Album introductory carte-de-visite with members of the Royal Family

1 portrait of Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, Duchess of Argyll

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Album introductory carte-de-visite with members of the Royal Family

by Ashford Brothers & Co, after John Jabez Edwin Mayall, and Ghémar Frères, and (Octavius) Charles Watkins, and Émile Desmaisons, and Unknown photographers
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1862
3 7/8 in. x 2 1/2 in. (97 mm x 63 mm) overall
Given by Terence Pepper, 2014
Photographs Collection
NPG x197214

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  • NPG Ax46157: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (source portrait)
  • NPG x132242: Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse (source portrait)
  • NPG x132822: King Edward VII (source portrait)
  • NPG Ax33506: Victoria, Empress of Germany and Queen of Prussia (source portrait)
  • NPG x127200: Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (source portrait)
  • NPG x26136: Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (source portrait)

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Current affairs

The Lancashire cotton famine, a depression in the north-west textile industry brought about by the American civil war, reaches its climax. With large numbers of mills closing after Confederate blockades halted cotton supplies, many Lancashire families were in receipt of relief.

Art and science

Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard carry out the first pasteurisation tests, the process of heating liquids at 55 degree Celsius or higher for short periods of time, destroying viruses and harmful organisms such as bacteria and yeast. .
Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables is published, covering the Napoleonic wars. It traces the ex-convict Jean Valjean's character against wider questions of social and political justice, duty and love.

International

Otto Eduard Leopold Bismarck becomes Minister-President of Prussia, appointed by Wilhelm I after the liberal Diet refused to authorise funding for a proposed reorganisation of the army. Bismarck, intent on maintaining royal supremacy, engineers the Unification of Germany during his time in office.
John Hanning Speke claims to have found the source of the Nile, proving that the Victoria Nile issued from the north end of lake Victoria, over Ripon Falls.

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