Assembled by Princess Eleonore zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1840-1933), this album is filled with portraits of the European aristocracy, sprinkled with a few artists and members of the world of high finance. Among them are photographs of Queen Alexandra when Princess of Wales with her sister the future Tsarina, Marie Queen of Naples, the Duchess of Teck, the Austrian statesman Count Beust, Baroness Rothschild, Hélène Bischoffsheim, the celebrated portraitist Franz von Lenbach and scores of members of the Roman and Austrian nobility. A cosmopolitan who moved with equal ease between the European capitals, the princess was also interested in photography and many of the images show informal settings and interiors like those at Klessheim near Salzburg, then the home of Archduke Ludwig-Viktor, or the Aguado's Salon in Paris. Among the larger photographs are a group portrait including the Prince of Wales, Princess Louise and Lord Spencer during the visit of the Prince to Dublin in 1871 and a croquet party on the lawn at Egern, the Princess's home in 1868.