Beschreibung:

A good album containing approximately 84 albumen prints, c. 1860, including 42 of individual soldiers, some in regimental dress, many signed on the mount by the sitters and indicating regiments, 14 x 11cm and carte-de-visite sizes, a further 18 military interest of groups with further inscriptions and signatures to mounts, plus topographical views and non-military portraits around Hythe, Maidstone and Walmer, photographs mostly presented one to a page but some topographical views as multiples, photographs 16 x 21.5cm and smaller, largely captioned in ink, a few leaves detached, contemporary half morocco, upper cover detached and backstrip deficient, 4to The album compiler would appear to be Mr Bennett to whom a few of the autographed presentation inscriptions are made. Signatories include Colonel E.C. Wilford, Captain J. Miller Cavalry Depot, Maidstone, Captain B.C. Russell, Royal Fusiliers, H.J.J. Burney, 6th Depot Battalion, (?)Sam Fairclough, R.A. Buchanan, 7th Hussars, Captain Cohglan, 2nd Queen's Royal Regiment, Thomas E. Houghton, 17th Lancers, Lieutenant Arthur Hill 23rd Royal Welch Fusiliers, R. Bainbridge, 17th Lancers, David Read, 23rd Royal Welch Fusiliers, W.E. Dakin, Carabineers, and others, group photographs include the School of Musketry evening class, 2nd Section Right Wing and Left Wing. All the dates given in the album are during the course of 1860, the same year as Roger Fenton visited Hythe and became a member of the Hythe School of Musketry, being placed in the 1st Section of Volunteers. Fenton is known to have visited Hythe in February and May of that year, neither of these months appearing in the dated inscriptions in this album. (1)