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Kirkby, W.H.
American (active ca 1870s)

ALBUM TITLE: "Art Studies, 1877"

1877
39 albumen prints
17.3 x 13.0 cm.
Museum Purchase; ex-collection John R. Sanderson
87:1504:0000

NOTES: "Art Studies, 1877," by W.H. Kirkby contains small (6 x 9.5 cm.) albumen photographs mounted 1 per page, covered with a small sheet of opaque paper. Titles are handwritten on this paper and also printed through from teh negative onto the photograph. All of the images are visual puns, and the humor is supported by the name of the "maker," e.g. and image of broken dishes by "Miss Happe" is anticipated with the handwritten title "Ruins in China," and image of discarded liquor bottles is preceded by the title "Departed Spirits." Last 3 images in the album appear to be unfixed albument prints which are continuing to print out. Album is probably British.

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