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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/ACC1034 Z9
TitlePhotographs: bundle of prints from an envelope labelled 'SAM & Morrisons'
Extent62 items
Datec 1896-c 1994
DescriptionPhotographic prints and photopostcards, including snapshots and studio portraits taken in [England], Egypt and off the coast of Gibraltar. Most of the photographs are black and white but there are also four colour prints. Some have handwritten explanatory notes or greetings on the back. There is also a postcard: 'Members of the Band, Boys' Blind School, Foochow' published by the Church Missionary Society, a photographer's envelope and postal envelope.

Almost all of the images are of family members but the photographs taken in Egypt include:
/'Learning to read braille' [a young man reading at a table]
/'Table-making [?]Gindi Eff & pupil'
/'The old-fashioned plough - Mit Ghamr'
/'Cairo?' [a mosque]

A few of the photographs were received grouped together, including:
/Photographs in a postal envelope addressed to Miss N. Morrison. Date from postmark 28 March 1959. 8 items
/Photographs of 'Joan' as a young child [Joan Margaret Bamford (1934-2018), née Morrison, daughter of Stanley Andrew Morrison and Margaret Amy Morrison]. 5 items
/Photographs in a Kodak (Egypt) photographers' envelope. 4 items
ArrangementThree items of correspondence relating to a memorial to Mr and Mrs Hugh Morrison were packaged separately for preservation reasons during cataloguing of the collection by the Cadbury Research Library (see CMS/ACC1034 F10).
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