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Photograph albums Series 1 approximately 1860s-1903

Physical Description: 14.04 Linear Feet(16 albums in 12 boxes)

Arrangement

Arranged chronologially.
Box 5

Family album Volume 1 approximately 1860s-1880s

Scope and Contents

A disbound album of 32 photographs, including informal portraits of a little girl (possibly salt prints). Scenes show men, women and children in a country setting, sitting in a garden, and group and individual portraits. Appears to be Edward Dalziel's adult children, Dora, Grace, and others. Two studio portraits also, of E. Hunter Blair and Prince Victor of (Hotzenlake?). Photographs possibly taken by Dora and Grace Dalziel.
Box 5

"Somerset" album Volume 2 approximately 1870s-1890s

Scope and Contents

A disbound album of photographs mounted on board, with handwriting on the first page: "These are all Somerset photos." Images show a large country house, scenery, people in a garden, portraits of house workers, dogs, horses. Several members of the Edward Dalziel family appear. The last image has a credit "G. Dalziel," possibly Grace Dalziel. One loose image of a plant has handwritten notes on back regarding exposure time of photograph.
Box 5

Family album Volume 3 approximately 1870s-1890s

Scope and Contents

A disbound album of family photographs mounted on board. Some penciled identifications, including "Charlie" (Charles Dalziel), and Dora Dalziel at Brighton; Wilfrid Dalziel with "Farmer" after his name; other family members; a country house called "Manor Farm, Wiltshire"; and a man named L. H. Chandler.
Box 6

Card photograph album Volume 4 approximately 1860s-1880s

Scope and Contents

An album of cabinet cards and carte-de-visite studio portraits, including a few of Jennie Dalziel (daughter of Edward Dalziel), and many inscribed to her. One portrait of her is dated 1871, when she was 20. Other people include George and Edward Dalziel, Gurden family members (Jane Gurden Dalziel was Edward's wife); Annie Hart; Charles David; William Gillard in Gloucester; S. R. Lock and "Garden and views of Mr. Lock's house, 54 King Henry's road"; Tom White; and Ella Jenkins Riddell, and other Dalziels. There are several portraits of a young girl, Jessie R. Lock. S. R. (Samuel) Lock (1822-1881) was a partner in the photography firm Lock and Whitfield.
Box 7

Family album Volume 5 approximately 1878

Scope and Contents

An album of 42 photographs of Dalziel family outside a country house (Hampstead?), informal portraits, horses, family groups, a woman on a bicycle. The album has no identifications or dates, but it includes a newspaper clipping from March 30, 1878 titled "Mr. Charles Green's Costume Ball" regarding a party at the studio of artist Charles Green at Charlecote, Hampstead-hill-gardens, with a long list of attendees.

Biographical / Historical

Charles Green (1840–1898) was a British painter and illustrator. He was the brother of H. Towneley Green (1836-1899), also a watercolor painter and illustrator.
Box 8

Family album Volume 6 approximately 1870s-1890s

Scope and Contents

An album of 57 photographs of Edward Dalziel's extended family and their home in Hampstead. "Hampstead" is written under some images. Some informal outdoor portraits of Dora and Grace Dalziel (perhaps taken by each other), and their brothers, Charles, Gilbert, and Wilfrid. One group portrait of men and women with tennis rackets, and a Mr. Cunningham and Hal Ludlow. One mounted photograph in album of a very elderly man in slippers, possibly George or Edward Dalziel? Photographs most likely taken by Dora and Grace Dalziel.
Box 9

Card photograph album Volume 7 approximately 1870s-1880s

Scope and Contents

An album of 54 card photographs (cabinet cards and cartes-de-visite) primarily of notable people of Victorian England, and a few portraits of Dalziel men. Portraits include those of: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Charles Darwin, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry Fawcett M.P., W. E. Gladstone, F. H. O'Donnell M.P., Cardinal Newman, Gustave Dore, and a young Thomas Alva Edison. There are three women's portraits in the album: George Eliot, Kate Greenaway, and Florence Nightengale. Several are by British photographers Elliott and Fry, and Herbert Rose Barraud.
Box 10

Card photograph album Volume 8 approximately 1872

Scope and Contents

An album of about 40 portraits, inscribed "Jennie Dalziel - from Aunt Meg, 1872." Aunt Meg was Margaret Dalziel, a sister of George and Edward Dalziel. The photographs are a mixture of famous Victorian personalities and Dalziel family and friends. Some theater performers.
Box 11

Family album Volume 9 approximately 1878-1882

Scope and Contents

An album of 25 studio portraits of men, women, and children, many unidentified. One portrait of George Dalziel dated March 1878, and a man named R. D. Graham and four Graham children (possibly Richard Dalziel Graham, artist).
Box 12

Carte-de-visite album Volume 10 approximately 1884

Scope and Contents

A small album of 32 cartes-de visite, primarily souvenir images of Algiers, dated 1884 in handwriting on the backs of several images. Some photographs of Grace and Dora Dalziel, unidentified people, and tintypes of three men, who appear to be Dalziels.
Box 13

Travel albums of photographs of Europe Volumes 11-12 1889

Scope and Contents

Two disbound albums of souvenir photographs of places in Europe, showing architecture, streetscapes, and landscapes by various commercial European photographers. Locations are primarily France, Italy, Monaco, Switzerland, and Algiers. Both albums have handwriting on the front page, "Dora Dalziel, June 1889." Dora was a daughter of Edward Dalziel. Locations are written in pencil in Dora's hand.
Box 14

Wilfrid Dalziel's photograph album Volume 13 1897

Scope and Contents

An album of 44 albumen photographs mounted on paper, signed "Wilfred Dalziel, 1897" on first page. Wilfred (spelled elsewhere as Wilfrid) was a son of Edward Dalziel. There are four images of George and Edward Dalziel together, and a few handwritten captions. Images include a house and garden, groups of people seated, "Hamble Church," a boat at "Luke's yard, Hamble," a village called Freshwater Bay, and a large Tudor-style house at "Freshwater." This is most likely Freshwater, Isle of Wight.
Box 15

Photograph album from Towneley Green Volume 14 1898

Scope and Contents

An album of about 30 photographs mounted on paper, inscribed "To G. & D. Dalziel / From their friend Towneley Green, Christmas 1898." Most likely, "G. & D." are Grace and Dora Dalziel, who took many photographs of family members. The album contains several portraits of an unidentified man (Green?), Dalziel family members, images of interior rooms of an elegant house, and a group photograph of men and women on a tennis court.

Biographical / Historical

Towneley Green (Henry Towneley Green, 1836-1899) was a British illustrator and watercolorist. He was the brother of Charles Green, also an artist.
Box 16

Towneley Green remembrance album Volume 15 approximately 1898-1899

Scope and Contents

An album containing photographs of Towneley Green and clippings about his death in 1899. Pasted inside the front cover is a card: "Charlecote. 3 Hampstead Hill Gardens." There are several interior views of Towneley Green's house, where he lived until his death in 1899. One clipping has a photograph of Green and the credit "Photograph from a portrait by the Misses Dalziel." Grace and Dora Dalziel took photographs and often used a joint credit.
Box 16

Family photograph album Volume 16 approximately 1890s-1903

Scope and Contents

This album includes images of George and Edward Dalziel, Edward Dalziel's adult children, and possibly friends or other family; there are no identifications. Images include people at a beach promenade, dogs and cats, men walking dogs, people in a garden. There is a letter pasted in back to "Mr. Dalziel" from Sophia Duberly Delmard, May 4, 1903.
 

Wood engravings and scrapbooks Series 2 approximately 1830s - 1929

Physical Description: 10.53 Linear Feet(4 boxes and 5 volumes)

Arrangement

Prints in boxes 1 to 3 arranged by name of artist.
Box 1

Wood engravings: Absolon, John – Graham, Tom

Scope and Contents

Includes illustrations by Edward G. Dalziel and Thomas Dalziel.
Box 2

Wood engravings: Hair, T. H. – Powell, J. H.

Scope and Contents

Includes illustrations by John Everett Millais and George Pinwell.
Box 3

Wood engravings: Sandys, Frederick – Wolf

Scope and Contents

Includes illustrations by John Tenniel and unidentified illustrations.
Box 4

Small scrapbooks and ephemera

Scope and Contents

Various small volumes: Scrapbook of illustrations by John Gilbert; scrapbook of "A. I. Dalziel, Newcastle" of illustrations; scrapbook of autographs, ephemera, letters addressed to Gilbert Dalziel; two sketchbooks; and "Catalogue of 569 framed paintings…at Dalkeith," London, 1906 (4 copies, all cut-up).
Volume 18

Scrapbook of wood-engraved illustrations by John Gilbert approximately 1830s-1840s

Scope and Contents

Illustrations to accompany poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Volume 19

Scrapbook of wood engravings approximately 1850s-1870s

Scope and Contents

Has bookplate of Edward Dalziel.
Volume 20

Scrapbook of wood engravings approximately 1850s-1870s

Volume 21

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings and ephemera 1898-1899

Volume 17

Scrapbook of articles on wood engraving 1928-1929

Scope and Contents

Contains some letters to Gilbert Dalziel.
Collection Contents
Photograph albums
Wood engravings and scrapbooks
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