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| Description | Miscellaneous images related to Alfred Russel Wallace, 'Studies Scientific and Social', (London 1900) including defective and duplicate proofs, and rejected? photographs of subjects illustrated; comprising:
1.Small sepia photographic print approx. 10 cm x 7 cm, undated, showing a narrow wooden walkway with railings running through a steep narrow gorge; apparently of the Aarschlucht but at different view from that reproduced in 'The Gorge of the Aar...' (Studies vol 1); possibly a reject: photographer probably Ananda Coomaraswamy.
2. Small sepia photographic print approx. 10 cm x 7 cm, apparently of the gorge of the Aarschlucht; a slightly darker copy of item 1 above
3. Photograph of a section of grooved and fissured cliff or rocky shore on card captioned in Alfred Russel Wallace's? hand in ink 'Glacial groovings near Barmouth.' Sepia photographic print approximately 11 cm x 16 cm, torn at top right corner, loosely mounted on card 16 cm x 20 cm; pencilled annotations including 'Barmouth?' 'base' and 'from the front' in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand can be seen on the back of the photo, other text appears to be hidden under glued section at the top. The mounting card is marked in pencil on the front above the photo '4' over an arrow and on the back in pencil in Alfred Russel Wallace's? hand '12502- | Swan Sonnenschein o/n 459 | Tuesday'. A similar photo attributed to 'an unknown friend' illustrates 'The Ice Age and Its Work. Erratic Blocks and Ice Sheets' (vol. 1, fig. 14).
4. Colour print approximately 22 cm x 16 cm, possibly from a from a hand-coloured photograph, of a sea cove between chalk cliffs with grassy slopes and two buildings in the foreground and a short sandy beach on which a number of small rowing boats have been drawn up, with others in the water, in the middle ground; printed caption on the bottom edge '10373. Flamborough North Sea Landing'; 'Photochrom' printed faintly on the back at bottom right. Undated (c. 1900?) and unattributed. A different image of Flamborough illustrates 'The Ice Age and Its Work. Erratic Blocks and Ice Sheets.' ( vol. 1, fig. 16, p. 84).
5. Sepia photo approximately 20.5 cm x 13 cm showing a lake surrounded by mountains, annotated on the back in pencil in Alfred Russel Wallace's? or another's hand 'Loch Avon and Cairngorm.' Undated and unattributed; among other images in a brown paper envelope labelled in blue pencil in Alfred Russel Wallace's? or William Greenell Wallace's? hand 'Photos &c for Studies' (i.e. Alfred Russel Wallace's 'Studies Scientific and Social', London 1900) when listed and though not reproduced there, may have been considered as an illustration for one of the two articles on the Ice Age.
6. Sepia photographic print approximately 15 cm x 11 cm showing flat fields with drystone walling in front of a long escarpment; a low building in the right middle ground and a road with a low bridge and telegraph pole in the foreground. Annotations on the back in pencil in Alfred Russel Wallace's? hand include 'Wasdale Crag, | Shap | Roches Moutonée' and '4433'. Stamped in purple on the bottom left 'Godfrey Bingley. | Thornichurst, | Headingley, Leeds' and in red on the right 'Copyright. 'Copyright' is also stamped in red on the right lower front of the picture. Undated. A different image of Wasdale Crag, attributed to Bingley, illustrates 'The Ice Age and its Work ...' (Fig 12, vol. 1).
7. Sepia photographic print approximately 15 cm x 11 cm showing trees in an undulating foreground and treeless hills and bluffs with some patches of snow, in the background. Annotated on the back in pencil in Alfred Russel Wallace's? hand 'Terminal Moraine | Inner Tongue | Middle Harbour Flat | Nr Appleby | 4408'; place probably Cumbria (given the stamp) but 'Middle Harbour' and 'Appleby' occur together with 'moraine' in Cumbria, NZ and the USA. Stamped in purple on the bottom left 'Godfrey Bingley. | Thornichurst, | Headingley, Leeds. ' and in red on the right 'Copyright.' Undated. Possibly considered for, but not published in, 'The Ice Age and its Work ...' (Vol. 1) where images of other terminal moraines occur.
8. Sepia photo loosely mounted on paper, image approximately 10 cm x 14 cm, showing three young women and three older men standing next to each other on short grass with an open hut with a thatched roof in the background. in row facing the camera; two of the women are naked to the waist, all three are wearing long wrapped skirts and have their long hair tied back; the men are darker skinned, with long shaggy hair, and are wearing loin-cloths; two carry tall bows and arrows, one in the centre carries a tall staff. The paper mount has 'Veddahs - Ceylon' written on the lower margin in pencil in the same hand as that on the undated and unattributed photos of Veddahs reproduced in 'Affinities and Origin of the Australian and Polynesian Races' vol. 1, though this is not reproduced there.The hand is may be a variant of Alfred Russel Wallace's or that of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy; see letter WP1/1/163, from Alfred Russel Wallace to William Greenell Wallace 15 Dec 1898 with postscript from Annie Wallace re photos from Ceylon.
9. Kerry co Sydney sepia photo approx. 19.5 cm x 15cm captioned on the print 'Port Darwin Native. 6[0]5.'; head and naked upper torso portrait of a young Australian native man wearing a grass skirt and headband, seated, facing camera, with crossed arms; found when listed with item 10 below in a paper folder made from a lined exercise book page labelled in pencil 'Australians' in William Greenell Wallace's? Alfred Russel Wallace's? hand; not published in 'Studies' but other photos of Australian natives are and this may have been considered and rejected.
10. Kerry co Sydney sepia photo approx. 19.5 cm x 15cm captioned on the print 'A Darling River Native. 6[9]6'; full length photograph of an old bearded Australian native man naked to the waist and holding a spear? in one hand and throwing stick? in the other; standing outside a wurly (native shelter) inside which a seated dog is partly visible; found when listed with item 9 above in a paper folder made from a lined exercise book page labelled in pencil 'Australians' in William Greenell Wallace's? Alfred Russel Wallace's? hand; not published in 'Studies' but other photos of Australian natives are and this may have been considered and rejected.
11. Paper folder labelled in Alfred Russel Wallace's? William Greenell Wallace's? hand 'Duplicate Proofs | Duplicates', (old ref WP2/16/34) made from folded proofsheet of black and white images of Sentinel Rock and Virgins's Tears waterfall, Yosemite National Park USA reproduced as figs 3 and 4 in 'Studies Scientific and Social', containing 4 proof sheets with versions of 5 images reproduced in 'Studies Scientific and Social' comprising 'El Capitan' (fig. 2), two of King Charles' Bird of Paradise (Parotia carolae, fig. 63) one annotated 'Pull to show tonehing' [sic; Toning?] and one 'Duplicate', one of the Fern-bearing Bird of Paradise ( Pteridophora alberti, fig. 64), and a double page with images of a man and woman of Samoa (figs 57 and 58) with annotations including '3 Photographs returned to Mr Coles, Royal Geographical Socy 1.12.98'. Other proofs of each of these images are in WP6/6/1 (re 'Inaccessible Valleys') WP6/6/6 (re 'The Polynesians and their Migrations' ) and WP6/6/7 (re 'New Guinea and its Inhabitants').
Place: Sri Lanka, Australia, Great Britain, Switzerland
Subject: Ice Age, Glaciation, 'Native people', Ethnography |