Untitled scrapbook album, mostly relating to the ship S.S. Aberdonian and its former captain, Clarence S. Howe.
The scrapbook album contains 215 photographs, mostly gelatin silver prints but also some albumen print cartes-de-visite and a cabinet card. There are also press cuttings, letters and postcards, which suggest that it was compiled by a member of the Howe family.
Some of the photographs are captioned in ink. They are mostly related to the crew and passengers of S.S. Aberdonian. Most of the album was compiled in the 1920s, but there are earlier photographic prints and a press cutting dating from the the 1950s.
Most of the photographs are by unknown photographers but some have been identified as by John Collier, W.L. Dunn & Co., M. & M. Galbraith, William Crow Gordon, J. Salmon, Ltd., and James Robertson.
S.S. Aberdonian was a steamship in the service of the Aberdeen Steam Navigation Company which plied the route from Aberdeen to London. It was built in 1909, converted to a hospital ship in the 1st World War, and sold for scrap in 1949. Clarence "Ben" Howe captained the ship in the 1920s until his retirement in 1931.
The scrapbook album has page numbers stamped in it. Pages 68-100 are blank.
MacKinnon collection, jointly acquired with the National Galleries of Scotland, with assistance from the Scottish Government, National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Art Fund.
Title supplied by the cataloguer.
Howe, Clarence S., 1865-1932.
Aberdonian (Steamship)
Carte de visite photographs.