Description
Souvenir album of photographs of Lude House, Blair Atholl, the surrounding area in Perthshire, Scotland, and a deerstalking
party attended by W.L. Winans, and his son Walter Winans.
Background
Scottish photographer of Dundee, well-known for portraits and landscape view. James Valentine, joined in his studio by his
sons, William Dobson Valentine, and George D. Valentine, targeted the middle and upper class tourist market, producing drawing
room albums of landscapes of Scotland, and later, England, Jamaica, Norway, Morocco, and New Zealand.
Extent
1 album (32 photographic prints) : albumen, 32 x 39 cm (album)
Photographs (19 x 24 cm) are mounted on rectos of leaves of stiff cardboard, one to a page; captions pencilled on mount below
photograph.
Bound in brown leather album; gold-stamped title, "Souvenir of Lude 1871" within triple borders of gilt and black rules; photographer's
name below title: "By special appointment. J. Valentine, Photographer, Dundee;" textured white endpapers; all edges gilt.
Spec. Coll. copy: in modern beige cloth clamshell box, with spine title "Valentine. Souvenir of Luve [sic]."
Restrictions
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.
Availability
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.