Decorative album of photographs of the members of the Plomer and Horniman families assembled by Laura Horniman (née Plomer), wife of Emslie Horniman, during the 1890s and early 1900s. The photographs are in the form of prints, carte de visites and cabinet cards popular during the Victorian period. The photographs date from the 1860s to around 1900.
Laura Horniman Photograph Album
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Black and white medium format negative of landscape with trees, hills and clouds in distance
object | ARC/GUP/006/227
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Photograph depicting four men in European colonial safari uniform riding two elephants in Sri Lanka and being led by two guides
object | ARC/PH/SRILANKA/007
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Demenaia R. below Machergie - church
object | ARC/GUP/002/317
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Black and white negative of man casting net in thigh-deep water off coast with trees in background
object | ARC/GUP/005/159
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