Book A [Wace family day out on the river in Cambridge], 1902

File

Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/1

Scope and Contents

Small unlabelled album of monochrome photographs, most likely 'Book A'.
The majority of prints depict a small group of men, women and a boy in early Edwardian dress, having a picnic, larking about on a small boat on the River Cam or the River Ouse. This is the Wace family. Frequent among the photographs are images of the siblings Audrey Eugenia Bayard Wace (1882-1959), Alan John Bayard Wace (1879-1957) and Gaston Frederick Wace (1890-1950). Possibly their brother Emeric George Bayard Wace (1876-1901) is the other young adult frequently captured in the photos.
Believed by his daughter Dr Lisa French to have been photographed in the environs of Cambridge during Alan Wace's underdgraduate years (1898-1902). Also includes two photographs of a horse and carriage and some landscape images of the river, trees and a family of swans. 19 prints, 5 empty pages.

Dates

Creation: 1902

Creator

From the Fonds: Wace, Alan John Bayard, 1879-1957 (archaeologist) (Person)

Extent

1 album(s) : photographs

Additional Description

Custodial History

Former reference 'Wace Archive 006', Cambridge transfer, Box 12

Related Materials

The corresponding negative album, Wace 23, GBR/3437/AJBW/3/50, has written in ink on the flyleaf, 'Audrey from Johnny'. (This may be Alan Wace, whose second name was John; the handwriting is immature and may be that of a very young AJBW.) The index of this negative album is handwrittenby AJBW in pencil, and includes several references to 'rowing', 'river' and names of family, friends and pets: Alan, Holt, Audrey, Gaston, Miss Parker, Tibby (a cat) and Max (a dog).

Physical Description

Hard back photograph album, teal blue cover, front cover embossed in black 'Kodak'.
Each leaf is composed of a cardboard backboard overlaid with a thinner card mount on recto and verso, tacked down on 3 edges, allowing photographs to be eased out from the long bottom edge. Displays one photograph to a page, each mount aperture sized W. 4 ¼ x 2 ½ inch).
Good condition, foxing to the leaves throughout. Top and tail of the spine is bumped and fragile with some loss to the bottom edge of the front cover.

The photographic prints are all monochrome, gelatin silver, quarter plate contact prints, with some fading to the images but otherwise in good condition.