Identity area
Reference code
Butler/Section 10 (X)/1
Unique identifier
GB 275 Butler/Section 10 (X)/1
Title
Photograph album owned by Samuel Butler
Date(s)
- 1840–1886 (Circa) (Creation)
Level of description
Subseries
Extent and medium
2 boxes photograph
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Photograph album containing 19 double-sided leaves of mounts. Brown mock-leather binding with embossed pattern and gold-coloured detail. The album is three-quarters full and contains various photographic portraits of Samuel Butler's relatives and acquaintances, a few landscape photographs and a few photographic postcards and reproductions of artworks. A number of the family portraits are labelled in the hand of Henry Festing Jones, and a few photographs are labelled in Butler's hand.