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Visual Materials
Lady Annie Brassey Photograph Collection
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- Description
- This collection consists of 70 bound folio volumes containing approximately 5,616 photographs collected and made by Lady Annie Brassey during her oceanic voyages, spanning from the 1860s to the late 1880s. The majority of photographs are by professional photographers of the era. The photographs primarily date from 1874 through 1887 when the Brassey family toured aboard their yacht Sunbeam, though some of the photographs were collected and taken by Lady Brassey during several pre-Sunbeam voyages. Lady Brasseys photographic interests included architectural views, British fortifications, indigenous peoples (she collected many photographs showing native "types," a genre popular in the period), exotic plants, and animals, all subjects reflected in the volumes. Geographic regions depicted include locations in Australia, Asia, the Pacific Islands, the Caribbean, North America, Africa, and Europe. There is no evidence indicating when or in what order the albums were assembled, nor who assembled them. The collection also includes an album containing photographs of seascapes by English photographer Colonel Stuart Wortley (1832-1890) taken in the 1860s and 1870s. Identified photographers consist of: Baldus, Edouard, 1813-1889 (France): Volumes 54 and 66 Bayliss, George (Sydney, Australia): Volume 6 Béchard, Émile 1844-1891 (Egypt): Volumes 29-33 Bell & Langford (New Zealand): Volume 15 Bingham, A. H. Volume 66 Bisson frères (France): Volume 54 Burton Brothers (Firm) (Dunedin, New Zealand): Volume 15 Cazabon, S. C. (India): Volume 12 Chase, Henry (Honolulu, Hawaii): Volume 16 Chuck Photo (Ballarat, Australia): Volumes 3 and 6 Cotter, James (Canada): Volume 21 Deen Dayal, Raja, 1844-1905 (India): Volume 12 Dumas (Egypt): Volume 33 Fiorillo, L. (Egypt): Volume 31 Fong, A. (China): Volume 9 Foster & Martin (Melbourne, Australia): Volume 6 Gibson (Penzance) (Great Britain): Volume 57 Godard, A. (Italy): Volume 42 Graziani (Venice, Italy): Volumes 39 and 51 Hammerschmidt, William (Egypt): Volumes 28 and 33 Henderson, Alexander (Canada): Volumes 21 and 70 Horetzky, Charles (Canada): Volume 21 Kerry & Jones. (Sydney, Australia): Volumes 1, 2, and 6 Le Gray, Gustave Volume 66 MacPherson, R. (Italy): Volume 44 Mage, E. (France): Volume 54 Notman, William (Canada): Volumes 21 and 57 Ponti, Carlo (Venice, Italy): Volumes 39 and 67 Rose, C. (Denmark): Volume 60 Scherer & Marholz (St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia): Volume 63 Sebah, J. Pascal (Cairo, Egypt): Volumes 28-34 and 62 Sommer, Georgio (Naples, Italy): Volumes 40, 42, and 61 Stuart Wortley, Henry, 1832-1890 Volume 64 Tagliarini, T. (Sicily): Volume 42 Valentine, James (England): Volume 57 Voland Volume 66 Washbourne Photo (Melbourne, Australia): Volume 7 West & Son (Southsea and Gosport, England): Volume 70 Wilson, George Washington (England): Volume 57.
