Cope (John Heaton ARPS, 1926-2020). Photographic archive, c.1950-65. Containing 92 large-format photographic prints, nearly all gelatin silver prints, mainly 298 x 380 mm or reverse and mounted on board with pencilled title and signature ('John H. Cope ARPS') to foot, various exhibition labels to versos of mounts (e.g. Birmingham Photographic Society, Bromsgrove Photographic Society, 'LPP' [i.e. Leica Portfolio Club], Leica Fotografie competition at South Thames Camera Club in Streatham, Doncaster Camera Club, Worcestershire Camera Club, and similar), many also with pencilled production details, subjects comprising assorted studies (motion, perspective, still lifes, interiors, including a close-up of a Leica in use, titled 'My Leica 8I'), portraits and street scenes (posed and unposed, including 'Princess Elizabeth at the ''Old Crocks'' Car Rally, Birmingham, June 9th 1951', the Houses of Parliament, and presumed friends and family members), animal studies (gorilla, badger, cats), rural scenes in the Lake District (Langdale, Ennerdale, Vale of Newlands), Cotswolds (Chipping Campden, Aston-sub-Edge), Cornwall (St Ives), and elsewhere (Lymington, Brittany, various unidentified locations including atmospheric studies of fields, clouds, light formations, a Romany wagon, and similar). Together with 88 smaller-format photographs by Cope, approximate dimensions 138 x 248 mm to 205 x 292 mm, similar subjects and presentation (a few being reduced versions of the larger images), and a selection of related documents including Cope's handwritten speech notes, magazine cuttings, and similar (qty: approx. 180 mounted photographic prints and small quantity of related documents) John Heaton Cope ARPS (1926-2020) was a professional photographer with Birmingham City Council for 44 years, and towards the end of his career also worked as chief photographer at Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery. He lectured on the Midlands circuit of photographic societies for three decades and was an active member of the Leica Portfolio Club. He retired to Ravenstonedale near Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria in 1993. He was an admirer of Cartier-Bresson and his son recalls a visit to an exhibition of the great photographer's work in London sometime in the 1950s-60s.