Reference
Z1871/1/1
Title
Carte-de-visite album 1 – 30 pages.
Date free text
1860s-1890s
Production date
From: 1860 To: 1899
Scope and Content
Facing page 1: ½ length photograph of young man seated holding a hat. Photographer George Downes, Bedford. Negative number 10613. Red crowned stamp 'late Cundall Downes photographer to the queen 168 New Bond St.' (1869-1879)
Page1 (loose): Full length photograph of portly bald man standing with chair and curtain to the left and an ormolu table to the right. No indication of photographer.
Page 2: Full length photograph of small boy in velvet suit and tartan socks leaning on a covered table, patterned curtain in background. PhotographersGeorge Downes, Bedford. No negative number. Red crowned stamp 'late Cundall Downes photographer to the queen 168 New Bond St.' (1869-1879)
Page 3: Full length photograph of 3 small boys in suits around the same table as page 2. Photographer George Downes, Bedford. No negative number. Red crowned stamp 'late Cundall Downes photographer to the queen 168 New Bond St.' (1869-1879)
Page 4: Full length photograph of balding, bearded man standing beside a pot of ferns with a vine covered trellis behind. Photographer W Nichols & Sons, St Mary’s Passage Cambridge, printed in purple. Negative number 11049
Page 5: Empty.
Page 6: 3/4 length photograph of young woman seated looking left. Photographers Hills & Saunders, Cambridge & Oxford also at Eton Harow and London. By Appointment to Her Majesty.
Page 7: Empty
Page 8: 3/4 length photograph of young woman, possibly same as page 6, seated leaning on a small table with a book at her hand. Photographer W Nichols & Sons, St Mary’s Passage Cambridge, printed in purple. Negative number 14973.
Page 9: ½ length photograph of young man with moustache and side burns, oval. Photographer Farren, 13 Market Place and 17 Market Street, Cambridge 'sole licence for the new patent chromotype and Lambert-type permanent photographs'.
Page 10: Head and shoulders photograph of young man with moustache and short hair that is wavy on top. Photographer David Rees photo, 298 Clapham Road SW. Prize medal awarded South London Exhibition.
Page 11: Full length photograph of young girl with ringlets holding a hat with flowers on it standing beside a draped table with two closed books on it. Photographer Edward W Foxlee Photographer 98 Cheapside EC London Opposite Bennett’s Clock. Negative number 1894.
In between pages 11 and 12: Card for National Agricultural Labourers’ Union A Thoday, Cotton End Branch, July – Dec 1873
Page12: Head and shoulders photograph of young woman in velvet top with large epaulette type detail. Photographer Augustus W Wilson & Co. 'Gold medallists International photo exhibition 1880. 13f Dalston Lane, Kingsland nearly opposite Dalston Junction NLR. Prize medalists photographic society Great Britain 1878, gold medalists Boro Hackney photo exhibition 1891 S Kensington 1869.
Page 13: Head and shoulders photograph of elderly woman in lace cap. Photographer Parkinson & Dazeley, 37 Gold Street, Northampton.
Page 14: Coloured lithograph of ‘The Queen’s Youngest son’ in highland costume. Photographer J M Kronheim & Co.
Page 15: ½ length photograph of young woman with butterfly clip in her hair leaning on an upholstered arm rest. Photographer George Croughton 'First class prize medallist.19 Albert Place, London Road South, Lowestoft.'
Page 16: ½ length photograph of young man in check waistcoat and velvet collared jacket, seated, oval. Photographer H James, 130 Euston Road, London.
Page 17: ½ length photograph of young woman wearing a hat, seated on the same type of seat as in page15. Photographer - Alexandra Photographic Company, E Redcock manager, Midland Road, Bedford. Negative number 1511.
Page 18 Full length photograph of young woman leaning on a chair back. R Trett written on the back in ink. Photographer Edwin W Prockter, The Royal Studio, 90 Edgware Road W
Page 19: ½ length photograph of young woman leaning on a stand. Photographer J E Bliss, successor to Arthur Nicolls, Post Office Terrace, Cambridge.
Page 20: Empty
Page: 21: Full length photograph of young woman in crinoline of patterned fabric standing beside a table and putting her hand inside a small casket on the table. Photographer Thomas Greenish, 20 New Street Dorset Square, London
Page 22: Same as p17
Page 23: ¾ length photograph of two young women (probably same women as in pages 12 and 17). Photographer C J Hawkes, 58 High Street, Blue Town, Sheerness and 5 Cheapside Sittingbourne.
Pages 24 and 25: Empty.
Page 26: Full length photograph of young woman in crinoline standing beside a table with 2 books and ornaments on it. No photographer details [picture also appears in other album Z1871/1/2]
Page 27: Empty
Page 28: Head and shoulders coloured image of a bearded man with a velvet collar. Photographer James Monte 56 High Street, Camden Town. Negative number 5634. [Picture also appears in other album Z1871/1/2]
Page 29: Full length photograph of woman in cap with epaulettes on her sleeves and almost certainly pregnant, standing beside a small table with a basket of flowers on it. Photographer E Cantle, High Street St Mary’s Bedford. Negative number 1979.
Level of description
item