Photographs

Title

Photographs

Shelfmark

MS. Abraham 189/J.1-J.31

Summary

Abraham and family:

J.1-J.2: 2 photographs (mounted) of school hockey teams, including Abraham, 1930.

J.3: Photograph (mounted) of school rugby team, including Abraham, inscribed 'School 2nd XV 1930'.

J.4: Abraham in group photograph (mounted), possibly from his undergraduate years, 1932-1936.

J.5: Abraham seated on a terrace, possibly on a visit to Norway, n.d.

J.6: Abraham and [?his wife] on a picnic, n.d.

J.7: 2 photographs of Abraham standing in a room, location unknown, n.d.

J.8: Portrait of Abraham, n.d.

J.9: Abraham and his wife, inscribed on verso 'Dr and Mrs Abraham, June 1975'.

J.10: Abraham at home, inscribed '19 February 1978, by S. Kuwabara.'

J.11: Abraham, with mountain scenery in background, possibly taken in Norway, 1979.

J.12: Portrait of Abraham in later years seated at a desk, n.d.

J.13: Portrait of Abraham in later years.

J.14: Abraham standing on a roof top, possibly of his home, n.d.

J.15: Abraham reading in a chair in later years.

Visits, events and colleagues:

J.16: Photographs, one each of Abraham [c.1938-1950]; Ernst Chain, n.d.; and Howard Florey, n.d.

J.17: Group photograph of Abraham and other Royal Society medallists, 1980, inscribed 'Sir Denys Wilkinson, Professor W.F. Vinen, Dr. J.P. Wild, Sir Edward Abraham, Dr. F.J.M Farley, Dr. C. Milstein, Professor A.W Johnson, Sir Derek Barton, Professor Henry Harris, Professor Wright'. (Abraham received the Mullard Prize in 1980.)

J.18: Photograph of a portrait of Robert Robinson with inscription: 'Pleased to have your photo in the D.P album. Original at R. Soc. rooms', 4 November 1955.

J.19: Photograph of Guy Newton, n.d.

J.20: Abraham and Edwin H. Flynn in front of an exhibition display. Labelled on verso: 'Professor E.P Abraham, who was involved in the early development work on the cephalosporins in Oxford, recently visited Eli Lilly in Indianapolis. He is shown with Dr. Edwin H. Flynn, one of the Lilly scientists who contributed to the development of this new antibiotic "family"', n.d.

J.21: Abraham and Edwin H. Flynn in front of an exhibition display. Labelled on verso as in J.20.

J.22: Photograph of Abraham's wife with various people, including Henry Harris, n.d.

J.23: Abraham, in later years, seated in an audience at a ?conference, n.d.

J.24: Photograph of Abraham with Indian scientists, taken during his visit to India in January 1985. The names of the Indian scientists, as inscribed on verso, are R.K. Nand, P.V. Deshmukb, Rama Rao (from National Chemical Laboratory), P.S Borkar, N.R. Chatterjee.

J.25: Group photograph of Abraham and colleagues inscribed 'Sir Edward Abraham's visit to the Hope Library [Oxford] on Tuesday, October 10th 1989'. Also featured are. F.B. Atkins, Curator of Mineralogical Collections; T. S Kemp, Curator of Zoological Collections; D. Spencer Smith; J.D.C. McConnell, Dept. of Earth Sciences; W.J. Kennedy, Curator of Geological Collections; S.J. Simpson, Principal Curator; G.A. Harrison, Chairman of the Committee for Scientific Collections.

J.26: Abraham and other Honorary graduands, including Jack Baldwin at the award of Honorary Doctor of Science Degree ceremony at Strathclyde University, 13 July 1989.

J.27: Abraham with the Chancellor of Strathclyde University.

J.28: Various photographs taken at the '50 Years of Penicillin Application' symposium, organized by the Technische Universitat Berlin, West Berlin, 9-12 September 1980.

J.29: Photograph of Abraham, inscribed 'Int. Congress T.M.R.A-L'Aquila and Rome May 12-15 1990.'

J.30: Various photographs, contents of an envelope inscribed 'Portrait by Daphne Tod, Sent 1991'.

J.31: Photograph inscribed 'John Walker, Admission to R. S. 1995'.

Date

1930-1995, n.d.

Language

English

Physical extent

31 folders