Record

RefNoACS/6/3
LevelFile
Title'Pocket Kodak' Album by Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton
CreatorSwinton; Alan Archibald Campbell (1863-1930); British electrical engineer
Eastman Photo Materials Co. Ltd, 115 Oxford Street, London, W.
Date1895-1897
DescriptionAlbum of 2 1/4-inch square black and white photographs from Swinton’s travels in the UK and Europe, taken between 1895 and 1897. The images are labelled as a batch per location, with individuals named, when they appear. Inside the album is a scrap piece of correspondence acting as a bookmark.

List of locations featured in the photographs:
Hampton Court
Greenwich
Castle Menzies
Cragside
59 Germyn Street
Glenardoch
Stirling
Scarborough Electric Works
Cromptons Arc Works Chelmsford
New Club, Edinburgh
Farnham Castle
France
Normandy
Mt St Michael
Russia
Cronstadt
Petersburg
Litania
Moscow
Nizhny Novgorod
Warsaw
Terling Place, Chelmsford
Thames
Barnburgh
Ballywater, Ireland

Individuals appearing in photographs:
Wolfe [first name is not indicated but he is depicted at Hampton Court.]
[Rookes Evelyn Bell] Crompton
Bertram Blount
[John Meade] Falkner
[William]Watson Armstrong
[Robert Stewart] Erskine
Lord [William George] Armstrong
Extent1 volume; 27 pages; 86 photographs
FormatPhotograph
PhysicalDescriptionHard back photograph album inscribed 'Pocket Kodak', featuring a pattern.
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA5907Crompton; Rookes Evelyn Bell (1845 - 1940); engineer1845 - 1940
NA8285Swinton; Alan Archibald Campbell (1863 - 1930); electrical engineer1863 - 1930
NA3460Armstrong; William George (1810 - 1900); Baron Armstrong of Cragside; armaments manufacturer and industrialist1810 - 1900
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