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This page is a work in progress to support volunteers on the Courtauld Institute of Art Courtauld Connects Digitisation Project. However, all Wikipedians are of course welcome (this goes without saying, but for the benefit of newcomers!)! Please feel free to make changes and additions in format and content, and use the Talk page to leave questions and comments.
This project was established to support especially Courtauld Digitisation Project volunteers to create and edit Wikipedia pages related to the Conway Library. The Conway Library is a collection of over 1.6 million photographs. These photographs are of architecture, design, manuscripts, and fine art objects. These photographs have historically only been accessible in person, at the Courtauld Institute of Art (first at Portland Square, now in the North East Wing of Somerset House).
Photographs in the collection are usually pasted to a cardboard mount. The mounts frequently include a written name, or a stamp, that indicates who took the photograph.
Since 2017, volunteers have been transcribing the names written on mounts. So we now have a list of names. However: quite often the name is all we have. Since the start of COVID19 shutdown, volunteers have been researching these names to build profiles for them, so that we can create brand new, or edit existing, Wikipedia pages for people who contributed to the photographic collection. We will be adding photographs taken by the photographers to Wikimedia as appropriate.
Volunteers and Wikipedians are encouraged to use and add to the resources on this project page to help bring the Conway Library to Wikipedia.
Getting Started
[edit]If you are new to Wikipedia
[edit]- Create a Wikipedia login (a user name) if you do not have one already.
- Create a sandbox within your user namespace. When you are logged in, you should see 'Sandbox' as a link in the menu at the very top of the page.
- Ask one of the team to send you instructions for training tasks.
If you are a confident Wikipedian
[edit]- Be in touch with the team either via email, Slack, or on the project Talk page to be assigned a photographer, or to update us of any progress.
Outcomes
[edit]Record your contributions to the project below, and create a new month sub-section if necessary. Use an asterisk to create a bullet point if you are not using a visual editor. Older contributions are archived here.
January 2021 Outcomes
[edit]- + 7556 bytes to Lindy Grant - User talk: Westlondonlady
- +5358 bytes John Alfred Gotch - User talk: Westlondonlady
- created page for Elizabeth Senior - User:Courtvol/sandbox
- created page for Martin Meade - User:Courtvol/sandbox
- +1368 bytes James Austin (photographer) - User talk: Westlondonlady
- created page for Julian Gardner (art historian) - User talk: Westlondonlady
- edits to Walter Benington - User talk:Courtvol, +7,694 bytes.
- created page for Lady Delia Millar - User talk: Westlondonlady
- Added 2500+ bytes to Paul Crossley (art historian) - User talk:DVOL1998
- Added +6,927 bytes to David Talbot Rice - User:Courtvol/sandbox
- Added 2700 bytes to Lucien_Hervé - User talk: Westlondonlady
February 2021 Outcomes
[edit]- created page for Hallam Ashley - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +900 bytes to Robert de Zouche Hall - User talk: !ALCVN!
- created page for Rosalys Coope - User talk: Courtvol
- added +1724 bytes to Cecil Gould - User talk: !ALCVN!
- added +8300 bytes to Philip Mainwaring Johnston - User talk:DVOL1998
- created page for Christopher P. Monkhouse - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +9500 bytes to John Weaver (historian) - User talk: ShermanSLH
- Kerry Downes - User talk: Wimbledondigi added 3058 bytes
March 2021 Outcomes
[edit]- added +379 bytes for John Bryan Ward-Perkins - User talk:!ALCVN!
- added +372 bytes for Françoise Henry - User talk:!ALCVN!
- added +4380 bytes for Geoffrey Webb - User talk:!ALCVN!
- New page for Roderick_O’Donnell - User talk: Courtvol
- New page for David_McLees - User talk: AlbyBuffetero
- added +10222 bytes to James Mann (curator) - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +5187 to Peter Lasko - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +2762 to Ellis Waterhouse - User talk: Wimbledondigi
- New page for Richard Neville Hadcock - User talk: Courtvol
- added +1,285 to John Blatchly - User talk: Wimbledondigi
- added 316 bytes to Trenchard Cox - User talk: Wimbledondigi
- added +6211 bytes to Michael Rosenthal - User talk:ShermanSLH
- added +2604 bytes to Penelope Curtis - User talk:Imop123
- New page for Peter Cannon-Brookes - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +374 to Allan D. Mainds - User talk: Wimbledondigi
- added +2019 to Otto Pächt - User talk: Wimbledondigi
- added +1858 to Alfred Clapham - User talk: Wimbledondigi
- Martin Butlin +4181 bytes - User talk:Courtvol
- edits to Banister_Fletcher_(junior) +797 bytes - User talk:Tomi1955
- Sidney Hugh Reynolds +1547 bytes added User talk: Elles96
- created page B & W Fisk-Moore Ltd Photographers - User talk:Courtvol
- Alistair John Rowan - User talk:!ALCVN! added +168 bytes, added Conway library link.
- Charles Edward Mallows - User talk:!ALCVN! +374 bytes, added Conway Library link.
- Colin Hardie - User talk:!ALCVN! added +373 bytes including link to Conway Library.
- created Frederick John Palmer - User talk:Courtvol
April 2021 Outcomes
[edit]- added +6109 to Cyril Mango - User talk: Westlondonlady
- Léonce Rosenberg added +16,485 bytes - User talk:ShermanSLH
- created page for Nancy Underhill - User talk:Courtvol
- added +6187 to Roger Fry - User talk: Westlondonlady
- John Bilson (architect) - User talk: !ALCVN! + 650 bytes
- Stewart Perowne - User talk: !ALCVN! +367 bytes.
- added +3671 to M. W. Barley - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +5255 to Sandy Heslop - User talk: Westlondonlady
- Created Nathaniel Lloyd (architectural historian) - User talk: Westlondonlady
May 2021 Outcomes
[edit]- added +4369 to Eric de Maré - User talk:Courtvol
- created page for Peter Draper (art historian) - User talk: Westlondonlady
- created page for Marcus_Whiffen - Wimbledondigi
- added +5000 to Alan Borg - User talk:Courtvol
- created page for Andrew Morrogh - User talk:Dorabellaw
June 2021 Outcomes
[edit]- created page for Sydney Pitcher - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +727 to Gerald Dunning - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +7348 to P. B. Chatwin - User talk: Westlondonlady
- created page for William_Iveson_Croome - User talk: Courtvol
- created page for Peter Anthony Newton - User talk:Pliroforia
July 2021 Outcomes
[edit]- created page for Neil Stratford - User talk: Westlondonlady
- created page for Malcolm Thurlby - User talk: Courtvol
- created page for David Hemsoll - User talk:Meredith0209
- created page for Richard Marks (art historian) - User talk:Courtvol
August 2021 Outcomes
[edit]- created page for David Winfield (conservator) - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +1090 to Robert Manuel Cook - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +2668 to Charalambos Bouras - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +4189 to Anthony Bryer - User talk: Courtvol
- created page for Robert Pickersgill Howgrave-Graham - User talk: Westlondonlady
September 2021 Outcomes
[edit]- added +3165 to Arthur Upham Pope - User talk: Westlondonlady
- created page for John Higgitt - User talk: Primamateria1
- added +3379 to Quentin Hughes (architect) - User talk: Westlondonlady
November 2021 Outcomes
[edit]- created page for Evelyn Silber - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +445 to Josephine Powell - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +7846 to John Shearman - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +4789 to N. A. Tombazi - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +804 to Aerofilms - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +2004 to H. F. B. Lynch - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +1625 to Charles Lyttelton (bishop) - User talk: Westlondonlady
December 2021 Outcomes
[edit]- added +7445 to Joan Evans (art historian) - User talk: Westlondonlady
January 2022 Outcomes
[edit]- added +2682 to Robin Cormack - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +2009 to John Onians - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +8894 to David Roden Buxton - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +2518 to William J. R. Curtis - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +4412 to Freya Stark - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +300 to Berenice Abbott - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +6847 to Hedrich Blessing Photographers - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +1077 to Helmut Gernsheim - User talk: Westlondonlady
February 2022 Outcomes
[edit]- added +3512 to Wayne Andrews - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +5137 to Ezra Stoller - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +333 to Francis Frith re Francis Frith & Co Ltd - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +445 to John Harvey (historian) - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +741 to Lucia Moholy - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +2490 to Antonio Beato - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +4352 to Hugh Casson - User talk: Westlondonlady
March 2022 Outcomes
[edit]- added +703 to Alice Dryden - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +9321 to Lehnert & Landrock - User talk: Westlondonlady
April 2022 Outcomes
[edit]- added + 4621 to John Summerson - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +9365 to Leonard Manasseh - User talk: Westlondonlady
May 2022 Outcomes
[edit]- added +3713 to Gerard Baldwin Brown - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +2916 to Robert Weir Schultz re Weir Schultz and Barnsley Collection - User talk: Westlondonlady
June 2022 Outcomes
[edit]- added +3673 to Barnsley brothers re Weir Schultz and Barnsley Collection - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +3238 to Josef Strzygowski - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +3615 to Underwood & Underwood - User talk: Westlondonlady
July 2022 Outcomes
[edit]- added +1018 to Bernard Berenson - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +478 to Antonio Martinelli - User talk: Westlondonlady
August 2022 Outcomes
[edit]- created page for The Matson Photo Service - User talk: Westlondonlady
- created page for Carlos de Azevedo - User talk: Westlondonlady
- created page for Alessandro Nova - User talk: Westlondonlady
- created page for Rudolf Meyer Riefstahl - User talk: Westlondonlady
- created page for Robin Middleton (architectural historian) - User talk: Westlondonlady
- created page for Arthur Byne - User talk: Westlondonlady
September 2022 Outcomes
[edit]- added +3955 to Harry Lawrence Bradfer-Lawrence - User talk: Westlondonlady
October 2022 Outcomes
[edit]- added +505 to Christopher Green (art historian) - User talk: Westlondonlady
- added +502 to E. Chambré Hardman re Burrell & Hardman - User talk: Westlondonlady
- created page for Bruce Boucher - User talk: Westlondonlady