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Bell family carte-de-visite album

A 19th century carte de visite photo album. Brass clasp is missing. Initial page, with inscription is torn with only 'To' and 'wit[h]' still remaining. The album has 42 pages with 84 spaces for carte de visites to be displayed. Each page is specially made to allow insertion of carte de visties through slots in the bottom of two stiff sheets of cardbord and visible through cut portrait openings. There are four missing photographs and one photograph in the back of the book. It may have been compiled by Catherine Bell. Captions are provided where available, supplied titles, some by Sue Bell, are in square brackets:

  1. J.P. Bell
  2. Margaret M. Bell (Lady)
  3. J.T. Bell
  4. William Bell
  5. C.B.P. Bell
  6. Ossie Bell
  7. J.T. Bell 1880s
  8. [Woman, possibly Jinny Maxwell?]
  9. Thomas Bell
  10. Maida Isabella Sarah Bell.
  11. Maida Bell, taken 1880
  12. Thomas Bell, 1872
  13. J.P. Bell,
  14. [Photo missing]
  15. [Gerald and Thomas de Lacy Moffatt?]
  16. Colin Bell
  17. Maida Bell
  18. [J.T. and William Bell]
  19. [Gerald Kellet Moffatt, son of Isabella dn Thomas Moffatt]
  20. [Thomas de Lacy Moffatt, son of Isabella and Thomas Moffatt]
  21. Maida Bell
  22. [Missing. Handwritten caption says 'T. B. Thomas Bell. d. 1872 with g'daughter Maida Moffatt]
  23. [Thomas de Lacy Moffatt]
  24. [Gerald Kellett Moffatt]
  25. [Early photo of one of the Moffatt girls?]
  26. [Missing. Handwritten caption says Thos Bell]
  27. [Gerard Kellett Moffatt?]
  28. [Woman. Caption on reverse says Margaret M Bell but not correct]
  29. C.B.P. Bell
  30. [Photo of two young men]
  31. [Isabella and Mary Moffatt?]
  32. [One of the Moffatt girls?]
  33. [One of the Moffatt girls?]
  34. [Missing]
  35. [Missing]
  36. [Older woman]
  37. [Moffatt girl]
  38. [Moffatt girl]
  39. [Thomas de Lacy Moffatt]
  40. [Isabella and Mary Moffatt?]
  41. [Moffatt girl]
  42. [Moffatt girl]
  43. [Moffatt girl]
  44. Maida I. S.
  45. [Woman]
  46. [Group of four women]
  47. [Man]
  48. Oswald
  49. [Man]
  50. [Woman]
  51. [Young man]
  52. [Woman]
  53. [One of the adult male Bells?]
  54. [Thomas de lacy Moffatt]
  55. [Man. Inscription on reverse "To A Queenslander from a 'would be' Queenslander 30/6/81]
  56. [Man]
  57. [Woman]
  58. [Handwritten note 'Welton']
  59. [Thomas de Lacy Moffatt]
  60. [Man]
  61. [Maida Bell? Not a carte de vistie]
  62. [Thomas de Lacy Moffatt]
  63. C.B.P. Bell
  64. Ossie Bell
  65. [Inscription: Mr & Mrs Armstrong to their friend G Proley]
  66. [Man]
  67. J.T. Bell
  68. [Man leaning against fence]
  69. [Inscription: D. E. Brown, 1880]
  70. [Boy]
  71. J. T. Bell
  72. J. T. Bell
  73. [J.T. Bell]
  74. J.P. Bell
  75. [Young man]
  76. [Young woman]
  77. [Moffatt girl?]
  78. [Moffatt girl?]
  79. [Man on a horse in fromt of house]
  80. [Horse drawn carriage]
  81. [Landscape picture of man with unsaddled horse]
  82. [Portrait picture of man with saddled horse]
  83. "Ossie" & Maida
  84. [Two boys]
    [85. Picture inserted in back of album of young woman with inscription on reverse 'From Evelyn']