Various photographers including Jabez Hughes, Mayall, Down & Sons, Bowness, Boning, and Reeves (Lewes)

Portraits of children, 1860s-80s

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Various photographers including Jabez Hughes, Mayall, Down & Sons, Bowness, Boning, and Reeves (Lewes)
Portraits of children, 1860s-80s
Album containing 144 cartes-de-visite and twelve cabinet cards, occasional titles in the negatives or on mounts, the majority with photographers' printed credits and several annotated in pencil on verso, loosely mounted in pre-cut window mounts with gilt borders, dark green morocco with embossed border and silver monogram CHC mounted on front cover, silver clasp with hallmarks, s.e., lge. 4to.; with one cabinet card loosely inserted.

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An extensive album comprising portraits of children in fancy dress; several portraits of little girls with their dolls including one washing her doll in a wooden tub, two portraits of girls on rocking horses, a group portrait of four children in a basket titled A Basket of Mischief, a young boy with a toy sheep, children with picture books, a boy with a hoop, two of young girls with kittens and a boy with a wooden boat.

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