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Call Number:

PH-00385

Collection Name:

J. E. (John Jabez Edwin) Mayall Photography Collection

Creator:

Mayall, J. E. (John Jabez Edwin) (1810 - 1901)

No. of Items:

17 items

Span Dates:

1840s-1890s

Description:

John Jabez Edwin Mayall (British, 1813-1901)) was a photographer associated with both the Royal Photographic Society and the Photographic Society of Great Britain. The Ransom Center holds five daguerreotypes, one stereo daguerreotype, and 102 prints by Mayall. Additional prints by Mayall can be found in several photograph albums. Select item-level information follows.

964:0612:0001 -- Prince Albert, circa 1860;
964:0612:0002 -- The Earl of Derby, 1861;
964:0612:0003 -- Prince of Wales, circa 1862;
964:0612:0004 -- James Glaisher, Esq., F.R.S., President, 1870;
964:0612:0005 -- [Princess of Wales], circa 1862;
964:0612:0006 -- [Mr. Manager], circa 1860;
964:0612:0007 -- [Queen Victoria], 1859;
964:0612:0008 -- [Prince Alfred], 1860;
964:0612:0009 -- [Princesses Helena & Louisa], 1860;
964:3457:0017 -- William Ewart Gladstone, 1861;
964:3457:0018 -- [Gladstone], circa 1862.

Prints 964:3457:0017-0018 are mounted on an album page.

Accession No(s):

964:0612:0001-0009; 964:3457:0020-0021; 964:0020:0028-0029, 0055, 0057, 0072; 964:0864:0002

Location(s):

H Box, Medium (964:3457:0017-0018)
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M Box, Large (964:0612:0001, 0003-0005)
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M Box, Medium (964:0612:0002, 0006-0009)
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Curatorial permission required 6 osb, Gernsheim Daguerreotype (Boxes 02, 04-05, 10, 13-14)
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See Also:

Parnassus Preserved Photography Collection

Card Photographs (Cabinet Cards and Cartes-de-visite) Photography Collection: 3 cabinet cards and 3 cartes de visite are located in the Card Photograph Format Collection

The Royal Album. Portraits of the Royal Family of England Photographed from Life

[Oblong Brown Album: containing cartes from the 1860s of famous personalities]: contains 5 cartes de visite by Mayall

[Boyle Family Album]: 1 photograph by Mayall

[Carte-de-visite album]: 1 photograph by Mayall

The Photographic Album for the Year 1857: 1 photograph by Mayall

[Brown morocco cartes de visite album] (a.k.a. Album 4, and carte album 4): 2 photographs by Mayall

[]Carte-de-visite album with music box: 3 photographs by Mayall

[Small Red Album]: 1 photograph by Mayall

[Red morocco album: 100 cartes-de-visite of famous people]: 11 photographs by Mayall

[Album of 100 cartes-de-visite: Album of the Earl of Kimberley]: 12 photographs by Mayall

[Brown morocco album of 84 portraits of famous personalities]: 9 photographs by Mayall