Ships, shipbuilding and paddle steamers
19th and 20th century, 50 photographs
£378
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
2 albumen photographs of sailing ships from Aberdeen, the clipper Nineveh by Richards of Sydney, dated 1876, 25 x 20.5cm, some damage to mount, and the Wave Of Life by Goode of Sydney, 24 x 19cm, faded and mount damaged; large albumen photograph mounted onto thick paper 27.5 x 22cm, large albumen photograph of a Clyde steamship, 1881, 27.5 x 22cm, mounted onto thick paper; large albumen photograph of a troopship in Egypt, 27 x 19.5cm, faded; 3 cabinet cards of named sailing ships and a deck shot, good condition; group of 5 silver gelatin photographs of a ship in drydock and a dredger, 15.5 x 11cm; 3 albumen photographs of sailing warships, two small unidentified photographs and a larger photograph by Frith of 3 training ships - Impregnable, Inconstance and Emerald - at Devonport in 1913, 20.5 x 14cm, slight edge fading; mid-20th century silver gelatin photograph of Aberdeen lifeboat, 18.5 x 12cm; press photograph of the Empress of Scotland; 6 photographs relating to shipbuilding including a large silver gelatin photograph of workers leaving the Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard in Govan, Glasgow, c.1900, 29 x 21cm; small silver gelatin photograph of Henderson’s shipbuilders on the Clyde, 16 x 12cm; press photograph of the launch of H.M.S. Kipling in 1939, another showing crowds at the launch of the Queen Elizabeth in 1938, each 25 x 20cm; 2 platinum prints of shipbuilding at Barrow-In-Furness, some light surface marks; 10 silver gelatin photographs related to Sir Donald Skiffington of John Brown Shipyard, mixed sizes; mounted albumen photograph of 2 small sailing ships near Stranraer by G.W. Wilson, 24 x 16.5cm; 10 albumen photographs of paddle steamers and ferry piers in Scotland, sized from 29 x 18.5cm to 9 x 7cm, some edge fading some foxing to mounts (50)
Provenance
Formerly owned by the Late Murray Mackinnon, a renowned collector of photography documenting Scottish life from the mid-19th to early-20th century.