Gore-Browne album

Album of photographs, and sketches, owned by Harold Gore Browne, son of Sir Thomas Robert Gore Brown (Governor of New Zealand 1855-1861).

Photographs include family members, including Muriel (Lady Muriel Browne, nee Murray), and friends (names include Miss Denman, Mrs Riddle, Miss Synge, Miss Wells, Captain and Mrs Davidson, Mrs Cruickshank, Major and Mrs Lucas and Miss Money).

Scenes in England include various large houses in England, including Newton Manor, Gosforth. There are several photographs of the exterior and interior of a house in Cairo (inscription beneath one reads `The garden. `Ockham', Cairo'. A number of scenes associated with the 60th King's Royal Rifles in Pakistan, including various camps at Gulistan, Gharial, and Mastan relating to a group of fortified posts occupied by the British Army.

Associated with the photographs of Pakistan is a series of pencil sketches.

Several views of a crowd of people at a race-track were taken by Gabriel Lekegian (G Lekegian & Co) who had a photographic studio in Cairo.

Items inserted in pocket at the front of the album include a number of early photographs of Fuentarrabia in Spain, handwritten instructions for killing snails, and an ink sketch of `Capt Sandeville[?]'.

Source of title - Title supplied by Library

Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Physical Description: Album with black cover; 43 x 32 cm

Provenance: No donor or provenance information available. Previously owned by Harold Gore-Browne.