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Card photograph album

Description: An album of cabinet cards and carte-de-visite studio portraits, including a few of Jennie Dalziel (daughter of Edward Dalziel), and many inscribed to her. One portrait of her is dated 1871, when she was 20. Other people include George and Edward Dalziel, Gurden family members (Jane Gurden Dalziel was Edward's wife); Annie Hart; Charles David; William Gillard in Gloucester; S. R. Lock and "Garden and views of Mr. Lock's house, 54 King Henry's road"; Tom White; and Ella Jenkins Riddell, and other Dalziels. There are several portraits of a young girl, Jessie R. Lock. S. R. (Samuel) Lock (1822-1881) was a partner in the photography firm Lock and Whitfield.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1860s-1880s
Call number: Volume 4
Creator: Dalziel family(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from H. M. Fletcher, 1948.

Card photograph album

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An album of about 40 portraits, inscribed "Jennie Dalziel - from Aunt Meg, 1872." Aunt Meg was Margaret Dalziel, a sister of George and Edward Dalziel. The photographs are a mixture of famous Victorian personalities and Dalziel family and friends. Some theater performers.

Volume 8

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Card photograph album

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An album of 54 card photographs (cabinet cards and cartes-de-visite) primarily of notable people of Victorian England, and a few portraits of Dalziel men. Portraits include those of: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Charles Darwin, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry Fawcett M.P., W. E. Gladstone, F. H. O'Donnell M.P., Cardinal Newman, Gustave Dore, and a young Thomas Alva Edison. There are three women's portraits in the album: George Eliot, Kate Greenaway, and Florence Nightengale. Several are by British photographers Elliott and Fry, and Herbert Rose Barraud.

Volume 7

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Wilfrid Dalziel's photograph album

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An album of 44 albumen photographs mounted on paper, signed "Wilfred Dalziel, 1897" on first page. Wilfred (spelled elsewhere as Wilfrid) was a son of Edward Dalziel. There are four images of George and Edward Dalziel together, and a few handwritten captions. Images include a house and garden, groups of people seated, "Hamble Church," a boat at "Luke's yard, Hamble," a village called Freshwater Bay, and a large Tudor-style house at "Freshwater." This is most likely Freshwater, Isle of Wight.

Volume 13

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Photograph albums

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A collection of 16 photograph albums, about 800 wood-engraved illustrations, 5 scrapbooks of wood engravings, letters, 15 small watercolors, and ephemera related to the Dalziel family of England. The Dalziel Brothers firm produced wood engravings for book illustrations, and this collection contains hundreds of examples of their work. The photograph albums were mostly compiled by Dora Dalziel, a daughter of Edward Dalziel, who also was a photographer, along with her sister, Grace Dalziel. The photographs include their houses (exteriors and interiors), family groups, vacation scenes, informal portraits, and domestic life. Some are captioned, but the majority of photographs don't have identifications. A few albums contain cabinet card and carte-de-visite portraits of various Dalziel family, their friends, and some theater or literary personalities. Two travel albums signed "Dora Dalziel, 1889" contain commercially-made photographs of Europe. The collection also contains hundreds of wood engravings created by the Dalziel Brothers firm, of illustrations by many notable Victorian artists including John Gilbert, John Everett Millais, and John Tenniel. The engravings are mostly individual prints on India paper, with the artist and title usually noted in pencil handwriting. There are also five scrapbooks of wood engravings, clippings, various types of illustrations, some letters, and ephemera, dating from approximately 1830s to 1929. Also included are 15 small watercolors on paper, unsigned.

Series 1

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Family photograph album

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This album includes images of George and Edward Dalziel, Edward Dalziel's adult children, and possibly friends or other family; there are no identifications. Images include people at a beach promenade, dogs and cats, men walking dogs, people in a garden. There is a letter pasted in back to "Mr. Dalziel" from Sophia Duberly Delmard, May 4, 1903.

Volume 16

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Family album

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An album of 25 studio portraits of men, women, and children, many unidentified. One portrait of George Dalziel dated March 1878, and a man named R. D. Graham and four Graham children (possibly Richard Dalziel Graham, artist).

Volume 9

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