Dorothy Stonely Photographs

Victorian album photographs including images taken in India and Kent

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StonelyPhoto01, 1890s cabinet card by H W Newton of East Molesey, Surrey

The fist photograph in the album and potentially therefore one of the most important. Portrait of a woman holding a letter. Far from being a wedding photograph this image seems to say "I got your letter and I'm not happy" The woman is wearing typical 1890s dress in a dark fabric with velvet trimmings and a cascade of bows. Possible this could be semi-mourning. She also looks quite tubby around the waist so might be expecting a child. A rather lovely double rope of pearls hangs from a brooch. A photo with a story that will probably never be known.

1.07 1890s 1895 East Molesey England Great Britain H W Newton monochrome Newton Portrait Sefton House Studio Sepia Stonely _Collection StonelyPage01 StonelyPhoto01 Surrey TQ1468 UK Victorian Walton Road albumen print blank back bow brooch cabinet card cabinet print date within 5 years digitised from a print on nontransparent medium dress embossed lettering family history fashion geoaccuracy good gigot sleeve grey card high hair history inside leg of mutton sleeve letter mourning mourning dress no border one person photo photograph plain edge plant print rating4 rounded corners social history surname surname Newton thick card three quarter length tissue strip woman