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Photographically illustrated book titled Queen Alexandra's Christmas Gift Book: Photographs from My Camera, to be Sold for Charity (London: The Daily Telegraph, 1908) containing 46 photogravures of photographs taken by Queen Alexandra of Great Britain (British, 1844-1925). One of two copies held by the Ransom Center, this copy bears an illegibile inscription. Published titles follow.
958:0137:0001 -- The King, George and his two Sons; 958:0137:0002 -- Victoria and Myself; 958:0137:0003 -- George, Prince of Wales; 958:0137:0004 -- Victoria and Mac; 958:0137:0005 -- Edward of Wales (Little David); 958:0137:0006 -- My Father and My Brother. Bernsdorff [i.e., Bernstorff], 1904; 958:0137:0007 -- My Father and Colonel Kjør—Danish Hussars; 958:0137:0008 -- My Father inspecting a new cavalry repeating rifle; 958:0137:0009 -- Testing the new repeating rifle; 958:0137:0010 -- King of Denmark and his two grandsons; 958:0137:0011 -- Victoria riding at Bernsdorff [sic, Bernstorff]; 958:0137:0012 -- At Bernsdorff [i.e., Bernstorff]; 958:0137:0013 -- King Christian and his Grandsons; 958:0137:0014 -- Colonel Brocklehurst, at Bernsdorff [i.e., Bernstorff]; 958:0137:0015 -- "Victoria and Albert," Copenhagen. Group on board; 958:0137:0016 -- Empress of Russia at Hvidøre; 958:0137:0017 -- Empress of Russia and her son Michael at Hvidøre; 958:0137:0018 -- Empress of Russia. Danish Ships off Hvidøre; 958:0137:0019 -- Victoria and Colonel Brocklehurst riding Bernsdorff [i.e., Bernstorff]; 958:0137:0020 -- Professor Tuxen and family. His House at the Skaw; 958:0137:0021 -- Landing at the Skaw; 958:0137:0022 -- King of Greece in his garden, Athens; 958:0137:0023 -- Family Group at Athens; 958:0137:0024 -- Duke of Sparta in his garden at Athens; 958:0137:0025 -- The Stadium at Athens (built of white marble); 958:0137:0026 -- The Harbour at Malta; 958:0137:0027 -- Victoria and little Olav. Mediterranean, 1905; 958:0137:0028 -- Miss Knollys and Lady Antrim. Little Olav; 958:0137:0029 -- At Sea—Mediterranean. (Little Olav); 958:0137:0030 -- The Harbour at Gibraltar; 958:0137:0031 -- Commodore Milne and Captain V. Stanley; 958:0137:0032 -- Ship Boys on the "Victoria and Albert"; 958:0137:0033 -- "The Spartan," Norway, 1904; 958:0137:0034 -- Merok, Norway; 958:0137:0035 -- At Norway. Victoria on the swing; 958:0137:0036 -- Lord Charles Beresford; 958:0137:0037 -- Edward of Wales and Sir Charles Cust; 958:0137:0038 -- The Lords of the Admiralty. Naval Review, 1907; 958:0137:0039 -- The Pilot, Norway; 958:0137:0040 -- Crew of the "Victoria and Albert," Norway, 1904; 958:0137:0041 -- Group of Children taken in Norway; 958:0137:0042 -- At Norway. Sailors of the "Victoria and Albert"; 958:0137:0043 -- Opening of the Alexandra Dock, Cardiff, 1907; 958:0137:0044 -- Naval Review off Portsmouth; 958:0137:0045 -- Commodore Sir B. Milne; 958:0137:0046 -- "The Nimrod" (Captain Shackleton) going to the South Pole (1907). |
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