A 20th Century cloth board photograph album containing 259 gelatine silver DOP prints.
W. Johnson & Son
Category
Photographs
Date
1913
Materials
Cloth, Card, Paper, Gilt foil, Photograph, Wood
Measurements
280 x 400 x 50 mm
Place of origin
London
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520701
Summary
A 20th Century cloth board photograph album. The album contains 259 mounted silver gelatine DOP prints. 209 mounted prints are of a variety of different sizes. 50 mounted prints are of a panoramic size (prints 95mm x 310mm, image 88mm x 302mm or approx. 3 1/2" x 12"). The prints depict scenes of contemporary India, military and there are also some ethnographic prints. A very large number of prints depict a Rolls Royce motor car, possibly in use by a British dignitary on tour in India. There are also 3 loose photographs within the album: 2 are large Bromoil photographic prints from paintings of scenes of Clovelly, North Devon, England and 1 is a smaller silver gelatine DOP print of Castries, St Lucia. The album is an expandable album and is covered in red cloth. The spine and corners of the front board are covered with red leather and are denoted with a gilt embosssed line. The front and back boards are identical except the back spine which has two metal, red painted, screws allowing for the addition/removal of leafs. The front and back pastdowns are dark grey. There are 49 dark grey, thick card leafs. Markings: On the front board, right-hand side, above the bottom corner, handwritten in black ink are the initials: 'GCG /13' On the front board, right-hand side, fixed on the top leather corner, is a small white label, handwritten in blue ink: 2569/1913 On the front pastedown, in the top righthand corner, is pasted a small grey label, outlined in black, printed with the words: 'The Carlton Expanding Album, No. S 1257, W. Johnson & Sons, Makers, London' (The label is pasted upside down)
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
W. Johnson & Son , maker