Item 2 - Album of photographs, mostly of Trinity College

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Add. MS a/725/2

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Album of photographs, mostly of Trinity College

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  • c 1903-1911 (Creation)

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1 vol., c 183 x 240 x 25 mm, 12 ff. (and 2 flyleaves). 24 photographs pasted in. 1 loose photograph, c 63 x 90 mm.

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Photographs in sepia and black and white; all mounted on at least one layer of card before being pasted into the album, many labelled. Most images of Trinity College: the door to Screens Passage; the Avenue in snow; the cloisters of Nevile's Court seen through the arches into New Court; the door to a turret staircase; the west oriel of Hall; a view of St John's College chapel tower and the river from North Paddock in snow; the Hall from Great Court; a gate in the cloisters; a view of the tribunal in Nevile's Court in the snow; a gate in the Master's Garden; the Wren Library; the iron bridge between Trinity and St. John's; the fountain; the Bowling Green etc. There are four unlabelled country scenes, including one of an old cottage, and two labelled as being of a stream near Foxton.

A black and white photograph was found loose inside the front cover of the album; it is labelled '1957-58 | from J1B Great Court' and shows the construction of buildings in Angel Court.

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