General Archive Files

Reference files collated by John Bedford on various subjects and makers relating to furniture, including design, trade, architecture and history of the buildings in the UK and abroad. Files mainly contain cuttings from auctioneer catalogues; articles, booklets, guidebook publications, sale and estate agent catalogues and notes. Most of these have been labelled/annotated with a filing note by John Bedford. Most cuttings date from latter part of the 20th century into early 21st but cuttings/features from earlier do sometimes feature. Files do vary in number of cuttings (density) so approximate numbers have been provided as a guide. Also includes several boxes of unfiled material - much of which has been marked up for filing (categories) by John Bedford but had not been incorporated into the filing scheme.

Files are arranged as per original categories of the finding aid list supplied by the estate of John Evan Bedford, (unless specified otherwise).

This collection is subject to various access conditions. Please see individual catalogue descriptions for further details on access.

Material in this part of the collection is in copyright. Photocopies or digital images can be supplied by the Library for research or private study. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain the copyright holder's permission to reproduce for any other purpose. Guidance is available for tracing copyright status and ownership.

This part of the collection was originally stored in filing cabinets at the home of John Bedford and likely used as a reference resource. Each filing cabinet drawer was packed into a box [see Alt ref], however, box labels (possibly original drawer labels) appear to reflect only some of contents. John Bedford appears to have adopted colour coding for original folders to distinguish different series; general from specific files and also countries (e.g. green for Ireland). General colour codes have therefore been recorded per series with any exceptions marked up on individual folders [g=green; b=blue; r=red; y=yellow; w=white].