Photograph album with interleaved handwritten descriptions with negative numbers.

A photographic record of Tony Skyrme's time based in New Mexico, U.S.A., working on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos (esp. negs 21/1-8), including skiing and skating on Sawyer's Hill with fellow scientists, Don Macmillan (13/15 & 20/15), Anne Perley (13/15, 16/2, 18/17 & 23/1); Violet Kissee (13/15/ & 23/1), Ruth Jordan (21/4 & 21/8) Vernon Streuling, Maxine Anderson, Kathleen and Joseph Keller (8/11-12) and Mrs. Carson Mark. Also featured is the site of 'Trinity', Jornada del Muerto (20/10, 20/12-13, 20/15-16 & 23/1), June 1946; and travels through New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona; and holidaying in Guaymas, Mexico, with Egon Bretscher and his wife (2/16) and Sam Allinson (2/8 & 2/12). 50 card leaves of photographs (recto & verso). Each photograph is annotated in pencil with negative numbers ascribed by Skyrme, interleaved with handwritten descriptions in ink, often dated. American brown, leather-bound album with strip of pony skin running down the centre of the upper cover. The album comprises 346 black and white prints (mainly small format, but with some enlargements) and 12 (faded) colour prints, selected from Skyrme's numbered negative sets 1-25, plus C [colour] 1 = set 33.