Photographs, 1835 - 1927
Scope and Contents
Bundle 1: 9 portrait photographs of Eileen Power, 1920-22 and undated, including one with H G Wells for an advert for cigars; 1 is a colour glass plate, taken 'about 1922 after her Albert Kahn Fellowship in the Far East'; 1 is by Gabell, 2 are by Swaine; also 2 portrait photographs of Rhoda Power, 1927, taken by Dorothy Hickling.
Bundle 2: snapshots of Eileen Power, including some taken at Girton College; 12 items, b/w and sepia; most have no date, but one is marked Felstead March 1916.
Bundle 3: family portraits: three of Eileen, Beryl and Rhoda Power as children (1 shows them with another child in fancy dress, sepia, by Carl Reisch, Davos-Platz [1898?]; another, sepia, was taken by T Bennett & Sons, Worcester & Malvern, c. 1898?; and the other, sepia, taken by J Huff & Son, Maryport, shows them with their mother, Mabel Grindley Clegg - pencil note on the back reads 'Taken at Stapleton Cottage in the year 1894, ages 5,4,3'); 7 loose album pages; small portrait photograph of Eileen Power; album of a trip to Davos [1898?]; silhouette of John Power, 1835, from an original silhouette by August Edouart.
Dates
- Creation: 1835 - 1927
Creator
- From the Fonds: Power, Eileen Edna le Poer, 1889 - 1940 (economic historian, wife of M M Postan) (Person)
Extent
3 file(s) : photograph
Language of Materials
English
Originator(s)
Various
Finding aid date
2009-01-19 12:49:08+00:00
Genre / Form
Repository Details
Part of the Girton College Archive Repository
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