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Content: many tickets are loose within the volume, and others seem to missing entirely.

Compiled by Joseph G. Wright (d. 1911) of Wolverhampton, England, and completed to 1932 by F. F. Bretherton. Gift of FB, 1982, at which time he deemed it one of the two or three largest collections in the world.

Studio was established in Hull, England in 1878.

Photograph album, received disbound, probably compiled by F. F. Bretherton and given to Frank Baker, and was part of Frank Baker's papers. Bretherton, according to a news clipping,was the Secretary of the Wesley Historical Society. Contains 41 pasted-in photographs: group portraits of house parties, estate grounds, country houses, and small head-shots of individuals, chiefly women. Place-names include Holkham Hall, Poulton, Norfolk; Leckhampton Court, North Cheltenham; Elton Hall, Peterborough; Shane's Castle, Antrim; Howth Castle, County Dublin; Castle Boro, Enniscorthy; Powerscourt, Enniskerry; and Patshull House, Wolverhampton. Typically each page is dedicated to an estate and a house party, with a list of participants and an array of related photos; one includes a pasted-in tally of a shooting party. Also contains some letters, news clippings on Methodist and Wesley family history, clippings on weddings and deaths, and other manuscript items, received in the same binder.