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Sport and General Press Agency Biography Biography
The Sport and General Press Agency is known to have been operating from 1910 until c1970 as a news and photographic agency. The company was based in Essex Street initially, before moving to Fleet Street. Much of the company's photographic archive was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1941. The business remained active in 1970, when the company won two British Press 'Picture of the Year' awards. Copyright in Sport and General Photographs passed to Alpha Photo Press Ltd.

Scope and Content
Photograph with a caption that reads: '144906. Etablissements Beaudouin. Microforge of Monsieur de Fonbrune. The Microforge consists of four main units. The microscope and its light source, the heating source and associated motors, the vice for holding the micro-instrument in position and to control its position in the field, and the base casing in which ancillary equipment is contained. Designed for Research. The microscope is lighted by an incandescent lamp of opalescent glass. The luminous rays enter the objective, of which the axis is horizontal. A prism deviates the rays 30? obliquely in an upward direction'.
Extent
1 photograph
Language
English
Level of description
ITEM
Repository name
Science Museum, London
Conditions governing access
Open access
Conditions governing Reproduction
Copies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions