Description:
Early photographs of the Royal Navy, Algiers, Seville and GibraltarNaval Cadet Casper Baker's album of photographs 1865-1873
Quarto, 9 1/2 x 11inches, old paper boards, upper cover with paper label in ink Casper Baker, 62 pages, misnumbered 60 in pencil, interleaved with tissue, many albumen silver prints mounted on card, 6 naval photographs, and over 70 other photographs, the majority measuring over 7 x 9 inches, each photograph labelled in ink, first leaf loose, in excellent condition.
Provenance: Album compiled by Casper Baker, later vice-admiral Casper Joseph Baker (1852 –1918), an officer of the Royal Navy during the First World War. He was recorded as an entrant in January 1866 to HMS Britannia [training ship] in January 1866, being awarded Naval Cadetship in the examination in December 1865. Between 1899-1907 successively Captain of HMS Sappho, Hero, Blake, Astraea, Flora, Edgar, and the battleship Ramilles. Retired 1908, and then Vice-Admiral.
Compiled by Casper Baker when a naval… Read More