Worthington family album of carte de visite photographs

Contains approximately 80 carte de visites, 16 full plate photographs and 4 small drawings. As well as portraits of relatives, family connections and friends, there are photographs of landscapes, buildings and a few railway locomotives. Several composite portrait prints depicting groups of eminent individuals, like famous authors and scientists, including Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Charles Wheatstone, John Tyndall and Charles Dickens, are also included. There are photographs of the Britannia Bridge, the Menai Straits and several street scenes of Manchester, where Samuel Barton Worthington’s father, Thomas, had a warehouse and where the family were brought up. The following items are found loose inside the back cover: hand-cut silhouette profile portrait of 'W. L. B.' (Putney Fair, 30th June 1846); hand-cut silhouette of an unidentified gentleman in a top hat ('cut by Master Hubard, aged 13 years'); engraving of J. F. Moors; printed sketch of Sir Richard Owen.