Snapshot photograph album no. 8 of the Russian Imperial Royal Family
Snapshot photograph album no. 8 of the Russian Imperial Royal Family, compiled by Herbert Galloway Stewart (1866-1960). Covered with a blue coloured textile with 'Kodak Souvenirs' inscribed in gold coloured script and a black geometric border along the bottom edge. The album comprises 12 pages with four black and white photographs on each page, mounted through pre-cut apertures. Four photographs have been removed from the album, one from 1 and 2 and two from page 3. Inscribed on the inside front cover; 'Herbert G. Stewart, 22 Kenilworth Avenue, Wimbledon, S.W'. A key to those pictured, together with the page numbers on which they appear, is written on the inside back cover. Dated 1912, May to August.
Herbert Galloway Stewart was English tutor to the sons of Grand Duke Alexander and his wife Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna, sister of Tsar Nicholas II, between 1908 and 1917.
- Measurements:
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overall: 204 mm x 255 mm x 10 mm,
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product) , cardboard and textile
- Object Number:
- 1990-5037/P80/8
- type:
- album - book
- Image ©
- The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London