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Call Number:

PH-00310

Collection Name:

[Crichton album II]

Creator:

, 1819 - 1884 or 1894, active 1844 - 1870/1879

, 1822 - 1898, active 1850/1859 - 1860/1869

, 1823 - 1893, active 1850 - 1893

, 1828 or 1829 - 1880, active 1850/1859 - 1870/1880

, 1833 - 1889, active 1860 - 1888

, active 1890 - 1899

Bateman, J., photographer

Church, J. F., active 1870 - 1879

Crichton, Henry George Louis, 1844 - 1922

Newbery, Sydney W., photographer

Photographic Warehouse, active 1870 - 1879

Rapp, A., photographer, active 1870 - 1879

Saché, John Edward, 1824 or 1842 - 1882, active 1860/1869 - 1882

Smale & Son, active 1870 - 1879

Valentine, James, 1815 - 1879 or 1880, active 1850/1859 - 1870/1879

Window & Grove, active 1870/1879 - 1900/1909

No. of Items:

169 photographs in 1 album

Span Dates:

1873-1880 and circa 1910

Description:

Photograph album originally compiled by Sir Henry Crichton, with at least two later additions by an unknown person. The album contains 164 albumen prints, 3 platinum prints, and 2 gelatin silver prints, most of which are mounted, but several are tipped in. The photographs are a mixture of portrait photographs, and views of architecture, sailing, landscapes and cityscapes in England (71), France (38), Ireland (11), India (7), Switzerland (4), Italy (2) and Scotland (2). A number of the portrait photographs are of Crichton family members, posed both formally and informally, other portrait photographs are of military groups, including the 10th Royal Hussars, several of which Henry Crichton appears. The photographers of most photographs are unknown, a few are credited to J. Batemann of Canterbury (1), Boissonnas of Geneva (6), Chancellor of Dublin (1), J. F. Church (3), Henri Claudet (1), Francis Frith (3), Jabez Hughes (1), L. W. (2), C. N. (2), Syndey W. Newbery of London (2), Photographic Warehouse of Paris (3), A. Rapp of Southampton (1), J. Saché (1), Smale & Son of Dartmouth (1), James Valentine (1), G. W. Wilson (1), Window & Grove (1).

Accession No(s):

976:0015:0001-0169

Location(s):

f TR 655.11 C854 HRC-P (976:0015:0001-0169)
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