SMGC Evans - Ivor Evans Photographs - 1920s-1930s
The Ivor Evans photograph collection comprises negatives, slides and photographs taken by Ivor Evans during the 1920s and 1930s, of Gypsy sites and families in England. Slides PF and PH were a GLS Jubilee (1938) gift (see accompanying letter from Evans to Dora E. Yates dated 29 January 1938 at GLS.I...
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| Archive level description: | Sub-sub fonds |
| Physical Description: | 55 glass negatives, 63 film negatives and 8 photographs: PJ.1-59; 2 boxes of glass lantern slides: PF.1-50 & PH.1-32 |
| Languages: | English |
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| Summary: | The Ivor Evans photograph collection comprises negatives, slides and photographs taken by Ivor Evans during the 1920s and 1930s, of Gypsy sites and families in England. Slides PF and PH were a GLS Jubilee (1938) gift (see accompanying letter from Evans to Dora E. Yates dated 29 January 1938 at GLS.I.102-103). The slides have contemporary captions describing the subject written by Evans. PF images are duplicated by modern slides PI.Box A; PH images are duplicated by modern slides PI.Box C. |
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| Date: | 1920s-1930s |
| Reference Number: | SMGC Evans |
| Biographical/Administrative Information: | Ivor Hugh Norman Evans (1886-1957) was an anthropologist and ethnographer who lived and worked in Malaya and North Borneo (now Malaysia), and became a Gypsy Lore Society member in 1927. During periods of leave in England, Evans visited Gypsy sites and families around the South-East and East Anglia, photographing the families he met. He retired to Suffolk in 1933, but decided to return to Borneo permanently in 1938. Evans was the author of many articles on George Borrow (1803-1881) and on English Gypsies for the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, and also of The religion of the Tempusak Dunsuns (Cambridge University Press, 1953). |