Victorian Photograph Albums

A brown leather album with an embossed aesthetic design and lithographic pages featuring a rather random selection of images. Includes some glowering expressions and come-hither glances from both sides of the pond.

A cross-hatched red leather Victorian album featuring soldiers and naval officers and policemen from as far afield as Singapore, Burma and the Cape Colony.

If it’s hats you are after then this blue and gold leather ‘Ships’ album full of military photographs is for you. Algerian fezes, Bulgarian cockades, Indian pith helmets, Scottish caps and military headgear extravagantly decorated with patent leather peaks, feathers, plumes, pom poms; you’ll find them all here. Also, the […]

An embossed leather album with floral pages inscribed 1890 and containing an athlete, a hunter, a sculptor and a singular number of Ohioans (also known as, apparently, Buckeyes).

An almost pristine black leather album culminating with an American from Clinton, Missouri, mocked up as a Grecian bust. Yes, really.

An unusual diamond-shaped album containing a spectacular portrait of a tourist at Niagara Falls, an Englishman in some fine striped trousers and another in a magnificent checked suit. As Prokofiev wrote in his diary for 1913, French women may be better dressed than their English counterparts, but no-one beats the […]