English Family Photographic Album: Mary Ella Capper (1860s-90s)


Figure 1.-- The Victorian photographic album is leather bound with an embossed cover and was given to Mary Ella Capper on November 19, 1872, there are 125 carte de visites and 16 cabinet cards in the album, mostly images of the Capper, Hardcastle, Mathews and Birt families ranging in date from 1863 to the 1890s and almost all identified and dated. Here is a view of the inside of the album. Click on the image to see the beautifully inscribed front page. Image courtesy of the MD collection.

A British reader informs us, "I purchased another antique photograph album a few days ago which has some interesting images within it. The album is leather bound with an embossed cover and was given to Mary Ella Capper on November 19, 1872, there are 125 carte de visites and 16 cabinet cards in the album, mostly images of the Capper, Hardcastle, Mathews and Birt families ranging in date from 1863 to the 1890s and almost all identified and dated. There is a beautifully inscribed front page. There is even an image of an 1830s painting providing comparisons with an ear lier generation. The image here gives you a good idea what the inside of one of these CDV albums looked like. Our British reader tells us, "Clothing-wise perhaps only a few of the images are of consequence for the HBC clothing section and a couple may be of use for the HBC hair-style section. My personal favourite among the images is the group photo of the boys sports team, they wear an interesting variety of clothes and I can't think what game they would have played with a ball and those poles. It's a shame it's not a cabinet card so that more detail of the clothes would be revealed but the photo pre-dates cabinet cards."






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Created: April 1, 2003
Last updated: 6:53 PM 6/5/2005