Ref NoMS 908
TitleHelen Caddick: Traveller, Photographer and Collector
Date1889 - 1914
LevelCollection
DescriptionA set of illustrated travel diaries and one photograph album of Japanese coloured photographs collected by Helen Caddick.
Extent0.25
FormatCubic metres
AccessStatusOpen
AdminHistoryHelen Caddick was born in 1845. She had a long term interest in education, travel and anthropology. In 1900 she wrote 'A White Woman in Central Africa'.

Miss Caddick was the first woman member of West Bromwich Education Committee and was also one of the first governors of the University of Birmingham.

Helen Caddick's anthropological interests resulted in a collection of artefacts which are held by Sandwell Museums Service. She also collected commercial photographic prints on her travels which, with her own photographs, enhance her travel diaries.

Miss Caddick resided at Number 1, York Road, Edgbaston for some years. She died in 1927.
ArrangementMS 908/A Travel Diaries
MS 908/B Photographic resources
MS 908/C Other records
Related Material'A White Woman in Central Africa' by Helen Caddick (1900); 'A woman passing through: Helen Caddick and the maturation of the empire in British Central Africa' by James Wolf in Journal of Popular Culture 30.3 (1996) ISSN 00223840; 'Not all Bonnets and Bustles: Victorian women travellers in Africa' by E. Bradley (2007) ISBN 0 9555630 1 1; Lancashire Record Office Collection DDX 828 'Edward Mellor of Lytham' [for a photo. in MS 908/A/6 (opp. p.264); Helen Caddick Ethnology Collection, Wednesbury Museum & Art Gallery (Sandwell Museums Service);
CreatorNameHelen Caddick
Various Photographers
LanguageEnglish
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