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NER album

1900

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

1860-1880

North Eastern Railway photograph album

1825-1899

Julia Hay Norman photograph album

Radio Rentals Photographic Album

1940-1970

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

1867

Carved Wooden Cover to 'The Herschel Album'

1864-1867

Kenya, Uganda Railway construction album

circa 1901

Radio Rentals Photographic Album

1940-1970
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

SE&CR Unveiling of War Memorial at Dover Marine Station

1922

Stockton & Darlington Centenary Album

1925

Album containing pasted in carte size prints

1855-1865

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

1867-1883

Bound Volume With Embossed Gilt 'Album' on Cover

Station Hotel, Newcastle album

1892
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

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

1869
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

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
186 photographic prints of maintenance and reconstruction work on Midland and the Great Northern Joint Railway, South Lynn Station, Peterborough, Hattersley, Mottram and Cambridge

Photographic prints in scrapbook

Photograph album describing and illustrating carriage building by London & North Eastern Railway at York Works in 1931

Progressive building of carrages

1931
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
Photograph album, "H. Cutner - Little Nipper Camera. Seasons 1901 - 1903. Finished 1903" Handwritten on inside cover in pencil. Brown cloth-coloured board covers. "OGDEN'S" embossed on front

H. Cutner - Little Nipper Camera. Seasons 1901 - 1903. Finished 1903

1901-1902
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
Photograph album assembled by an unknown photographer of first world war snapshots in the Middle East or Greece taken between 1915 and 1919. Green leatherette album with gold title embossed on front 'Photographs'.

'Photographs' Album

1915-1919
Photograph album, leather bound with clasp, British, 1860-1870

Photograph album

1860-1870
Album of 45 black & white photographs titled "Victoria Station - Photographs of Premises let to separate tenants numbered to correspond with the Schedule and Plan of such premises." Photographs taken by the Valuation Office for the preparation of the draft valuation roll for the Southern Railway, circa 1936. The photographs show shops, kiosks, newsstands, bus stops, display cases, taxi ranks, advertisments etc. within and adjoining Victoria Station.

Victoria Station - Photographs of Premises

circa 1936
Photographs, an album of 172 silver gelatin prints, captioned. Featuring North Eastern Railway and East Coast Joint Stock wagons and coaches, 1907-1910. Album: Black hardback covers, 337 x 445 mm, 50pp, prints 13½ x 10¾ ins to 4¼ x 3½ ins. Fair condition.

NER/ECJS Album

1907-1910
Photographs, an album of 51 platinotype silver gelatin prints, captioned. Featuring the construction of the North Eastern Railway's Stooperdale, Darlington engine Works, and the North Eastern Headquarters Office (New) at York from 1901. Album: black hardback covers, 415 x 308mm, 30 pages, gilt-edged, prints 14 x 10 ins, some are loose in album. Poor condition, pages show foxing and cockling.

Stooperdale Album

1901
Album of photographs and advertisments showing the use of ICI (Rexine) Ltd. "Rexine" panelling material and fabric on railways, circa 1936. Uses illustrated include LNER sleeping cars, LMS sleeping cars, LNER buffet cars, LNER Silver Jubilee trains, Royal Scot and Night Scot carriages, LNER tourist coaches, Swedish railways, Norwegian State Railways, and Egyptian State Railways.

Rexine materials on railways (supplied title)

circa 1936
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
Photographs, an album of 107 silver gelatin prints, captioned. Featuring the construction of Immingham Docks. Album: black hardback covers, 280 x 190 mm, 36pp, prints 4¼ x 3¼ ins. Inside front cover inscribed "With the Compliments of the Humber Graving Dock and Engineering Co Ltd., Immingham, July 1947". Fair condition.

Immingham Docks Album

1947
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
Photographs, an album of 24 silver gelatin prints, captioned. Produced by the London & North Eastern Railway to accompany a report by the Chief Engineer of Docks to the Divisional General Manager, 17 September 1929. featuring Queens Dock, Hull. Album: brown softback covers, 267 x 190 mm. Label on front cover as above, 24pp, prints 8¼ x 6½ ins, lettered A-T in lower right corner.

Hull Docks Album

1929
Photographs, an album of one diagram and 33 printing out paper prints, captioned. Produced by North Eastern Railway Locomotive Department, Darlington. Featuring the progress of work on an electric freight locomotive, 1913-1914. Album: cream softback covers, 487 x 305mm, front cover shows printed label as above, 36pp, prints 7¾ x 5¾ ins.

NER Locomotive Department Album

1913-1914
Photographs, an album of 8 silver gelatin prints, captioned, featuring scenes from the shooting of the film "Victoria the Great" at Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire, April 1937. Includes photographs of Liverpool & Manchester Railway locomotive "Lion". Album: grey hardback covers, 151 x 223 mm, front cover inscribed in ink. 4 pages, prints 4½ x 3½ ins. Photographer Norman P Tucker.

Tucker Collection

1937
Album of 23 albumen photographs of the 1864 Sheffield Flood.

Album of 23 original photographs of the 1864 Sheffield Flood

1864
Tooled leather covers, with gold edged papers. 12 pages with apertures for 24 pictures, 1 1/4 x 2 /12 inches or 1 x 1 3/4 inches. Brass clasp.

Miniature Carte De Visite photograph album

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