WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Sep and Oct 1887. Several letters from Alfred Russel Wallace to
his family from America mention the Museums (see particularly
WP1/5/12, 19 Dec 1886 and Raby 2002, ch. 12 n. 21).
WP6/6/11 Papers re Studies Scientific and Social
Miscellaneous images related to Alfred Russel Wallace, ''Studies
Scientific and Social'', (London 1900) including defective and
duplicate proofs, and rejected? photographs of subjects illustrated;
comprising:
1.Small sepia photographic print approx. 10 cm x 7 cm, undated,
showing a narrow wooden walkway with railings running through
a steep narrow gorge; apparently of the Aarschlucht but at
different view from that reproduced in 'The Gorge of the Aar...'
(Studies vol 1); possibly a reject: photographer probably Ananda
Coomaraswamy.
2. Small sepia photographic print approx. 10 cm x 7 cm,
apparently of the gorge of the Aarschlucht; a slightly darker copy
of item 1 above
3. Photograph of a section of grooved and fissured cliff or rocky
shore on card captioned in Alfred Russel Wallace's? hand in ink
''Glacial groovings near Barmouth.'' Sepia photographic print
approximately 11 cm x 16 cm, torn at top right corner, loosely
mounted on card 16 cm x 20 cm; pencilled annotations including
''Barmouth?'' ''base'' and ''from the front'' in Alfred Russel
Wallace's hand can be seen on the back of the photo, other text
appears to be hidden under glued section at the top. The mounting
card is marked in pencil on the front above the photo ''4'' over an
arrow and on the back in pencil in Alfred Russel Wallace's? hand
''12502- | Swan Sonnenschein o/n 459 | Tuesday''. A similar photo
attributed to ''an unknown friend'' illustrates 'The Ice Age and Its
Work. Erratic Blocks and Ice Sheets' (vol. 1, fig. 14).
4. Colour print approximately 22 cm x 16 cm, possibly from a
from a hand-coloured photograph, of a sea cove between chalk
cliffs with grassy slopes and two buildings in the foreground and a
short sandy beach on which a number of small rowing boats have
been drawn up, with others in the water, in the middle ground;
printed caption on the bottom edge ''10373. Flamborough North
Sea Landing''; ''Photochrom'' printed faintly on the back at bottom
right. Undated (c. 1900?) and unattributed. A different image of
Flamborough illustrates 'The Ice Age and Its Work. Erratic Blocks
and Ice Sheets.' ( vol. 1, fig. 16, p. 84).
5. Sepia photo approximately 20.5 cm x 13 cm showing a lake
surrounded by mountains, annotated on the back in pencil in
Alfred Russel Wallace's? or another's hand ''Loch Avon and
Cairngorm.'' Undated and unattributed; among other images in a
brown paper envelope labelled in blue pencil in Alfred Russel
Wallace's? or WGW's? hand ''Photos &c for Studies'' (i.e. Alfred
Russel Wallace's ''Studies Scientific and Social'', London 1900)
when listed and though not reproduced there, may have been
considered as an illustration for one of the two articles on the Ice
Age.
6. Sepia photographic print approximately 15 cm x 11 cm showing
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