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Photographically illustrated book titled Queen Alexandra's Christmas Gift Book: Photographs from My Camera, to be Sold for Charity (London: The Daily Telegraph, 1908) containing 46 mounted photogravures of photographs taken by Queen Alexandra of Great Britain (British, 1844-1925). Additional photographs by the Queen, and a portrait of her by W. & Downey, are reproduced as halftone prints. One of two copies held by the Ransom Center, this copy is from the library of e.e. cummngs and is inscribed "Estlin Cummings from his old friend Eleanor M. Wason, Christmas-1908". Published titles follow.
958:0136:0001 -- The King, George and his two Sons; 958:0136:0002 -- Victoria and Myself; 958:0136:0003 -- George, Prince of Wales; 958:0136:0004 -- Victoria and Mac; 958:0136:0005 -- Edward of Wales (Little David); 958:0136:0006 -- My Father and My Brother. Bernsdorff [i.e., Bernstorff], 1904; 958:0136:0007 -- My Father and Colonel Kjør—Danish Hussars; 958:0136:0008 -- My Father inspecting a new cavalry repeating rifle; 958:0136:0009 -- Testing the new repeating rifle; 958:0136:0010 -- King of Denmark and his two grandsons; 958:0136:0011 -- Victoria riding at Bernsdorff [sic, Bernstorff]; 958:0136:0012 -- At Bernsdorff [i.e., Bernstorff]; 958:0136:0013 -- King Christian and his Grandsons; 958:0136:0014 -- Colonel Brocklehurst, at Bernsdorff [i.e., Bernstorff]; 958:0136:0015 -- "Victoria and Albert," Copenhagen. Group on board; 958:0136:0016 -- Empress of Russia at Hvidøre; 958:0136:0017 -- Empress of Russia and her son Michael at Hvidøre; 958:0136:0018 -- Empress of Russia. Danish Ships off Hvidøre; 958:0136:0019 -- Victoria and Colonel Brocklehurst riding Bernsdorff [i.e., Bernstorff]; 958:0136:0020 -- Professor Tuxen and family. His House at the Skaw; 958:0136:0021 -- Landing at the Skaw; 958:0136:0022 -- King of Greece in his garden, Athens; 958:0136:0023 -- Family Group at Athens; 958:0136:0024 -- Duke of Sparta in his garden at Athens; 958:0136:0025 -- The Stadium at Athens (built of white marble); 958:0136:0026 -- The Harbour at Malta; 958:0136:0027 -- Victoria and little Olav. Mediterranean, 1905; 958:0136:0028 -- Miss Knollys and Lady Antrim. Little Olav; 958:0136:0029 -- At Sea—Mediterranean. (Little Olav); 958:0136:0030 -- The Harbour at Gibraltar; 958:0136:0031 -- Commodore Milne and Captain V. Stanley; 958:0136:0032 -- Ship Boys on the "Victoria and Albert"; 958:0136:0033 -- "The Spartan," Norway, 1904; 958:0136:0034 -- Merok, Norway; 958:0136:0035 -- At Norway. Victoria on the swing; 958:0136:0036 -- Lord Charles Beresford; 958:0136:0037 -- Edward of Wales and Sir Charles Cust; 958:0136:0038 -- The Lords of the Admiralty. Naval Review, 1907; 958:0136:0039 -- The Pilot, Norway; 958:0136:0040 -- Crew of the "Victoria and Albert," Norway, 1904; 958:0136:0041 -- Group of Children taken in Norway; 958:0136:0042 -- At Norway. Sailors of the "Victoria and Albert"; 958:0136:0043 -- Opening of the Alexandra Dock, Cardiff, 1907; 958:0136:0044 -- Naval Review off Portsmouth; 958:0136:0045 -- Commodore Sir B. Milne; 958:0136:0046 -- "The Nimrod" (Captain Shackleton) going to the South Pole (1907). |
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