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"Somerset" album

Description: A disbound album of photographs mounted on board, with handwriting on the first page: "These are all Somerset photos." Images show a large country house, scenery, people in a garden, portraits of house workers, dogs, horses. Several members of the Edward Dalziel family appear. The last image has a credit "G. Dalziel," possibly Grace Dalziel. One loose image of a plant has handwritten notes on back regarding exposure time of photograph.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1870s-1890s
Call number: Volume 2
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 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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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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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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Family album

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An album of 42 photographs of Dalziel family outside a country house (Hampstead?), informal portraits, horses, family groups, a woman on a bicycle. The album has no identifications or dates, but it includes a newspaper clipping from March 30, 1878 titled "Mr. Charles Green's Costume Ball" regarding a party at the studio of artist Charles Green at Charlecote, Hampstead-hill-gardens, with a long list of attendees.

Volume 5

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Photograph album from Towneley Green

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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.

Volume 14

"Somerset" album

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