Wikipedia:GLAM/Derby/One on one collaborations

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Higher Priority
 * Guidance on making images available at sensible resolutions
 * Improvements to any pages relating to Joseph Wright (we have huge information resources)
 * Derby Museums page - needs enhancing. We've lots of history files, and some old photos that could be scanned.
 * Improvements to any pages related to The Enlightenment and the Derby/Midlands people involved.
 * Royal Crown Derby is a fairly recent company when compared to Derby porcelain. Task here is to sort out the two histories and relationship to Chelsea etc.

Lower Priority
 * George Sorocold: someone to add our additional reference sources to this page (Derbys.Arch.Soc)

Orphans (aah Articles that could be written - The museum has the knowledge!)

 * Frank Gresley - there are actually four notable Gresley artists. Frank is amongst those in Derby's collection. This source includes other artists who feature in the gallery's collection.
 * Atlas Coelestis - Derby Museum has this notable book by the early astronomer John Flamsteed. Pictures are available here.

Other enhancements:
 * Georg Holtzendorff - A German Count who painted Derby Museum as part of a present for the Prime mininster.
 * Derby Museum Orrery - the museum commissioned a modern copy of the Grand Orrery in Wright's painting. Its a masterpiece of craftsmanship and has an electric motor to drive it. Public domain videos of it can be made available.
 * Ronald Pope - Derbyshire sculptor. (we've quite a few of his works, and have the support of one of his daughters who has supplied images)
 * The King of Rome (historic racing pigeon song written by local folk singer)
 * The Alchymist in Search of the Philosopher's Stone
 * Benjamin Vulliamy 1747-1811 Clockmaker (pages only exist on his sons)
 * The Blacksmith's Shop (Joseph Wright painting)
 * Derby Sketching Club
 * Derby School of Art
 * Strutts Park Roman fort
 * Derby Racecourse Roman settlement
 * Derby Local Studies Library
 * William Wilson (minister) (Methodist minister who after travelling to Fiji settled in Derby. Practicing at Green Lane Chapel.  The museum has his Journal, see above and a copy of a newly published book
 * Derby Exhibition (1839)
 * Benjamin West painting General Johnson saving a Wounded French Officer from the Tomahawk of a North American Indian see http://www.derby.gov.uk/LeisureCulture/MuseumsGalleries/ArttreasureGeneralJohnson.htm .... the names of both officers and the battle where the painting is set are all known.
 * Rebecca Crompton http://www.derby.gov.uk/LeisureCulture/MuseumsGalleries/ArttreasureGeneralJohnson.htm - images may be a problem as all in copyright
 * Pandit Nehru (bust) see http://www.derby.gov.uk/LeisureCulture/MuseumsGalleries/PanditNehru.htm - needs research to find stuff on this artwork


 * Rolls Royce Eagle Engine - derby has one of Alcock and Brown's engines that first crossed the atlantic.
 * Thistle Plate - add image of a wonderful decorated ceramic plate to the page on Musk Thistle.