Album “Antiquities of Scilly - Photographs”
Reference code
ONS/01
Title
Album “Antiquities of Scilly - Photographs”
Date
1937-1938
Level of description
item
Extent and format
1 volume
Scope and content
Included within the album are loose papers of correspondence between The Earl of Onslow and the Secretary of Society of Antiquaries regarding the Earl donating a set of photographs of the prehistoric remains on Scilly. September 1937-April 1938 (3pp).
Album (52pp) contains photographs taken by Messrs Gibson firm of photographers on the Scilly Isles (specifically by Alexander Gibson (1857-1944)). Photographs of locations including:
Graves at Innisidgen, Normandy Downs, Bants Carn - St Mary’s
Menhirs, Telegraph, BantsCarn, Porthlaw, St Mary’s
Graves and Urns St Martins
Menhir & Graves, Gugh
Roman Altar, Tresco Abbey Gardens
Graves, Eastern Isles, Great Arthur
Graves at Samsan
Holed Stones at Bryher and Tresco Abbey Gardens
Album (52pp) contains photographs taken by Messrs Gibson firm of photographers on the Scilly Isles (specifically by Alexander Gibson (1857-1944)). Photographs of locations including:
Graves at Innisidgen, Normandy Downs, Bants Carn - St Mary’s
Menhirs, Telegraph, BantsCarn, Porthlaw, St Mary’s
Graves and Urns St Martins
Menhir & Graves, Gugh
Roman Altar, Tresco Abbey Gardens
Graves, Eastern Isles, Great Arthur
Graves at Samsan
Holed Stones at Bryher and Tresco Abbey Gardens
Creator
Onslow, Richard William Alan (1876-1945), 5th Earl of Onslow, diplomat and government minister
Gibson, Alexander (1857-1944), photographer
Gibson, Alexander (1857-1944), photographer