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Call Number:

PH-00106

Collection Name:

Camille Silvy Photography Collection

Creator:

Silvy, Camille-Léon-Louis, 1834-1910 (1834 - 1910)

No. of Items:

42 items

Span Dates:

1860-1865

Description:

The collection consists of 42 albumen carte-de-visite prints by Camille Silvy (French, 1834-1910). Select holdings information follows.

964:0965:0001-0024 -- Uncut or partially cut prints comprising 74 images of John Leech, John Leech's children, or Sir Henry Parkes;
979:0004:0001-0018 -- Individual, untrimmed cartes-de-visite of unidentified men and women, mounted on both sides of an album leaf.

Location(s):

Silvy, C., Box (964:0965:0001-0024; 979:0004:0001-0018)
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Item(s):

Artist/Maker	Silvy, Camille-Léon-Louis, 1834-1910 (1834 - 1910)
Title	Partially cut sheet of cartes de visite
Date	n.d.
Accession Number	5035763

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[Photograph album with musical box . . . filled with cartes-de-visite of the period] (964:0467:0002) f TR 655.11 C527 HRC-P

[Oblong brown morocco album . . .] (964:0462:0009, 0037, 0039-0040, 0042, 0046, 0048, 0051, 0058) f TR 655.11 C528 HRC-P

[Small Red Album] (964:0461:0007-0008, 0033, 0035, 0042, 0064) f TR 655.11 C776 HRC-P

[Album of 100 cartes-de-visite: Album of the Earl of Kimberley] (964:0668:0013, 0017) f TR 655.11 K563 HRC-P

[Red morocco album: 100 cartes-de-visite] (964:0657:0010, 0034, 0040, 0045, 0051, 0065) f TR 655.11 C774 HRC-P

[Unusually elegant album in dark green morocco. . . ] (964:0464:0023) f TR 655.11 C723 HRC-P

[84 Portraits of famous personalities] (964:0463:0002) f TR 655.11 C523 HRC-P

[Album 1, or Red morocco leather carte-de-visite album with gilt clasp] (964:0435:0002, 0004) f TR 655.11 C445 HRC-P

[Album 4 or carte album 4] (964:0433:0010, 0043) f TR 655.11 C367 HRC-P

[Family album of the Earl and Countess of Kimberley] (964:0460:0003, 0030-0031) f TR 655.11 K5631 HRC-P

[Dark green morocco album with gilt clasps] (964:0458:0001) f TR 655.11 C357 HRC-P

Card Photographs (Cabinet Cards and Cartes-de-visite) Photography Collection: Additional photographs by Silvy (964:0074:0067-0068, 0084, 0200, 0205 0254-0257, 0266-0267, 0273, 0277; 964:0076:0301, 0341-0342, 0383, 0391, 0446, 0452-0453, 0472; 964:0750:0045; 964:0756:0076) are located in the Card Photographs (Cabinet Cards and Cartes-de-visite) Photography Collection (PH-00372).