Miscellaneous unmounted photograpic prints of people, street scenes and animals
Miscellaneous photographic prints of people, street scenes and animals developed from glass plate negatives taken by Edgar Tarry Adams or by his children Francis Norris Adams, Isabel Mary Adams or Pauline Adams. Images include Edgar Tarry Adams, Helen Adams and the Adams children.
Includes images of busy streets, horse drawn carriages, people walking down a promenade or on the beach, groups of people posing for photographs on the street, people walking or riding bicycles, garden parties or people in other parts of the Adams’ home (The Cottage, Halstead, or The Bungalow, Deal), cats, a shooting party of ‘The Volunteers’, crowds of people at a train station, ice skating at Gosfield Lake, a cricket or croquet match, a group of men and women posing with their dogs, a man and woman sat on a bench (possibly in mourning dress), a parade, streets lined with people and hanging out of windows (possibly Edward VII coronation), an elephant procession, large crowds watching the May races (Cambridge), a pageant, a woman dressed as Elizabeth I at a pageant (possibly for May Day), the volunteer fire brigade, inside a classroom, a football match, women in the woods picking fruit, and more.
These prints contain no descriptions or dates and each print would need to be matched up with its corresponding glass plate negative for any context or dates
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324 photographic prints
- Identifier:
- ETA/2/2/1/1
- Access:
- Open Access
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