Agnes Isobel Pearce album

Agnes Isobel Pearce's photograph album of family, holiday, and boarding school scenes, 1907 to 1908. Most photographs are captioned with dates, places, and people's initials. Photographers unidentified.

Contains holiday photographs from England and Scotland. Locations photographed include Burnham Beeches, Abbotsford, Roslyn Chapel, Melrose, Tintagel, Plymouth, Inverness Castle, and a number of sites in the Lake District (such as Wordsworth lodging house, Ruskin's Grave, Market House at Keswick, and Derwentwater).

Boating pictures include scenes from 'Riverside' and views from on board a boat travelling on the Caledonian Canal. The sailboat 'Onari' is photographed on the English Channel. A Pearce family portrait is taken on the deck of the SS 'Athenic'. DC and WS Aden are photographed in the crow's nest of a boat.

Wycombe Abbey School building and Barry House building are also photographed. School sports events, including a canoe race between houses, and house expeditions are also included.

Donor's note that accompanied album read: "Album belonged to Agnes Isobel Pearce (later Sir Duncan Stout's wife)."

Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 56 b&w prints.

Physical Description: Red card photograph album, 11 x 16.8 cm