This album, created in England, features autographs of Lilian Kidman’s friends and family. Collected autographs are often accompanied by inscriptions and original artwork. The album also features Kidman’s own art. Autographs include surnames: Caen; Smyth; Sherriff; Kidman; Crawford; Morgan; Hays; White; Winters; Walde; Haines; Shettle; Martin; Waller; Figgins; Earle, and Dyke. Some autographs are only initials. Also containing autographs of English notables including Wellington, Peel, Palmerston, Disraeli, and George Cruikshank.

In Collection:

• 19th Century Manuscripts Collection

Creator

• Kidman, Lillian L.

Contributor

• Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
• Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
• Peel, Robert, 1788-1850
• Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Viscount, 1784-1865
• Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881

Subject

• Autograph albums
• Autographs
• Scrapbooks
• Social networks
• Art objects, Victorian
• Personal archives
• Arts, Victorian
• Art
• Autographs--Collectors and collecting

Language

• eng

Identifier

• Call Number: Z42.4 G7K535

Date created

• 1828 to 1928

Resource type

• Text
• Still Image

Rights statement

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Extent

• 1 volume (unpaged) ; 20 x 16 x 2 cm

Geographic Coverage

• Great Britain
• England--London

Coordinates

• 54, -2
• 51.50853, -0.12574

Additional physical characteristics

• On cover: Album. Label at bottom of inside back cover: M.W. & Co. Ltd. London. No. 6483. On first page: poem in German with English paraphrase signed with 3 initials, last one W; Linkenholt, 8/10/99. On second page: "Yes this is my album ... Lilian L. Kidman, 1/5/1898."
• Illustrations (some colour).
• A commercially produced autograph album, each page with red and blue borders. Mostly blank pages but some have illustrations with blank spaces for autographs. Album contains signatures, verses, drawings, paintings and greeting cards. Most illustrations signed. Some illustrations and cards pasted in.

Physical Repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• 19th Century Manuscripts Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• albums (books)
• scrapbooks
• paintings (visual works)
• sketches
• illustrations (layout features)
• autograph albums
• drawings (visual works)

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 2020-041

Fonds title

• Kidman Family fonds

Fonds identifier

• SC624

Is referenced by

• Special Collections Finding Aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/kidman-family-fonds

Transcript

• 2020-09-14

Technical note

• Scanned on Plustek OpticBook 4800 at 600 dpi TIFF on 14 September 2020 by JF. Metadata by KD.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/03hy-rg55

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