Ella Kidman autograph album

This album, created in England, features autographs of Ella 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.

In Collection:

• 19th Century Manuscripts Collection

Creator

• Kidman, Ella

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 G7K53

Date created

• 1897 to 1930

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

• 51.50853, -0.12574
• 54, -2

Additional physical characteristics

• 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 and original illustrations, some signed. Some illustrations pasted in.
• Label at bottom of inside back cover: M.W. & Co. Ltd. London. No. 6483. On first page: Ella Kidman. From May. Xmas 1897. First page has illustration of seagulls.

Physical repository

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

Collection

• 19th Century Manuscripts Collection

Provider

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

Genre

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

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 2020-041

Fonds title

• Kidman Family fonds

Fonds identifier

• SC624

Is referenced by

• Special Collections Finding Aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/kidman-family-fonds

Date digitized

• September 10, 2020

Technical note

• Scanned on Plustek OpticBook 4800 at 600 dpi TIFF on 10 September 2020 by JF. Metadata by KD.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/5fks-e146

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