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Two photograph albums of views from Shantung and Shanghai, and from Jehol and Beijing, to Yunnan

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1879
Content Description Two albums containing black and white photographs of landscapes in a variety of locations, as well as portraits and street scenes, each with accompanying text. The first album is entitled '"China 1920-1930 - From Shantung and Shanghai to Yunan [sic]" (119 pages), and the second album is entitled "China 1920-1930 - From Jehol and Peking to Yunnan" (136 pages). Many of the photos are grouped into sets of up to ten images on a particular province or theme, such as: Futoshan/Putuoshan, near...
Dates: late 1920s- early 1930s

Victorian family photograph album with sixty-one photographs of Russian vendors and tradesmen by William Carrick

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Identifier: Coll-1309
Scope and Contents This is a first quality Victorian family photograph album of the family of Eliza Murphy, daughter of Calvert Toulmin who was a shipowner holding the monopoly of postal carriage to Australia.

In addition to 196 'carte de visite' photographs of family members including Calvert Toulmin, of holiday destinations and of sentimental group poses, the album contains 57 photographs of Russian tradesmen and street vendors taken by William Carrick.
Dates: 1857-1878

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Names
Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet) 3
Allinson, Thomas Richard, 1858-1918 (physician, businessman and journalist) 1
Arbuthnot, Doreen, fl 1910s (contributor to 'The Cavalier' magazine) 1
Ato Printing Association (fl 1922-1944) (Japanese photography company) 1
Ballantyne, Robert Michael, 1825-1894 (Scottish writer) 1
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Boott, Mary, fl 1824-1857 (née Hardcastle | artist) 1
Bouhsira, Joseph, 1890-1943 (photographer) 1
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 (Scottish poet) 1
Carrick, William, 1827-1878 (artist and photographer) 1
Colquhoun, E. M. G., fl 1837-1838 (advocate) 1
Drake, Frederick Seguier, 1892-1974 (English Baptist priest; Dean of the School of Chinese, University of Hong Kong) 1
Drummond, Frances A, fl 1910s (contributor to 'The Cavalier' magazine) 1
Drummond, Jean, fl 1910s (contributor to 'The Cavalier' magazine) 1
Drummond, Victoria A, fl 1910s (contributor to 'The Cavalier' magazine) 1
Gemmell, Alice Caroline Anne, 1879-1951 (daughter of Caroline Elizabeth Houstoun) 1
Harman, Nathaniel Bishop-, fl 1890-1935 (physician) 1
Hjort, Johan, 1869-1948 (fisheries scientist, marine zoologist, oceanographer) 1
Houstoun, Caroline Elizabeth , 1840-1926 (granddaughter of General Sir Robert Houstoun KCB) 1
Jackson, Ellen Julia, fl 1876-1919 (wife of Sir John Jackson) 1
Jackson, John, Sir, 1851-1919 (civil engineer; engineering contractor) 1
John, Henry Craven St, 1837-1909 (Royal Navy Officer) 1
Kendall, Sheena Lilian Grant, 1883-1974 (composer) 1
Lumsden, Susy F, fl 1910s (treasurer of 'The Cavalier club') 1
Mare, Violet de la, 1874-1962 (sister-in-law of Walter de la Mare) 1
Mare, Walter de la, 1873-1956 (poet and writer) 1
Mortimer, William Charles Chapman-, 1907-1988 (novelist; pen-name Chapman Mortimer) 1
Pender, Iain McAllister Moffatt-, 1896-1961 (Scottish writer and Gaelic revivalist) 1
Skene, James, 1775-1864 (lawyer and artist) 1
Smythe, Barbara E, b 1899 (editor of The Cavalier) 1
Tait, Peter Guthrie, 1831-1901 (mathematician and physicist) 1
The Royal National Mòd (1892-) 1
University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 1
Watson, James Kenneth, fl.1885-1896 (surgeon) 1
Watson, William Stewart, 1800-1870 (Scottish painter and artist) 1
White, Adam, 1817-1879 (naturalist) 1
Williamson, John, fl. 1888-1894 (novelist, playwright and poet) 1
Zaharoff, Basil, 1849-1936 (arms-dealer, industrialist) 1
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