Call Number:

PH-00034

Collection Name:

A. G. Dew Smith Photography Collection

Creator:

No. of Items:

76 photographs

Span Dates:

circa 1885-1895

Description:

The collection consists of 58 silver gelatin and platinum prints and18 glass negatives by the photographer and physiologist, A. G. Dew-Smith (British, 1848-1903). Item-level information follows.

964:0896:0001 -- A. G. Dew Smith. Official position: grinding and polishing lenses for laboratory microscopes and for telescopes at Cambridge Observatory, circa 1890;
964:0896:0002 -- Professor Huxley, circa 1890;
964:0896:0003 -- Sir Edmund Gosse, circa 1890;
964:0896:0004 -- Francis Jenkinson, circa 1890;
964:0896:0005 -- William Aldis Wright, circa 1890;
964:0896:0006 -- Sir Michael Foster, Cambridge Professor of Physiology, circa 1890;
964:0896:0007 -- Gerald Balfour, circa 1890;
964:0896:0008 -- Gerald Balfour (holding pince-nez), circa 1890;
964:0896:0009 -- Reproduction of Florentine Painting, circa 1890;
964:0896:0010 -- Cecil Hyde Mills (small boy in sailor suit), circa 1890;
964:0896:0011 -- Tibb's Row, circa 1890;
964:0896:0012 -- James Hamblin Smith, circa 1890;
964:0896:0013 -- Robertson Smith, circa 1890;
964:0896:0014 -- Edward Clark, circa 1890;
964:0896:0015 -- Gerald Balfour, circa 1890;
964:0896:0016 -- Gerald Balfour, circa 1890;
964:0896:0017 -- Gerald Balfour, circa 1890;
964:0896:0018 -- Tibb's Row, circa 1890;
964:0912:0001 -- Professor Huxley, circa 1885;
964:0912:0002 -- Professor Huxley, circa 1885;
964:0912:0003 -- Gerald Balfour (holding pince-nez), circa 1885;
964:0912:0004 -- Gerald Balfour (holding pince-nez), circa 1885;
964:0912:0005 -- Sir Michael Foster, Cambridge Professor of Physiology, circa 1885;
964:0912:0006 -- Francis Jenkinson, circa 1885;
964:0912:0007 -- Hamblin Smith, circa 1885;
964:0912:0008 -- Cecil Hyde Mills (little boy in sailor suit), circa 1885;
964:0912:0009 -- Tibbs Row (houses with A. G. Dew-Smith on steps), circa 1885;
964:0912:0010 -- C. E. Fitzgerald, 3/4 portrait, 1891;
964:0912:0011 -- W. E. Henley, with bust by Rodin, 1887;
964:0912:0012 -- Dr. Peile, circa 1885;
964:0912:0013 -- Robert Louis Stevenson, June 1889;
964:0912:0014 -- Edward Clark (boy with lace collar), circa 1885;
964:0912:0015 -- William Aldis Wright, circa 1885;
964:0912:0016 -- Lord Rayleigh, circa 1885;
964:0912:0017 -- Gerald Balfour (standing), circa 1885;
964:0912:0018 -- Sir Edmund Gosse, circa 1885;
964:0912:0019 -- [A. G. Dew Smith grinding and polishing lenses], circa 1885;
964:0912:0020 -- Gerald Balfour, circa 1885;
964:0912:0021 -- Prof. Mayor, circa 1885;
964:0912:0022 -- Unknown young man, circa 1885;
964:0912:0023 -- C. E. Fitzgerald, head and shoulders, circa 1885;
964:0912:0024 -- William Aldis Wright, circa 1885;
964:0912:0025 -- William Aldis Wright, circa 1885;
964:0912:0026 -- Henry Charles Fleming Jenkin, circa 1885;
964:0912:0027 -- Professor Mayor (frontal), circa 1885;
964:0912:0028 -- Henry Charles Fleming Jenkin, circa 1885;
964:0912:0029 -- Unknown man with beard (head), circa 1885;
964:0912:0030 -- Sir Michael Foster, circa 1885;
964:0912:0031 -- Robert Louis Stevenson, looking at a ring, circa 1885;
964:0912:0032 -- Margaret Darwin, 1894;
964:0912:0033 -- Sir George Reid, circa 1885.

Location(s):

Smith, A.G.D., Box 1 (964:0912:0001-0024, 0030-0033; 15 unaccessioned items)
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Smith, A.G.D., Box 2 (964:0912:0025-0029; 8 unaccessioned items)
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Curatorial permission required 8 osb (Glass Negatives Boxes 1-8)
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Curatorial permission required 5 osb, Gernsheim Glass Negatives (Boxes 2, 4-5, 7-8)
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Flat File (2 unaccessioned items)
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