/1 – advertising flyers and postcard for the Isokon
Penguin Donkey mark 2, with a ten shilling deduction in the price
for Penguin readers, n.d. [c.1963]. Includes a photograph of the
Penguin Donkey mark 2. (4 items).
DM1294/2/9/4/2 – photographs of the Isokon Penguin Donkey
mark 2 and of an advertising leaflet, n.d [c.1963]. Photographer:
unknown. (12 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/9/4/3 – photocopy of a newspaper cutting from ‘City
Limits’, featuring a photograph of a Penguin Donkey mark 1, 3-9
August 1984.
DM1294/2/9/4/4 – print-outs of information on the Isokon
Penguin Donkey bookcase from the Victoria and Albert Museum
website and the mydeco.com website, 2008.
DM1294/2/9/5
Photograph of the W.H. Smith wooden book stand with cheap
editions of books, including Penguins, 1937. Photographer:
unknown. (2 x black and white photographs).
1937
DM1294/2/9/6
Photograph of an exhibition stand for Penguin, Puffin and Pelican
books, n.d. [1960s]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and
white photograph).
n.d.
[c.1960s]
DM1294/2/9/7
Photograph of a hinged exhibition bookcase displaying a range of
Penguin and Pelican books, n.d. [c.1965]. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d.
[c.1965]
DM1294/2/10: Photographs of Penguin point-of-sale displays and advertisements
[Negatives of some of these photographs can be found in DM1294/2/20/10].
DM1294/2/10/1
Photographs of point-of-sale displays for Penguins books,
c.1939:
1939
DM1294/2/10/1/1 – photograph of a window display of Penguin
books, with a model of penguins with icebergs, n.d. [c.1939].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/10/1/2 – photograph of a window display of Penguin
books, n.d. [c.1939]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and
DM1294/2: photographs, negatives and slides
38
white photograph).
DM1294/2/10/2
Photographs of display panels for the Penguin Classics, Pelican
Archaeology and Puffin Picture books, n.d. [c.1956].
Photographer: unknown. (4 x black and white photographs).
n.d [c.1956]
DM1294/2/10/2/1 Photograph of a point of sale display advertising “Send a
Penguin for Christmas in this new free Penguin Christmas
Carton…Perfect for little presents. Super for super Christmas
Cards”, n.d. [1950s?]. Depicts a Penguin carrying a delivery
carton. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
n.d.
[1950s?]
DM1294/2/10/2/2 Photograph of a point-of-sale poster advertising “Stop worrying
about Christmas giving. Wait till you see the new Penguin idea.
Go in and find out about “A Penguin for Christmas”, n.d.
[1950s?]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
n.d.
[1950s?]
DM1294/2/10/2/3 Photograph of a point-of-sale poster advertising “Most titles in
print are available here”, n.d. [1950s]. Depicts a Pelican, Puffin
and Penguin logo. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and
white photograph).
n.d.
[1950s?]
DM1294/2/10/2/4 Photograph of a point-of-sale poster advertising “Great 3 Bird
Exhibition – Penguins, Pelicans, Puffins – Every title on show
inside now”, n.d [1950s]. Depicts a Pelican, Puffin and Penguin
logo. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
n.d.
[1950s?]
DM1294/2/10/2/5 Photograph of a poster adverting the Penguin crime series,
n.d. [1956]
featuring a Penguin in a mask holding a copy of ‘The Sunshine
Corpse’ by Max Murray [Penguin no.1161, published November
1956], n.d. [1956]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and
white photograph).
DM1294/2/10/3
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand for six Penguin
books with covers designed by Abram Games, n.d. [c.1957].
The books pictured are ‘The deceivers’ by John Masters
[Penguin no.1085, published October 1955], ‘Flames in the sky’
by Pierre Clostermann [Penguin no.1226, published July 1957],
‘Murder in Mesopotamia’ by Agatha Christie [Penguin no.1099,
published July 1955], ‘The D.A. holds a candle’ by Erle Stanley
Gardner [Penguin no.1239, published September 1957], ‘The
great escape’ by Paul Brickhill [Penguin no. 1187, published
April 1957], and ‘The case of the haunted husband’ by Erle
Stanley Gardner [Penguin no.1231, published August 1957].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d. [c.1957]
DM1294/2/10/4
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand for “8 of the
best Continental authors” and “V.I.Penguins arrival in January”,
n.d. [c.1960]. The books pictured are ‘Cry, the beloved country’
n.d. [c.1960]
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by Alan Paton [Penguin no. 1274, published July 1958], ‘Such
darling Dodos’ by Angus Wilson [Penguin no.1508, published
October 1960] , ‘Joy Street’ by Frances Parkinson Keyes
[Penguin no.1453, published June 1960], ‘Destination
Chungking’ by Han Suyin [Penguin no.1381, published July
1959], ‘Bonjour Tristesse’ by Francois Sagan [Penguin no.1192,
published December 1958], ‘The Pursuit of love’ by Nancy
Mitford [Penguin no.711, published October 1949], ‘The
masters’ by C.P. Snow [Penguin no.1089, published June 1956],
‘By love possessed’ by James Gould Cozzens [Penguin no.
1464, published August 1960]. Photographer: unknown. (2 x
black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/10/5
Photograph of two point-of-sale book display stands for
“Penguin Book Week” and “Penguins this fortnight parade at
Boots”, n.d. [c.1960]. The books pictured are ‘Coromandel!’ by
John Masters, ‘The little sister’ by Raymond Chandler, ‘Death
in Venice/Tristan/Tonio Kroger’ by Thomas Mann, ‘Through a
glass, darkly’ by Helen McCloy, ‘Cider with Rosie’ by Laurie
Lee, ‘The house of the arrow’ by A.E.W. Mason. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d. [c.1960]
DM1294/2/10/6
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand in the shape of
a house, entitled “The House of Penguins”, for ‘Penguin Book
Week’, n.d. [c.1961]. The books pictured are ‘Emil and the
detectives’ by Eric Kastner, ‘Carbonel’ by Barbara Sleigh, ‘A
Puffin book of verse’ , ‘The second Puffin puzzle book’ by W.E.
Gladstone, ‘The story of Jesus’ by Eleanor Graham, ‘The saga
of Asgard’ by Roger Lancelyn Green, and ‘The painted garden’
by Noel Streatfeild. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and
white photograph).
n.d [c.1961]
DM1294/2/10/7
Photograph of point-of-sale book display stands for four novels
by Henry Cecil: ‘Brothers in law’, ‘Much in evidence’, ‘Friends
at court’ and ‘Sober as a judge’ [published June 1962]. The
stand is entitled “Uncommon law in Penguins”. Photographer:
unknown. (3 x black and white photographs).
June 1962
DM1294/2/10/8
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand for Puffin
n.d. [c.1962]
books, n.d. [c.1962]. The books pictured are ‘Bird watching for
beginners’ by Bruce Campbell, ‘Avalanche!’ by A. Rutgers van
der Loeff, ‘The story of Jesus’ by Eleanor Graham, ‘The lion,
the witch and the wardrobe’ by C.S. Lewis, ‘The good master’
by Kate Seredy, ‘The borrowers’ by Mary Norton, ‘Emil and the
detectives’ by Erich Kastner, ‘A Christmas manger’ by John
Harwood, ‘Professor Branestawm’ by Norman Hunter, ‘The
second Puffin puzzle book’ by W.E. Gladstone, ‘The Puffin quiz
book’ by Norman Dixon and Margaret Dixon, and ‘Noah’s Ark’
by John Miles. Photographer: Art-Wood Photography, London.
(2 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/10/9
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand for the first
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five Peacock books: ‘National Velvet’ by Enid Bagnold, ‘A girl
of the Limberlost’ by Gene Stratton Porter, ‘Under the red robe’
by Stanley J. Weyman, ‘The new Noah’ by Gerald Durrell, and
‘Fifteen’ by Beverly Cleary [published October 1962].
Photographer: N. Christmas. (1 x black and white photograph).
1962
DM1294/2/10/10
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand entitled
“Penguins introducing Paul Gallico” for a Penguin series of
books by Paul Gallico: ‘Mrs Harris goes to New York’,
‘Flowers for Mrs Harris’, ‘Jennie’ and ‘Love of seven dolls’
[published June 1963]. Also includes a point-of-sale book
display stand for ‘Penguin sports handbooks: illustrated guides
to play better’, featuring ‘Improve your golf’ by Bill Cox and
‘Improve your cricket’ by Trevor Bailey. Photographer:
unknown. (3 black and white and 1 colour photograph).
June 1963
DM1294/2/10/11
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand for ‘Inside
Russia today’ by John Gunther [published September 1963].
Photographer: unknown. (2 x black and white photographs).
September
1963
DM1294/2/10/12
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand for ‘The
Penguin Brockbank’, ‘The Penguin Thelwell’ and ‘The Penguin
Hoffnung’ [published November 1963]. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
November
1963
DM1294/2/10/13
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand entitled
“Animal trio. Three animal-hunting adventures with Gerald
Durrell. Fully illustrated with lively drawings by Ralph
Thompson”, featuring ‘Three singles to adventure’, ‘A zoo in
my luggage’ and ‘The whispering land’ [published March
1964]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x colour photograph).
March 1964
DM1294/2/10/14
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand entitled
“Thomasina by Paul Gallico. Now filmed by Walt Disney as
The Three Lives of Thomasina”, [published March 1964].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
March 1964
DM1294/2/10/15
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand for ‘5BX XBX
Physical Fitness’ by the Royal Canadian Air force [published
April 1964]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x colour photograph).
April 1964
DM1294/2/10/16
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand entitled “Rain
or shine pick a Penguin for summer reading!” The books
pictured are ‘The Kon-Tiki expedition’ by Thor Heyerdahl, ‘The
grapes of wrath’ by John Steinbeck, ‘The king’s general’ by
Daphne du Maurier, ‘The country girls’ by Edna O’Brien, ‘The
memories of Sherlock Holmes’ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘Yet
more Penguin science fiction’ by Brian Adliss, ‘To kill a
mockingbird’ by Harper Lee, ‘Maigret afraid’ by Georges
Simenon, ‘A kind of loving’ by Stan Barlow, ‘The outward
urge’ by John Wyndham and Lucas Parkes, ‘Three singles to
adventure’ by Gerald Durrell, and ‘My fair lady’ by Alan Jay
July 1964
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41
Lerner [published July 1964]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x
black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/10/17
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand entitled
October
“Penguin Gardening Handbooks, published in collaboration with 1964
the R.H.S”. The books pictured are: ‘Hardy bulbs 1’ by E.B.
Anderson, ‘Hardy bulbs 2’ by Cyril F. Coleman, and ‘Annual
and Biennial Flowers’ by A.P. Balfour [published October
1964]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
DM1294/2/10/18
Photograph of a poster entitled “Now in Penguins Trevelyan’s
Illustrated English Social History” [published October 1964].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
October
1964
DM1294/2/10/19
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand entitled “Lord
Jim: Conrad’s epic novel now film. Read the Penguin”
[published 1965?]. Photographer: unknown. (3 x black and
white photographs).
[1965?]
DM1294/2/10/20
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand entitled “A
seaside Puffin” featuring ‘Seashore life’ by Gillian Matthews
and Peter Parks [Puffin Picture Book no.120, published March
1965]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
March 1965
DM1294/2/10/21
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand entitled “Lady
L. Only Sophia Loren was woman enough to play Lady L. in
the film of Romain Gary’s exuberant novel” [published
December 1965]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x colour
photograph).
December
1965
DM1294/2/10/22
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stands for ‘Life at the December
top’ by John Braine [published December 1965]. Photographer: 1965
unknown. (3 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/10/23
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stands entitled
“There’s a Puffin for every pocket: adventure stories, animal
stories, historical novels, school stories, magic, mystery and
humour, 175 titles. Here are 12 of the best – try one! All 3s.
6d.”, “This month’s new Puffins” and “Young Puffins for 3-8
year olds”. The books pictured are ‘The hundred and one
Dalmatians’ by Dodie Smith, ‘The secret garden’ by Frances
Hodgson Burnett, ‘The incredible adventures of Professor
Branestawn’ by Norman Hunter, ‘Mary Poppins’ by P.L.
Travers, ‘White boots’ by Noel Streatfeild, ‘The horse and his
boy’ by C.S. Lewis, ‘The brumby’ by Mary Elwyn Patchett,
‘Jennings goes to school’ by Anthony Buckeridge, ‘Tarka the
otter’ by Henry Williamson, ‘Emil and the detectives’ by Erich
Kastner, ‘Robin Hood’ by Roger Lancelyn Green, ‘Moonfleet’
by J. Meade Falkner, ‘Starman Jones’ by Robert A. Heinlein,
‘The junior Puffin quiz book’ by Norman Dixon and Margaret
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Dixon, ‘The twenty-two letters’ by Clive King, ‘Island of the
blue dolphins’ by Scott O’Dell, ‘The land of green ginger’ by
Noel Langley, ‘Jim Davis’ by John Masefield, ‘Ponder and
William’ by Barbara Softly, ‘Paddington at large’ by Michael
Bond, and ‘Gobbolino, the witch’s cat’ by Ursula Moray
Williams [published 1966]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black
and white photograph).
DM1294/2/10/24
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand for ‘The
Group’ by Mary McCarthy [published January 1966].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
January
1966
DM1294/2/10/25
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand entitled
“Haggard: Passed to you for action” featuring Penguin editions
of William Haggard’s ‘The Telemann touch’, ‘The unquiet
sleep’, ‘Slow burner’ and ‘The arena’ [published February
1966]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
February
1966
DM1294/2/10/26
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand entitled
“Doctor in Clover. Now filmed – the funniest, fastest, frankest
‘Doctor’ yet. Read the Penguin” by Richard Gordon [published
March 1966]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
March 1966
DM1294/2/10/27
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stands entitled
June 1966
“Funeral in Berlin. From Penguin – Len Deighton’s sensational
spy thriller. The year’s most exciting buy in paperback. Now
being filmed with Michael Caine” and “Funeral in Berlin: July is
funeral month for Penguins” [published June 1966].
Photographer: unknown. (4 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/10/28
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand entitled “A
August
brilliant novel by Truman Capote, author of ‘In cold blood” for
1966
Truman Capote’s ‘The grass harp in cold blood/Breakfast at
Tiffany’s’ [published August 1966]. Photographer: unknown. (1
x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/10/29
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand entitled “The
most eagerly-awaited Lewis Eliot of all! C.P. Snow’s Corridors
of power” [published October 1966]. Photographer: unknown.
(1 x black and white photograph).
October
1966
DM1294/2/10/30
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand entitled
“Penguin English Library”. The books pictured are ‘Wuthering
heights’ by Emily Bronte, ‘Middlemarch’ by George Eliot,
‘Great expectations’ by Charles Dickens, ‘The pilgrim’s
progress’ by John Bunyan, ‘Persuasion’ by Jane Austen, and
‘Three Jacobean tragedies’ [published c.1968]. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
[c.1968]
DM1294/2/10/31
Photographs of point-of-sale book display stands and badges
June 1969
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bearing the logo “Che Lives in Penguins” designed by Henning
Boehlke. The books pictured are Che Guevara’s ‘Guerrilla
warfare’ and ‘Reminiscences of the Cuban revolutionary war’
[published June 1969]. Includes a photograph of a young
woman wearing a “Che Lives in Penguins” badge and a man
down a manhole, holding a “Che Lives in Penguins” placard.
Photographer: unknown. (5 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/10/32
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand entitled
“Hornblower! C.S. Forester’s colourful hero in three actionpacked stories of the sea”, n.d. [c.1969]. The books pictured are
C.S. Forester’s ‘Flying colours’, ‘The commodore’ and ‘A ship
of the line’. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
DM1294/2/10/33
Photographs of a window display entitled “The recipe for
n.d. [c.1969]
success: it’s gas for good cooks – with Penguin cook books!” for
Penguin cookery fortnight at an unidentified Oxford bookshop,
n.d. [c.1969]. Photographer: unknown. (3 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/10/34
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand entitled “This
way to the Puffin Place”, “This is a Puffin Place”, “Puffin
Picking Place”, “Puffin Books”, n.d. [1970s]. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d. [1970s]
DM1294/2/10/35
Photograph of a circular point-of-sale book display stand
advertising Penguin books, n.d. [1970s]. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x colour photograph).
n.d. [1970s]
DM1294/2/10/36
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand entitled
“Watership Down. Richard Adams. Winner of both this year’s
Guardian Award and Carnegie Medal” [published 1972].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
1972
DM1294/2/10/37
Photograph of point-of-sale book display stands and a window
display for “The Penguin Medical Encyclopaedia” by Peter
Wingate [published 1972]. Photographer: unknown. (3 x black
and white photographs).
1972
DM1294/2/10/38
Photograph of point-of-sale book display stands entitled “All
Creatures Great and Small…”, “Watership Down”, and “The
Vertical Smile”. The books pictured are ‘The soul of the white
ant’ by Eugene Marais, ‘The whale’, ‘The seal’, ‘The soul of the
ape’, Watership Down’ by Robert Adams, and Richard
Condon’s ‘The Manchurian candidate’, ‘The ecstasy business’,
‘Any god will do’ and ‘The vertical smile’ [published 1973].
Photographer: unknown. (2 x black and white photograph).
1973
DM1294/2/10/39
Photograph of two point-of-sale book display stands entitled
“Read Condon’s hilarious satire, The Vertical Smile” and
“August Penguins: Richard Condon”. The books pictured are
1973
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n.d .[c.1969]
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Richard Condon’s ‘The Manchurian candidate’, ‘The ecstasy
business’, ‘Any god will do’ and ‘The vertical smile’ [published
1973]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
DM1294/2/10/40
Photograph of point-of-sale book display stands for Spike
Milligan’s ‘Small dreams of a scorpion’ [published November
1973]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
November
1973
DM1294/2/10/41
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand entitled “Open
up a Penguin … the recipe for success!”, featuring a display of
Penguin cookery books, n.d. [c.1973]. Photographer: unknown.
(2 x black and white photographs).
n.d. [c.1973]
DM1294/2/10/42
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand for ‘The day of
the dolphin’ by Robert Merle [published 1973]. Photographer:
unknown. (2 x black and white photographs).
1973
DM1294/2/10/43
Photograph of a display of Michael Bond’s Paddington Bear
books and toys, n.d. [c.1975]. Photographer: Topham Picture
Library. (1 x black and white photographs).
n.d [c.1975]
DM1294/2/10/44
Photograph of a mock-up of a window display for Ernest
Hemingway’s ‘Islands in the stream’ [published 1977].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
1977
DM1294/2/10/45
Photograph of a point-of-sale book display stand displaying
Penguin Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish,
Portuguese, Spanish and Yugoslavian phrase books, and
Penguin Travel Guides for Europe, Canada, the Caribbean,
Mexico, South America and the United States 1982/83.
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
1982
DM1294/2/10/46
Photograph of a point-of-sale Christmas advertisement for
Penguin books, n.d. [1980s]. Depicts a fir cone, two baubles
and Christmas bows laid over ‘Penguin’ text. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d. [1980s]
DM1294/2/11: Photographs of Penguin book covers
[Negatives of some of these photographs can be found in DM1294/2/20/11].
DM1294/2/11/1
Photograph of the book cover of ‘Ariel’ by André Maurois
[published July 1935]. [Penguin no.1]. Photographer: unknown.
(1 x black and white photograph).
1935
DM1294/2/11/2
Photograph of the book covers of ‘Ariel’ by André Maurois
[published July 1935] and ‘The intelligent woman’s guide to
socialism, capitalism, sovietism and fascism’ (volume 1) by
George Bernard Shaw [published May 1937]. [Penguin no.1 and
Pelican no.1]. Photographer: unknown. (2 x black and white
1935, 1937
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45
photographs).
DM1294/2/11/3
Photograph of the book cover of ‘The intelligent woman’s guide
to socialism, capitalism, sovietism and fascism’ (volume 1) by
George Bernard Shaw [published May 1937]. [Pelican no.1].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/11/4
Photograph of the book cover of the Penguin Shakespeare edition 1937
of ‘Romeo and Juliet’, edited by G.B. Harrison [published
August 1937]. [Penguin Shakespeare no.10]. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/11/5
Photograph of the book cover of ‘Blackmail or War’ by
Geneviève Tabouis [published February 1938]. [Penguin Special
no.3]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
DM1294/2/11/6
Photograph of the book cover of the Penguin Guide to ‘Kent,
1939
Sussex and Surrey’, edited by L. Russell Muirhead [published
March 1939]. [Penguin Guide no.1. Photographer: unknown. (1
x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/11/7
Photograph of the book covers of Penguin nos. 2-10: ‘A farewell
to arms’ by Ernest Hemingway [Penguin no.2, published July
1935], ‘Poet’s pub’ by Eric Linklater [Penguin no.3, published
July 1935], ‘Madame Claire’ by Susan Ertz [Penguin no.4,
published July 1935], ‘The unpleasantness at the Bellona Club’
by Dorothy L. Sayers [Penguin no. 5, published July 1935],
‘Murder on the links’ by Agatha Christie [Penguin no. 6,
published March 1936], ‘Twenty-five’ by Beverley Nichols
[Penguin no. 7, published July 1935], ‘William’ by E.H. Young
[Penguin no.8, published July 1935], ‘Gone to earth’ by Mary
Webb [Penguin no. 9, published July 1935], ‘Carnival’ by
Compton Mackenzie [Penguin no. 10, published July 1935].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
1935-1936
DM1294/2/11/8
Photograph of the book covers of ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ by
Jonathan Swift [Penguin Illustrated Classics no.1, published May
1938], ‘Tennyson’ [Penguin Poets no.1, published June 1941]
and ‘The Odyssey’ by Homer [Penguin Classics no.1, published
January 1946]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photographs).
1938, 1941,
1946
DM1294/2/11/9
Photograph of the book cover of ‘Penguin New Writing’ volume
1, edited by John Lehman [published December 1940].
Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in ‘Fifty Penguin Years’
(Penguin, 1985)]. (1 x black and white photograph).
1940
DM1294/2/11/10 Photograph of the book covers of six Puffin Picture Books:
‘Orlando’s evening out’ by Kathleen Hale [PP14, published
August 1941], ‘Trees in Britain’ by S.R. Badmin [PP31,
published November 1943], ‘Fish and Fishing’ by Bernard
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1938
1941-1953
46
Venables [PP53, published August 1948], ‘Pottery and its
making’ by John Thomas and Mary Sikes [PP71, published
October 1950], ‘Wild flower’ by Paxton Chadwick [PP81,
published April 1949], ‘Pond life’ by Paxton Chadwick and Jean
Gorvett [PP93, published February 1953]. Photographer:
unknown. [Taken from a full-colour catalogue printed by W.S.
Cowell depicting their work]. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/11/11 Photograph of the book cover of ‘Worzel Gummidge’ by Barbara 1941
Euphen Todd [Puffin Book PS1, published December 1941].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/11/12 Photograph of the book cover of ‘Soft fruit growing’ by
Raymond Bush [Penguin Handbook PH1, published December
1942]. Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in ‘Fifty Penguin
Years’ (Penguin, 1985)]. (1 x black and white photograph).
1942
DM1294/2/11/13 Photograph of the cover of the ‘Transatlantic’ periodical,
September 1945. Photographer: unknown. (1 x colour
photograph).
1945
DM1294/2/11/14 Photograph of the book cover of ‘The odyssey’ by Homer,
translated by E.V. Rieu, and cover design by John Overton
[Penguin Classic L1, published January 1946]. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
1946
DM1294/2/11/15 Photograph of the book cover of ‘Penguin New Writing’ no.32,
edited by John Lehmann, cover design by John Minton
[published 1947]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
1947
DM1294/2/11/16 Photograph of the book cover of ‘Public Transport’ by Christian
Barman [Things We See E5, published March 1949].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
1949
DM1294/2/11/17 Photograph of the book cover of ‘Penguin New Writing’ no.40,
edited by John Lehmann [published 1950]. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
1950
DM1294/2/11/18 Photograph of the book cover of ‘A Book of Mediterranean
Food’ by Elizabeth David, with decorations by John Minton
[Penguin Handbook PH27, published November 1955].
Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in ‘Fifty Penguin Years’
(Penguin, 1985) p.54]. (1 x black and white photograph).
1955
DM1294/2/11/19 Photograph of the back cover of ‘The Great Escape’ by Paul
Brickhill, with a photograph and biographical notes on Paul
Brickhill [Penguin 1187, published April 1957]. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
1957
DM1294/2/11/20 Photograph of the book cover of ‘Georges Braque’ by John
Richardson [Penguin Modern Painters MP20, published January
1959
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1959]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
DM1294/2/11/21 Photograph of the book cover of ‘The Plague’ by Albert Camus
[Penguin no.1472, published September 1960]. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
1960
DM1294/2/11/22 Photograph of the book cover of ‘Berlin: Hostage for the West’
by John Mander, cover design by Richard Hollis [Penguin
Special S209, published February 1962]. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
1962
DM1294/2/11/23 Photograph of the box set of Stephen Potter’s ‘Gamesmanship’,
‘Lifemanship’, ‘One-up-manship’ and ‘Supermanship’ [Penguin
nos.1826-1829, published October 1962]. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
1962
DM1294/2/11/24 Photograph of the book cover of ‘A Farewell to Arms’ by Ernest
Hemingway, illustrated by Paul Hogarth, cover design by
Germano Facetti [Penguin Modern Classics A2, c. 1963 edition].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
c.1963
DM1294/2/11/25 Photograph of the box set of the ‘Collected Short Stories’ of W.
Somerset Maugham [Penguin nos.1871-1874, published January
1963]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
1963
DM1294/2/11/26 Photograph of the box set of Nina Epton’s ‘Love and the
French’, ‘Love and the Spanish’ and ‘Love and the English’
[Penguin nos.2190-2192, published October 1964].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
1964
DM1294/2/11/27 Photograph of the book cover of ‘The Penguin Private Eye’
[Penguin no.2394, published December 1965]. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
1965
DM1294/2/11/28 Photograph of the box set of ‘A history of the crusades’ (vols. 13) by Steven Runciman [Peregrine Books Y50-52, published
August 1965]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
1965
DM1294/2/11/29 Photograph of the box set of the Penguin Reference Desk Set,
comprising ‘Penguin English Dictionary’ and ‘Penguin
Encyclopaedia’ [published October 1965?]. Photographer:
unknown. (2 x black and white and 1 x colour photograph).
1965?
DM1294/2/11/30 Photograph of the box set of ‘The Penguin Parkinson’,
1965
comprising ‘Parkinson’s Law’, ‘The Law and the Profits’ and
‘In-Law and Out-Laws’ by C. Northcote Parkinson [Penguin nos.
2366-2368, published November 1965]. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white and 1 x colour photograph).
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48
DM1294/2/11/31 Photograph of the book cover of ‘One Fat Englishman’ by
Kingsley Amis, cover design by Freire Wright, photograph by
Karl Ferris [Penguin no.2417, published March 1966].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
1966
DM1294/2/11/32 Photograph of the book cover of ‘Funeral in Berlin’ by Len
Deighton [Penguin no.2461, published June 1966].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
1966
DM1294/2/11/33 Photograph of the book cover of ‘Inside Mr Enderby’ by
Anthony Burgess, cover design by Richard Bailey [Penguin
no.2400, published February 1966]. Photographer: unknown. (1
x black and white photograph).
1966
DM1294/2/11/34 Photograph of the back cover of ‘The Penguin John Lennon’ by
John Lennon, cover design by Alan Aldridge, photograph by
Brian Duffy [Penguin no. 2540, published October 1966].
Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in ‘Fifty Penguin Years’
(Penguin, 1985)]. (1 x black and white photograph).
1966
DM1294/2/11/35 Photograph of the book cover of ‘The Penguin English
Dictionary’ [published c.1969?]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x
black and white photograph).
c.1969
DM1294/2/11/36 Photograph of the book cover of ‘Usage and Abusage: a guide to
good English’ by Eric Partridge [Penguin Reference Books R24,
published 1973?]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x colour
photograph).
c.1973
DM1294/2/11/37 Photograph of the book cover of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory’ by Roald Dahl, cover design by Faith Jaques [Puffin no.
599, published 1973]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x colour
photograph).
1973
DM1294/2/11/38 Photograph of the book cover of ‘The bloody chamber and other
stories’ by Angela Carter [King Penguin, published 1981].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x colour photograph).
1981
DM1294/2/11/39 Photograph of the book cover for ‘The end of the world news’ by
Anthony Burgess [Penguin 50th anniversary edition, 1985].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x colour photograph).
1985
DM1294/2/11/40 Photograph of the book cover for ‘The Sunne in Splendour’ by
Sharon Penman [Penguin 50th anniversary edition, 1985].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x colour photograph).
1985
DM1294/2/11/41 Photograph of the book cover for ‘The Watcher’ by Charles
1985
th
Maclean [Penguin 50 anniversary edition, 1985]. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x colour photograph).
DM1294/2/11/42 Photograph of the covers of nine Penguin books: ‘William
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet’ by Susan Quilliam [Penguin
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1985
49
Passnotes, published 1985], ‘Remembrance of Things Past’ by
Proust, ‘The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes’ by Arthur
Conan Doyle [Penguin no. 5694], ‘Mister Johnson’ by Joyce
Cary [Penguin no.1726, published 1985], ‘Jane Fonda’s Workout
Book’ [Penguin no.6001, published 1984], ‘Arnold Bennett’ by
Margaret Drabble [Penguin Literary Biographies, published
1985] ‘The Crucible’ by Arthur Miller, ‘A Dark and Distant
Shore’ by Reay Tannahill [Penguin no. 6763, published 1984],
‘The Memory of War and Children in Exile’ by James Fenton
[Penguin no. 6812, published 1983]. Photographer: unknown.
[Reproduced in ‘Fifty Penguin Years’ (Penguin, 1985), p.103] (1
x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/11/43 Photograph of ‘The House with Green Shutters’ by George
Douglas Brown [Penguin Classics no.043.218, published 1985].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x colour photograph).
1985
DM1294/2/12: Photographs of American Penguin book covers
DM1294/2/12/1
Photograph of the book cover of ‘What’s that plane: how to
identify American and Jap airplanes’ by Walter Pitkin, cover
designed by Ian Ballantine, enlarged second edition [An Infantry
Journal Penguin Special S201, published January 1943].
Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in ‘Fifty Penguin Years’
(Penguin, 1985), p.46]. (1 x black and white photograph).
1943
DM1294/2/12/2
Photograph of the book cover of ‘Empire in the changing world’
by W.K. Hancock [A Fighting Forces Penguin Special S213,
published 1943]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
1943
DM1294/2/12/3
Photograph of the book cover of ‘Guadalcanal Diary’ by Richard
Tregaskis [A Fighting Forces Penguin Special S220, published
1944]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
1944
DM1294/2/12/4
Photograph of the book cover of ‘G.I. Sketch Book’ by Amiée
Crane [A Fighting Forces Penguin Special S225, published July
1955]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
1944
DM1294/2/12/5
Photograph of the book cover of ‘New Ways of War’ by Tom
Wintringham [A Fighting Forces Penguin Special S575,
published 1940?]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
1940?
DM1294/2/12/6
Photograph of the book cover of ‘The Mother’ by Pearl S. Buck
n.d
[American Penguin no.505]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black
and white photograph).
DM1294/2/12/7
Photograph of the book cover of ‘The old man and the sea’ by
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1954
50
Ernest Hemingway [possibly a pirated edition], 1954.
Photographer: unknown. [Negative available at
DM1294/2/20/12]. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/13: Photographs of non-Penguin book covers and advertisements
[Negatives of some of these photographs can be found in DM1294/2/20/13].
DM1294/2/13/1
Albatross Books: a German publishing house founded in 1932
that produced the first modern mass market paperback books.
Their design inspired the look of the original Penguin books:
1933-1939
DM1294/2/13/1/1 – photograph of the book covers of ‘The
Albatross Almanac’ 1933 and 1935. Photographer: unknown. (1
x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/13/1/2 – photograph of an advertisement for The
Albatross Modern Continental Library, Autumn list 1934.
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/13/1/3 – photograph of the book covers of ‘The
British Character’ by Pont of Punch, introduced by E.M.
Delafield, published by Albatross, 1939. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/13/2
Tauchnitz Editions: a German publishing house founded in 1837, n.d.
that produced inexpensive paperback reprints of British and
American authors. The company merged with Albatross in 1936:
DM1294/2/13/2 – photograph of the book cover of ‘Memoirs of
an infantry officer’ by Siegfried Sassoon (Tauchnitz edition:
Collection of British and American Authors, vol.4976), n.d.
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/13/3
Ernest Benn Limited, London:
n.d.
DM1294/2/13/3/1 – photograph of the book cover of ‘A History
of England’ by D.C. Somervell. Published in Benn’s Sixpenny
Library, no.1, n.d. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and
white photograph).
DM1294/2/13/3/2 – photograph of the book cover of ‘Leap
before you look’ by Alec Waugh. Published in Benn’s Nine
Penny Novels, n.d. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and
white photograph).
DM1294/2/13/4
Methuen & Co., London:
n.d.
DM1294/2/13/4 – photograph of the book cover of ‘The
Matabele Campaign’ by R.S.S. Baden-Powell. Published in
Methuen’s Sixpenny Library, n.d. Photographer: unknown. (1 x
black and white photograph).
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51
DM1294/2/13/5
Photograph of the book cover of ‘The Brothers’ by L.A.G.
Strong, n.d. [A film of the book was produced in 1947]. Patricia
Rock who appeared in the film is depicted on the cover.
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
1947
DM1294/2/13/6
Martyn Library, Juvenile Productions Ltd., London:
1937
DM1294/2/13/6 – photograph of an advertisement from ‘The
Bookseller’ for the Martyn Library sixpence series for boys and
girls, edited by Howard Marshall. The advertisement includes a
photograph of the book cover of ‘The Water Babies’ by Charles
Kingsley [published 1937]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black
and white photograph).
DM1294/2/13/7
Collins:
1932, 1935
DM1294/2/13/7/1 – photograph of an advertisement for Collins’
seven pence novels, n.d. [c.1932]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x
black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/13/7/2 – photograph of an advertisement from ‘The
Bookseller’ for Collins’ shilling novels, 1935. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/13/8
John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., London:
1934
DM1294/2/13/8 – photograph of an advertisement from ‘The
Bookseller’ for the John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd. publication
of Walt Disney’s ‘Three Little Pigs’ [published March 1934].
Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in ‘Fifty Penguin Years’
(Penguin, 1985) p.17]. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/13/9
George Newnes Ltd., London:
1936
DM1294/2/13/9 – photograph of an advertisement from ‘The
Bookseller’, 8 July 1936 for the Newnes series of ‘What you
want to say and how to say it’ phrase books. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/14: Photographs of proofs of ‘Border Ballads’
DM1294/2/14
Photographs of proofs of ‘Border Ballads’ edited by William
Beattie [Penguin Poetry D20, published June 1952].
Photographer: Brenard Photographic Service. (6 x black and
white photographs).
DM1294/2: photographs, negatives and slides
1952
52
DM1294/2/15: Photographs of examples of typography of Penguin books
[Negatives of some of these photographs can be found in DM1294/2/20/14].
DM1294/2/15/1
Photograph of the Penguin Composition Rules, 1983 revision.
Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in ‘Fifty Penguin Years’
(Penguin, 1985) p.116]. (1 x black and white photograph).
1983
DM1294/2/15/2
Photograph of a page from the Wiltshire volume of Pevsner’s
1963
Building of England series, 1963. Showing the typical page
layout designed by Hans Schmoller. Photographer: unknown.
[Reproduced in ‘Fifty Penguin Years’ (Penguin, 1985) p.118]. (1
x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/15/3
Photograph of a page from the Penguin Shakespeare first edition
of ‘Twelfth Night’, designed in 1937 by Edward Young.
Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in ‘Fifty Penguin Years’
(Penguin, 1985) p.109]. (1 x black and white photograph).
1937
DM1294/2/15/4
Photograph of a page from ‘Furniture’ by Gordon Russell
[Penguin ‘The Things we See’ series E3, published January
1949], showing the use of photographic evidence as argument.
Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in ‘Fifty Penguin Years’
(Penguin, 1985) p.114]. (1 x black and white photograph).
1949
DM1294/2/15/5
Photocopy of a page written in Japanese from the ‘Information
Magazine for Maruzen Academic Card Members’, vol. 4,
celebrating fifty years of Penguin Books [1985]. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photocopy).
1985
DM1294/2/16: Photographs of illustrations from Penguin books
[Negatives of some of these photographs can be found in DM1294/2/20/15].
DM1294/2/16/1
Photograph of an illustration from ‘The Holiday Trains Goes to
the Moon’ by Peter Heaton [Baby Puffin Books BP9, published
April 1948]. Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in ‘Fifty
Penguin Years’ (Penguin, 1985) p.41]. (1 x black and white
photograph).
1948
DM1294/2/16/2
Photograph of a proof of a painting entitled ‘Dead Spring’ by
Paul Nash used to illustrate ‘Paul Nash’ by Herbert Read
[Penguin Modern Painters MP4, published April 1944].
Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in ‘Fifty Penguin Years’
(Penguin, 1985) p.40]. (1 x black and white photograph).
1944
DM1294/2/16/3
Photograph of a painting of a man looking up at a giant Puffin
standing on a rural landscape dotted with books, n.d. [March
1985]. [Promotional material for ‘Fee Fi Fo Fun!! Puffin Books
for Everyone!”] Photographer: unknown. (1 x colour
photograph).
n.d. [March
1985].
DM1294/2/16/4
Photograph of a sketch cartoon of George Bernard Shaw drawn
1939
DM1294/2: photographs, negatives and slides
53
by Joss for the Summer 1939 edition of ‘Penguin’s Progress’.
Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in ‘Fifty Penguin Years’
(Penguin, 1985) p.27]. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/16/5
Photograph of a cartoon of George Bernard Shaw drawn by
Ernest Forbes for ‘The Sketch’, 1937 entitled “Bernard Shaw
joins the Penguins” to celebrate the publication by Penguin
Books of ‘The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and
Capitalism’ [Pelican A1-2, published May 1937]. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
1937
DM1294/2/16/6
Photographs of two sketches by Cecil Beaton entitled
“Mediterranean Convoy: Taking Bearings” and “Mediterranean
Convoy: A Game of Nap”, reproduced in ‘Penguin New
Writing’, vol. 18 [published July-September 1943].
Photographer: unknown. (2 x black and white photographs).
1943
DM1294/2/16/7
Photographs of four sketches by Eric Ravilious entitled “H.M.
Submarines”, reproduced in ‘Penguin New Writing’, vol. 22
[published 1944]. Photographer: unknown. (4 x black and white
photographs).
1944
DM1294/2/17: Photographs of advertisements for and inside Penguin books
[Negatives of some of these photographs can be found in DM1294/2/20/16].
DM1294/2/17/1
Photograph of an advertisement from page 707 of ‘The
Publishers’ Circular and The Publisher and Bookseller’, 25 May
1935, depicting six Penguins sliding down the page with the text:
“The Penguins are Coming. If you want to know what all this is
about, turn over quickly to the next page”. Photographer:
unknown. [Reproduced in ‘Fifty Penguin Years’ (Penguin,
1985) p.17]. (1 x black and white photograph).
1935
DM1294/2/17/2
Photograph of an advertisement from page 709 of ‘The
Publishers’ Circular and The Publisher and Bookseller’, 25 May
1935, for the new series of Penguin Books and depicting a copy
of ‘Poet’s Pub’ by Eric Linklater [Penguin no.3, published July
1935]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
1935
DM1294/2/17/3
Photograph of an advertisement for the ‘Easipak’ suitcase and
the ’Drum’ hat case. Packed inside the suitcase is a copy of the
Penguin edition of ‘The Autobiography of Margot Asquith’
[Penguin nos.29-30, published January 1936]. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
1936
DM1294/2/17/4
Photograph of an advertisement from ‘The Bookseller’, 22 July
1936 entitled “Penguins make the ideal Christmas cards”, with a
list of Penguin nos.1-60. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and
white photograph).
1936
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54
DM1294/2/17/5
Photograph of an advertisement from ‘The Weekly Trade Guide’, 1936
5 October 1936 entitled “Do you know that Penguins have sold
the absolutely amazing number, in twelve months, of 3,000,
000”. Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in ‘Fifty Penguin
Years’ (Penguin, 1985) p.20]. (2 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/17/6
Photograph of an advertisement for the first ten Pelican books
available, 21 May 1937. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and
white photograph).
1937
DM1294/2/17/7
Photograph of an advertisement for the first of the Penguin
Specials: Edgar Mowrer’s ‘Germany puts the clock back’ [S1,
published November 1937]. Photographer: unknown. (2 x black
and white photographs).
1937
DM1294/2/17/8
Photograph of an advertisement from ‘Daily Sketch’, 15 January
1938 for a film showing of ‘The Divorce of Lady X’, starring
Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier. The advertisement includes
a photograph of Merle Oberon sitting in bed reading a Penguin
book. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
1938
DM1294/2/17/9
Photograph of an advertisement from ‘Challenge’, 7 July 1938
for the Pelican Special, ‘Modern German Art’ by Peter Thoene
[S6, published July 1938]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black
and white photograph).
1938
DM1294/2/17/10 Photograph of an advertisement for Penguin Short Stories and
Penguin Parade, n.d. [c.1939]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x
black and white photograph).
n.d. [c.1939]
DM1294/2/17/11 Photograph of an advertisement from the ‘Bookseller
Association’ for Penguin Specials, n.d. [1940]. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
1940
DM1294/2/17/12 Photograph of an advertisement for Penguin Mystery and Crime
books: “Penguins have the best thrillers”, n.d. [January 1940].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
1940
DM1294/2/17/13 Photograph of an advertisement for Penguin Travel and
Adventure books, n.d. [1940]. Photographer: unknown. (2 x
black and white photographs).
1940
DM1294/2/17/14 Photographs of wartime advertisements for a Penguin fountain
pen, with the caption “Write and tell them with a Penguin Pen”,
n.d. [1940]. The advertisements feature cartoons by Bob
Maynard (Penguin Production Manager) of a British soldier
poking Hitler up the bottom with a bayonet, a father Penguin
jumping in surprise out of his arm chair on being presented with
a baby Pelican, and a Royal Navy sailor in a paddle boat tied to a
submarine. Photographer: unknown. (3 x black and white
n.d. [1940]
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55
photographs).
DM1294/2/17/15 Photograph of a wartime advertisement for “Tek: the toothbrush
for the active service”, produced by Johnson and Johnson Ltd.,
n.d. [c.1940]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
n.d. [1940]
DM1294/2/17/16 Photograph of a wartime advertisement for Eno’s Fruit Salt that
appeared on the back cover of Penguin books, n.d. [c.1940].
Photographer: unknown. (2 x black and white photographs).
n.d. [1940]
DM1294/2/17/17 Photograph of a wartime advertisement for the complete Penguin
Fiction list, n.d. [c.1940]. Includes cartoons of a Penguin sitting
in an armchair in front of an open fire reading and of a Penguin
air raid warden reading a Penguin book. Photographer:
unknown. (2 x black and white photographs).
n.d. [1940]
DM1294/2/17/18 Photograph of a wartime advertisement for Penguin Special:
“The first big five of the war”, n.d. [c.1940]. Includes a cartoon
of a Penguin selling newspapers beside an air raid shelter.
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d. [1940]
DM1294/2/17/19 Photograph of an advertisement for Puffin Story Books, n.d.
[1946]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
n.d. [1946]
DM1294/2/17/20 Photographs of an advertisement from ‘The Bookseller’, 14 May
1966 for “Sell into Summer with Penguins”. Includes a
photograph of a young woman wearing a bikini and reading a
Penguin book. Photographer: unknown. (3 x black and white
photographs).
.
1966
DM1294/2/18: Photographs relating to Penguin books and World War Two
[Negatives of some of these photographs can be found in DM1294/2/20/17].
DM1294/2/18/1
Photograph of a newspaper article that appeared in the ‘Ayrshire
Post’, 12 November 1939, entitled “Books for the Troops”. The
article concerned an urgent appeal from the Ayr Group Toc H
for Penguin books and detective stories for distributing to troops
abroad. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
1939
DM1294/2/18/2
Photograph of a newspaper cutting from the ‘Weekly
Chronicle’, 16 December 1939, entitled “Travelling Canteen
Libraries for Soldiers”. The letter from Mrs. J.B. Fishwick
requesting six pence novels and Penguin books for the
Y.M.C.A.’s travelling canteen-libraries. Photographer:
unknown. [Reproduced in Joe Pearson ‘Penguins March On’
(Penguin Collectors’ Society, 1996) p.8]. (1 x black and white
photograph).
1939
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56
DM1294/2/18/2/1 Photograph of a newspaper cutting from the ‘Bideford Weekly
Gazette’, n.d. [c.1939], concerning two appeals for Penguin
books for the troops now training in Devon, and on behalf of the
British Red Cross for books to distribute to hospital libraries.
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d [c.1939]
DM1294/2/18/3
1940s
Photographs supplied by the Imperial War Museum, London:
DM1294/2/18/3/1 – photograph of shelves in the library
provided by the Royal Navy War Libraries for sailors on war
service, 1942. Including Penguin books. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/18/3/2 – photograph of people at work in the library
at Marx’s House, Clerkenwell Green, n.d. [1940s].
Photographer: unknown. (2 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/18/3/3 – photograph of the arrival of a consignment
of books at a Middle East hospital supplied by British Red
Cross, 13 May 1942. Includes a pile of Penguin books.
Photographer: Sgt. Chetwyn. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/18/3/4 – photograph of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles
Gordon Ramsey inspecting books, including Penguin books, at
the Edinburgh branch of the Royal Naval war libraries, with the
Hon. Mrs R. Douglas, honorary organiser of the Edinburgh
branch, 1942. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
DM1294/2/18/3/5 – photograph of AT.S. Redcap’s camp
library, Normandy, including Penguin books, n.d. [1940s].
Photographer: unknown. [Reproduced in Joe Pearson ‘Penguins
March On’ (Penguin Collectors’ Society, 1996) p.90]. (1 x
black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/18/3/6 – photograph of a Padre handing out books
from the back of a truck to the troops, n.d. [1940s].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/18/3/7 – photograph of a nurse at a Middle East
hospital sitting on top of a book case and holding a pile of books
from the British Red Cross Society on her lap, n.d [1940s].
[Reproduced in Joe Pearson ‘Penguins March On’ (Penguin
Collectors’ Society, 1996) p.62]. (1 x black and white
photograph).
DM1294/2/18/3/8 – photograph of Miss Nancy L. Friend, a
scientific student, reading a book about Russian scientific
methods, n.d. [1940s]. On the book shelves behind her are some
Penguin books. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photograph).
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57
DM1294/2/18/3/9 – photograph of General Mark W. Clark,
Commander of the Fifth Army, looking at shelves of books
while visiting Tactical HQ of the Guards Brigade, n.d. [1940s].
On the shelves are some Penguin books. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/18/3/10 – photograph of a nursing Sister standing
beside a bookcase and discussing books with two of her soldier
patients, n.d. [1940s]. On the shelves are some Penguin books.
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/18/3/11 – photograph Belgian Red Cross workers
taking books to hospital wards, n.d. [1940s]. Includes some
Penguin books. Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white
photographs).
DM1294/2/18/3/12 – photograph of Sapper Lambert, Sapper
Baton, Sapper Grosvenor and Sapper Burrows in the writing and
reading room, reading books and magazines, n.d. [1940s].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/18/3/13 – photograph of some of the books and
magazines distributed by Sgt. Pounder, n.d. [1940s]. Includes a
copy of ‘Argument of Empire’ by W.K. Hancock [Penguin
Special S130, published June 1943]. Photographer: unknown.
(1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/18/3/14 – photograph of two Royal Navy sailors
visiting the book stall at the Fleet club, n.d. [1940s]. On the
shelves are some Penguin books. Photographer: unknown. (1 x
black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/18/3/15 – photograph of L/Cpl. C.H. Beddows
visiting the A.E.C. Centre Library and Information reading room
with an armful of books, n.d. [1940s]. Photographer: unknown.
(1 x black and white photograph).
DM1294/2/18/3/16 – photograph of Admiral Sir Edward Evans,
Miss Ellen Wilkinson and the cartoonist David Low, on a tour of
London air raid shelters in the West End, n.d. [1940s].
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white photographs).
DM1294/2/18/4
Photograph of a men sitting and standing on a double-decker
London bus [celebrating VE day?], n.d. [1945]. Photographer:
unknown. (1 x black and white photograph).
n.d [1945]
DM1294/2/18/5
Photograph of a drawing by R.G. Matthews of bomb damage
around St Paul’s Cathedral and Paternoster Row, 1941. Original
drawing held in the Guildhall Library, London. Photographer:
Godfrey New Photographic Ltd., Sidcup. (1 x black and white
photograph).
1941
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58
DM1294/2/19: Photographs of press cuttings relating to Penguin Books Ltd.
Photographs of press cuttings relating to the history of Penguin Books Ltd., taken from the Penguin
scrapbooks (ref. DM 1294/1). [Negatives of some of these photographs can be found in
DM1294/2/20/18].
DM1294/2/19/1
Photographs of press cuttings from 1935, taken from the Penguin
scrapbooks (ref. DM1294/1). Photographer: unknown. (14 x
black and white photographs).
1935
DM1294/2/19/2
Photographs of press cuttings from 1936, taken from the Penguin
scrapbooks (ref. DM1294/1). Photographer: unknown. (15 x
black and white photographs).
1936
DM1294/2/19/3
Photographs of press cuttings from 1937, taken from the Penguin
scrapbooks (ref. DM1294/1). Photographer: unknown. (21 x
black and white photographs).
1937
DM1294/2/19/4
Photographs of press cuttings from 1938, taken from the Penguin
scrapbooks (ref. DM1294/1). Photographer: unknown. (10 x
black and white photographs).
1938
DM1294/2/19/5
Photographs of a press cutting from 1960, taken from the
Penguin scrapbooks (ref. DM1294/1). Photographer: unknown.
(1 x black and white photograph).
1960
DM1294/2/19/6
Photographs of press cuttings from 1974 taken from the Penguin
scrapbooks (ref. DM1294/1). Photographer: Chris Lord. (2 x
black and white photographs).
1974
DM1294/2/20: Photographic negatives
A collection of photographic negatives and colour transparencies arranged by subject matter. Many
are for photographs collected for the purposes of the 50th anniversary of Penguin Books Ltd in 1985
and were reproduced in the ‘Fifty Penguin Years’ exhibition and book [see photographs in
DM1294/2/1-19].
DM1294/2/20/1
Photographic negatives of people associated with Penguin Books
Ltd. Includes authors, editors and employees of Penguin Books
Ltd., as well as Allen Lane and his family. Many are reproduced
as photographs in DM1294/2/1. Photographers: unknown. (49 x
black and white negatives).
n.d
DM1294/2/20/2
Photographic negatives of groups of people associated with
Penguin Books Ltd. Includes the Ripon Hall Conference
[1934/36?] and editorial meetings, c.1940. Many are reproduced
as photographs in DM1294/2/2. Photographers: unknown. (9 x
black and white negatives).
1934/36,
1940s
DM1294/2/20/3
Photographic negatives of people reading Penguin books. Many
are reproduced as photographs in DM1294/2/3. Photographers:
unknown. (11 x black and white negatives and colour
transparencies).
1930s,
1960s
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DM1294/2/20/4
Photographic slides of [Gentoo?] penguins stood beside a copy
of the Penguin edition of W. Somerset Maugham’s ‘The Moon
and Sixpence’ [Penguin no.468], and of a man reading a Penguin
book while seated beside the penguins with a copy of ‘The Moon
and Sixpence’ by his side, n.d. [1970s?]. Reproduced as
photographs in DM1294/2/4/17. Photographer: unknown. (2 x
colour slides).
1970s
DM1294/2/20/5
Photographic negatives of events associated with Penguin Books
Ltd.:
1949-1985
DM1294/2/20/5/1 - photographic negative of Allen Lane,
Nikolaus Pevsner and R.B. Fishenden with two penguins from
London Zoo at a garden party held in Bedford Gardens, London,
to celebrate the publication of the 50th volume in the King
Penguin series, June 1949. Reproduced as a photograph in
DM1294/2/5/10. Photographer: (1 x black and white negative).
DM1294/2/20/5/2 - photographic negatives of the Penguin
Exhibition in Prague, 27 September-11 October 1966.
Reproduced as photographs in DM1294/2/5/15. Photographer:
unknown. (9 x black and white negatives).
DM1294/2/20/5/3 – photographic negatives of images relating to
The ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ trial: Regina v. Penguin Books
Ltd., 1960. Many reproduced as photographs in DM1294/2/5/12.
Photographers: unknown. (31 x black and white negatives and
colour transparencies)
DM1294/2/20/5/4 – colour transparencies of an unidentified
Penguin exhibition, n.d. [1980s]. Photographer: unknown. (2 x
colour transparencies)
DM1294/2/20/5/5 – photographic negatives of a visit to H.
Arnold’s collection of Penguin books, 1985. Many reproduced
as photographs in DM1294/2/5/31/12. Photographer: unknown.
(15 x black and white strip negatives).
DM1294/2/20/5/6 – photographic negatives of images and text
relating to Penguin Books Ltd.’s 50th anniversary exhibition,
1985. Many reproduced as photographs in DM1294/2/5/31.
Photographers: Michael Dyers. (161 x black and white
negatives, colour transparencies and colour contact prints).
DM1294/2/20/6
Photographic negatives of premises in the UK associated with
Penguin Books Ltd.:
c.1937-1985
DM1294/2/20/6/1 – photographic negatives of no.8, Vigo Street,
Westminster, London. Many are reproduced as photographs in
DM1294/2/6/1. Photographers: unknown. (2 x black and white
negatives).
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DM1294/2/20/6/2 – photographic negatives of Holy Trinity
Church crypt, Marylebone Road, London, n.d. [c.1937]. Many
are reproduced as photographs in DM1294/2/6/2. Photographers:
unknown. (11 x black and white negatives).
DM1294/2/20/6/3 – photographic negatives of the exterior of the
Penguin offices in King’s Road, London, n.d [1970s/80s?].
Photographer: unknown. (2 x colour negatives).
DM1294/2/20/6/4 – photographic negatives of the headquarters
of Penguin Books Ltd. in Bath Road, Harmondsworth,
Middlesex. Including a series of photographs taken at Penguin
Headquarters in 1940 and published in an article in ‘The
Bystander’ on 10 January 1940; the new bulk warehouse at
Harmondsworth, completed in July 1967; a series of photographs
of the production of Penguin books in the factory, [1980s]; and a
series of photographs of the Penguin warehouse, offices and a
delivery lorry, 26 April 1985. Many are reproduced as
photographs in DM1294/2/6/3. Photographers: various. (36 x
black and white and colour negatives).
DM1294/2/20/6/5 – colour transparency of the mosaic designed
by Hans Unger and located in the entrance to the staff canteen at
the headquarters of Penguin Books Ltd. in Bath Road,
Harmondsworth, n.d. [c.1964]. Photographer: unknown. (1 x
colour transparency)
DM1294/2/20/7
Photographic negatives of premises overseas associated with
Penguin Books Ltd.:
1946-1980s
DM1294/2/20/7/1 – photographic negatives of images associated
with Penguin Australia. Includes Penguin’s original warehouse
in South Melbourne, 1946; a sign announcing “A Sanctuary for
Penguins and Pelicans is being erected on this site by John
Holland & Co., Pty. Ltd. engineers and master builders, 28
Haughton Rd., Oakleigh” outside the building site of the new
Penguin office and warehouse at Mitcham, 1953; Penguin staff at
Harmondsworth opening a container of parcels from the
Hiroshima Food Britain Fund, which was set up in 1948 by
Australian booksellers who donated profits from the sale of John
Hersey’s ‘Hiroshima’, 1948; and the exterior of Penguin Books
Australia Ltd.’s offices at Maroondah Highway, Ringwood,
[1980s?]. Reproduced as photographs in DM1294/2/7/1.
Photographers: unknown. (4 x black and white negatives).
DM1294/2/20/7/2 – photographic negatives of the Sarat Book
House, India, n.d. [1980s]. Photographer: [Mr D. Mehra?]. (3 x
colour negative strips).
M1294/2/20/7/3 – photographic negative of the original Penguin
warehouse at Clipper Mill Road, Woodbury, Baltimore, USA,
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n.d. [1950s?]. Reproduced as a photograph in DM1294/2/7/3/1.
Photographer: unknown. (1 x black and white negative).
DM1294/2/20/8
Photographic negatives of bookshops associated with Penguin
Books Ltd. Includes W.H. Smith bookstalls; a Penguin window
display in R. Ridgill Trout’s bookshop, 1937; the exterior of
Collet’s bookshop [“late The Bomb Shop”], no.66 Charing Cross
Road, London, n.d. [c.1935]; Mitchell’s Bookstore, Buenos
Aires, n.d. [late 1930s]; students looking at books in a bookshop,
n.d [1960s?]; and a “Penguin Bookshop” logo, n.d. [c.1985].
Many reproduced as photographs in DM1294/2/8.
Photographers: unknown. (7 x black and white and colour
negatives).
c.1935-1985
DM1294/2/20/9
Photographic negatives of transportation, vending machines and
display stands:
c.1938-1978
DM1294/2/20/9/1 – photographic negatives of a Penguin
delivery van, registration no. ELB 59, n.d. [c.1938]; and a
Penguin delivery van, with a poster on the side advertising that it
is delivering rush orders for the new Penguin Special, ‘Europe
and the Czechs’ by S. Grant Duff [Penguin Special S9, published
September 1938]: “The swiftest feat of book publishing ever!”.
Reproduced as photographs in DM1294/2/9/1. Photographers:
unknown. (2 x black and white negatives).
DM1294/2/20/9/2 – photographic negatives of a Penguincubator:
a coin-operated vending machine for Penguin books. Includes
Allen Lane purchasing a Penguin book from the first
Penguincubator situated outside Collet’s bookshop in Charing
Cross Road, July 1937; a ladies purchasing Penguin books from
a Penguincubator in Charing Cross Road, 1937. Reproduced as
photographs in DM1294/2/9/3. Photographers: unknown. (3 x
black and white negatives).
DM1294/2/20/9/3 – photographic negatives of the Isokon
Penguin donkey bookcase. Many reproduced as photographs in
DM1294/2/9/4. Photographers: unknown. (14 x black and white
negatives).
DM1294/2/20/9/4 – colour transparency of a Habitat bookcase,
1978. Photographer: unknown. (1 x colour transparency).
DM1294/2/20/10 Photographic negatives of Penguin point-of-sale displays and
advertisements. Many reproduced as photographs in
DM1294/2/10]. Photographers: unknown. (42 x black and white
and colour negatives and colour transparencies).
c.1939-1985
DM1294/2/20/11 Photographic negatives of Penguin book covers. Many
reproduced as photographs in DM1294/2/11 and in Penguin’s
50th anniversary book and exhibition. Photographers: unknown.
(300 x black and white and colour negatives and colour
c.1935-1985
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transparencies).
DM1294/2/20/12 Photographic negative of an American Penguin book cover of
‘The old man and the sea’ by Ernest Hemingway [possibly a
pirated edition], 1954. Reproduced as a photograph in
DM1294/2/12/7. Photographer: unknown. (1 x colour
transparency).
1954
DM1294/2/20/13 Photographic negatives of non-Penguin book covers and
c.1933-1936
advertisements. Includes Albatross books, Tauchnitz editions,
Ernest Benn Ltd., Methuen & Co., Martyn Library, Collins,
George Newnes Ltd., Hutchinson’s ‘Pocket’ Library, Pan, and Le
Livre de Pouch Policier, n.d. [c.1933-1936]. Many reproduced
as photographs in DM1294/2/13. Photographers: unknown. (16
x black and white negatives and colour transparencies).
DM1294/2/20/14 Photographic negatives of examples of Penguin typography, n.d.
[c.1937-1985]. Many reproduced as photographs in
DM1294/2/15. Photographers: unknown. (11 x black and white
negatives).
c.1937-1985
DM1294/2/20/15 Photographic negatives of illustrations from Penguin books.
Includes drawings of pasta shapes; sketch cartoon of George
Bernard Shaw drawn by Joss for the Summer 1939 edition of
‘Penguin’s Progress’; a woodcut of the Globe Theatre; proof of a
painting entitled ‘Dead Spring’ by Paul Nash used to illustrate
‘Paul Nash’ by Herbert Read; and painting of a man looking up
at a giant Puffin standing on a rural landscape dotted with books,
n.d. [c.1930s-1980s]. Many reproduced as photographs in
DM1294/2/16. Photographers: unknown. (7 x black and white
negatives).
c.1930s1980s
DM1294/2/20/16 Photographic negatives of examples of advertisements for and
inside Penguin books, c.1935-1980s. Many reproduced as
photographs in DM1294/2/17. Photographers: unknown. (43 x
black and white negatives and colour transparencies).
c.19351980s
DM1294/2/20/17 Photographic negatives relating to Penguin books and World
War Two, 1940s. Many reproduced as photographs in
DM1294/2/18. Photographers: unknown. (5 x black and white
negatives).
1940s
DM1294/2/20/18 Photographic negatives of press cuttings relating to Penguin
Books Ltd., c.1935-1974. Many reproduced as photographs in
DM1294/2/19. Photographers: unknown. (73 x black and white
negatives).
c.1935-1974
DM1294/2/20/19 Photographic negative of postcard from Graham Greene to
Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, sending his best wishes [for
their 50th anniversary?], n.d. [1985?]. Photographer: unknown.
(1 x black and white negative).
n.d. [1985?]
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DM1294/2/21: Slides
DM1294/2/21/1
Colour slides of Penguin book covers designed by Abram Games
[consultant art director at Penguin from 1956 to 1958], n.d.
[1950s]. Photographer: University of Bristol Arts Faculty
Photographic Unit. (22 x colour slides).
DM1294/2/21/2
Colour slides of the first ten Penguin books, 1985. Photographer: 1985
unknown. [Reproduced as photographs at DM1294/2/5/31/10].
(5 x colour slides).
DM1294/2/21/3
Colour slides of the Penguin Group’s new headquarters at 27
Wright’s Lane, London, July 1986. (4 colour slides).
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1950s
1986
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