Browning family
Literary File, Photography Collection
100 items (2 boxes)
Acquisition: Internal transfers
Access: Open for research
Processed by: Mary Foster and Susan McClellan, 2006
RLIN Record ID: None
Table of Contents
Scope and Contents
The Browning family Literary File consists of 100 photographs, most of which are portraits of various people, including Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Robert's sister Sarianna. There are also images of Sarianna's friend Jean Morison Campbell and members of her family. An index at the end of this guide lists photographers whose work is featured in this file. Further descriptions of some items are available in a card catalog in the repository.
This file forms a part of the Literary File Collection, which is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally include portraits and images collected by or of those figures.
Item List
| Container | Accession / P No. | Description |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | P1-P2 | 2 different carte-de-visite portraits (one bust and one full-length) of Robert Browning as a middle aged man. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | P3 | Carte-de-visite portrait of Robert Browning in his later years. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | P4 | Photographic postcard portrait of Robert Browning in his later years. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | P5-P6 | 2 different cabinet card portraits of Robert Browning in his later years. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | P7 | Carte-de-visite portrait of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (photographic reproduction of a painting?). |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | P8-P9 | 2 variant carte-de-visite portraits of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | P10 | Carte-de-visite portrait of Mrs. (Alexandra Leighton) Sutherland Orr. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | P11 | Carte-de-visite portrait of Monsieur Milsand. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | P12 | Carte-de-visite portrait of David Eckley, 1868. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | P13 | Carte-de-visite portrait of Miss (Ellen) Heaton. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | P14-P18 | 5 different carte-de-visite portraits of Willie Bracken (P15-P17 are apparently from the same sitting and possibly P18 also). |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | P19 | Carte-de-visite portrait of Imogen Kirkup. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | P20 | Carte-de-visite portrait of the "housekeeper to R. Browning Sr. / & 'Sarianna'." |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | P21 | Carte-de-visite portrait of Robert "Pen" Barrett Browning. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | P22 | Cabinet card portrait of Willie Bracken. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | P23 | Portrait of an unidentified woman. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | P24 | Photograph of a ring and fob with a lock of Robert Browning's hair. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | P25 | Photographic reproduction of an engraving of Robert Burns. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | P27-P30 | Views of Coddington family grave stones. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | P31 | Photographic reproduction of a painting of Ellen Heaton. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | 981:0076:0001 | Cabinet card portrait of Jean Morison Campbell and Hugh Morison Miller (her son) with a dog (same image as 981:0077:0001). |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | 981:0076:0002-0003 | 2 variant portraits of Hugh Morison Miller, wearing a kilt. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | 981:0076:0004 | Cabinet card portrait of Robert "Pen" Barrett Browning, 6 April 1892. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | 981:0076:0005 | Cabinet card portrait of Sarianna Browning, April 1892. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | 981:0076:0006 | Portrait of Dr. Robert Rainy, 29 December 1904. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | 981:0076:0007 | Portrait of Hugh Miller(?). |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | 981:0076:0008 | Cabinet card portrait of Jean Morison Campbell and Hugh Morison Miller (her son) with a dog. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | 981:0076:0009 | Portrait of Gen. Gordon. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | 981:0076:0010-0024 | 15 identical vignetted cabinet card portraits of Hugh Miller. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | 981:0076:0025-0031 | 7 identical photographic postcard portraits of an unidentified girl (Jean Morison Campbell's daughter?). |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | 981:0076:0032-0033 | Duplicate carte-de-visite portraits of Hugh Morison Miller at age 3, 19 July 1883. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | 981:0076:0034-0035 | Duplicate carte-de-visite portraits of Hugh Morison Miller as a child, wearing a kilt. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | 981:0076:0036 | Very small, faded contact print of Sarianna Browning. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | 981:0076:0037 | View of Hetland Cottage. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | 981:0076:0038 | Portrait of Hugh Morison Miller with a doll; mounted, with illegible initials on the mount. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | 981:0076:0039 | View of Morison house. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | 981:0076:0040 | Portrait of Robert "Pen" Barrett Browning in Asolo (Veneto, Italy), 1911. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | 981:0076:0041 | View of Thomas Carlyle's grave. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | 981:0076:0042 | Portrait of Dr. Rainy holding his infant grandson. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | 981:0076:0043 | Portrait of Hugh Morison Miller with a dog; mounted, with illegible initials on the mount. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | 981:0076:0044 | Portrait of an unidentified woman (Mrs. Sutherland Orr?). |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | 981:0076:0045 | Portrait of Hugh Morison Miller as a young man. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 1 | 981:0076:0046-0048 | 3 original prints of a portrait of an unidentified girl (Jean Morison Campbell's daughter?). |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 2 | 981:0077:0001 | Framed portrait of "Jean M.C. Miller-Morison & Hugh Morison Miller / her son / JMCMM / HM" with a dog (same image as 981:0076:0001). |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 2 | 981:0077:0002 | Framed portrait of "Hugh Miller & Hugh Morison Miller / his son / JMCMM / HM." |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 2 | 981:0077:0019 | Portrait of Jean Morison Campbell, standing; mounted on a card. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 2 | 981:0077:0020 | Side view of a horse and carriage with an unidentified man seated as if ready to go; mounted on a card. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 2 | 981:0077:0021 | Portrait of an unidentified woman and child (Sarianna Browning with her nephew, Robert "Pen" Barrett Browning, as a child?); mounted on a card with illegible initials. |
| PH:LF:Browning family Box 2 | 988:0122:0004 | Carte-de-visite portrait of Robert Browning. |
| PH:LF:OV Box, Medium | 957:0072:0001 | Portrait of Robert Browning; mounted on board; original mount recto covered with old adhesive; photographer's identification embossed in lower right corner of image; handwritten beneath image in black ink: "Copyright. direct from life 1889. Mrs. F.W.A. Myers."; handwritten in same hand, lower center of original mount: "'I was always a fighter, so one fight more / The best and the last'." |
| PH:FC-01:DR-03 | 981:0077:0013-0014 | Glass negatives of Hugh Morison Miller and a dog. |
| PH:FC-01:DR-03 | 981:0077:0015 | Glass negative of Jean Morison Campbell, Hugh Morison Miller, and a dog. |
| PH:FC-01:DR-03 | 981:0077:0016 | Glass negative of an unidentified man (Hugh Morison Miller?) and a doll. |
| PH:FC-01:DR-03 | 981:0077:0017 | Glass negative of 2 unidentified men and 2 unidentified women, seated. |
| PH:LF:Cased Images Box | 981:0077:0003 | Hand-colored, 3/4 left profile portrait of an unidentified older woman, seated; in a morocco case. |
| PH:LF:Cased Images Box | 981:0077:0004 | Hand-colored, 3/4 length portrait of an unidentifed young man (Pen Browning?), standing; in a morocco case, with ornate clasps, stamped on back: "Ross & Thomson / Edinburgh." |
| PH:LF:Cased Images Box | 981:0077:0005 | Stereo daguerreotype of Margaret Morris Browning. |
| PH:LF:Cased Images Box | 981:0077:0006 | Tinted ambrotype of Margaret Morris Browning, seated at a table; in a leather case stamped: "Ross & Thomson." |
| PH:LF:Cased Images Box | 981:0077:0007 | Tinted ambrotype of Jean Morison Campbell? in a blue dress; in a leather case stamped: "Ross & Thomson." This is the same woman pictured in 981:0077:0009, 0011. |
| PH:LF:Cased Images Box | 981:0077:0008 | Tinted ambrotype of Jean Morison Campbell? in a striped dress; in a leather case stamped: "Ross & Thomson." This is the same woman pictured in 981:0077:0012. |
| PH:LF:Cased Images Box | 981:0077:0009 | Damaged tinted ambrotype of Jean Morison Campbell? in a checked dress. This is the same woman pictured in 981:0077:0007, 0011. |
| PH:LF:Cased Images Box | 981:0077:0010 | Ambrotype of an unidentified man, standing, holding a cane; with a damaged leather case. |
| PH:LF:Cased Images Box | 981:0077:0011-0012 | Daguerreotypes in metal frames of two young women, one of whom is Jean Morison Campbell. |
Index of Photographers
Bassano, Alexander--P4-P5
Bingham, Robert J. (Robert Jefferson), 1825-1870--P8-P9
C. Carruthers & Sons--981:0076:0041
Crooke, William, d. 1928--981:0076:0001, 0008, 0033,
0045; 981:0077:0001
Elliott & Fry--P3, P7, P10-P11; 988:0122:0004
Fratelli Alinari--P19
Fratelli D'Alessandri--P1-P2
Géruzet frères--981:0076:0009
Grove, W. H. (William Henry), 1858-1937--P6, P21; 981:0076:0004-0005
Hood, T. L.--P24
Lafayette Ltd.--P22
Lavaud, H. (Henri)--P18
Leblanc, C. L. (Christian Louis), b. 1805--P14-P17
Maull & Fox--981:0077:0019
Michel--P20, P31
Moffat, John, 1819-1894---981:0076:0006, 0042
Moryson, T. A. (Thomas Arthur), 1856-1912--981:0076:0032, 0034-0035
Myers, E. W. H. (Eveleen W. H.), 1856-1937--957:0072:0001
Presbrey-Leland Studios--P29-P30
Rae, James, photographer--981:0076:0037
Randegger, F.--P12
Reid, S., photographer--981:0076:0046-0048
Ross & Thomson--981:0077:0004, 0006-0008
Tassell (Carlisle, England)--981:0076:0044
Underwood & Underwood--P23
Wiegand, Ottilie--P13
(Last modified: 17 March 2008)
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