Thousands of photographs from a collection belonging to playwright George Bernard Shaw are to be made available to the public online, the National Trust said today.
The photographs include pictures of film stars such as Vivien Leigh, writers HG Wells and JM Barrie, and leading political and social figures of Shaw's time including MP Lady Nancy Astor.
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The National Trust said the largely unseen collection of around 20,000 photographic objects, including prints, negatives and albums, shed light on Shaw's life and times.
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Several hundred images are already online, with plans for around two-thirds of the collection to be available for the public to see by the time the project is completed in summer 2011.
Cataloguing is uncovering new facets of the collection on a daily basis, prints taken by TE Lawrence, images of Shaw and his wife Charlotte at leisure and behind the scenes shots from the set of Major Barbara to name but a few. From Autumn 2010 thousands of descriptions and scans will be available on our a|rchives catalogue| and by Summer 2011 all the records will be online.
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