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Wedding photograph album

Description: Album of black and white cabinet photographs and cartes de visite.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1870s-1890s
Call number: priRosin
Creator: Rosin, Nancy(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Robert B. Rosin and Belle Rosin, December 2017.; Gift of Robert B. Rosin and Belle Rosin, December 2018.; Gift of Robert B. Rosin and Belle Rosin, December 2019.; Purchased for the Huntington from January 2020.
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Wedding photograph

Visual Materials

Photograph was originally stored with wedding photograph album, but based on attire of individuals in album, the photograph dates from a later period.

priRosin

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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.

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Photographs (small)

Manuscripts

Primarily cabinet card photographs and cartes-de-visite, 13 x 18 cm or smaller.

mssBehymer

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Unidentified family photograph album

Visual Materials

A commercially produced carte-de-visite photograph album compiled by an unidentified person containing cartes-de-visite, tintype, and cabinet card portraits of men, women, and children. Photographers imprints are from the East Coast including Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut. There are also five additional loose card photographs: a portrait of United States President James A. Garfield, captioned "Our Late President," and one of his wife, Lucretia Garfield by "Pell"; photographs of a family in front of a log-cabin house and a two-story house; and a photograph by S. Marksville of people standing in the front of the C.C. Lass shop, presumably in New York, with an Indian statue on the sidewalk and illustrated newspaper covers displayed in the windows.

photCL 501

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Photograph album

Manuscripts

The front cover is unattached and the back cover is missing. The majority of the photographs are cartes de visite. The subjects are identified in an index, several photographs are missing and there is one loose.

mssShawg

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Valentine album

Visual Materials

Bound album of blank embossed valentine samples. Cover of album is decorated with mother of pearl inlays and painted embellishments.

priRosin

Wedding photograph album

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