Victorian Photograph Albums

Victorian Photograph Albums2020-08-18T07:33:58+01:00

Album 122

A large green leather cabinet photograph album which unusually displays four portraits horizontally. Contains a rare portrait of a British civilian in Shanghai and some wonderful horizontal late portraits from Bohemia in the darker style unique to that part of the world.

Album 121

The ‘Victorian Album’ – a music box album celebrating the reign of Queen Victoria and presumably manufactured shortly after her death in 1901. Contains portraits by the wonderfully named Ovinius Davis (of Edinburgh) and H. W. Loof (of Mussorrie, a hill station in Uttarakhand, nestled in the foothills of the […]

Album 120

A music box album celebrating momentous occasions and famous people in British history. Appropriately enough it contains quite a few British soldiers both at home and posted out in India, the Bahamas and New Zealand. However, as the album itself was made in Germany and […]

Album 31

A plain-ish Victorian brown leather album with my favourite kind of arched apertures. Features two brilliantly crisp portraits by Ferdinand Frey and Sons of Heilbronn, Germany and a great snow scene created in their studio by Boyer Brothers of West Superior, Wisconsin.

Album 15

An art nouveau inspired brown leather album dated April 1897. Within, Americans outnumber the Scots and both crowd out the one lonely Australian…

Album 39

A deeply-padded dark blue leather album dated 1908. Includes portraits photographed by the brilliantly monikered Wonders of Lebanon and Strunk of Reading. Both towns are in the state of Pennsylvania, USA.

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