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Photograph album of Scotland, the West Country, and Surrey, 1889-1903

Processed by Jane Carpenter with assistance from Simon Elliott; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
UCLA Library Special Collections
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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Descriptive Summary

Title: Photograph next hit album of Scotland, the West Country, and Surrey
Date (inclusive): 1889-1903
Collection number: 94/107
Physical Description: 1 album (107 photographic prints) : albumen, 27 x 23 cm (album)

Possible range of dates from dates in added ms. captions.

previous hit Photographs next hit are mounted to rectos and versos of 30 leaves of stiff cardboard, in arrangements of one to five previous hit photographs next hit per page, depending on size; in most cases, captions are supplied in negative, identifying subject of photo, stock number, and initials of photographer. In some cases, an additional ms. caption is added in brown ink below previous hit photograph next hit .

Spec. Coll. copy: album is in poor condition, with upper and lower covers removed, and most of brown leather spine missing. In modern beige cloth clamshell box, with spine title "Scotland, West Country and Surrey."
Abstract: Album containing scenic views of Scotland, and Surrey and the West Country in England, probably compiled ca. 1889-1903.
Language: Finding aid is written in English.
Language of the Material: Materials are in English.
Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
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.

Administrative Information

Restrictions on Access

Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.

Restrictions on Use and Reproduction

Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], previous hit Photograph next hit album of Scotland, the West Country, and Surrey (Collection 94/107). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 4233582 

Scope and Content

The album opens with previous hit photographs next hit by the studio of James Valentine and Sons of Dundee, Scotland ("J.V."; Valentine's son William Dobson Valentine was also a photographer with the firm at that time), and G.W. Wilson & Co. ("G.W.W.") of the towns, harbors, castles, and countryside of Scotland, west of Aberdeen. Photos of The Trossachs, with captions referencing Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake, suggest that the album belonged to someone with literary tastes. Included are views of Loch Katrine, Loch Achray, and Ben Venue, and the nearby town of Ballater, and the scene of the Massacre of Glencoe. In the Scottish Highlands, there are photos of Corpach, and the locks of the Caledonian Canal; in the Shetland Islands, there are views of a Shetland pony standing with his owner in Commercial Street in Lerwick, and a panorama of the town and harbor from the 17th-century Fort Charlotte; in the Outer Hebrides, we see the druidical stones at Callanish. An interesting view of Abergeldie Castle on the River Dee displays a rope strung across the river, possibly for operation of a ferry boat. Castles are a theme throughout the album, which contains photos of Balmoral, Abergeldie, Edinburgh, Hastings, Glengarry (on Loch Ness), Stirling, Dunster, and Windsor Castles. The lakes, rivers, waterfalls, and rocky mountains of Scotland are another subject of many of the previous hit photographs next hit , with particular emphasis on landscapes and country homes of Surrey at Leith Hill, Box Hill, Hindhead, Dorking, Wotton (home of John Evelyn), Deepdene, and Milton Court--and Devon--Lynton, Bideford, Ilfracombe, the River Tamar in Morwellham, Dartmoor. There is a fine architectural photo of Lord Tennyson's home, Aldworth, on Black Down in Sussex. The album also contains 18 reproductions or previous hit photographs next hit of artworks, several by J.M.W. Turner from his Liber studiorum. Others are portraits, after artists such as Sir Joshua Reynolds, Gainsborough, and Federico Zuccaro; there is also a portrait of Mary Magdalen by Guido Reni, and one of Lord Nelson after John Hoppner, from the painting at Greenwich Hospital.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851. Liber studiorum.
Balmoral Castle (Scotland) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Abergeldie Castle (Scotland) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Edinburgh Castle (Edinburgh, Scotland) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Windsor Castle -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Hastings Castle (Hastings, England) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Dunster Castle (Dunster, England) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Melrose Abbey -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Paddle steamers --Scotland --Corpach -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Country homes --England --Dorking -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Sacred stones --Scotland --Stornoway -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Locks (Hydraulic engineering) --Scotland --Caledonian Canal -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Castles --Scotland -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Lighthouses --England -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Church buildings --England -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Shetland pony --Scotland --Lerwick -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Scotland -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Devon (England) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Surrey (England) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Trossachs (Scotland) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Katrine, Loch (Scotland) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Nevis, Ben (Scotland) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Glencoe (Scotland : Village) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Corpach (Scotland) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Ballater (Scotland) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Abbotsford (Scotland) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Lerwick (Scotland) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Ballachulish (Scotland) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Dartmoor (England) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Lake District (England) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Skye, Island of (Scotland) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Shetland (Scotland) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Crianlarich (Scotland) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Lewis with Harris Island (Scotland) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Caledonian Canal (Scotland) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Royal Albert Bridge (Saltash, England) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Margate (England) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Lynton (England) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Dorset (England) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Totnes (England) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Torquay (England) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .
Ambleside (England) -- previous hit Photographs next hit .

Genres and Forms of Material

Photographic prints.
previous hit Photograph next hit albums.

Other entries

Valentine, James, 1815-1879.
Valentine, William Dobson, 1844-1907.
Valentine & Sons.
G.W. Wilson & Co.Other Index Terms Related to this Collection.

Related Material

Part of the previous hit Photograph Album Collection (Collection 94)   in UCLA Library Special Collections.
For similar albums of Scottish travel views see the online collections of the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada), and the online Library Photographic Archive of James Valentine & Co. at the University of St. Andrews. See also John Hannavy's Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography for an article on the James Valentine studio.
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