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Title'Photographs taken at 40 Chester Square with ARC Electric Light' by Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton
CreatorSwinton; Alan Archibald Campbell (1863-1930); British electrical engineer
Date1909-1914
DescriptionAlbum of black and white single and group portraits taken by Swinton, at his residence at 40 Chester Square, using ARC electric light: a lamp that produces light by a voltaic arc. The back of the volume features a comprehensive numbered list, naming the sitter in each photograph.

1. [Robert] Stewart Erskine
2. Mary Houstoun & R. Henniker Heaton
3. [James Alfred] Ewing, Sir Charles [Algernon] Parsons, Dugald Clerk
4. [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, [George Keith Buller] Elphinstone, [Sidney George] Brown, George Forbes, Major [Percy Alexander] McMahon, Professor Pedersen, Sir William Crookes
5. Robin Houstoun & Combermere
6. Robin Houstoun & Combermere
7. Robin Houstoun
8. Henry Sandbach
9. Henry Sandbach
10. Miss Houstoun
11. [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton
12. [George Sitwell Campbell] Swinton
13. Elsie Swinton
14. Sir Charles [Algernon] Parsons
15. [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton
16. Robin Houstoun, [George Sitwell Campbell] Swinton, Combermere, [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, Lady Combermere, Miss B. Sitwell, Miss Parsons.
17. Robin Houstoun
18. Alan H. C. Swinton
19. Robin Houstoun
20. [George William] Partridge
21. Harry Pitman
22. Mrs King
23. F. I. Thomas
24. Charles Beatson
25. C. A. Woods, Plows, Frank Baines
26. E. H. Ebsworth, [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, Elsie Swinton, Alice S. L. C. Swinton, Randall Davidson, Edith Davidson, Robin Houstoun, Kate M. C. Swinton, [George Sitwell Campbell] Swinton
27. Alice S. L. C. Swinton, Elsie Swinton, E. H. Ebsworth, Kate M. C. Swinton, Robin Houstoun, [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swimton, Edith Davisdon, Randall Davidson, [George Sitwell Campbell] Swinton
28. James F. Houstoun
29. James F. Houstoun
30. Kate M. C. Swinton
31. Alice S. L. C. Swinton
32. E. H. Trenow, G. Morane, Ernest Roney, Leon Desmarais, [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton
33. E. H. Trenow, G. Morane, Ernest Roney, Leon Desmarais, [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton
34. Combermere
35. Robin Houstoun
36. Harry Cockburn, Vaux Graham, Lush Wilson
37. [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, Frank Barker, Charles Kerr, Ernest Roney, Colonel [George Owen] Squier, [Charles] Birch Crisp
38. Robin Houstoun
39. Peter Willoughby
40. [Richard Charles] Brooman White
41. [Richard Charles] Brooman White
42. Sir William Ramsay
43. Sir William Ramsay
44. [William] Duddell, [Charles Vernon] Boys, [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, Arnulph Mallock, [Robert Williams] Wood, [Robert John] Strutt
45. [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, [John Somerville] Highfield, [William Morris] Mordey, Sir Charles Parsons, [George Keith Buller] Elphinstone
46. [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, [John Somerville] Highfield, [George Keith Buller] Elphinstone, [William Morris] Mordey, Sir Charles Parsons, Major O' Meara, [Charles Pratt] Sparks
47. R. J. Wallis-Jones, [George Keith Buller] Elphinstone, John Snell, [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, [John Edward] Kingsbury, John Perry, Walter Judd
48. Sir Charles Parsons, [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, Sir Philip Watts, Sir Joseph Larmor, Sir William White
49. Sir Philip Watts, Sir Charles Parsons, Sir William White
50. Silvanus Thompson, Sir William Ramsay, [Alexander Pelham] Trotter
51. Silvanus Thompson, Sir William Ramsay, [Alexander Pelham] Trotter
52. [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton
Extent1 volume; 25 pages; 52 photographs
FormatPhotograph
PhysicalDescriptionHard back album of photographs
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8053Ewing; Sir; James Alfred (1855 - 1935); engineer and cryptographer1855 - 1935
NA8285Swinton; Alan Archibald Campbell (1863 - 1930); electrical engineer1863 - 1930
NA3128Parsons; Sir; Charles Algernon (1854 - 1931); engineer1854 - 1931
NA7825Clerk; Sir; Dugald (1854 - 1932); mechanical engineer1854 - 1932
NA8188Crookes; Sir; William (1832 - 1919); chemist and science journalist1832 - 1919
NA8138Boys; Sir; Charles Vernon (1855 - 1944); physicist and inventor1855 - 1944
NA6172Ramsay; Sir; William (1852 - 1916); physical chemist1852 - 1916
NA1356Mallock; Henry Reginald Arnulph (1851 - 1933); scientific instrument designer and experimentalist1851 - 1933
NA7877Strutt; Robert John (1875 - 1947); 4th Baron Rayleigh; experimental physicist1875 - 1947
NA6948Duddell; William (1872 - 1917); electrical engineer1872 - 1917
NA7141Thompson; Silvanus Phillips (1851 - 1916); physicist and electrical engineer1851 - 1916
NA7894Larmor; Sir; Joseph (1857 - 1942); physicist1857 - 1942
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