Photography Collections Database

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Call Number:

PH-03032

Collection Name:

Walter Gordon Literary File Photography Collection

Creator:

Beau, Adolphe (1828 - 1910)

Gordon, Walter

Rigge, Henry, 1802-1885

No. of Items:

5 photographs

Span Dates:

circa 1870s

Description:

The collection consists of five cartes-de-visite withdrawn from three scrapbook pages that were owned by Walter Gordon. Subjects and photographers follow.

981:0054:0001 -- Beau, Adolph (British, 1828-1910). Alfred Wigan (1814-1878);
981:0054:0002 -- Unidentified photographer. Henry Greville;
981:0054:0003 -- Unidentified photographer. "Charles Selby?";
981:0054:0004 -- Unidentified photographer. "Fred[erick] Robson?";
981:0054:0005 -- Rigge, Henry (British, 1802-1885). John Baldwin Buckstone (1802-1879).

Further descriptions of some items may be available in a card catalog in the repository.

This collection forms a part of the Literary Files Photography Collection is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images by, collected by, of, and/or related to those entities.

Accession No(s):

981:0054:0001-0005

Location(s):

Gordon, W., Lit File (981:0054:0001)
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