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This section contains photographs and other images chiefly of people and premises connected with the Cambridge Philosophical Society. It comprises a miscellany of images, including Sir Joseph Larmor (President of CPS 1898-1900); CPS staff late 20th century; and a visit by Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, in 1980.

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Photographic proof of MBL (in cellophane envelope), together with print of same on a page torn from a book.

Scope and Contents B/w and colour photographs of various people, buildings and events, including the following: opening of the Body Scanner Unit by the Prince of Wales on 8 Jul 1981; opening of Arthur Rank House in the grounds of Brookfields Hospital by HRH the Duchess of Kent on October 15th 1981; Addenbrooke's Old Site November 1984 after it had been closed and the last patients had been moved to the Hills Road site (photographs taken by W G Cannon); the first hole in the wall cash dispenser, early 1980s;...

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The photographs were originally contained in an album. They have been removed and stored in polyester sleeves in boxes for better preservation but the album has been retained for information. The original album order has been kept in this catalogue.

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Anna Strong [AS's mother], 1892 (head and shoulders, profile); R. Gomperz?, undated (inscription in German on back); 1 unidentified, undated; 1 unidentified, undated (in clerical dress, taken in Oxford, possibly Thomas Strong, brother of AS).

Scope and Contents Including: 'Dante's Beatrice', 1897, otherwise unidentified; Cardinal Merry del Val (sepia, mounted, with modern b/w copy and neg.); Cardinal Gasquet, 1919 (b/w, with modern b/w copy and neg.); Mgr Algernon Stanley, Bishop of Emmaus (sepia carte de visite); Madeleine Tardieu, Asst. Secretary at the British School at Rome, 1923; Warburg, 1927 (b/w, head and shoulders); Axel Boethius, 1934 (b/w, head and shoulders); Fokker, 1922 (sepia, head and shoulders); Lord Bryce (sepia, head and...

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2 x colour snaps.

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34 items, chiefly earlier life, including: fancy dress ball in Messina 1877; in Greece ca. 1888; Girton Fire Brigade officers ca. 1880; photograph of drawing by Alphonse Legros of 1898. Some modern copy prints.

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58 items, chiefly later life, including: snaps at Chatsworth, 1904-09; snaps at the British School at Rome, 1922; lecturing in Rome, 1930s?; in academic dress, 1925?

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5 sepia prints, one showing ES seated at her desk, head turned away from camera, each 18cm x 24.5 cm (one of the photographs has been cut in two).

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Mostly formal portraits, some in academic dress, also some more informal snaps, several with modern copies and negatives. Photographers include Lafayette; Eva Barrett; Elliott and Fry Ltd; C Vandyk; Fradelle and Young; H S Mendelssohn; and Malcolm Arbuthnot.

Scope and Contents Including: Adolf Furtwangler (sepia x 4, 1 as an older man with his daughter?); Vernon Lee / Violet Paget (sepia photo of drawing); Thomas Ashby (2 x b/w snaps, also b/w snap with modern b/w copy and negative); Katharine Jex-Blake with sister (sepia carte de visite); Katharine Jex-Blake (sepia carte de visite, with modern b/w copy and colour transparency); Professor Leigh (b/w); A H Smith (b/w); Mr and Mrs Stevens (head of American Academy, Rome - b/w snap); Axel Boethius (b/w); Ludwig...

Scope and Contents File contains:Studio portrait by F A Cooper, 32 Hamilton Square, Birkenhead, of Betty [Eleanor Beatrice Willis, later Browning] and her younger sister Margaret [Willis, later Anderson], shown full length, standing - sepia, mounted on board, circa 1909?;Small b/w photo of Margaret Willis by M K MacKenzie, 12 University Avenue, Glasgow, mounted; back of mount is inscribed ‘With love to Mummy & Daddy from Margaret. Sept. 1910’;B/w snap of Margaret Anderson with her daughter...

Scope and Contents Nine items, as follows:1) Portrait (head) of M G B by R H Lord, Cambridge, circa 1880;2) Photograph by Messrs Stearn of students and lecturers, Newnham College, circa 1888 (M G B is 3rd row down, 8th from left);3) Portrait photograph (head and shoulders) of M G B by J Palmer Clarke, Cambridge, circa 1888 (2 copies, 1 being an enlargement of the original);4) Group of men and women [scientists? outside the Cavendish Laboratory?], with key to names, circa 1910 (includes M G B,...

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Connection with St Edmund's not always known.

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Photograph of painting of 'Mere Julienne' [Caroline Swanton Belloc] with biographical note on verso; also photograph of painting of 'Mere Julienne' by Louise Redelsperger with note on verso.

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Photocopies of photographs as follows:
Sarah Mason aged about 20, taken by W K Munro, Edinburgh, circa 1880;
Sarah Mason aged about 45? with four children (2 boys, 2 girls);
A formal group, unidentified, late 19thC [it is not clear whether Sarah Mason is amongst the group].

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10 b/w photographs, 12cm x 8 cm, taken in Bitolj / Bitola, Macedonia, 1929, including; typical houses; a street in the Jewish quarter; Hana Peso aged ? 16; Senor Peso (father of Hana); Mose Calderon and his wife; Esther Calderon (born 1860); Nahman Halevy (born 1854); Salomon Nehama and family; and a group of bakers. Also 4 b/w photographs, 12cm x 8cm, taken in Salonica in 1935, including: Meru Levy (born ca. 1870); the Levy family (Meru, daughter and two sons); and an unknown Jewess.