Victorian Photograph Albums

A plain brown leather album with lithographic pages so bright they could have been printed yesterday. It contains military portraits, many from Prussia where they certainly knew how to cultivate a decent moustache.

A lavishly bound leather album with floral lithographic pages. And where else but The Moustache Museum can you thrill to someone from Coaticook (Canada) paired with someone from Cairo (Egypt)? Also, is Beszterczebánján possibly the longest place name in the museum?

A brown leather double album with beautiful arched apertures containing a waiter from Gas City, Indiana, an impressive balustrade belonging to the studio of J. Huntrods in Brotton (UK), and perhaps the only photograph in the museum from Guatemala – by the studio of Uribe y Giron in Antigua.

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A small brown leather album dedicated to Ellen Letts from a mysterious E.M.H…It contains an extraordinary centre parting (from Roanne, France) and some memorial cards where a portrait is surrounded by inventive graphics. These were distributed at funerals as mementoes and were particularly popular in the USA.

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An embossed leather album with, unusually, the same design on both the front and back covers. Contains lots of French military (many from Clermont-Ferraud) and a particularly marvellous waxed British moustache from Kettering.

A magnificent European album packed with magnificent military – British soldiers in India, European soldiers in Europe, a chap in Clot Bey, Cairo and a random bagpiper from Norwich…