The intriguing photograph albums of Elizabeth Ann Armstrong

Woman in her parlour (at Nancealverne?)

The Elizabeth Treffry Collection contains a small number of original archival items. Amongst these are some photograph albums. Two of them belonged to Elizabeth Ann Armstrong, related to the Scobell family of Nancealverne near Penzance.

They are dated to the last two decades of the nineteenth century. One containing various anonymous portraits is dated 1883 and inscribed to 'Agnes'. The other contains a mixture of topography (both in Cornwall and elsewhere, including Somerset) as well as interior scenes. They seem to relate to places to which the Scobell and Armstrong families were connected.