Photographs

• Reference:GB 254 MS 458/1/3/6
• Dates of Creation:1892-c1966
• Physical Description:
  1 box, 4 albums, 1 envelope and 4 packets

• Scope and Content

  (1) Photocards and photographs, some with modern copies, of AH Low as a baby, young child, one in family group, as a school boy and student, 1892-1913
  (2) Glass plate photograph of Harriet Mary Low, Anne Low [mother] and AH Low, 1894
  (3) Glass plate photograph of Alexander Halley Low as a baby, 1894
  (4) ‘AHL postcard album when young. Includes schools – St Clares [Kent] – Boyne House Cheltenham’, features postcards, mostly scenes sent to ‘Alick’ while he was at school, 1905-1914 [fragile]
  (5) Annotated large photographs: AH Low in rugby team photo, Cheltenham College c1905, AHL in class photo, Cheltenham College, c1907, AH Low in shooting team, 1910, AH Low in military uniform, 1914
  (6) Photo album featuring scenes, people, Cheltenham College and Holland Park house, [1907-1909]
  (7) ‘AHL photo album from school days. Some of Cheltenham College’, c1907-1909
  (8) Photo album, captioned, and inscribed ‘AH Low Sept 09’, probably those entered for photographic competition as mentioned in his letters home 1909
  (9) Partially filled photo album [with European scenes], nd
  (10) ‘AHL Motorbike glass plate outside 9 Holland Park’, c1910
  (11) Framed print of AH Low in uniform on motorbike, [1915?]
  (12) Photograph of Lt AH Low on motorbike [1916?]
  (13) Portraits of AH Low him in army uniform, [1914-1918]
  (14) Bundle of photographs by AH Low, with note ‘from Peru explorations for/with the International Petroleum Co in 1919’, 1919
  (15) Framed portrait of AH Low with similar portrait photocards, 1920s
  (16) Mounted photographs [copies?] of children, 1920, of St Peter’s Mission, Canada
  (17) Photographs and postcards featuring AH Low as part of an ice hockey group, in a garden, on the coast and in the countryside, 1920s-1930s.
  (18) Wallet, ‘Happy memories of Portrush, 1928 Some photographs by Alex H Low, photographer’, containing postcards of scenes of the Christian Special Service Mission camp, Northern Ireland, 1928
  (19) Bundle of photo postcards featuring activities at Christian Special Service Mission camps at Portrush, Sheringham and possibly other places, many stamped 'Photo by Alex H Low', 1928
  (20) Portraits of AH Low, some with his wife and his children and grand-children, 1930s-1966
  (21) Photographs of AH Low’s homes in Ealing, Kingsbury and Dorlo House, Ferring, Sussex, 1931-c1966

• Additional Information

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