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Photograph album from Towneley Green

Description: An album of about 30 photographs mounted on paper, inscribed "To G. & D. Dalziel / From their friend Towneley Green, Christmas 1898." Most likely, "G. & D." are Grace and Dora Dalziel, who took many photographs of family members. The album contains several portraits of an unidentified man (Green?), Dalziel family members, images of interior rooms of an elegant house, and a group photograph of men and women on a tennis court.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1898
Call number: Volume 14
Creator: Dalziel family(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from H. M. Fletcher, 1948.

Towneley Green remembrance album

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An album containing photographs of Towneley Green and clippings about his death in 1899. Pasted inside the front cover is a card: "Charlecote. 3 Hampstead Hill Gardens." There are several interior views of Towneley Green's house, where he lived until his death in 1899. One clipping has a photograph of Green and the credit "Photograph from a portrait by the Misses Dalziel." Grace and Dora Dalziel took photographs and often used a joint credit.

Volume 15

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Family album

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A disbound album of family photographs mounted on board. Some penciled identifications, including "Charlie" (Charles Dalziel), and Dora Dalziel at Brighton; Wilfrid Dalziel with "Farmer" after his name; other family members; a country house called "Manor Farm, Wiltshire"; and a man named L. H. Chandler.

Volume 3

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Family album

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An album of 57 photographs of Edward Dalziel's extended family and their home in Hampstead. "Hampstead" is written under some images. Some informal outdoor portraits of Dora and Grace Dalziel (perhaps taken by each other), and their brothers, Charles, Gilbert, and Wilfrid. One group portrait of men and women with tennis rackets, and a Mr. Cunningham and Hal Ludlow. One mounted photograph in album of a very elderly man in slippers, possibly George or Edward Dalziel? Photographs most likely taken by Dora and Grace Dalziel.

Volume 6

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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 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.

Volume 4

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Family album

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A disbound album of 32 photographs, including informal portraits of a little girl (possibly salt prints). Scenes show men, women and children in a country setting, sitting in a garden, and group and individual portraits. Appears to be Edward Dalziel's adult children, Dora, Grace, and others. Two studio portraits also, of E. Hunter Blair and Prince Victor of (Hotzenlake?). Photographs possibly taken by Dora and Grace Dalziel.

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