Collection context
Summary
- Abstract:
- Published/distributed: [London] : Marion and Co., 22 and 23, Soho Square, London, W., [1897]
Album of 24 albumen prints of views of the Diamond Jubilee procession, celebrating Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee procession through London on June 22, 1897. - Extent:
- 1 album (24 photographic prints) : albumen, 30 x36 cm (albums)
- Language:
- Finding aid is written in English. and Materials are in English.
Background
- Scope and content:
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All of the photographs, published by the London photography house Marion and Co., often credited with introducing the "carte-de-visite" to Britain in 1857, were taken from the same vantage point, opposite the National Gallery, as the procession made its way from Buckingham Palace to St. Paul's Cathedral, and back. Album contains views of governors, other dignitaries, and military units from countries throughout the British Empire, including Canada, Australia--states of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland--New Zealand, Trinidad, Ceylon, Jamaica, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Malta, Sierra Leone, and India. Also included are shots of British and foreign royalty; Queen Victoria herself is visible in the last four photographs, accompanied in her state carriage by the Princess of Wales, and Princess Christian.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.
- Physical facet:
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Imprint from table of contents page.
Loose, unmounted photographs (25.5 x 29 cm) slipped into pockets on rectos and versos of 12 leaves of heavy white card, in which windows (21.5 x 26.8 cm) have been cut; photographer or publisher's negative number in pencil on verso of each photograph.
Photographs preceded by "Index" (i.e. table of contents), listing views in order of procession, and providing identifying captions and negative numbers.
Bound in dark blue pebble-grain leather; gold-stamped cover title "Diamond Jubilee procession 1897" within triple gilt borders; title gold-stamped on spine as well; white textured endpapers; all edges gilt.
Spec. Coll. copy: armorial bookplate of Sir David Salomons Bart., Broomhill, Tunbridge Wells on front pastedown. In modern beige cloth clamshell box, with box label "Diamond Jubilee procession 1897."
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
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