Curzon Collection: 'Early photographs of G. N. C.' Photographer(s): London Stereoscopic Company
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Black full-leather cartes-de-visite album, 238x206mm, containing cartes-de-visite and cabinet portraits in window mounts with handwritten captions. The portraits are of Curzon in childhood and as a young man at Oxford. There are also several portraits of his family and friends, including the cri...
'The pigeon's letter. 'L'International' containing the news of the French victory at Orleans.' Photographer: London Stereoscopic Company
Scope & Content:
Miniature print mounted as a carte de visite, with descriptive letterpress on mount. The photograph is a reduced image (much faded) of the front page of L'International sent by pigeon during the Franco-Prussian War. The overmount, on which is printed descriptive letterpress describing the use of...