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Call Number:

PH-00892

Collection Name:

[Carte-de-visite album]

Creator:

Caldesi, Blanford & Co.

Claudet, Antoine, 1797-1867 (1797 - 1867)

Elliott & Fry

Haseler, E., active 1850s-1880s

John & Charles Watkins

London Stereoscopic Company

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

Paul-Émile Pesme

Photographic Institution

unidentified creator

Vezenberg & Co.

No. of Items:

27 photographs in 1 album

Span Dates:

circa 1860

Description:

Photograph album containing 27 mounted cartes-de-visite by various photographers of English royalty and Victorian political and literary personages, including autographed cartes of Shirley Brooks, John Tenniel, Mrs. M. E. Braddon, and George Shakespeare. Photographs by J. E. Mayall (British, 1813-1901) (2); Vezenberg & Co. (Russian, active 1880s-1890s) (2); John & Charles Watkins (British, active 1860s-1870s) (4); Caldesi, Blanford & Co. (British, active 1860s-1870s) (2); Elliott & Fry (British, active 1865-1908) (1); Photographic Institute (1); Antoine Claudet (French, 1797-1867, active in Great Britain) (1); Edwin Haseler (British, active 1850s-1880s) (1); London Stereoscopic Company (British, active 1854-1922) (1) and Paul-Émile Pesme (French, 1826-1869) (1). The album also contains one carte-de-visite identified as a Wothlytype, a uranium-collodion process.

Accession No(s):

964:0435:0001-0027

Location(s):

f TR 655.11 C445 HRC-P (964:0435:0001-0027)
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Item(s):
Artist/Maker Mayall, J. E. (John Jabez Edwin) (1810 - 1901)
Title [Unidentified seated man and standing woman]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0001
Artist/Maker Silvy, Camille-Léon-Louis, 1834-1910 (1834 - 1910)
Title [Princess of Leiningen]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0002
Artist/Maker Southwell Brothers
Title [Unidentified Seated Woman]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0003
Artist/Maker Silvy, Camille-Léon-Louis, 1834-1910 (1834 - 1910)
Title [Unidentified standing woman]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0004
Artist/Maker Kent, William Hardy (1819 - 1907)
Title [Wedding Photograph of Tom Thumb and Wife, Lavinia Warren]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0005
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Lord Brougham]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0006
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Alexander II of Russia]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0007
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Bismarck]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0008
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Count von Roon (war & navy minister under Bismarck)]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0009
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Mrs. Charles Dickens, 1859]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0010
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Ch. Dickens]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0011
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [John Leech]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0012
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [George Cruikshank, 1850]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0013
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Shirley Brooks (autographed)]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0014
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [John Tenniel (autographed)]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0015
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Gibson R.A.]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0016
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Clarkson Stanfield R.A.]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0017
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Sir Joseph Paxton]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0018
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Charles Keene]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0019
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Madame Grisi]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0020
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [William & Mary Hewitt]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0021
Artist/Maker United Association of Photography, Ltd.
Title [Mary Elizabeth Braddon]
Date 1865
Medium Albumen print or Wothlytype mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions visible image: 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0022
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Unidentified Standing Woman]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0023
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Clandet: Rev. John Halifax]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0024
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [George Shakespeare (autographed)]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0025
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [The [Tishborne?] Claimant]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0026
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Unidentified Seated Woman]
Date 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0435:0027

See Also:

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