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London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company at Brighton, circa 1870 and later

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ANONYMOUS
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company at Brighton, circa 1870 and later
Album containing forty-five albumen prints, the majority approx. 8 x 6 in. or the reverse, titled in pencil on mounts, red cloth boards (re-backed), ruled in gilt, 4to.; an albumen print group portrait showing 'Mr. William Stroudley Locomotive & Carriage Superintendent & Staff of Foremen & Friends...1881', 6 x 8 in. mounted on card; manuscript notebook detailing all the locomotives built at Brighton from 1870 onwards; and related printed ephemera. (a lot)

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Several interior views of the construction sheds at Brighton including the 'Erection Shop', 'Machine Shop', 'Fitting Shop Benches', 'Wheel Shop', 'Boiler Shop', 'Smith Shop' and 'Pattern Shop'; a few group portraits of the workers and an individual portrait of William Stroudley, Chief Engineer and Designer at Brighton for several years from 1870; and sixteen studies of locomotives manufactured at the site.