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

Photographs

1860-1880

SE&CR Unveiling of War Memorial at Dover Marine Station

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1922

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

Photographs

1869

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

Photographs

1867-1883

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

Photographs

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

Photographs

1875-1885

Small card photograph album. Part of Little Nipper developing and printing outfit carton. Butchers. Empty. Can hold 12 photographs.

Happy Memories With The Little Nipper Photo Album

Photographic Technology

c. 1900

Album containing pasted in carte size prints

Photographs

1855-1865

Mrs Edward Smith

Photographs

1860

Mrs Edward Smith

Photographs

1867

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

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1950

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 (supplied title)

Photographic Collections (Railway)

c. 1949

Album stamped "Kodak", photographer(s) anonymous, 1900-20. Containing 21 photographs, 1 item newsprint

Album stamped 'Kodak'

Photographs

1900-1920

"Baby's album": An anotated album of photographs, c. 1902-1920

Baby's album

Photographs

c. 1902-1920

Carved wooden cover of the 'Herschel Album'. Handwritten dedication by Julia Margaret Cameron on reverse of cover, 'To / Sir John F H Hershel / from his Friend / Julia Margaret Cameron / With a grateful / memory of 27 years / of friendship / Fresh Water Bay / Isle of Wight / Nov 26th 1864 / Sept 8th 1867 / completed & ... with renewed / devotedness of grateful friendship'. The album was created by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) in 1864. She presented it to her friend Sir John Herschel (1792-1871). 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.

Carved Wooden Cover to 'The Herschel Album'

Photographs

1864-1867

Photograph album containing photographs and diary of the honeymoon of Marsland Armitage Bennett and Mary Hadfield following their marriage at St. James's Church, Hope, in July 1882. They tour to Worcester, Hereford, Clifton, Wells, Bath, Ilfracombe, Exeter, Stonehenge, Winchester and London

photograph album

Photographs

1882

Album with capacity for 12 cabinet photographs in six aperture pages. Fitted to vertical plated stand. Brown leather cover with embossed motif of birds, leavesrs and nuts. Album interior removable for convenience in inserting photos.

cabinet photo album on stand

Photographs

Photographs, an album of 130 silver gelatin prints, captioned and numbered. Produced by North Eastern Railway Museum, Queen Street, York. Featuring locomotives of the North Eastern Railway and some amalgamated companies, 1825-1899. Photographs supplied by R E Bleasdale of Warwick, probably photographer. Album: dark red hardback covers, 465 x 315 mm, title printed in gold on front cover, as above, 34pp, prints 8 x 6 ins. Very poor condition: first page disintegrating, pages show cockling.

North Eastern Railway photograph album

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1825-1899

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)

Photographic Collections (Railway)

c. 1936

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

Photographs

1841-1844

Leatherette photographic album of Snowdon and Llanberis district album in black and dark green with a gold trim. Mostly taken by John H. Pledge in East Anglia, 1904.

Snowdon and Llanberis District

Photographs

1901

Photographs of various locations including Japan, Ceylon, Hawaii and San Francisco. Taken by an unknown photographer. The album consist of 52 pages, the first three of which are blank. Most pages are mounted with one photograph though several include two photographs.

Untitled Snapshot Photograph Album

Photographs

Early 20th Century

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

Photographs

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

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1953-1956

Photographic portrait album in blue morocco, with 24 cabinet prints, owned by Kate Grove. Portraits associated with Grove family 1870-1950

Photographic Portrait Album

Photographs

1870-1950

Album taken by William Edward HARVEY between 1900-1902 when a member of the Birmingham Photographic Society: 23 photographs of Killarney 1900-1902; 19 photographs of Birmingham & Warwicks.; 1 nude "Meditation"; 6 illustrations from book; 1 watercolour

Album of photographs

Photographs

1900-1902

Bound volume with embossed gilt, small early calotype portraits in the main, by Wiliam Henry Fox Talbot. embossed maroon learger binding with gold stamped "Album" on front cover. Pages gilt eded. This item contains material that is very vulnerable to light damage

Bound Volume With Embossed Gilt 'Album' on Cover

Photographs

Large format photographic album 10.5x14" incscribed The Great War, with a large number of miscellaneous news photographs.

The Great War

Photographs

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

Photographs

1867-1868

Heavily grained maroon leather cover containing 6 pages hinged concertina fashion with apertures for ten cabinet sized photographs. Empty - album does not contain photographs.

Cabinet picture album

Photographs

Album of snapshots by Unknown maker photographer featuring A. Cutner in a variety of places with some companions on occasion. "Snapshots" written on the cover.

Varietas Vanitatum: Vanity Fair. A. Cutner - snapshots of himself at various times during his photographic career.

Photographs

Various

Photograph album entitled 'Snaps'. Slit pages for 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch photographs. Empty - does not contain photographs.

Small photograph album - 'Snaps'

Photographic Technology

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

photograph album

Photographs

Unknown (early twentieth century)

Photograph album "London Transport Rolling Stock", from the Chief Mechanical & Electrical Engineer's Department, Nelson Street, Derby. Contains 17 black & white photographs of London Transport Executive stock: interior of London District Railway coach; interior of ordinary tube car; interiors and exteriors of underground cars built by the Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Co., Cammell Laird & Co., the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Co., the Metropolitan Carriage Wagon & Finance Co. and the Leeds Forge Co.; typical London District Railway stock. The majority of the photographs have their negative numbers noted. Album numbered 11. 8.1496 x 11.1811 in.

London Transport Rolling Stock

Photographic Collections (Railway)

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

Photographs

1890-1905

Bound volume with embossed gilt: 'Album' on cover (53 calotypes) by Willam Henry Fox Talbot. Early photographs mostly taken at Lacock Abbey in 1842. This item contains material that is very vulnerable to light damage

Bound Volume With Embossed Gilt 'Album' on Cover

Photographs

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

Photographic Collections (Railway)

c. 1936

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

Kodak Panoramas

Photographs

1903 - 1904

Album of scraps and photographs assembled by Kalmeen Poynter, begun in 1914

Album of scraps and photographs assembled by Kalmeen Poynter

Photographs

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

Photographs

1841

"Baby's album" for CDV photographs with gold blocked cover with picture of small child chasing birds. Nine pages with aperture for cdvs. Ink inscription. "Alice M. Newman Given to her by her loving Aunty Bella". Made of maroon leather with gilt edges to pages. Empty - album does not contain any photographs.

"Baby's album" for CDV photographs

Photographs

Photograph album 21 x 26cm with black leather back. Front forms a frame of black lacquered wood round an albumen print of an angel flying with a child in her arms. Gold leaf around the inside of frame with brass clasp. Contains leaves for carte de visite with only the front page for cabinet photographs. Old catalogue states that the picture come from an engraving by W. von Kaulbach.

Funereal photograph album

Photographs

Black embossed covers; for carte-de-visites, cabinets and midgets; 16 double sided aperture pages, chromolitho decorated. Inscribed 'With best wishes for your 21st birthday from Aunt and Uncle, March 1911'. Brass clasp.

Photograph album for carte-de-visites, cabinets and midgets

Photographs

1911

Black lacquer covers with bird and blossom design with E O W monogram on the front and an insect and leaf design on the back. With 62 hand coloured albumen prints of Japanese scenes approx 10 x 8 inches. Most are captioned in English, though some are misspelt. Pages are interleaved with rice paper.

Japanese photograph album

Photographs

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

Photographs

1860-1890

Red leather covered carte de visites photograph album. Approx 15 x 12cm.With heavy brass bindings containing 15 pages with capacity for 30 cartes back to back. Empty - does not contain any photographs.

Leather and brass bound album for carte de visite photographs

Photographs

Loose leaf album containing memorabilia, photographs, scraps, air tickets, menus etc collated by Kath Bourne as a memento of her visit to Los Angeles in 1952 to visit her sister, Mrs Rowlands.

Album containing memorabilia and photographs of a visit by Kath Bourne to Los Angeles, 1952

Photographs

1952

Two bound volumes of photogenic drawings, chiefly from negatives dated 1840-1841.

Two Bound Volumes of Photogenic Drawings

Photographs

1840-1841

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 in brown leather; few carte-de-visites.

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

Photographs

1867-1868

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

Photographs

1861