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Lady Annie Brassey Photograph Collection: Finding Aid

Finding aid prepared by Brita Mack, Jenny Watts, and Diann Benti.
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
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Overview of the Collection

Title: Lady Annie Brassey Photograph Collection
Dates (inclusive): approximately 1860-1886
Collection Number: photCL 331
Creator: Brassey, Annie, 1839-1887.
Extent: approximately 5,616 photographs in 70 volumes
Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Photo Archives
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection consists of 70 folio volumes containing approximately 5,616 photographs collected by English writer and traveler Lady Annie Brassey (1839-1887) during her oceanic voyages around the world. The photographs, chiefly taken by professional photographers, cover the period between the 1860s to the late 1880s and reflect Lady Brassey's interests in architectural views and British fortifications throughout the British Empire, indigenous peoples and living conditions, and exotic plants and animals. The collection also includes an album containing photographs of seascapes by Colonel Stuart Wortley (1832-1890) taken in the 1860s and 1870s.
Language: English.

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Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Lady Annie Brassey Photograph Collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Provenance

Purchased from George Gregory, 1923.

Custodial History

In October 1920, the contents of Earl Brassey's home, "Normanhurst," were sold at auction over a five-day period by Phillips, Son & Neale, London, as lot number 1026. The catalog lists 82 folio volumes of "photographs from around the world mounted and bound in half morocco by Zaehnsdorf." The annotated catalog in the British Library notes that the lot sold for £44 to a buyer that can possibly, due to the semi-legible hand, be identified as the London bookselling firm of James Rimell & Son. Subsequently, in 1921, a listing for “Lord Brassey’s Collection of Photographs during his Voyages”, priced at £120, appears in a catalog of the bookselling firm of George Gregory of Bath, England.

Biographical Note on Lady Annie Brassey and Timeline of Brassey Family Travel

Lady Annie Brassey (1839-1887) was an English writer, traveler, and amateur photographer who documented the extensive cruises she made with her family aboard their private yachts in published memoirs and photographs.
Anna Allnutt was born in London on October 7, 1839, to John Allnutt and Elizabeth Harriet. Elizabeth died while her child—called Annie—was a baby. The infant was subsequently sent to live with her paternal grandfather, John Allnutt Sr., in the London suburb of Clapham. Annie developed a love of nature and botany during her years in the countryside, a passion which would inform her collecting interests as an adult. In later childhood, Annie moved to her father’s Grosvenor Place residence in London to receive formal education from a governess.
Annie married Thomas Brassey (1836-1918) on October 9, 1860, at St. George's Church, Hanover Square, London. The eldest son of Maria Farringdon and Thomas Brassey Sr. (1805-1870)—a self-made railroad magnate who constructed railroads throughout Europe, Canada, India, South America, and Australia—the younger Thomas entered political life in 1861. Brassey represented Hastings in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1886. Prime Minister William E. Gladstone raised Brassey to the Peerage in 1886 as Baron Brassey of Bulkeley, County Cheshire. He became Earl Brassey in 1911.
Annie and Thomas Brassey had five children together: Thomas A. Allnutt (called "T.A.B"), Mabelle Annie, Constance Alberta, Muriel Agnes, and Marie Adelaide. The Brassey family lived at Beauport Park near Hastings, and later at Normanhurst Court, a house built in 1870 in the parish of Catsfield, Sussex.
The Brasseys were keen yachtsmen, and Thomas Brassey’s professional interests involved maritime pursuits, including Civil Lord of the Admiralty (1880 -1883); author of The British Navy (1882-1883); Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty (1884 -1885); founder of the Naval Annual (1886); President of the Institution of Naval Architects (1893-1895); Governor of Victoria, Australia (1895-1900); and Warden of the Cinque Ports (1908).
Between 1869 and 1887, the Brassey family made a series of extensive cruises aboard their private yachts (see a timeline of these travels below). On these voyages, Lady Brassey collected photographs by local and regional commercial photographers, as well as natural and ethnographic specimens and artifacts. She also wrote lively travel accounts. She privately published recollections from the 1869 and 1872 trips illustrated with photographs (her own and others) and woodcut illustrations in The Flight of the Meteor, 1869-1871 (1872) and A Cruise in the "Eothen" (1872).
With the building in 1874 of a steam-powered, three-masted schooner named Sunbeam, the Brasseys’ travels became ever more ambitious. In addition to family, the Sunbeam accommodated more than 30 crew members and a rotating cast of visitors at its numerous ports of call. The yacht’s well-appointed common rooms became a floating museum that displayed Lady Brassey’s growing collections acquired during her travels.
Lady Brassey’s book about her eleven-month circumnavigation of the globe in 1876-1877— titled Around the World in the Yacht "Sunbeam" (1878)—brought the author international fame. The book went into a sixth printing in its first year and was issued in nineteen editions thereafter. In 1881, publisher Longmans, Green adapted Around the World for classroom use; it remained in print for thirty years in both French and English.
An avid amateur photographer, Lady Brassey fitted out the Sunbeam with a state-of-the-art darkroom. She became a member of the Royal Photographic Society and exhibited her photographs at a Society exhibition in 1886. Lady Brassey’s various writings include references to the photographic studios she visited and the images she made during her travels. In many cases, she used her own photographs and those she collected as primary sources for the lithographic illustrations that appear throughout her books. Even so, it is difficult to definitively attribute images in the volumes to Brassey herself.
Lady Brassey contracted malaria in Syria in 1869 and from that point forward experienced episodic, debilitating attacks. She also suffered from bronchial problems and favored warmer climes to gain relief from her illnesses. On November 16, 1886, Lady Brassey left England on what turned out to be her final trip. The Sunbeam traveled to India, Borneo and Australia. Brassey died on September 14, 1887, off the coast of Brisbane, and was buried at sea the same day. A recounting of Brassey’s final trip, edited by Lady Mary Ann Broome and posthumously published under the title The Last Voyage, appeared in 1889.
During her lifetime, Brassey exhibited her collections in order to raise funds for the charitable causes in which she believed. She displayed the natural and enthnographic specimens and other artifacts at Hastings in 1881 and 1885 and at exhibitions in South Kensington and Swansea in 1883. The collections found a permanent home in `The Lady Brassey Museum’ at Earl Brassey’s London house, 24 Park Lane. The museum opened to the public shortly after Lady Brassey’s death. These collections—as well as items from the family’s Normanhurst Court house—were dispersed to museums in Hastings and Bexhill in 1919 and 1920 after the death of Earl Brassey (d. 1918) and Thomas Allnutt Brassey (d. 1919), the Brassey’s only son.
Timeline of Brassey Family Travels, 1869-1887
Date Destination Ship
1869 Egypt, Holy Land, Syria, Malta Meteor
Sept. – Nov. 1872 Canada and United States Eothen
July - Aug. 1874 Norway and the Arctic Circle Sunbeam
Sept. 1874 - Jan. 1875 Mediterranean, Turkey Sunbeam
July 1876 – May 1877 Around-the-World Cruise Sunbeam
1878 Mediterranean, Turkey Sunbeam
1883 Egypt Sunbeam
Sept. – Dec. 1883 West Indies, Bermuda, Jamaica, Azores Sunbeam
1885 Norway and Scandinavia, with Prime Minister E. Gladstone Sunbeam
1886-1887 India, Africa, Australia Sunbeam
  Lady Brassey dies at sea on Sept. 14, 1887  

Sources Consulted

Copy of a letter from Joan Hayes, Library Assistant, The Royal Photographic Society to Pamela Haines, Local Studies Librarian, Hastings Central Library, dated 12 February 1985 (Copy held in photCL 331 collection files, The Huntington Library).
"Mrs. Brassey’s Dark Room On Board the 'Sunbeam,'" in Journal for Amateur Photographers 26 (January 27, 1882), 48.
A Catalogue of the Valuable Contents of the Mansion "Normanhurst" near Battle Sussex, Monday the 4th day of October 1920 and four following days (London: Messrs. Phillips, Son & Neale, Auctioneers, 1920), 69.
Katherine DiGuilio, Natural Variations: Photographs by Colonel Stuart Wortley (San Marino, Calif.: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1994).
Capt. S. Eardley-Wilmot, ed. Voyages and Travels of Lord Brassey from 1862 to 1894 (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895)
Scott A. Leonard, "Lady Annie (Allnutt) Brassey," in British Travel Writers, 1837-1875, eds. Barbara Brothers and Julia Gergits, Dictionary of Literary Biography 166: (Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research, 1996), 68-78.
H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, eds. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 7 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 385-390.
Nancy Mickelwright, A Victorian Traveler in the Middle East: The Photography and Travel Writing of Lady Annie Brassey (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003).
Julian Porter, Annie Brassey, 1839-1887, Victorian Traveler, Collector, and Writer (East Sussex: Bexhill Museum, 1996).
James R. Ryan, "`Our home on the ocean’: Lady Brassey and the voyages of the Sunbeam, 1874-1887," Journal of Historical Geography 32 (2006), 579-604.

List of Lady Brassey's Publications

Scope and Content

The Lady Annie Brassey Collection consists of 70 bound folio volumes containing approximately 5,616 photographs collected and made by Lady Brassey during her oceanic voyages, spanning from the 1860s to the late 1880s. The majority of photographs are by professional photographers of the era.
The photographs primarily date from 1874 through 1887 when the Brassey family toured aboard their yacht Sunbeam. Some of the photographs were collected and taken by Lady Brassey during several pre- Sunbeam voyages—including images in volumes 20 and 21 depicting Canada, the United States, and Mexico when the Brassey’s sailed in the yacht Eothen.
Lady Brassey’s photographic interests included architectural views, British fortifications, indigenous peoples (she collected many photographs showing native "types," a genre popular in the period), exotic plants, and animals, all subjects reflected in the volumes. An avid amateur photographer who equipped the Sunbeam with a darkroom, Brassey wrote often about visits to photography studios and her attempts to make pictures in various locales.
Assigning attribution to photographs in the collection is difficult, if not impossible. Many photographs have been trimmed and studio imprints excised; none of the images appear to be signed by Lady Brassey herself. A typescript, item-level description of the photographs contained in each volume was completed sometime in the late 1980s by curator of historical photographs Brita Mack and Huntington volunteer Robert Weinstein. Lists of the source materials they consulted for identifying photographers and locales is included in the collection files.
Particular volumes of interest include: Volume 31 depicting the aftermath of the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882, with images by J. Pascal Sebah, Émile Béchard, and L. Fiorillo; Volume 64 is a rare set of seascapes by Colonel Henry Stuart Wortley, an artist whom Lady Brassey championed during her lifetime; Volume 69, with its series of amateur photographs that may have been made by Brassey or members of her family, and includes examples of single images printed using a variety of papers and techniques; Volume 70 depicts life aboard the Sunbeam, including photographs of Lady Brassey, Earl Brassey and their children, crew members, and the staterooms with displays of artifacts and specimens.
The volumes measure 45 x 37 cm and are identically bound in quarter morocco with marbled end papers and a small stamp, "Bound by Zaehnsdorf," at the lower left edge of the first page. Spines are stamped in gold with the contents of each volume; a "B" topped with a coronet is stamped near the lower edge of the spine. Each album contains 72 thick cards onto which the photographs are pasted. Many of the albums are not completely filled, while others are filled to capacity. Some images are captioned in an unknown hand. There is no evidence indicating when or in what order the albums were assembled, nor who assembled them.
Identified photographers consist of:
  • Baldus, Edouard, 1813-1889 (France): Volumes 54 and 66
  • Bayliss, George (Sydney, Australia): Volume 6
  • Béchard, Émile 1844-1891 (Egypt): Volumes 29-33
  • Bell & Langford (New Zealand): Volume 15
  • Bingham, A. H. Volume 66
  • Bisson frères ‎ (France): Volume 54
  • Burton Brothers (Firm) ‎ (Dunedin, New Zealand): Volume 15
  • Cazabon, S. C. (India): Volume 12
  • Chase, Henry (Honolulu, Hawaii): Volume 16
  • Chuck Photo (Ballarat, Australia): Volumes 3 and 6
  • Cotter, James (Canada): Volume 21
  • Deen Dayal, Raja, 1844-1905 (India): Volume 12
  • Dumas (Egypt): Volume 33
  • Fiorillo, L. (Egypt): Volume 31
  • Fong, A. (China): Volume 9
  • Foster & Martin (Melbourne, Australia): Volume 6
  • Gibson (Penzance) (Great Britain): Volume 57
  • Godard, A. (Italy): Volume 42
  • Graziani (Venice, Italy): Volumes 39 and 51
  • Hammerschmidt, William (Egypt): Volumes 28 and 33
  • Henderson, Alexander (Canada): Volumes 21 and 70
  • Horetzky, Charles (Canada): Volume 21
  • Kerry & Jones. (Sydney, Australia): Volumes 1, 2, and 6
  • Le Gray, Gustave Volume 66
  • MacPherson, R. (Italy): Volume 44
  • Mage, E. (France): Volume 54
  • Notman, William (Canada): Volumes 21 and 57
  • Ponti, Carlo (Venice, Italy): Volumes 39 and 67
  • Rose, C. (Denmark): Volume 60
  • Scherer & Marholz (St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia): Volume 63
  • Sebah, J. Pascal (Cairo, Egypt): Volumes 28-34 and 62
  • Sommer, Georgio (Naples, Italy): Volumes 40, 42, and 61
  • Stuart Wortley, Henry, 1832-1890 Volume 64
  • Tagliarini, T. (Sicily): Volume 42
  • Valentine, James (England): Volume 57
  • Voland Volume 66
  • Washbourne Photo (Melbourne, Australia): Volume 7
  • West & Son (Southsea and Gosport, England): Volume 70
  • Wilson, George Washington (England): Volume 57

Inventory of albums

Arrangement

The volumes are arranged geographically in the following series:
  • Australia (Vols. 1-7)
  • Asia (Vols. 8-14)
  • Oceania and Pacific Islands (Vols. 15-17)
  • Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean Islands (Vols. 18-19)
  • North America (Vols. 20-21)
  • Africa (Vols. 22-34)
  • Europe (Vols. 35-63)
  • Colonel Stuart Wortley seascape photographs (Vol. 64)
  • Artwork (Vols. 65-67)
  • "The Sunbeam" photographs (Vols. 68-70)

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Huntington Library's Online Catalog.  

Subjects

Brassey, Annie, 1839-1887 -- Travel -- Photographs.
Shipwrecks -- Photographs.
Voyages and travels -- Photographs.
Yachting -- Photographs.
Africa -- Photographs.
Alexandria (Egypt) -- Photographs.
Algiers (Algeria) -- Photographs.
Australia -- Photographs.
Austria -- Photographs.
Azores -- Photographs.
Bermuda Islands -- Photographs.
Burma -- Photographs.
Cairo (Egypt) -- Photographs.
Canada -- Photographs.
China -- Photographs.
Cyprus -- Photographs.
England -- Photographs.
Europe -- Photographs.
Denmark -- Photographs.
France -- Photographs.
Germany -- Photographs.
Gibraltar -- Photographs.
Greece -- Photographs.
Hawaii -- Photographs.
Hong Kong (China) -- Photographs.
Egypt -- Photographs.
India -- Photographs.
Ireland -- Photographs.
Islands of the Pacific -- Photographs.
Italy -- Photographs.
Japan -- Photographs.
Madeira (Madeira Islands) -- Photographs.
Malta -- Photographs.
Mauritius -- Photographs.
Middle East -- Photographs
Portugal -- Photographs.
Russia -- Photographs.
South Africa -- Photographs.
Scotland -- Photographs.
Spain -- Photographs.
Sri Lanka -- Photographs.
Sweden -- Photographs.
Switzerland -- Photographs.
Taiwan -- Photographs.
Tangier (Morocco) -- Photographs.
Tenerife (Canary Islands) -- Photographs.
Trinidad -- Photographs.
Turkey -- Photographs.
United States -- Photographs.

Forms/Genres

Albumen prints.
Cyanotypes.
Salted paper prints.
Photographs.
Photograph albums.

Contributors

Bell & Langford, photographer.
Bisson frères, photographer.
Burton Brothers (Firm), photographer.
Chuck Photo, photographer.
Foster & Martin, photographer.
Goupil et Cie, publisher.
Kerry & Jones, photographer.
Scherer & Marholz, photographer.
Washbourne Photo, photographer.
West & Son, photographer.
Baldus, Edouard, 1813-1889, photographer.
Bayliss, George, photographer.
Béchard, Émile, 1844-1891, photographer.
Bingham, A. H., photographer.
Cazabon, S. C., photographer.
Chase, Henry, photographer.
Cotter, James, photographer.
Deen Dayal, Raja, 1844-1905, photographer.
Dumas, photographer.
Fiorillo, Luigi, photographer.
Fong, A., photographer.
Gibson, John, 1827- photographer.
Godard, Adolphe, photographer.
Graziani (photographer), photographer.
Hammerschmidt, William, photographer.
Henderson, Alexander, 1831-1913, photographer.
Horetzky, Charles, 1838-1900, photographer.
Le Gray, Gustave, 1820-1882, photographer.
Macpherson, Robert, 1815 or 1816-1872, photographer.
Mage, E. (Eugène), 1837-1869, photographer.
Notman, William, photographer.
Ponti, Carlo, photographer.
Rose, C., photographer.
Sebah, Pascal, 1823-1886 , photographer.
Sommer, Georgio, photographer.
Stuart Wortley, Henry, 1832-1890, photographer.
Tagliarini, T., photographer.
Valentine, James, 1815-1879, photographer.
Voland (photographer), photographer.
Wilson, G. W. (George Washington), 1823-1893, photographer.

 

Container List

 

Australia (Vols. 1-7)

Physical Description: 7 volumes
Volume 1

Australia

Physical Description: 132 photographs.

Includes views of Sydney, Brisbane, Newcastle, Lord and Lady Carrington, New South Wales and the Blue Mountains, and the Hawkesbury River.
Volume spine title: Australia : Sydney. General Post Office. Government House. Town Hall. University. Supreme Court. Parliament Buildings. Botanic Gardens. Various Views of the Bay, Etc.
Photographers: Kerry & Jones.
Volume 2

Australia 1887 July 21-22.

Physical Description: 141 photographs.

Volume spine title: Australia : Tenterfield. Severn Railway Bridge. Scenes in Illawarra and various pictures illustrative of colonial life.
Photographers: Kerry & Jones; many unidentified.
Volume 3

Australia 1887 June-July.

Physical Description: 130 photographs.

Volume spine title: Australia : Ballarat. Botanic Gardens. Sturt Street. Bridge Street. Band & Albion Claim, etc. Melbourne. Collins Street. The Treasury. Government House. Views near Melbourne, etc.
Photographers: Chuck Photo; Foster & Martin.
Volume 4

Australia 1887 July-August.

Physical Description: 116 photographs.

Volume spine title: Australia : Queensland : Brisbane. St. Stephen's. Cathedral. Government House. Creek Street. Various views of Herbert River. Corktown. Mac Ivor Station. Blacks, Canoes, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 5

Australia

Physical Description: 57 photographs.

Volume spine title: Australia : Sydney. Government House. Botanic Garden. Museum. Town Hall. Various views of Harbour Falls of Katoomba. Valley of the Grose. Fitzroy Falls, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 6

Australia

Physical Description: 98 photographs.

Includes aborigines, mining and other kinds of work, various views.
Volume spine title: Australia : Gippsland. Views of Roads & Forests. Settler's Home, etc. Erskine Falls. Ovens River. Scenes on the Watt, etc.
Photographers: Chuck Photo; George Bayliss, Sydney; some unidentified.
Volume 7

Australia

Physical Description: 116 photographs.

Volume spine title: Australia : Adelaide. Government Offices. Views on the A. & M. Railway. Parkside Asylum. King William Street. Zoological Gardens. Post Office. Court House. Marble Hill, etc.
Photographers: Washbourne Photo; some unidentified.
 

Asia (Vols. 8-14)

Physical Description: 7 volumes
Volume 8

Formosa, Hong Kong, Macao, and Japan. approximately 1874 and undated.

Physical Description: 100 photographs.

Various views of Formosa and Hong Kong from approximately 1874, and of Macao and Japan that are undated. Includes views of the Pacific Mail Co. S.S. Alaska blown ashore after the typhoon in Aberdeen (Hong Kong), as well as views showing preparations to float her after the typhoon, September 1874.
Volume spine title: China : Chin Chew. Formosa. Tsui-Sia. Tamsui. Yow-Mah-Tee. Macao. Lapa. Hock-Sing-Toong.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 9

China

Physical Description: 80 photographs.

Volume spine title: China : Foochow. Swatow. Amoy. Koolansoo Island. Yow-Mah-Tee. Chin-Chew, etc.
Photographers: A. Fong; most unidentified.
Volume 10

Japan

Physical Description: 80 photographs.

Various views around Tokyo.
Volume spine title: Japan : Views near Tokio : Uyeno. Kameido. Yanaka. Muko-O-Jima. Yanagishima. Komagome. Kanasugi. Photographs of natives.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 11

Japan

Physical Description: 82 photographs.

Various views of Tokyo, Kobe, Kyoto, and Yokohama. Also includes 4 views of Siam.
Volume spine title: Japan : Yokohama. Uyeno. Atajo. Kobe. Otsu. Karasaki. Kamogawa. Kiyomizu.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 12

India

Physical Description: 106 photographs.

Various views around India and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
Volume spine title: India : Ceylon. Burmah, etc.
Photographers: Deen Dayal; Cazabon; some unidentified.
Volume 13

Burma

Physical Description: 94 photographs.

Various views around Rangoon and views of Burmese individuals. Also some views of India.
Volume spine title: India : Burmah. Rangoon. Types of Burmese. Salween River. Kohon Caves. Andaman Isles. Mandalay. Views of streets, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 14

India and Ceylon.

Physical Description: 97 photographs.

Volume spine title: India : Sukkar. Forest Scenes in the Himalayas. Shikarpur. Monlmein. Trinco. Shrines, etc. in Rangoon.
Photographers: Unidentified
 

Oceania and Pacific Islands (Vols. 15-17)

Physical Description: 3 volumes
Volume 15

Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, New Guinea, New Zealand.

Physical Description: 97 photographs.

Volume spine title: Samoa & Figi : Wanaui River. Taumaranui. Te-Kumi. King George of Tonga. Tongatabu. Taviuni. Levuka. Suva. Tonga, etc.
Photographers: Burton Bros., Dunedin; Bell & Langford; some unidentified.
Volume 16

Hawaii. 1867-1878, undated.

Physical Description: 89 photographs.

The Hawaii photographs are by Henry Chase between 1868 and 1878.
Volume spine title: Sandwich Islands : Honolulu. Hawaii. Types of natives. Nuanu Valley. Kapina Falls. Kaika. Kilauea.
Photographers: Henry Chase.
Volume 17

Hawaii, Sandwich Islands, and Easter Island.

Physical Description: 123 photographs.

Volume spine title: Juan Fernandez. Hawaii, etc. : Robinson Crusoe's Cave. Selkirk's Memorial. Harpe Island. Anaa. Papeete. Matea. Kalakoa Bay, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
 

Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean Islands (Vols. 18-19)

Physical Description: 2 volumes
Volume 18

Bermuda and Trinidad.

Physical Description: 80 photographs.

Volume spine title: Bermuda, Trinidad, etc. : Hamilton. St. George's Government House. Ireland Island. Camber. Santa Cruz, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 19

Trinidad, Bermuda, and Madeira.

Physical Description: 73 photographs.

Volume spine title: Madeira. West Indies : Jamaica. St. Lucia. St. Vincent. George Town. Trinidad. Spanish Town.
Photographers: Unidentified
 

North America (Vols. 20-21)

Physical Description: 2 volumes
Volume 20

North America and Canada.

Physical Description: 25 photographs.

Volume spine title: America : Newfoundland St. Johns, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 21

Canada and the Eastern United States

Physical Description: 336 photographs.

Volume spine title: United States & Canada : Hunting & Camping Scenes. Boston. New York. Newport. West Point. Washington. Annapolis. Baltimore. Chicago.
Photographers: Alexander Henderson; James Cotter; William Notman; Charles Horetzky; many unidentified.
 

Africa (Vols. 22-34)

Physical Description: 13 volumes
Volume 22

South Africa.

Physical Description: 27 photographs.

Various views around the town and diamond mines of Kimberley.
Volume spine title: South Africa & Cape of Good Hope : Government Wine Farm. Great Constantia. Kimberley. Kimb:. Mine. Views on Vaal River. Wool Market, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 23

Africa: Mauritus.

Physical Description: 38 photographs.

Volume spine title: Mauritus : St. George's. Port Louis. Government House. The Harbour. Mariner's Church. Landing Pier. Farquhar Street. Interior of Mosque. Types of Mauritius, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 24

Madeira and unidentified.

Physical Description: 131 photographs.

Volume spine title: Madeira : Funchal. Campanaria. Rabacal. English Cemetery at Funchal. Penha D'Aguia. Caniçal, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 25

North Africa: Algiers.

Physical Description: 15 photographs.

Volume spine title: Algeria
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 26

North Africa: Algiers.

Physical Description: 40 photographs.

Volume spine title: Algeria
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 27

North Africa: Algiers.

Physical Description: 65 photographs.

Volume spine title: Algiers : Portraits. Types of Natives.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 28

Egypt: Cairo.

Physical Description: 59 photographs.

Volume spine title: Egypt : Cairo : Tomb of Ibrahim Pacha & Imam-Chafey. Tom of the Mameluke's. Mosque of Mohamet-Ali. The Citadel. Mosque of Sultan Hassan. Mosque of Amron. Palace of Ismail Pacha, etc.
Photographers: Pascal Sebah; William Hammerschmidt.
Volume 29

Egypt.

Physical Description: 59 photographs.

Many photographs of museum pieces from ancient Egypt.
Volume spine title: Egypt : Museum in Alexandra : Statues Found at Laguarah. Egyptian Heads. Sacred Images. Necklaces found on mummies. Ancient earthenware. Ancient Jewels, etc.
Photographers: E. Bechard; Pascal Sebah.
Volume 30

Egypt: Cairo.

Physical Description: 72 photographs.

Various views of the city, people, and surrounding areas.
Volume spine title: Egypt : Native costumes. Egyptian houses. Native merchants. Traveling in the desert.
Photographers: E. Bechard; Pascal Sebah.
Volume 31

Egypt: Alexandria.

Physical Description: 103 photographs.

Various views of the city of Alexandria and the effects of the British bombardment of the city in 1882.
Volume spine title: Egypt : Alexandra with views after the bombardments : streets of the consuls. New Hotel. Column of Pompei. Cleopatra's needle. Fort Ada. House of Arabi Pacha. Mosque of Chiek Migaud. Ras-El-Tin. Fort Pharos.
Photographers: Pascal Sebah; E. Bechard; L. Fiorillo.
Volume 32

Egypt.

Physical Description: 88 photographs.

Various views of indigenous people, often in native dress performing daily tasks. Also some views of Cairo and some panoramas.
Volume spine title: Egypt : Cairo : Studies of Natives. Mosque of Saladin. Gardens of Esbekieh. Kiosque of Choubra. Palace of Gezyret. Cemetery of Tourab. Various streets in Cairo.
Photographers: Pascal Sebah, E. Bechard.
Volume 33

Egypt.

Physical Description: 70 photographs.

Images of a boat trip down the Nile with various views of sights along the way, as well as views of pyramids and temples. The last five photographs are of Syria.
Volume spine title: Egypt : Ruins, Pyramids & Monuments. : Thebes. Zakarah. Sphynx & Temple of Chafra. Cheops. The Sphynx Armachis. Temple Debod. Temple of Kom-Ombo, etc.
Photographers: Pascal Sebah; W. Hammerschmidt; E. Bechard; Dumas.
Volume 34

Egypt.

Physical Description: 68 photographs.

Views of Karnak, Thebes, Heliopolis, and various temples.
Volume spine title: Egypt : Ruins, Pyramids & Monuments. : Temple of Hathor. Obelisk of Ramses II. Temple of Karnak. Temple of Thebes. Statue of Memnon. Temple of Isis. Temple of Hypaethral, etc.
Photographers: Pascal Sebah.
 

Europe (Vols. 35-63)

Physical Description: 29 volumes
Volume 35

Greece, Corfu, and Cyprus.

Physical Description: 70 photographs.

Various views of people in native dress, landscapes, and buildings.
Volume spine title: Greece & Cyprus : Pictures of natives, ruins, excavations, etc. Cape Colonna. Kalamitza Island. Corfu. Limassol. Larnaka. Tamagusta. Skala.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 36

Cyprus.

Physical Description: 116 photographs.

Various views of ancient pottery and shards.
Volume spine title: Cyprus Collection
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 37

Italy.

Physical Description: 81 photographs.

Views of Rome, Florence, and Naples.
Volume spine title: Italy : Rome and Naples : Piazza Dante. Teatro S. Carlo. Palazza Reale. Church of St. Francis. Museum of Naples. Cascades of Caserta.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 38

Italy.

Physical Description: 68 photographs.

Views of Naples, indigenous peoples and their crafts, ancient temples, Mount Vesuvius, and landscapes.
Volume spine title: Italy : Naples, Pesto, Vesuvio, Ischia. Lacco. Island of Nisida. Bayu.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 39

Italy.

Physical Description: 64 photographs.

Views of Venice, indigenous peoples and their crafts, Italian landscapes, Verona, Bologna, and Turin.
Volume spine title: Italy : Venice. Florence. Turin, etc.
Photographers: Carlo Ponti; Graziani.
Volume 40

Italy.

Physical Description: 68 photographs.

Views along the Amalfi coast, Lugano, Locarno, and Lake Maggiore.
Volume spine title: Italy : Salerno. Amalfi. St. Salvatore Sorrento. Castellamara. Lugano. Lago Maggiore. Locarno.
Photographers: G. Sommer.
Volume 41

Italy.

Physical Description: 40 photographs.

Views of Florence and Pisa.
Volume spine title: Italy : Florence. Pisa. Sicily, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 42

Italy.

Physical Description: 63 photographs.

Views of the Italian landscape, Capri, and Roman ruins.
Volume spine title: Italy : Lorcano. Arona. Laveno. Capri. Morreale.
Photographers: G. Sommer; Tagliarini; A. Godard.
Volume 43

Italy.

Physical Description: 49 photographs.

Views of paintings and frescos in Siena and views of Bologna.
Volume spine title: Italy : Siena. Bologna. Orvieto, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 44

Italy.

Physical Description: 78 photographs.

Architectural views of Rome and views of Perugia.
Volume spine title: Italy : Rome : Arch of Constantine. Villa Medici. The Coliseum. St. Peters. Arch of Septimus. Sibyls Temple. Etruscan Gateway. Bridge at Narni, etc.
Photographers: R. MacPherson.
Volume 45

Italy.

Physical Description: 79 photographs.

Pompeii, Vesuvius, and Naples.
Volume spine title: Italy : Vesuvius. Ruins of ancient cities. Views of volcanic mountains. Observatory, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 46

Italy.

Physical Description: 41 photographs.

Views and photographs of art works in Milan, and photographs of various art works in Rome and Pompeii.
Volume spine title: Italy : Milan, Rome, Naples, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 47

Gibraltar, Spain, and Tangiers.

Physical Description: 108 photographs.

Volume spine title: Gibraltar & Tangiers
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 48

Malta

Physical Description: 51 photographs.

Various views of the English military installations and the town of Malta.
Volume spine title: Malta : St. Michael's Bastion. Verdale Barracks. Parade Grounds, Florian. Santa Maria Cemetery. Porta Reale. The Upper Barracca Strada Reale. Strada Forni. Auberge de Castille. General views of Valetta, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 49

Malta 1882 April.

Physical Description: 47 photographs.

Various views of the English military installations and buildings in Malta.
Volume spine title: Malta : Various views from Battery. Victoria Gate. Strado Seminaris. Railway Tunnel, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 50

France, Spain, Gibraltar, Italy, Southern England, and Normandy.

Physical Description: 122 photographs.

Volume spine title: Mediterranean in France 1889-90
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 51

Malta, Sicily, France, and Monaco.

Physical Description: 83 photographs.

Six views by Graziani.
Volume spine title: Mediterranean Coasts : South of France. The Riviera. Italy earthquake at Nice. Railway accident at Nice.
Photographers: Graziani; most unidentified.
Volume 52

Portugal.

Physical Description: 47 photographs.

Volume spine title: Portugal : Lisbon. Cintra. Belem. Mountserrat. Oporto. Visen.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 53

Spain

Physical Description: 69 photographs.

Volume spine title: Spain : Madrid. Fountains of the Tritones. Toledo. Alcazar at Toledo. Bridge of Alcantara. Granada. Seville. Cadiz, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 54

France and Spain.

Physical Description: 82 photographs.

Volume spine title: France : Orleans. Tours. Amiens. Nismes. Arles. Paris. Fontainbleau. Versailles.
Photographers: Baldus; E. Mage; Bisson Freres.
Volume 55

Tenerife and the Azores.

Physical Description: 143 photographs.

Volume spine title: Teneriffe & The Azores : Santa Cruz. Laguna. Orotava. Pico de Teide. Natives of Azores, etc.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 56

Holland.

Physical Description: 44 photographs.

Various landscape views and photographs of art works.
Volume spine title: Belgium & Holland.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 57

Scotland, Ireland, Southwest England, Scilly Isles.

Physical Description: 311 photographs.

Volume spine title: England, Scotland and Ireland : Dumblane. Brechin. Bridge of Allan. Edinburgh. Holyrood. Abbotsford. Clifton Bridge. Queenstown. Glengariff. Scilly. Tresco Abbey, etc.
Photographers: George Washington Wilson; Notman; J. Valentine; Gibson.; (Penzance).
Volume 58

Switzerland or the Italian Alps (?)

Physical Description: 47 photographs.

Various views of unidentified places.
Volume spine title: [no spine label]
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 59

Austria and parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Physical Description: 86 photographs.

Volume spine title: Austria & Galicia : Saltzburg. Vienna. Trieste. Austro-Hungary Lemberg Railway.
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 60

Denmark, Sweden, Northern Germany, Helgoland, and the Rhine Valley.

Physical Description: 111 photographs.

1 photograph by C. Rose of Denmark.
Volume spine title: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, & Heligoland : Copenhagen. Stockholm. Upsala. Gothland. Rosenburg. Hamburg. Lübeck. Brunswick. Etc.
Photographers: C. Rose; most unidentified.
Volume 61

Switzerland and Austria.

Physical Description: 68 photographs.

Various views from railroad tours.
Volume spine title: Switzerland & St. Gothard. Lucerne. The Rigi. Axen. Andermatt. Göschenen. Altdorf.
Photographers: G. Sommer
Volume 62

Turkey.

Physical Description: 118 photographs.

Various views of Constantinople and Smyrna.
Volume spine title: Turkey : Stamboul. Scutari. Topani. The Bosphorus. Marmora. Constantinople. Cherignan.
Photographers: Pascal Sebah; most unidentified.
Volume 63

Russia.

Physical Description: 101 photographs.

Various views of Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as a set of color carte-de-visite sized lithographs of Russian characters.
Volume spine title: Russia
Photographers: Scherer & Marholz; some unidentified.
 

Colonel Stuart Wortley seascape photographs (Vol. 64)

Physical Description: 1 volume

Biographical Note on Colonel Stuart Wortley

English photographer Colonel Henry Stuart Wortley (1832-1890) took up photography in the early 1850s and first exhibited images in 1862, gaining a reputation for his artistic seascapes, which used multiple negative exposures to achieve evocative the sky and cloud formations. Wortley became one of Britain's most well-known photographers and was elected a member of the Photographic Society of London. Wortley founded the short-lived United Association of Photography in 1864 and the Uranium Dry Plate Company in 1874. From 1875 until 1889, Wortley worked at Patent Museum (later the South Kensington Museum). In 1882, Wortley published some of his photographs in Tahiti: a series of photographs taken by Colonel Stuart-Wortley with letterpress by Lady Brassey. Wortley died on April 30, 1890.
Volume 64

Seascapes, various locations. approximately 1861-approximately 1879

Physical Description: 27 photographs.

Views of seascapes. For more information see Natural Variations: Photographs by Colonel Stuart Wortley, a catalog written by Katherine DiGiulio for the Wortley exhibition in the Huntington Art Gallery, May 1994.
Volume spine title: Landscapes, etc. : Photographed by Colonel Stuart Worthley.
Photographers: Colonel Stuart Wortley
 

Artwork (Vols. 65-67)

Physical Description: 3 volumes
Volume 65

Sculpture.

Physical Description: 28 photographs.

Various photographs of sculptures, including some from the Louvre.
Volume spine title: Masterpieces of Sculpture
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 66

Paintings and art works from French art galleries.

Physical Description: 13 photographs.

Consists of lithographs and reproductions of French paintings.
Volume spine title: Pictures from the French Galleries.
Photographers: E. Baldus; Voland; Bingham; Gustave Le Gray; some photographs published Goupil et Cie.
Volume 67

Pictures from the Masters.

Physical Description: 25 photographs.

Consists of photographic reproductions of mezzotints, steel engravings, and oil paintings from Italy and Spain.
Volume spine title: Pictures from the Masters : Il Salvatore in Gloria. San Barbara Present. Al Tempio. Madonna E Santi. Miracols di S. Marco, etc.
Photographers: Carlo Ponti; Venezia, Italy; and unidentified Spanish photographer.
 

"The Sunbeam" photographs (Vols. 68-70)

Physical Description: 3 volumes
Volume 68

Landscapes, etc.

Physical Description: 43 photographs.

Many views of Royal Navy ships at unidentified locations, with many cyanotypes. Some images of coastlines, and stone houses and cottages.
Volume spine title: "Sunbeam" : Landscapes and various pictures taken from "Sunbeam."
Photographers: Unidentified
Volume 69

Amateur photographs taken during a voyage.

Physical Description: 222 photographs.

10.5 x 16 cm images consisting of views of unidentified landscapes, views from the yacht Sunbeam, chiefly of coastlines, foreign countries, and photographs of Brassey family friends. Many of the images are duplicates printed from the same negatives but on different photographic papers.
Volume spine title: "Sunbeam" : Amateur photographs taken during voyage.
Photographers: Unidentified.
Volume 70

Sunbeam photographs.

Physical Description: 90 photographs.

Photographs depicting life on the yacht Sunbeam, including room interiors, and family, friends, and animals onboard, as well as other boats and ships.
Volume spine title: "Sunbeam" : Various groups. Views & photographs of yachts, etc.
Photographers: West & Son; unidentified.
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