[Photograph album].
Dorothy Edith Johnston (d.1962)
Category
Books
Date
1909
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 3219916
Summary
Photograph album belonging to Dorothy E. Johnston, photographer and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, with commercial and other photographs of cultural places of interest and paintings in Rome, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland. Dated from a postcard laid in along with two photographs and another small leaf of paper with pencil notes relating to the pictures; all within the printed envelope of "Photographic Warehouse 180 Rue de Rivoli Paris", who, according to BNF catalogue, was active at that address in the 1880s and1890s. Most photographs pasted in, but five at end of volume loose. Most photographs idenitified in manuscript in the hand of Dorothy Johnston.
Bibliographic description
[40] leaves:. chiefly ill.;. 38 cm. Provenance: the property of Dorothy Edith Johnston, F.R.G.S., 1880-1962. Binding: full red diced morocco sewn onto five raised bands; monogram of Dorothy E. Johnson gold-stamped on lower corner; gold-tooled on turn-ins. Gold-stamped "5" on foot of spine.
Makers and roles
Dorothy Edith Johnston (d.1962)