Contains early family photographs, some identified on reverse. A note indicates that the album (which no longer survives) containing the photographs had belonged to Gordon Bottomley's grandparents and was bought by his father, Alfred, at the private sale of Bottomley's grandmother's effects.
Contains assorted photographs in wallets, with negatives, mainly of family and friends, but also of domestic interior photography of furniture, and of works of art, along with some landscape and architectural shots in England and Scotland, and the occasional related cutting.
Chiefly studio portraits, including: Lillah McCarthy, B. J. Fletcher, Jean Sterling Mackinlay. Also contains a small folder of reshot copies of old photographs, with negatives of Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper (‘Michael Field’).
Contains photographs mostly of Gordon and Emily together, and with other family members, taken at home and elsewhere, together with photographs of their home, The Sheiling, in Silverdale, Lancashire, and works of art, etc, therein, as well as the surrounding countryside. Some negatives. Includes ...
Photographs of friends of Gordon and Emily Bottomley
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Contains photographs of, amongst others, John Duncan RSA, J. B. Priestley, Alix Egerton, Judith Masefield, Lillah McCarthy, B. J. Fletcher, Lawrence and Cicely Binyon, Margaret Cropper, Allardyce Nicholl, Austin Clarke, and Joan Hamilton. Contains occasional photographs of the Bottomleys.
Family photographs of the Bottomley and Burton families
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Contains two folders, the first containing photographs of Emily Bottomley's family (identified by Margaret Cropper, with an explanatory letter from Cropper to Professor Claude Colleer Abbott) and of a young Emily; the second folder containing early Bottomley family photographs, mostly unidentifie...