Ogden's New Century Photo-Album
Ogden and Co.
Category
Photographs
Date
1900 - 1905
Materials
Paper, Cardboard, Leatherette or leather, Gilt foil
Measurements
170 x 185 x 30 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520684
Summary
Ogden's New Century Photo-Album containing 200 Ogden's Guinea Gold gelatine silver print cigarette cards. The album is complete and contains mostly portrait images of prominent 19th Century historical figures. The whole album is bound in dark red leatherette. The front board is decoratively gilt embossed: 'Ogden's New Century Photo-Album'. The words 'New Century' are set in a large, gilt embossed decorative shield, centrally located on the front board. There are 17 leaves (34 pages) of stiff cardboard, each covered in paper with several apertures containing the Ogden's Guinea Gold gelatine silver print cigarette cards. Below each numbered cigarette card, printed in brown ink, is an informative description of the subject portrayed.
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Ogden and Co., cigarette manufacturer