Lot Essay
Despite the inscriptions in the album it seems likely that the photographs were taken by Reid. Subjects include farm and domestic animals, children, vagrants, cottages and farm workers.
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W. Reid
Rural life in the Scottish Highlands, circa 1900
Album of ninety-one gelatin silver prints, each 4¾ x 6½ in., inserted in window mounts, a few only loosely inserted showing pencil titles and credit W. Reid with reference numbers on verso, several mounts inscribed in ink taken boye(sic) J.Je. H., front and back paste-downs inscribed in ink J. Je. Hughes Co. Gallaye(sic) Ireland ...., dark red morocco (disbound), 4to.
Rural life in the Scottish Highlands, circa 1900
Album of ninety-one gelatin silver prints, each 4¾ x 6½ in., inserted in window mounts, a few only loosely inserted showing pencil titles and credit W. Reid with reference numbers on verso, several mounts inscribed in ink taken boye(sic) J.Je. H., front and back paste-downs inscribed in ink J. Je. Hughes Co. Gallaye(sic) Ireland ...., dark red morocco (disbound), 4to.