- Object name(s):
- photographs
- Brief description:
- A small Edwardian era landscape hardback photo album with a raised decorative portrait bust on the front. Housed inside, and slipped between the pages are a series of cepia and black and white images with written descriptions underneath. The photographs were taken by Edward John Jenkins, former manager of the Dry Soap department at Lever Brothers Limited Port Sunlight, and an amateur photographer. The photos can be dated c1900-1912 and feature Port Sunlight Village as well as the Jenkins family and their fellow Lever Brothers employees in various locations and days out. Edward John Jenkins lived first at 13 Bolton Road, and then 91 Greendale Road Port Sunlight before his death in 1920. The albums were passed to his son Edward 'Ted' Jenkins before being sold to the Port Sunlight Village Trust in 2008.
- Collection:
- Port Sunlight Museum
- Acquisition method:
- purchase
- Associated person:
- Jenkins, Edward John
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension value:
- 27cm
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension value:
- 22cm
- Number of objects:
- 1
- Object name:
- photographs
- Object number:
- POSVT : 2011.61
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/b4d8e58d-24fc-345b-b575-6c0fd198422e
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/b4d8e58d-24fc-345b-b575-6c0fd198422e, Port Sunlight Museum, CC BY-NC
Is there a problem with this record? Give feedback.