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  <dc:title>Papers related to Tennant's commissions undertaken in post-war Coventry</dc:title>
  <dc:description>File of papers related to Trevor's commissions undertaken as part of the re-development of post-war Coventry. The file includes photographs, a programme and a letter from the City Architect, Donald Gibson, related to the laying of the Levelling Stone carved by Tennant (/1-5); photographs and a press cutting related to Tennant's large stone carvings 'People of Coventry' commissioned for Broadgate House, including images of Tennant working on the pieces on a bomb site in Prince Albert Road , London and further photographs of the carvings being unloaded in Coventry (/6-29); a black and white photograph of onlookers watching Tennant's mechanised clock carvings of Lady Godiva and Peeping Tom (/30); black and white photographs of Tennant's falcon brick carving at a Junior School in Coventry (/31-40); a letter from 'The Birmingham Post' regarding prints of the photographs taken of Tennant's carvings (/41); a press cutting  related to the planned re-development of Coventry (/42); a black and white photograph of an unrealised sketch annotated on the reverse by Tennant 'Sketch – The Two Cities, Coventry and Caen rise in triumph from the devastation of war and their citizens develop and pursue the arts of Peace. Design not yet carried out' (/43); a black and white photograph of an unrealised sketch annotated on the reverse by Tennant 'Sketch - The Two Cities, Coventry and Caen fight back when threatened by Death and Destruction. Design for sculpture not yet executed' (/44); and an image of both unrealised sketches side by side (/45). A number of photographs are annotated on the reverse by Tennant with the title and location of the piece and/or Tennant's name and address. </dc:description>
  <dc:date>1946-1953  </dc:date>
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