Photography Collections Database

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Call Number:

PH-01205

Collection Name:

Hills & Saunders Photography Collection

Creator:

Hills & Saunders (1852 - )

No. of Items:

18 items

Span Dates:

1861-1904

Description:

The collection consists of three cabinet cards (964:0052:0329-0331) and 15 carte-de-visite-size albumen prints (964:3457:0001-0015) by Hills & Saunders (British, active 1860s-1920s). The carte-de-visite prints are mounted on three pages likely removed from a photograph album. The three pages are accompanied by a fourth that contains two prints (964:3457:0017-0018) by J. E. (John Jabez Edwin) Mayall (British, 1813-1901), one print (964:3457:0020) by William Edward Kilburn (British, 1818-1891), and two prints (964:3457:0016, 0019) by one or more unidentified photographers. Fifteen prints are portraits of Oxford University undergraduate students. For additional information on the prints not by Hills & Saunders, see the collection records for the by J. E. (John Jabez Edwin) Mayall Photography Collection (PH-00385), the William Edward Kilburn Photography Collection (PH-PH-02751), and the Unidentified Photographers (Gernsheim) Photography Collection (PH-00357).

Accession No(s):

964:0052:0329-0331; 964:3457:0001-0015; Purchase

Location(s):

H Box, Medium (964:3457:0001-0015)
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Cabinet Storage (964:0052:0329-0331)
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