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Call Number: |
PH-00881 |
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Collection Name: |
Royalty, No. 2 |
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No. of Items: |
103 items |
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Span Dates: |
1894-1899 |
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Description: |
Unpublished photograph album, disbound, containing 103 photographs by Alice Hughes (British, 1857-1939). Embossed on the front cover: Royalty No. 2. Handwritten by Helmut Gernsheim on the front leaf verso: 105 photographs by Miss Alice Hughes, London / Court Photographer. Stamped on the cover verso: Gernsheim Collection. In Gernsheim's original inventory, he notes: "Original album marked "Royalty", beginning in June 1894 and extending to 1899, containing altogether 106 portraits, mostly halfplate [sic], but some wholeplate [sic]. All female sitters, many of them daughters and granddaughters of Queen Victoria, and Continental royalties connected by marriage with the English royal family. There are several photographs of Queen Alexandra and Queen Mary, alone and with their children. The photographs, which are all platinotypes, are well composed, and are the epitome of an elegant age. The photographs are all dated and the names of the sitters are stated in Alice Hughes' handwriting." |
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Location(s): |
f TR 655.11 H855 HRC-P Box 1 (964:0410:0001-0103) |
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