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The royal album

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Description: Album containing 20 carte-de-visite portraits of members of the British royal family taken by photographer John Jabez Edwin Mayall and others in the early 1860s. Includes Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Princess Beatrice, the Prince of Wales, Princess Alice, Prince Frederick William of Prussia, the Princess of Prussia, Princess Helena, Princess Louisa, Prince Leopold, the Duchess and Duke of Cambridge, and Princess Mary of Cambridge.
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Production date: approximately 1860-1861.
Call number: photCL 404
Provenance: Gift of Donald Hibbard Angus, 1997.
Dimensions: album 15 x 13 cm
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Irish gentry photograph album with colorful illustrations

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An album with 46 card-mounted photographic portraits of members of the Irish gentry accompanied by colorful hand-drawn illustrations of people, flowers, animals, and amusing scenes. Most of the portraits are of adults, though there are two young girls near the end. Multiple members of some families are shown, such as the Rynds, the More O'Ferralls, and the Hones. There are three group photographs at the beginning of the album which are all dated 1889. One of these, captioned "A wet Picnic. 30.1.89" includes the family of Alfred, Prince of Edinburgh and later Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, his wife, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, and two of their daughters, Victoria, Princess Royal and later German Empress consort, and Alexandra (labeled here as "Sandra"), Princess Royal and later Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenberg. The last photograph in the album shows an unidentified ship at sea. The pages contain colorful hand-painted decorations and illustrations which personalize and highlight the photographs, such as the illustrations surrounding the photographic portrait of the Rev. R. Gibbings, D.D. of Trinity College, which include one of the Reverend paddling in a boat made from his overturned cap.

photCL 61

Japanese Prince and Princess, Vista Del Arroyo Hotel, 125 South Grand, Pasadena. November 20, 1925

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A Japanese prince and princess pose on the sidewalk in front of the Vista Del Arroyo Hotel at 125 South Grand. The prince and princess are both wearing Western attire. The prince holds a hat and a cane, and the princess has a fox fur draped over her arm.

photCL 402 (28150)

Japanese Prince and Princess with a group, Vista Del Arroyo Hotel, 125 South Grand, Pasadena. November 20, 1925

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A Japanese Prince and Princess pose on the sidewalk in front of the Vista Del Arroyo Hotel at 125 South Grand with an unidentified group of well dressed people, most of whom are Asian. The prince and princess are both wearing Western attire. The prince holds a hat and a cane, and the princess has a fox fur draped over her arm.

photCL 402 (28151)

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Studio portrait photograph collection

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Contents: Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) by "A.L. Coburn"; Julie Bracken Wendt (1871-1942), sculptor; William Wendt (1865-1946) American landscape painter; Kate Fowler (1888-1982), philanthropist, daughter of Eldridge M. Fowler; Mary L. Jones (1865-1946), Los Angeles Librarian; Margaret Brewer (Mrs. Eldridge M.) Fowler (1863-1931) Philanthropist; Jordan Quimu Lummis (1900-1991); Rachel Burer; Elizabeth Waggoner (1874-1966), artist; Eldridge Merick Fowler (1833-1904) timber baron; Florence R. Dunham portrait by Schumacker (Los Angeles); Frederick Russell Burnham (1861-1947) American scout and adventurer; Princess Philipp of Saxe-Coburg, daughter of Leopold II (Princess Louise)(1858-1924); Queen of the Belgians, Marie Henriette of Austria (1836-1902), wife of King Leopold II; Theodore Parker (1810-1860) taken at Francis Powell Studio (Boston), reformer and abolitionist; William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), American romantic poet, journalist, and editor; Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880), American Quaker, abolitionist, and women's rights activist; Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa, Empress Frederick, wife of Emperor Frederick III (1841-1901). The portraits include annotations written by Olive Percival, a few are addressed to her personally, and may have been transferred from photCL 217 or mssHM 79260-79378.

photPF 3910-3929

The royal album

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