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Shorthand on Carte de Visite
Currently pending a translation. Can you help?
Thomas Warburton Family Bible, Great Sankey, Cheshire
We have just unearthed the large leatherbound Regency era Family Bible of Thomas and Ellen Warburton of Great Sankey in Cheshire, containing a nice pasted hand written Genealogy with birth and some death details of Thomas, Ellen and seven children. Please contact us...
Page from the Bradford Family Bible, Philidelphia, 1835 – 1841
My Current Favourite Photo
Of the latest batch of photos I've acquired, this is a head and shoulders favourite! Slightly shorted than the standard Carte de Visite format with no photographer, studio or sitter details. I'm guessing 1850s.
Can you Identify this Uniform?
I have recently acquired this damaged Carte de Visite of a gentlemen in what appears to be ceremonial uniform, probably of a military origin. Can you identify it? The badge on his left breast reads "DGWCT". The photography studio is identified on the bottom, but is...
Are These Photos of the Same Lacey Everett?
I have two Carte de Visites, one seemingly of a young girl in a dress, around 3 years old, the other of a male in his early 20s. The photo of the girl appears to date from the 1860, and has the hand written inscription "Lacey Nussey Everett". The photo of the...
Wilkes / Brown Family Bible
Just In: The Family Bible of Daniel and Sylve Wilkes, with three page Family Register covering events from 1824 to 1900. Identified as being the Family Bible of Daniel and Sylvia Wilkes of Darlastan, Staffordshire with some wonderfully named children (Job, Comfort and...
Collection of Carte De Visites of W E Gladstone and other Politicians, 1870s
Just In: A Collection of 22 Carte De Visites of British Victorian Politicians, Including Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, and appearing to relate to his first ministry 1868 - 1874, and issued by the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company of London. To be...
Jeremiah and Charlotte Greenaway Family Bible, Gloucestershire, 1870s
Just in: This large leatherbound Victorian Family Bible with Family Register of the Greenaway Family of Gloucestershire, to be full catalogued and listed for sale shortly. Family Register relates to Jeremiah and Charlotte Greenaway of Dadington and Fairford...
24th August 1867 – Murder of Sweet Fanny Adams
This Carte d'Visite depicts Lizzie Adams and her Friend Minnie Warner next to the grave of "Sweet" Fanny Adams, who was brutally mudered by 29 Year Old Frederick Baker in Alton, Hampshire on August 24th 1867. Lizzie and Minnie were out walking with the 8 year old...
