Record

CodePX529
Dates1889-1964
Person NameParsons; Louis Emanuel (1889-1964); Technical Assistant, Geology
SurnameParsons
ForenamesLouis Emanuel
EpithetTechnical Assistant, Geology
ActivityMuseum Staff: Department of Geology, appointed 1908; 2nd class technical assistant 1921; 1st class technical assistant 1934; Part Time Experimental Officer 1 Mar 1954; Retired 1954; Named a member of the Order of the British Empire 1954; worked part time at the Museum from 1954 until 1964; a total of 46 years of service within the Department of Geology, 56 years if post-retirement years are inlcuded. Parsons passed away on the 10 June 1964 at the age of 75. He was survived by a wife and at least one child.
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DF/ADM/1005/57Parsons, Louis E
DF/PH/2/5/4/6Staff Group Photograph: A E Rixon, L E Parsons and R J Parsons working on a specimen
DF/PH/2/1/2Staff Group Photographs: various
DF/PH/2/1/7/12Staff Photograph: possibly Louis E Parsons with fossil bones
DF/PH/2/1/2/4Staff Group Photograph: Works staff by colonnade
DF/PH/2/5/4/3Staff Group Photograph: M J Meade, L E Parsons, R J Parsons and A E Rixon working on neck and feet of Diplodocus
DF/PH/2/5/3/7Staff Photograph: Parsons, Louis Emmanuel, preparing an ichthyosaur skeleton
DF/PH/2/5/3/3Staff Photograph: Parsons, Louis Emanuel, standing by dinosaur limb bones
DF/PH/2/5/3/1Staff Photograph: L E Parsons standing beside trace fossil
DF/PH/2/5/3/2Staff Photograph: Parsons, Louis Emanuel, working at bench
DF/PH/2/5/3/6Staff Photograph: Parsons, Louis Emmanuel working at bench with dinosaur limb bone
DF/PH/2/5/3/8Staff Photograph: Parsons, Louis Emmanuel, at work
DF/PH/2/5/4/7Staff Group Photograph: R J Parsons and L E Parsons preparing fossils
DF/PH/2/5/4/1Staff Photograph: R J Parsons and L E Parsons studying a skull under a microscope
DF/PH/2/5/3Staff Photographs: Parsons, Louis Emmanuel, geological preparator, at work
DF/PH/8/5/6/1Upnor elephant skeleton in Fossil Mammal Gallery, with preparator (LE Parsons) standing by
DF/PH/2/5/3/11Staff Photograph: Parsons, Louis Emmanuel, demonstrating his work to children in the dinosaur gallery
DF/PH/2/5/3/9Staff Photograph: Parsons, Louis Emmanuel, working at bench
DF/PH/2/5/3/4Staff Photograph: Parsons, Louis Emanuel, preparing Hypsilophodon skeleton
DF/PH/2/1/2/5Staff Group Photograph: Works staff setting off on an outing in a horse bus (charabanc), in Exhibition Road
DF/PH/2/5/3/12Staff Photograph: Parsons, Louis Emmanuel, demonstrating his work to children in the dinosaur gallery
DF/PH/3/1/1975Gallery Photograph Album 3: Parsons, Louis Emanuel (Palaeontology Department), with animal bones
DF/PH/3/2/12/6Photograph of Fossil Specimens being cleaned: Diplodocus Carnegeii
DF/PH/3/1/2115Gallery Photograph Album 3: Staff Individual L E Parsons working on Upnor Elephant
DF/PH/8/4/1/12Photographs of fossil vertebrates: Messrs L E and R J Parsons, Meade, and Rixon cleaning and refurbishing Diplodocus carnegeii in the Fossil Reptile Gallery
DF/PH/2/5/3/5Staff Photograph: Parsons, Louis Emmanuel, working at bench with dinosaur limb bone
DF/PH/3/1/1976Gallery Photograph Album 3: Staff Individual L E Parsons with animal bones
DF/PH/2/5/1/4Staff Group Photograph: Geology Department Staff
DF/PH/8/4/1/25Photographs of fossil vertebrates: Skeleton of Ophthalmosaurus icenicus from Peterborough
DF/PH/8/5/6/2Upnor elephant skeleton in Fossil Mammal Gallery, with preparator (LE Parsons) standing by
DF/PH/2/5/3/10Staff Photograph: Parsons, Louis Emmanuel, demonstrating his work to children in the dinosaur gallery
DF/PH/2/5/1/1Staff Group Photograph: Geology Department Staff
DF/ADM/1000/99Reports and letters 1914
DF/PH/1/5/2/19Behind the scenes at the Museum: Geological Department, preparators shop
DF/PH/3/2/12/5Photograph of Fossil Specimens being cleaned: Diplodocus Carnegeii
DF/PH/3/1/1974Gallery Photograph Album 3: Staff Individual L E Parsons with animal bones
DF/WAR/1200/1Letters, memorandums and notes
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