Minutes and letters covering the organisation of Miss Helen M. Simpson's testimonial. This took place while the College was temporarily housed in Scarborough during WW2. The College buildings in Leeds having been once again requisitioned for military use.
These letters were written by the portrait painter Howard Somerville to M. T. Woodhouse a Senior Tutor at the City of Leeds Training College. They are concerned with the commission of a portrait of retiring Principal of the College, Dr. John R. Airey. Somerville had earlier been commissioned to paint the portrait of Airey's predecessor Walter Parsons. It seems Somerville as a favour to the College reduced his rates for the Airey commission.
Four surviving photographic 'panels' make up a partial panorama of the City of Leeds and Carnegie College sports field, Cookridge in background, shrubs acting as boundary between pitches, Carnegie Hall, Design and Technology Block and Boiler Plant chimney in the distance.
