Archifdy Ceredigion Archives
ADX/1755: Portrait photographs and cartes de visite

Acc.3962

Ref: ADX/1755

Reference: [GB 0212] ADX/1755
Date(s): Late 19th - early 20th cent.
Level: Fonds
Extent: 49 items
Scope and Content: 20 cabinet portraits and 30 cartes de visite from Tregaron, Aberystwyth, Cardigan and Aberaeron. Very few identified.

ADX/1755/1: Cartes de visite

1. Seated woman with five children in studio setting. By S. Jones, Aberaeron.
c.1880

2. Full length portrait of young woman in studio setting. By S. Jones, Aberaeron.
c 1880

3. Group portrait of three women, two seated, one standing against a painted backdrop. By S. Jones of Aberaeron.
c.1885

4. Full length portrait of young woman in costume with shawl and tassel detail to bodice in studio setting. By S. Jones of Aberaeron.
c.1885

5. Woman and boy (possibly siblings) and terrier dog. By Mrs S. Jones, 2 Alban Square Aberaeron.
c. 1880

6. Head and shoulders portrait of sturdy woman in glasses and large hat. Mount with oval aperture specific to Dierks and Brookes, Aberaeron, New Quay and Llanon.
c. 1910

7. Head and shoulders portrait of a young woman identified as Sarah Jane Smith, 31 July 1875. By E.R.Gyde, 22 & 24 Pier Street Aberystwyth.
1875

8. Full length portrait of woman in studio setting, formal hair style and interesting costume. By John Edwards at the Aberystwith Photographic Studio, 25 Pier Street, Aberystwyth.
c. 1875

9. Group portrait of five women in costumes, jackets and hats in a rustic studio setting. By John Edwards at the Aberystwith Photographic Studio, 25 Pier Street, Aberystwyth.
c. 1875

10. Family portrait of mother, father and two children against plain backdrop. From The Parisian Photographic Studio, 29 Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth.
c. 1875

11. Head and shoulders portrait of man with receding hairline and moustache. By E.R. Gyde 22 & 24 Pier Street, Aberystwyth
c.1880

12. Three quarter length portrait of seated woman with fluffy hair in studio setting. By H.H. Davies, photographer, Pier Street, Aberystwith.
c. 1900

13. Head and shoulders portrait of woman with beaded bodice. By H.H. Davies, photographer, Pier Street, Aberystwyth.
c. 1890

14. Three quarter portrait of seated man on a rustic bench in studio setting. By H.H. Davies of Aberystwyth.
c.1895

15. Three quarter portrait of seated man with hat and cane on a rustic bench in studio setting. By H.H. Davies of Aberystwyth.
c.1895

16. Head and shoulders portrait of woman. By H.H. Davies, photographer, Pier Street, Aberystwyth.
c. 1880

17. Full length portrait of woman in coat, hat and parasol or umbrella in studio setting. By Alfred Worthington, Terrace Road, Aberystwyth ('Portraits and Landscapes painted in oil')

18. Head and shoulders portrait of young man. White embossed mount. By Knipe and Culliford, 28 Pier Street, Aberystwyth.
c.1900

19. Three quarter length portrait of rather disapproving woman. By Ebenezer Morgan of the Aberystwyth Photographic Gallery (established 1857), 14 Pier Street, Aberystwyth.
c.1885

20. Full length portrait of woman in tiered skirt. By J.T. Mathias, Cardigan.
c. 1870

21. Full length portrait of young woman in decorated hat and dress with embroidered detail in studio setting. By J.T. Mathias, Cardigan.
c. 1880

22. Three quarter length portrait of young woman. By J.T. Mathias, Cardigan.

23. Seated woman with heavily clad child on lap in studio setting. By J.T. Mathias, jeweller and photographer, Cardigan.
c.1875

24. Family portrait of seated father and two younger children, boy in sailor suit. By E. Ceredig Evans, High Street, Cardigan.
c. 1885

25. Three quarter length portrait of young woman in studio setting with rustic bench. By E. Ceredig Evans of 11 High Street, Cardigan.
c. 1890

26. Head and shoulders portrait of young woman with broderie anglaise collar. By E. and A. Allen, Priory Street, Cardigan.
c. 1905

27. Head and shoulders portrait of young woman with frizzy hair and very short neck. By E. and A. Allen, Priory Street, Cardigan.
c. 1905

28. Seated full length portrait of woman in huge hat. By Desmond of Priory Street, Cardigan.
c. 1895

29. Head and shoulders portrait of woman with fluffy hair and elaborate corsage. By H. Howell, The Studio, Lampeter.
c.1890

30. Double portrait of young woman with small boy in sailor suit, the latter on an artificial rock. By J. Price of New Quay.
1888


ADX/1755/2: Cabinet Photographs

1. Three quarter portrait of elderly man in thick wool three quarter length coat. By D.J. Lewis, 15 Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth
c. 1890

2. Group portrait ‘ Dosbarth Beiblaidd Y Parch. J.Emlyn Jones’ [Bible Class of the Rev. J. Emlyn Jones], showing 26 men and women of all ages. Some people are wearing a medal or badge. By E.R. Gyde of Aberystwyth.
c. 1890

3. Family portrait of woman, man and boy in studio setting. By E.R. Gyde, Aberystwyth.
c. 1900

4. Head and shoulders portrait of mature woman with lapidary brooch. By H.H. Davies, Pier Street, Aberystwyth.
c. 1900

5. Double portrait of two hatted young men outside Uppingham House in Borth. Anonymous, possibly John Thomas.
1 January 1891.

6. Double portrait of two men, probably father and son, against a painted studio backdrop of an open gate. By Ernest Allen, Cardigan.
c. 1900

7. Full length portrait of seated older man in suit and hat, with outside wall and shrubs in background. By [Tom] Desmond, late E. and A. Allen, Cardigan.
c. 1905

8. Double portrait of older couple, a plump lady and bearded man, in studio setting. Anonymous but 'Cardigan?' pencilled on the back in modern hand.
c. 1890

9. Head and shoulders portrait of smiling woman wearing a small Celtic cross. E. Rowland of St Mary’s Street, Cardigan.
c. 1890

10. Full length portrait of fashionably dressed older girl/young woman in white with large white hat against ornate studio balustrade and romantic backdrop. By Ernest Rowland, Cardigan.
c. 1910

11. Full length portrait of small girl in white dress on a rustic bench in a studio setting. By E. Ceredig Evans of Cardigan.
c. 1885

12. Group (family?) portrait of two women and a man in studio setting. On the back 'Misis Thomas' and in a modern hand 'Llechryd Collection'.
c. 1890

13. Group (family?) portrait of three women and a man seated on a rock face. Each woman has a posy of flowers at her waist. By J. Price of New Quay.
c. 1885

14. Double portrait of two young men in suits in front of a complex and improbable painted backdrop. By Squibbs of New Quay and Aberaeron.
c. 1900

15. Full length portrait of a young man in a studio setting in peaked cap. By A. Squibbs of 9 George Street, New Quay 'awarded 3 medals'.
c. 1900

16. Seated portrait of elderly lady in white shawl. By Arthur Squibbs of 9 George Street, New Quay.
c.1900

17. Half-length seated portrait of older, bearded man, taken from a negative of a larger double portrait. On reverse 'Mrs Capt.Davies, 9 Quay Parade, Aberaeron'. By Arthur Squibbs, George Street Studio, New Quay. Possibly related to ADX/1755/2/20 below.
c. 1900

18. Group portrait of three young children, outside against a whitewashed stone wall, the smallest on a wicker chair. By H.F. Dann (late Squibbs), New Quay and Aberaeron.
c.1905

19. Small boy in velvet Fauntleroy costume, outdoors against backdrop of an animal skin and shrubs By Thomas W. Jones of Tregaron.
c.1890

20. Portrait of young woman seated outdoors on bench with a house wall and creeper in the background. She is wearing a costume with leg of mutton sleeves and an ornate asymmetrical collar. On the reverse '? Related to Capt Davies came with his Cabinet Card' [possibly ADX/1755/2/17]. By W.H. Bustin of Hereford c.1895