Miniature Carte de Visite Photograph Album Belonging to W. Hargreaves-Mawdsley, 19th Century | |||||||||||
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| Inventory Number: | 13007 | ||||||||||
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| Persons: |
W. Hargeaves-Mawdsley W. W. Winter (Photographer) Le Lieure (Photographer) (Photographers) (Photographers) Henry Macoun (Subject) Mrs Hargeaves-Mawdsley (Subject) | ||||||||||
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| Accession Number: | 1986-19/15 | ||||||||||
| Brief Description: | Miniature pocket-sized album bound in dark red-brown leather. 8 thick card leaves opening in Chinese-book style, designed for carte de visite photographs. The 16 sleeves or apertures contain 14 photographs (albumen prints mounted on card) and 2 printed cards. As well as a few portraits, the subjects are (unusually for cartes de visite) chiefly topographical and architectural, presumably places visited by W. Hargreaves-Mawdsley, including several in horozontal format. For fuller descriptive and historical commentary, and list of contents, see narratives. | ||||||||||
| Provenance: | Presented by the Executors of Josephina Hargreaves-Mawdsley in 1986. Originally belonged to W. Hargreaves-Mawdsley. | ||||||||||
| Collection Group: | Hargreaves-Mawdsley Collection | ||||||||||
| Material(s): |
Paper Card Leather | ||||||||||
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Narratives | |||||||||||
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