Allan Collection

Archive Collection description: ALL

Allan Collection (circa) 1919-1940

An online catalogue for this collection is available.

Robert Gerard Allan (circa 1910-1985) was born in Prague, where his father had been lecturer in English at Prague University since 1910. He became an engineer. In 1939 he left Czechoslovakia to live in Britain.

Contents

• ALL/1 - Notebook entitled "Poseie" (circa) (1930-1940) (circa)

• ALL/2 - Photographs and postcards of interwar Prague, the Sokal movement and T G Masaryk (circa) 1919-1939 (circa)

• ALL/3 - Prints of Prague (circa) (1919-1940) (circa)

• ALL/4 - Map of the mountains of Czechoslovakia (1937)

• ALL/5 - Political map of Czechoslovakia (1930)

• ALL/6 - Collection of linocuts entitled "Somewhere in England 1940"

• ALL/7 - Collection of linocuts entitled "Cesta (the trail)" (circa) (1940)

• ALL/8 - Typescript entitled "Repetitorium ceske literatury v otazkachi i odpovedich" (1936)

• ALL/9 - Czech-English dictionary of engineering terms (circa) (1930-1940) (circa)

(Language) Czech & English & (small amount) German

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See also: the Allan Bequest also contained books and prints. The books were added to SSEES Library stock and the prints were selected for display in SSEES.

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