Hartshorne Brewery Album

Titles
  • Hartshorne Brewery Album
Date1902
MediumGelatin silver prints, paper, and leather binding
DimensionsImage (each): 9 1/2 × 11 1/4 in. (24.1 × 28.6 cm)
Overall: 14 × 12 in. (35.6 × 30.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Mundy Family Foundation, courtesy of David and Stephanie Mundy
Object number2012.30
Not on view

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Department
Photography
DescriptionThis
commemorative album was commissioned by those depicted on its pages, employees
of the Hartshorne Brewery in Woodville, Derbyshire, England, and presented to
the brewery’s director, Samuel Ratcliff, on the occasion of his marriage.
“Every man and boy has given his mite voluntarily and cheerfully,” noted the
dedication. Nine group portraits, of managers, clerks, foremen, maltsters,
delivery men, night watchman, and others, are included with an index of their
names, ages (14 to 71), and years in service at the brewery. Here, the men who
stirred the barley mash and shoveled the spent grain present themselves proudly
with their tools.

Provenance[Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco]; purchased by MFAH, 2012.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
see photo-copies of the following in accession file:

page of 39 signatures in ink-employees of the brewery

page in ink listing names and dates of "Partners in Brunt Bucknall & Co."

numbered figures are identified in "Key to Photographs"
.1) 9 1/16x11 1/4
1-5 / Woodville. / from Brunt Bucknell & Co's Farm.
.2) 9 3/8x11 1/4
6-10 / Brunt Bucknall & Co's Brewery & Bottling Stores
.3) 8 15/16x11 5/16
11-23
.4) 9 3/8x11 1/4
24-30
.5) 9 3/8x11 1/4
31-44
.6) 9 3/8x11 1/4
45-55
.7) 9 3/8x11 1/4
56-68
.8) 9 3/8x11 1/4
69-77
.9) 9 3/8x11 1/4
78-89
.10) 9 3/8x11 1/4
90-98
.11) 8 3/16x10 15/16
Opposite the Spa Tavern, Leicester. 99-106


see photo-copies of the following in accession file:

printed bookplateof Samuel Ratcliff

three printed pages of dedicatory text

a printed page-"A Short History of the Hartshorne Brewery"

two printed pages-"Some Men who have worked at the Brewery"

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