Stonehenge, England: restoration work to straighten a leaning stone. Photographs, 1901.

1901

25 photographs : photoprints + album (13 leaves 22 x 26 cm)

Charles H. Read Esq., with W.G's kind regards; Stonehenge, the raising of the 'leaning stone', 1901 [...] Lettering handwritten in ink in album gives key to photographs Album cover bears embossed gold lettering: "Photographs, Stonehenge"; lettering printed on title page: "The Camera Club for unmounted prints, movable title slips"

The album owner, Charles Read, was a member of the Society of Antiquaries and on the Stonehenge Committee who recommended enclosure and re-erection of stones (as pictured in album)

Wellcome Collection 577710i