Album of photographs possibly formerly belonging to the McLeod family, owners of Crawford [Craufurd] Bank house, Lasswade, Midlothian.
An album of 201 photographs, mainly portraits, with a few photographs of buildings, Scottish landscapes and paintings. The portraits are nearly all albumen prints of miscellaneous people (including royalty and celebrities), with several cartes-de-visite, captioned in ink, trimmed and pasted into the album. There are also three salted paper prints, including one by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. Most of the photographers are unknown, but the rest are by a variety of English and Scottish and overseas photographers, including: James Good Tunny, Philip Henry Delamotte, John Jabez Edwin Mayall, George Washington Wilson, Thomas Rodger, Sorabjee Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, Ross and Thomson, William Notman and Abdullah Freres.
One of the leaves contains a collage of albumen prints of the British royal family.
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.
Album contains two photographs of Craufurd Bank (Crawford Bank) house, Lasswade, which was owned by a Miss M'Leod in the 1850s and 60s, and portraits of various people with the surname McLeod, including Sir Donald Friell McLeod, a civil servant based in India who was Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab between 1865 and 1870. It may well be that the album was in possession of the McLeod family.
Album bound in half leather contemporary binding with lockable metal clasp and key.
Carte de visite photographs.
Portraits, British