Aviation. Four photograph albums relating to Short Brothers & Harland Limited of Belfast,...
Aviation. Four photograph albums relating to Short Brothers & Harland Limited of Belfast, c.1965-75, containing in total 120 photographs (various dimensions, from 150 x 175 mm to 180 x 245 mm), mainly gelatin silver prints (a few in colour), all mounted rectos only to black card album leaves, the albums depicting visits to the Short Brothers Belfast factory by Prince Philip (39 photographs) and Alec Douglas Home (22), a trade exhibition in Japan (43), and various interior images of a laboratory including a model of a Seacat missile (16), with a Christmas card to 'Dennis + Jean' (i.e. Cuthbert Edward 'Dennis Wrangham, 1907-1982, chairman of Short Bros and Harland, and his wife) from Terence O'Neill, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, and a letter signed to Jean Wrangham from Captain Richard Hutton, Assistant Equerry to the Duke of Edinburgh, both laid in. Together with the following ephemera: Friendship album kept by Jean Wrangham (née Cuthbert-Behrens), 1936-40, 26 leaves, including the autograph of Olave Baden-Powell as 'Chief Guide', various pencil, pen-and-ink and watercolour sketches including a very competent imitation of E. H. Shepard depicting Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet and Christopher Robin playing poohsticks, an anthropomorphic rabbit marriage, and similar; Album of albumen-print cartes-de-visite, with 22 cards by Hugh Paton & Sons of Edinburgh, J. Ballantine of Cumnock, and others, with sitters identified in pencilled notes; Manuscript private library catalogue, c.1900, 37 leaves of ruled paper, written on rectos only, arranged alphabetically by title, headings comprising 'Library flat', 'Library floor', 'Drawing Room Flat', 'Top Flat'; and 1 other item (qty: 10) Provenance: Cuthbert Edward 'Dennis' Wrangham (1907-1982), chairman of Short Bros and Harland; thence by descent.