Record

RefNoACS/6/9
LevelItem
TitleFamily and Friends photograph album by Alan Archibald Cambell Swinton
CreatorSwinton; Alan Archibald Campbell (1863-1930); British electrical engineer
Date1876
DescriptionPhotograph album featuring portraits of friends and family, assembled by Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton, by various photographers, potentially including Swinton hismelf. Identified individuals are as follows:

Family portrait, Kimmerghane 1876
Georgiana [Caroline] Campbell-Swinton
Archibald Campbell Swinton
[John Liulf] Campbell-Swinton
George [Sitwell] Campbell-Swinton
Kate [Margaret] Campbell Swinton
Alice [Susan Lucy] Campbell Swinton
Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton
MD Latham
?
B Maud Cotterill [?]
William H Macleod
?
[James] T Blair [?]
[Thomas] Byrne Sellar [?]
Richard G P Spencer
W. C Sellar
C. E. J. Mitchell
James Hunter Blair
Noble, the dog

Also included are two lanscape photographs, and several childhood portraits of Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton.
Most of the identified individuals appear with a strip bearing their autograph, of variable legibility.
Extent1 volume; 22 pages; 140 photographs
FormatPhotograph
PhysicalDescriptionLeather bound photograph album, with metal edges, and an embossed metal plaque: 'Fettes College Athletic Sports 1881, 1st Prize Half Mile Handicap, A. A. Campbell Swinton'. Damaged spine, with visible stitching. Some pages within the volume are foxed.
The photographs are a combonation of monochrome and black and white.
AccessStatusOpen
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