Photography Collections Database

Record Detail

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Call Number:

PH-21051

Collection Name:

C. A. Sheppard Literary File Photography Collection

No. of Items:

1 photograph

Span Dates:

circa 1879-1880

Description:

The collection consists of one photograph that was removed from a diary kept by C. A. Sheppard during the Second Anglo-Afghan War that lasted between 1878 to 1880. Item-level information follows.

957:0003:0001 -- [Harbor crowded with sailboats and bird in foreground], circa 1879-1880. Photographic print.

Further description of this item may be available in a card catalog in the repository.

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collection forms a part of the larger Literary Files Photography Collection that is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally includes portraits and images collected by or of those figures.

Accession No(s):

957:0003:0001

Location(s):

Sheppard, A.C., Lit File (957:0003:0001)
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See Also:

C. A. Sheppard Collection: The diary from which this photograph was withdrawn is located in the C. A. Sheppard Collection (MS-03815).