Josephine Mary La Rue

Career Teacher / Artist

Biography Mother of the Pitt Rivers Museum's Curator of Music collections, Hélène La Rue [qv], she was a school teacher [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 05/02/2007]

County London [Greater] / Suffolk / Birmingham

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1993

Dates active 1913-2004

Donated around 1993

English collections Pair of child's red tap dancing shoes, cat's collar with a bell, plastic whistle, metal whistle, whistling kettles, boatswain's call, policeman's badge...

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

English collection size 10

Connections Bernard Bowen / Hélène La Rue / Acme Whistles / Best Products Ltd. / Joseph Hudson and Co / Nauticalia Ltd / National Maritime Museum Shop, Greenwich