Norfolk County, England Carte de visite photograph album of families, between 1865 and 1910

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Summary

Title:
Carte de visite photograph album of families of Norfolk County, England
Dates:
between 1865 and 1910
Abstract:
Album, probably from ca. 1865, but added to over the years, possibly up through 1910, containing carte de visite photographs of members of various prominent families of Norwich and other towns of the County of Norfolk, England.
Extent:
1 album (44 photographic prints on cartes de visite mounts) : albumen, 17 x 13 cm (album)
Language:
Finding aid is written in English. and Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Carte de visite photograph album of families of Norfolk County, England (Collection 94/168). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

Background

Scope and content:

The album opens with a portrait of F. [Frederick] Walpole, who served as Member of Parliament (M.P.) for North Norfolk from 1868 until his death eight years later. There are portraits of many of the Copemans, a prominent Norfolk family, including George Copeman of Dunham Lodge, Norfolk, who married Elizabeth Hare in 1859; Thomas Copeman; and Mary Copeman. Other Copemans include Harriot and Fred--twins?--and West Bernard Copeman. Lucy Copeman Hare, and her husband, the Rev. Edward Montague Hare (1831-1876), are shown, as are two of the Hare children: Henry (b. 1860), and Janet (b. 1863). Catherine Copeman married the Rev. Charles Philip Paul Jodrell in 1857. Another Copeman family member, identified as "S. Copeman," might have been immunologist, and developer of smallpox vaccine, Sydney M. Copeman, son of Rev. Arthur Charles Copeman, vicar of St. Andrew's Norwich, who lived in Radcliffe Gardens Square in London. Also related by marriage to the Copemans, through Sarah Frances Copeman Spurrell, is the Spurrell family, and pictured here are sisters [?] Emily F. Spurrell, C.A. Spurrell, and Mary J. Spurrell (dated 1870), possibly sisters of Denham E. Spurrell, whose portrait has been removed. Portraits of Sarah, Harriet, and Agatha Simpson suggest that perhaps they were sisters as well. Representing the Rawlinson family are E.S.L. Rawlinson, A.G. Rawlinson, and the young boy, W.H. Rawlinson. The Rev. Samuel Hobson poses in his library, facing a portrait of Mary Hobson, perhaps his wife or sister. Also pictured are members of the Barker, Stone, Browne, and Warnes families, including J.H. Warnes of Bolwick Hall. Studios represented by the photographs include those of the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company; Sawyer, and D.K. Griffith of Norwich; A.E. Mount of Beccles; and C.B. Hudson of Alborough.

Possible range of dates of photographs based on known biographical information and dress styles of subjects, as well as scattered ms. dates on photos.

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:

Album contains 44 carte de visite photographs (approx. 11 x 7 cm) , consisting of paper photographs mounted on thin cardboard mounts, usually with photographer studio advertisements on verso, each of which is slipped into sleeves on recto and verso of 48 album leaves, in which a gilt-framed window has been cut. Four of the windows are empty.

Bound in brown morocco-grain leather; triple ruled borders in gilt on upper covers, in black on lower covers; inner gilt dentelles; remnants of broad gold metal clasp on fore-edges of covers; all edges gilt; textured white endpapers.

Spec. Coll. copy: damaged, text block torn from binding. In modern beige cloth-covered clamshell box, with spine label "Carte-de-visite photograph album."

Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by Jane Carpenter with assistance from Simon Elliott; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
Date Prepared:
© 2013
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record, encoding added via Notetab Pro. Date of source: 2013 . Supplementary encoding and revision by Caroline Cubé.

Access and use

Restrictions:

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.

Terms of access:

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], Carte de visite photograph album of families of Norfolk County, England (Collection 94/168). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 825-4988
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