Photograph album of Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, 1880s-1894
Includes photographs of
(fols. 2, 158, 167, 179-80, 196-9, 207-20) Acland family members, including
- (fol. 2) Sir William Alison Dyke Acland
- (fols. 158, 167) Sir Henry Wentworth Acland
- (fol. 196) portrait by Prince Pierre Troubetzkoi of Sir Henry Wentworth Acland
(passim) places, including
- (fol. 31) Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
- (fol. 39) Phillip Island, Australia
- (fols. 41, 183) Norfolk Island, Australia
- (fol. 42) Levuka, Fiji
- (fols. 54, 56) Tutuila, American Samoa
- (fols. 55, 139, 141, 143-4) Apia, Samoa
- (fols. 60, 92-9) Tanna Island, Vanuatu
- (fols. 64, 66-8, 85, 88, 90, 129) Vaté Island, Vanuatu
- (fols. 70-1) Ambrym Island, Vanuatu
- (fols. 86-7) New Caledonia, Oceania
- (fols. 100, 122) Malakula Island, Vanuatu
- (fols. 101-11) Banks Islands, Vanuatu
- (fols. 115-19) Aoba, Vanuatu
- (fols. 136-7) Api, Vanuatu
- (fols. 146-52) Fowey, Cornwall
- (fol. 166) Eddystone Rocks and lighthouse, English Channel
- (fols. 168, 171) gardens of Trinity College, Oxford in the snow
- (fols. 169-76) Acland's garden in the snow, Broad Street, Oxford
- (fol. 177) Wadham College, Oxford in the snow
(passim) boats and ships, including
- (fols. 2-38) voyage on the Windsor Castle, from Plymouth, England to Sydney, Australia
- (fols. 30, 44, 46-7, 51, 54, 72-3, 121, 134-5) HMS Miranda
- (fols. 75-6) HMS Dart
- (fols. 153-62) the Druid, a yacht
- (fols. 185-8) cutters in the Commodore's Cup, St. Kitts
- (fols. 189-93) the French squadron at Spithead, including Marceau, Surcouf and Requin
- (fol. 203) HMS Camperdown, in the dock after a collision with HMS Victoria
- (fol. 205) HMS Victoria
Detailed discussion of two of these photographs (fols. 47 & 51) can be found in Elizabeth Edwards, Raw Histories - Photographs, Anthropology and Museums (Oxford, 2001), pp. 107-29. These and other photographs (fols. 70, 100, 122 & 129) are also discussed by Elizabeth Edwards, 'Negotiating Spaces: Some Photographic Incidents in the Western Pacific, 1883-84', in J. Schwartz & J. Ryan (eds.), Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination (London, 2003), pp. 261-79.
Dates
- Creation: 1880s-1894
Extent
221 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. Photogr. b. 36
Separated Materials
A loose photograph of an unidentified yacht, removed from this volume, is MS. Photogr. c. 150, fol. 116.
Physical Facet
Binding: Gilt-ruled half red calf, brown cloth boards, watered endpapers, label on spine, '7'
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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