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Cornell University Library, one of the leading academic research libraries in the United States, is part of the academic information infrastructure at Cornell University. At the heart of our mission is a commitment to supporting teaching, research, outreach, and learning. With that in mind, the Library is exploring Flickr as a way to make digital images from our collections available to the world at large. These images are already in the public domain and free from copyright restriction. Please feel free to leave comments and notes on individual pictures, or contact us via Flickr Mail. We'd love to hear from you!

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Nineteenth-century House

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  • aldisley said:
    This is a pair of semi-detached houses. Note that although the outer bays (containing the circulation spaces) are gothic, the inner bays (containing the principal apartments) are much like any Victorian house, with large canted bays. This would appear to be the laying out of a grand suburb, with remains of countryside to the left and further development to the right. This is clearly high-class work, in stone where this is not the local habit (note the brick garden wall and, I think, the other houses).
  • Cornell University Library said:
    aldisley Thank you for all this information!
  • Andy said:
    Absolutely sure this is also North Oxford but I cant find it. This really needs to be posted in a flickr group such as What's That Picture. Someone who knows or lives in Oxford could identify it straight off.
  • Cornell University Library said:
    Thank you Andy for your comment!
  • Hans-Bernd Abel said:
    Nos. 17+18 Parks Road, North Oxford, viewed from north east. Semi-detached houses on the east side of the Keble Road Triangle (Keble / Parks / Banbury Rd), opposite to University Parks' West Walk. Built in 1872, architect unknown. Named "South Elms" (No. 17) and "North Elms" (No. 18). Built on an estate of 16,000 square feet (the front line was more than 180 feet). Lots of gothic revival elements, pointed arches around doors & windows, stained glass windows along the staircases, quatrefoil windows, finials on top of the corners of the central roof. Among the residents were William Merry, Oxford preacher, Lecturer and Rector of Lincoln College, at North Elms, and T.K. Cheyne, English Biblical Scholar & Oriel professor, at South Elms. The house in the background on the left is No. 15 Parks Road, the northern part of "East View", which is also shown in this album. The space between East View and South Elms remained vacant for 20 more years until "The Red House" (No. 16) was built and leased in 1895. In the 1930s it became the home of the family of Sir Howard Florey, nobel laureate for his work on the development of penicillin. In the late 1950s, No. 16 had to make way for a school building of the Dept. of Metallurgy, a glass/steel structure known today as Hume-Rothery Building. Once the most prominent building in this street, North & South Elms soon became overtopped by further post modern buildings of the evolving Science Area, particularly Thom Building in 1963 and Denys Wilkinson Building in 1967. In 1963, nearby Pitt Rivers Museum started to use No. 18 as external storage space for collection items. After these had been returned to the Museums' Upper Gallery in 1972, the building was stripped of everything reusable (roof tiles, windows) and eventually, in 1973, demolished to make way for Holder Building. Sources: - T. Hinchcliffe: North Oxford (Yale Univ. Press) - Town Plan of Oxfordshire XXXIII.15.7 (1876), National Library of Scotland - Picture Oxon, photographs by Malcolm Graham - Internet Archive (archive.org) - The Pitt Rivers Museum Conservation Plan View the other photographs of Victorian Architecture of North Oxford in this album.

"Votes For Women" Canvas Bag, ca. 1920

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  • Flickr said:
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  • Markus Preiser said:
    Incredible image!!! Congratulations on Explore.
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    Congrats on Xplore!!
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    Congrats on Explore! ❤📷❤ great image! regards.
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    Congrats on Explore!

Nineteenth-century English House

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  • Hans-Bernd Abel said:
    No. 115 Woodstock Road, North Oxford, seen from the east. Built in 1869, architect unknown. Named "Burnham House". Among the residents of No. 115 were Robert Buckell, Mayor of Oxford 1885-1918, and Percy Elford, Fellow of St. John's College and Chief Education Officer. Together with no. 117 (partially visible on the right), the house became the main building of St Faith's school in 1919 for more than fourty years. Demolished ca. 1969 to make way for the "Butler Close" apartment buildings. Sources: - T. Hinchcliffe: North Oxford (Yale Univ. Press) - Historic England Archive, Red Box Collection "Oxford, Oxon" - A. Spokes Symmonds: The Changing Faces of North Oxford, Book II View the other photographs of Victorian Architecture of North Oxford in this album.

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