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Photo 1/13
- Record Id:
- 040-003036343
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003035884
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025642078.0x00139a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1/13
- Title:
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Wilberforce-Bell Collection: 'Own photographs 1. 1912-1919'.
- Scope & Content:
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Black, half-leather album, measuring 235 x 270 mm, with a stitched cloth cover, containing 219 mounted prints and 2 loose prints. Each print is captioned and dated in Wilberforce-Bell's hand. The album title is handwritten on a white label stuck to the front cover. Wilberforce-Bell's bookplate is in the front free endpaper. Album contains snapshots of family, friends and army colleagues and some topographical views in France, Italy, England, Gibraltar, Egypt, Aden and India. Architectural views include the Yacht Club, Bombay (Prints 115-117), the Residency, Rajkot (Print 129), the Palace, Verawal (Print 167) and drawing room interiors. Military photographs include WW1 views in Marseilles and portraits of officers and men from the 2nd Battn. 1st (KGO) Gurkha Rifles. Several snapshots of official functions in India. A curiosity is Print 48, 'Flypaper man'.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003035884
040-003036343 - Is part of:
- Photo 1 : Wilberforce-Bell Collection: synopsis. Photographer(s): Herzog and Higgins
Photo 1/13 : Wilberforce-Bell Collection: 'Own photographs 1. 1912-1919'. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003035884[0013]/040-003036343
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 1
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Unspecified
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Gelatin Silver Print
Photograph
Photographic Print - Start Date:
- 1912
- End Date:
- 1919
- Date Range:
- 1912-1919
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 98 mm x 44 mm to 138 mm x 79 mm
- Source of Acquisition:
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Presented by the executors of Sir Harold Wilberforce-Bell, October 1965, via Messrs Parker, Marsh, Charlton and Eastham.
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known