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Album of cartes-de-visite and cabinet cards by Julia Margaret Cameron, c 1870

Album of cartes-de-visite and cabinet cards by Julia Margaret Cameron, c 1870

1860-1880
Julia Hay Norman photograph album

Julia Hay Norman photograph album

Stockton & Darlington Centenary Album

Stockton & Darlington Centenary Album

1925
Photographs of Atlantic telegraph cable machinery aboard SS 'Great Eastern', 1867

Photographs of Atlantic telegraph cable machinery aboard SS 'Great Eastern', 1867

1867
Radio Rentals Photographic Album

Radio Rentals Photographic Album

1940-1970
North Eastern Railway photograph album

North Eastern Railway photograph album

1825-1899
Carved Wooden Cover to 'The Herschel Album'

Carved Wooden Cover to 'The Herschel Album'

1864-1867
Radio Rentals Photographic Album

Radio Rentals Photographic Album

1940-1970
Seven albums of photographs assembled by John Downes Rochfort, 1867-1883

Seven albums of photographs assembled by John Downes Rochfort, 1867-1883

1867-1883
Miniature edition of Mrs Julia Margaret Cameron's 'Photographs From Life', 1869

Miniature edition of Mrs Julia Margaret Cameron's 'Photographs From Life', 1869

1869
Bound Volume With Embossed Gilt 'Album' on Cover

Bound Volume With Embossed Gilt 'Album' on Cover

Album containing pasted in carte size prints

Album containing pasted in carte size prints

1855-1865
Station Hotel, Newcastle album

Station Hotel, Newcastle album

1892
Album containing sketch of the first Standard Class Pacific locomotive drawn by Ernest Stewart Cox (E.S. Cox)

Album containing sketch of the first Standard Class Pacific locomotive drawn by Ernest Stewart Cox (E.S. Cox)

1948
SE&CR Unveiling of War Memorial at Dover Marine Station

SE&CR Unveiling of War Memorial at Dover Marine Station

1922
229 x 152 photograph album. Front covered in 'diamonds' of mother-of-pearl, engraved with flower sprays (a few pieces missing). Leather spine, black lacquer back and gilt edged pages. Two ornate clasps. Room for 96 cartes-de-visites - currently empty.

Mother-of-Pearl album for carte-de-visites, 1865

1865
The Patent Revolving Album 9. Walnut carte-de-visite automatic viewer holding 26 cartes-de-visite in 13 holders, on walnut cradle with carved legs. Key in bottom.

The Patent Revolving Album 9. Walnut carte-de-visite automatic viewer holding 26 cartes-de-visite in 13 holders

1875-1885
Sold by Deighton's Booksellers, Worcester. Lacquered green covers with simulated green malachite marbling; brass decortations and clasp; 20 double sided aperture pages, 2 per page. Index page for 80 photographs. Red leather spine.

Album for carte-de-visites, c 1870

1865-1875
Covers and spine with elaborately carved sandlewood panels with foliage, birds, rabbits etc. Surrounded by ivory and metal very fine mosaic inlay. Ivory spine endplate; 19 double sided aperture pages with two pictures per page. No photographs inside.

Album for Carte-de-Visites

1865-1875
Photograph album with black lacquer covers. Front cover is ornamented with large figure of an eagle in mother of pearl, on branch made of none with mother of pearl flowers and two mother of pearl small beads. All pages and cover interiors are covered with hand painted silk showing Japanese scenery and flowers.

Japanese photograph album

Mother-of-pearl covered front cover with brass clasp; black lacquered back. Green leather spine; 10 double sided aperture pages. Contains two photographs.

Mother-of-Pearl album for carte-de-visites, c 1860

1855-1865
Album containing 19 gelatin silver print postcards by William Hope, Crewe, Cheshire, England, 1910-1930. Assembled for the Crewe Spirit Circle, 1910-1930.

Album of Crewe Spirit Circle

1910-1930
Album containing 94 portrait photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron, dedicated to Sir John Herschel. Bound with wooden covers, front cover with carved bas-relief. Some prints were added at a later date. The Herschel Album consists of 94 albumen photographs, with a full contents list of titles. Most prints have a title and date handwritten by Cameron. She produced approximately a dozen bound albums which she presented as gifts to her friends and sisters.

The Herschel Album

1864-1867
One of seven albums of photographs assembled by John Downes Rochfort chronicling his travels in North America, Europe and Africa between 1867 and 1883. This album is entitled 'Algiers Egypt &c 1882-3' and is a curious mixture of photographs of North African tourist subjects and views of Egyptian battlefields.

Photograph album 'Algiers Egypt &c 1882-3'

1867-1883
One of seven albums of photographs assembled by John Downes Rochfort chronicling his travels in North America.

One of seven albums of photographs assembled by John Downes Rochfort, 1867-1883

1867-1883
Photograph album containing 34 photographs and 4 diagrams of gas turbine locomotive no. 18000. The locomotive was made by Brown Boveri of Baden, Switzerland, and tested by British Brown Boveri and British Railways (Western Region) as part of BR's exploration of gas turbine locomotives. The bogies and frame were made by the Swiss Locomotive Works (SLM) of Winterthur. The photographs were all take in Switzerland and show the locomotive at Basle station and at Brown Boveri's works at Baden. There are photographs of the internal machinery, bogies, frames, controls etc. The first photograph shows the locomotive at Basle with Brown Boveri's smaller gas turbine prototype locomotive no. 1101, which remained in Switzerland. The album was assembled as a presentation album to accompany the handover of the locomotive, and according to the donor only two albums were made. The album is accompanied by negatives of four of the pictures, and a print of a painting of the locomotive that was presented at the hand-over.

Brown Boveri Gas Turbine Locomotive No. 18000

circa 1949
Bound volume entitled 'Calotype Portraits', bound in maroon leather with decorative gilt embossing on cover. Pages gilt edged. Contains thirteen calotype portraits by Henry Collen, 1841 to 1844. Collen was the first person to license the Calotype process from William Henry Fox Talbot in 1842.

Calotype Portraits

1841-1844
One of two carte-de-visite albums originally belonging to George Ferguson Thompson as souvenirs of his stay in Algeria 1867-1868. Album in shape of a book, bound with green leather. Several of carte-visites hand coloured.

Souvenir cart-de-visite album of Algeria, 1868-1869

1867-1868
Album titled `Women's Work in the War, 1915-1918' containing approximately 120 vintage prints, photographers unspecified.

Women's Work in the War, 1915-1918

1915-1918
Album of 68 photographs of China, 1875-80, by Thomas Child and others

Album of 68 photographs of China

1875-1880
Photograph album and loose prints, various images of Calverton Colliery taken by the Resident Engineers Department during the construction of the rail link, 1950's.

Calverton Colliery Line

1950
Photographic portrait album in green morocco with cabinet, c-d.v., and other formats. Portraits associated with Grove family of Window and Grove, 63a Baker Street, Portman Square, London, 1860-1920

Photographic Portrait Album

1860-1920
Norman photographic album, featuring album prints, carte-de-visites and lithograph prints of various people and personalities. Front cover of album embossed 'S.N. / 1859'. Contains photographs of Julia Margaret Cameron and her family.

Norman Photograph Album

1959
Photograph album with black leather cover. 'A Pictorial Record of Television Development' is marked on the spine in gold.

A Pictorial Record of Television Development photograph album

1924-1938
Album, ''Lord Tennyson and his Friends'. A series of 25 portraits and frontispiece in Photogravure by W A Smith, from the negatives of Mrs Julia Margaret Cameron & Henry Herschel Hay Cameron. Reminiscences by Anne Thackeray Ritchie with introduction by HHH Cameron'. (Number 330 of a limited edition of 400), 1893, published by T. Fisher Unwin.

Album, 'Lord Tennyson and his Friends', 1893

1893
Photograph album "LMR Electric Rolling Stock", from the Chief Mechanical & Electrical Engineer's Department, Nelson Street, Derby. Contains 17 black & white photographs depicting Liverpool Southport 1927 compartment stock, Wirral / Mersey electric stock (including interiors), and Liverpool-Southport 1939 saloon stock (including interiors with A.R.P. lighting. The majority of the photographs have the negative numbers noted. Album numbered 1. 8.2677 x 11.2992 in.

LMR Electric Rolling Stock

1953-1956
Photograph album "Lancaster-Morecambe-Heysham 1908 Rolling Stock & Overhead Equipment 6600V AC", from the Chief Mechanical & Electrical Engineer's Department, Nelson Street, Derby. Contains 22 black & white photographs of Lancaster-Morecambe-Heysham 50 cycle conversion electric stock built at Woverton (including interior), trial runs of original Lancaster-Morecambe-Heysham stock including views of motor car with a steam stock trailer attached and interiors, views of original overhead equipment, and erection of overhead equipment. The majority of the photographs have their negative numbers noted. Album numbered 10. 8.2283 x 11.1417 in.

Lancaster-Morecambe-Heysham 1908 Rolling Stock & Overhead Equipment 6600V AC

1952
Early album for cartes de visite. Front cover brass inlaid with red enamel with two brass clasps. Engraved initials H.W.W. With plush spine and gilt page edges. Dedication in ink "Uncle Wickham. From his very affection niece Emma M. Campbell. Paris 8th October 1861". Sold by E. Picart, Papetier, 14 rue du Bac, Paris.

carte de visite album

1861
A family photograph album titled 'Sunny Memories' by Herbert Cutner, (who worked for the company Bile Beans), at various locations with family and friends and on holidays. Includes Harrogate, North Yorkshire; Blackpool, Lancashire; Leeds, West Yorkshire; Isle of Man; Hull, Humberside; Paris and London. Family engaged in many leisure pursuits including sports, leisure cruising (aboard 'Walmer Castle'), horse riding, engaging in seaside activities such as watching Punch and Judy, paddling and riding donkeys, charabanc outings and playing croquet. Photograph album reference: 1990-5036/15332 also by Cutner

A family photograph album titled 'Sunny Memories' by Herbert Cutner

1905-1907
Photograph album, leather bound with clasp, British, 1860-1870

Photograph album

1860-1870
Photographic album with "Kodak Panoramas" indented on front cover. Brown cloth, hard backed. Taken in Southeast Asia.

Kodak Panoramas

1903-1904
An album of photographs examples of English Church architecture taken across 13 counties between 1899 and 1905 by John H. Pledge

Examples of English Church Architecture

1890-1905
Black embossed leather covered album entitled 'Album Paul Delaroche'. Contains 30 CDV sized prints on albumen paper inset in embossed pages. With one sketch of Delaroche and 29 reproductions of his paintings. With pencil titles for some of the pictures including: St Cecile, Lady Jane Grey's execution, death of the Duke of Guise, Charles I, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon at Fontainebleau, Les Girondists, the martyr and Napolean in the Alps. Published by Gospel and Cie.

Album of copy pictures of paintings by Paul Delaroche

Album of 23 albumen photographs of the 1864 Sheffield Flood.

Album of 23 original photographs of the 1864 Sheffield Flood

1864
Clothbound album, dark green covers and gold writing, titled: FRITH'S PHOTO PICTURES. Contains series of 25 photographs, views of Bradford in Imperial size, and series of 31 photographs in Royal size (one Imperial missing, eighteen royal size missing)

Frith's Photo Pictures

Photographic Portrait album in maroon velvet with 38 c.d.v. portraits, owned by Katie Grove. Portraits associated with Grove family, 1860-1890

Photographic Portrait Album

1860-1890
A family photograph album, [possibly family of Frank Syer Bristowe who lived at Chalcott House, Ditton Hill, in 1911 and who may be the photographer], including locations: Ditton, Surrey; Torquay and Brixham, Devon Probably same photographer as photograph album reference: 1990-5036/15351

A family photograph album

Unknown (early 20th century)
Snapshot photograph album by an unknown photographer, taken between 1915 and about 1925. Photographs of various sizes taken of British warships, civillian, naval and army personnel during and just after the first world war, including views of Galipolli, Broadstairs and Ghana. Kodak Album no 37.

Snapshot Album

1915-1925
Bound volume of early calotype photogenic drawings by Wlliam Henry Fox Talbot, chiefly from negatives prior to 1841, containing 45 mages. Green leather spine and corners with gold embossing.

Bound Volume of Photogenic Drawings

1841
M.W. & Co cabinet photograph album. Clasp marked 'Leuchars 38 & 39 Piccadilly'. Carved wooden cover with silvered brass initials D K. 12 pages with apertures for 24 cabinet photographs. Empty - does not contain any photographs.

Cabinet photograph album