Identity area
Reference code
Add. VM/C/5/2a
Title
School photograph, Weybridge
Date(s)
- Lent 1873 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 sepia photograph, c 98 x 150 mm.
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Scope and content
Shows 'Mr H. Spyers' [Henry Almack Spyers, teacher at and later headteacher of the school] and 'Mr Daunt' seated outside the school, with a small group of boys gathered around them, named below. Arthur Hamilton Smith is on the far left at the back and Henry Babington Smith on the far right; also pictured are Sim, Widnell, Hooker, Tate, Rollo, Petala, Punchard, Froom and O'Callaghan. As well as the place and date, the photograph is labelled above 'Cherry Bounce' and 'The Area Belle'; these are both Victorian farces which may have been performed that term [the third picture on this page shows boys in costume].
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Pasted to f. 2r.