Archives of George Jackson and Sons Ltd, Plasterers

The London firm of George Jackson, founded probably in the 1760s by Thomas Jackson, was the pre-eminent supplier of decorative plasterwork in Britain through most of the 19th  and 20h centuries. Its commissions included major public buildings such as Buckingham Palace and the Royal Pavilion, Brighton. This group of records was one lot in a sale of books from the Jackson company library  The sale mainly consisted of published source material for the history of architecture and decoration, but some photographs, drawings and other company records were also included. The material secured for the V&A includes 16 albums of photographs, the most important of which show twentieth-century Jackson interiors, for cinemas and ocean liners as well as houses and public buildings. It also includes a selection of ledgers 1804-81 .