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COLLECTIONS HOUSED AT TCA

PAPER DOCUMENTS Sir Ratan Tata’s manor, located in Matheran, a hill
The Document Collections include formation station near Mumbai, also form part of the TCA
papers, annual reports, board minutes, business and Collections. The beautiful stained ventilator and
trade and accounting records, legal matters, labour glass door, the wedding chairs of Sir Ratan Tata and
welfare measures and biographies. The annual Lady Navajbai Tata, surya mukhi cupboards, corner
reports of JN Tata’s first venture, the Central India stands, dressing tables, and chairs are some of the
Spinning, Weaving and Manufacturing Company, items which have been relocated to the Archives.
dating back to 1875, are amongst the oldest
documents in the Archives. MEMORABILIA
‘JRD Tata Home Workshop Incorporated’, as he
NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS referred to it in jest, was located at his residence in
TCA has a vast collection of newspaper clippings Mumbai (Bombay). The Workshop, an area of 250
in hard and soft copies. The earliest dates back to sqft, had rows of shelves, with instruments neatly
the wedding announcement of Dorabji Tata and arranged on them. The entire Workshop has been
Meherbai Bhabha in ‘The Times of India’. relocated to TCA. With the help of Telco (now Tata
Motors) apprentices, part of the Workshop has been
PHOTOGRAPHS recreated at the TCA exhibition gallery.
TCA has over 75,000 still images dating as far
back as the late 1800’s, relocated from various MULTIMEDIA COLLECTIONS
Tata companies, Tata Trusts, Tata philanthropic TCA’s Multimedia Collections comprise
institutions and those donated by various over 800 audio and video recordings on various
individuals. The Collections are in physical and Tata companies, institutions and personalities.
digital formats created over the years. Speeches by Tata luminaries such as JRD Tata,
JJ Bhabha, NA Palkhivala, etc. form an important
MEDALS AND CITATIONS part of the Multimedia Collections. 
Around 200 awards, medals, citations presented to
Sir Dorabji Tata, Lady Meherbai Tata, RD Tata,
JRD Tata, RN Tata and other Tata luminaries are in RECORDS IN OUR COLLECTIONS
the possession of TCA.
1% 6%
PAINTINGS 24% 11% 2%
Apart from documents and photographs, over 1%
10 valuable paintings of Nusserwanji Tata, JN Tata, 5% 12%
Sir Dorabji Tata, Sir Ratan Tata, Sir Bezonji Mehta, 1%
RD Tata and Kapilram Vakil form part of the 35% 1%
Collections. 1%

ATTIRE Pie chart depicting various Collections at TCA
Over 20 articles of clothing form part of the TCA
Collections. These include the attire of JN Tata, Press Clippings RM Lala Papers
JRD Tata and NA Palkhivala. In-House Publications Tata Companies
Department of Economics Tata Industries
and Statistics Tata Sons
FURNITURE JRD Tata Papers Family and other
Exquisite antique furniture from ‘The Homestead’, Press Clippings Important Correspondence
Digitised Copies Records in the Fire
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