Box 4

  ALBUM (III). OWNED BY MARION LEA MITCHELL AND SIGNED BY HER. The following 124 photographs (in 117 entries) appear in an album issued by G.R. & Co., circa 1875, in the original dark green morocco over beveled boards (11.5 x 8.75”). Signed by Marion Lea [Mitchell] on the verso of the front free endpaper and dated by her, London, 1875. Spine perished, boards detached, some stains to leaves (affecting photographs only when indicated below); thus album itself in poor condition....

  ALBUM (IV). OWNED BY MARION LEA MITCHELL. The following 43 photographs consist mostly of images of Philadelphia-born actress, Marion Lea, later wife of Langdon Elwyn Mitchell. Most of the photographs predate her marriage. A number are signed and/or inscribed by her, and it is very likely that she owned and compiled it. It is bound in the original late 19th century red leather over beveled boards measuring 8.5 x 6” with functional metal clasp. (Some rubbing to binding, cracks to a...