[European Royalty and notables]
Bound volume
Various makers
Maker
[European Royalty and notables]
ca. 1865
Bound volume with albumen silver prints
Overall: 12 3/16 × 8 7/8 × 13/16 in. (30.9 × 22.5 × 2 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1981.1264.0001-0020
DescriptionAlbum containing 47 cartes-de-visite portraits of famous people, including camera portraits and photographic copies of lithographs. People pictured in the photographs include Queen Victoria of Great Britain, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), Maximilian (Mexico), Mary Todd Lincoln, William H. Seward, and monarchs from Spain, Russia, Prussia, Austria, Italy, Belgium and Greece. Album is bound in faded purple cloth.
Inscriptions Inscribed in black ink on front flyleaf, TRC: To dear Mother \ from \ Ralph \ 16' May 1865
Inscribed in pencil on front flyleaf, TR: E 1/col- \ 2 col E2/col
[Each page contains inscriptions in black ink identifying the sitters]
Inscribed in pencil on front flyleaf, TR: E 1/col- \ 2 col E2/col
[Each page contains inscriptions in black ink identifying the sitters]
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