George Arthur Emerson Chapman fonds

Photographic Series: Eight (8) Albums (March 1900 – September 1942)

The albums contain black & white photographs documenting the activities and personnel of the

1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battalion, East Kent Regiment, the Buffs, in the South African War (1900-1902)

and Britain, as well as in France during World War I. In addition, the albums include the

following: extensive landscape and architectural views taken during family travel in Britain,

Europe, North America, and the Middle East; photographs of Sir Sandford Fleming; and

activities of the Chapman family and friends around Ottawa, Ontario.

Covering the time period from 1914 to 1917 and relating to Chapman’s military service in the

Great War, material objects such as letters, newspaper articles, postcards, field maps, drawings &

sketches, telegrams, memorabilia, notices, etc. are found on the pages from the middle part of the

seventh (7) album.

The photographs in the series are of various sizes and processing techniques. They are in

chronological order with the earliest date caption of 29 March 1900 covering the time period to

September 1942. Not all photographs are dated, however, all (except a few) photographs have

captions.

Each of the first six albums in the series has a removable beige cloth (linen) cover with dark blue

edges. An embroidered roman numerical I to VI, corresponding to a single album in the series,

is located on the bottom right corner of the top and on the spine portion of the cloth cover. The

cover also has ‘GC’ (George Chapman) embroidered in dark blue on its front side.

All albums are in good condition (for detailed notes, please see the individual album

descriptions). The albums have hard grain Morocco red leather binding, except for album no. 8,

which has half leather binding with corners. Silk-finished paper is used on the inside of the

album covers. The exception is the use of marble paper for albums no. 4 & 8. All albums have

cloth joints and their pages, except those in album no 8, are edge-gilded.

The following time periods are covered in the albums:

Album 1: March 1900 – April 1904

Album 2: April 1904 – November 1905

Album 3: November 1905 – February 1908

Album 4: February 1908 – February 1909

Album 5: February 1909 – February 1910

Album 6: February 1910 – June 1912

Album 7: July 1912 – August 1931

Album 8: August 1931 – September 1942

G.A.E. Chapman Papers (Diaries in 6 volumes) can be consulted to extract additional

information related to the photographic depictions in the albums. The following indicates time

frames for specific diary volumes and their locations.

Vol. 1 1900-1909 (Location: 1000086328)

Vol. 2 1910-1919 -------------------------------

Vol. 3 1920-1929 (Location: 1000086332)

Vol. 4 1930-1939 -------------------------------

Vol. 5 1940-1949 (Location: 1000086336)

Vol. 6 1950-1959 -------------------------------

& insert Synopsis 1881-1966

For specific album locations, please refer to the individual album descriptions.

Album 1: (March 1900 - April 1904): George Arthur Emerson Chapman - The album has a removable beige cloth (linen) cover with dark blue edges; an embroidered roman numerical I is found in the bottom right corner of the top cover and on the top portion of the spine; the top cover has `GC` (George Emerson) embroidered

in dark blue; the cloth cover has a water damage stain or discolouration; the album pages are edge-gilded; the album has a hard grain Morocco red leather binding underneath the cloth cover; silk-finished paper is used on the inside of the album covers; the album has cloth joints. - The album contains photographs documenting the activities and personnel of the 2nd (occasionally also 3rd) Battalion, the Buffs, East Kent Regiment, in the South African War and Britain (located in Dover), as well as views of the former places, including some in France during family travels; Chapman himself is depicted throughout the album as Self; all (except a few) photographs have captions; the album also includes various and interesting depictions of Kaffir people in South Africa. - The photographs are of various sizes and processing techniques; some are numbered (likely those taken by Chapman himself); they are in chronological order with the earliest date caption of 29 March 1900 covering the time period to April 1904; not all photographs are dated. - There are 68 pages in the album; pages are not numbered. - There are 761 photographs (some are 2- and 3-part panoramas). - There are no PA numbers and no C numbers. - Location (Container no.): 2000792420 The following places, events, objects, and people are depicted in photographs found in the album: Places South Africa - Cape Town: -Table Mountain -Signal Hill -Green Point -Claremont Sanatorium -Sea Point & Bathing Place -Aderly Street -Post Office & Bank -Lions Head -Entrance to Castle -Market Square

-Fire Station, Burg Street -Church, Greenmarket Square -Government Buildings -Law Courts -Table Bay -Constantia Pass - De Aar - Bethanie - Reddersburg - De Wetsdorp: -Hotel -Main St. & Church -De Wets House -Constantine’s Farm -Store -Market Square - Kroonstadt: -Market Square -Court House -Dutch Church -Valsch River, Dam, Drift -Bank & Central Hotel -Grand Hotel -Main Street -Bloem Spruit & Bridge -First Boer House -Schiel Fort -Post Office -Kroonstadt Bridge - Lindley - Riet Spruit - Wolverhock Station - Pretoria: -Palace of Justice -Raadzaal -Market Square -Standard Bank & G. Hotel -Post Office -Dutch Church -Lord Kitchener’s House -Krupers Church -Grand Hotel -Staats Artillery Building -The Club - Muizenburg & Simons Bay - Bloemfontein: -Station

-Cemetery -Magazine & Prison -Naval Hill -President Brand Statue -Memorial to Zulu War -Market Square & Post Office -Greenwood Bridge -Greys College -Streets -Club -Theater -Streets -Presidency -Government Buildings -Old Fort -Dutch Church -Raadzaal - Hout’s Bay - Vaal River - Balmoral Station & Cemetery - Middlebury: Station & Church - Bridge over Great Gliphants River - Rack Railway and Tunnel - Waterfalls at Boven - Nelspruit: -Station -Water Falls -Block House on West Bridge -‘Three Span’ Bridge - Krokodil River - Krokodil Station - Elanshock Station - Kaapmuiden Station - Avoca Bridge - Barberton: -Station -Market Place

-One of the supposed birthplaces of De Wet - ‘Mabele Intombi’ or 69 (mountain); views of - Machadodorp & Station - Drahensberg Mountain - Charlestown - Majuba Hill - Newcastle Railway Station - Bridge near Elanshock - Pieter Maritzburg Station

- Las Palmas: -Banana plantation -Governors House -Main Street with Cathedral at end -St. Brigada Hotel -Cathedral Britain - Fritham House, Lyndhurst - Commandants House R.M.B., Gosport - Dover: -Shakespeare Cliff (FF&Co) -Dover Castle (FF&Co) -Harbour -Western Heights Church

-View of Dower from Promenade Pier -Rifle Range near Dover - Canterbury Cathedral from N.W. (signed by L.S. & P.Co.) - Amesbury Abbey - Stonehenge - Old Fort at Sarum - Salisbury Cathedral - Marlborough College Chapel & Gates - Hurst Grove, Hurst near Reading France - Arcachon: -Grand Hotel -English Church -Post Office -Club House (golf) -Casino -Chateau Deganne - Oyster depot at La Teste - Bordeaux: -Burgundy Gate -Bordeaux Bridge -Opera House -Coliseum - Sandwich, the Barbican - Walmer Castle (signed by F.F.&Co.) - ‘Lillesden’, Hawkhurst, Kent - Entrance to Calais - Casino, Boulogne Events - Traction Transport on Lindley Convey

- Escorting Boer prisoners to Bloemfontein - Pulling down houses for fire wood - Building foundation for blockhouse - Cape Town: -Railway St. in mourning for Queen Victoria -Town Guards at Drill -Proclamation of King Edward VII -Inspection of Town Guards by Gen. Brabant, January 22, 1901 - Going over Vaal Bridge - Party of 3rd Bat. Going to Church - Football Game (Scottish Hospital vs. A&S Highlanders (Militia) - America: -Eating Sugar Cane -Building B.H. (Block house) -Armoured train in which Maj. Heath was blown up -Kaffirs Scrambling - Kroonstadt Races & Bookie’s Stand - No 3 Coy leaving for America Siding - 4’7 (gun) firing at 5 Boers & a wagon - Guard Mounting - ‘Kaffir woman’s dislike to Kodak’ - Refugees: listening to Band & washing - Refugee Sports (sack race, tug o’war) - Balmoral after sever storm - Putting searchlight on tank - Sgt. Cross & Cap. Mairis, Maxim practice - Maxim in Action - Getting rafters for fire wood at Kaffirstad - Men captured by Boers, returning - 2nd Buffs receiving Royal Scots on Elanshock section - Sgt. Stainfortts (sp?) issuing rations to natives - Kaffir women packing up a child - Kaffir dancing (multiple) - Football at Alkmaar - Coaling - Bathing, Alkmaar - Watch Boys dancing - Kaffirs bringing wood for dancing - Morning of Thanksgiving (Pretoria) - The Peace Thanksgiving (Pretoria) - Leaving Nelspruit - Surrendering of Boer Commando at Nelspruit - Coronation Sports - Guard Mounting - Witch Dance

- Leaving the harbour & Last of Durban (South African port city) - Boxing on board - 11 o’clock, Captain rounds - Annual inspection by Gen. Wright - Group taken at Depot Mess of ‘Buffs’ Officers present at the taking of 2nd Bat. Colours from Cathedral (names listed) - Leaving for Church - Bayonet Fighting - Staff Parade - Band, marching practice - Lydd: -Trial shot of Austrian 12’’ Howitzer -4’7 guns firing -4’7 Batteries at practice - Self on Quadrant Motor Bike - Kings Birthday Parade, 2nd Buffs marching past - On the March - Forming up after field day - Church parade at Corsham - Medical inspection of feet - Presentation of Medals, Dover - After church in the casino garden (Arcachon) - Recruits practicing with Morris tube in ditch, Dover - Prince & Princess of Wales being shown round R.M.L.I. Barr. Gosport by Col. Comm. Chapman - Col. Comm. Talking to H.H. Prince of Wales - Recruit Squads at Musketry in ditch - Cricket at the Crabble nets, Dover - 2nd the Buffs prior to going to Canterbury for E.K. memorial Ceremony - Presentation of S.A. medals to 2nd The Buffs by Gen. Rundle, Dover - Unveiling of the E.K. Memorial ... by Lord Roberts Objects - Field Guns - Transport Wagon & Ox Team - Camps - Horse Lines - Trek Oxen - Naval Gun - Kaffir Building - Kaffir Huts - Princess Christian’s Hospital Train

- Burnt Trucks - ‘Sweet Seventeen’ (armoured railway car) - 6” howitzer & 5” (guns) - Balmoral ‘Black Watch’ (Kaffir Scouts) - Transvaal Engine - Horse with leg blown off - Refugee Camp - “Eagle’s Nest” - Blakes Grave - 103 miles of wire rolled up on leaving - Zulu woman’s hair - Ships in Bay - S.S. ‘Arundel Castle’ - Tug (boat) - Rufus Stone - Safety Range - Notice for edification of Liars - Typical monument on Salisbury Plain - ‘The Queen’ (ship) People - Officers of the 3rd B. The Buffs (listed) - Col. Brinckman - 2nd Berks Regiment - Cap. Triscott - Lt. Walker - Kaffir Women & Kaffirs - Dr. Ingram - Boer Prisoners - Lt. Oliver - Major Tylden Pattenson - Lt. Larkins - Noah Family - Cap. Headly - Dr. Merry - Cap. & Mrs. Hayne - Major Dundas - Gen. Knox - Lt. Wells - Lt. Col. Backhouse - Cap. Worthington - Boer Women - Cap. Mairis - Suffolk M.I - Indian Ambulance

- 2 Kaffir ‘Bucks’ - Capt. Ronald - Maj. Eales - Hells and Warden, Volunteer Officers - Kaffir Beauties - Kaffir Convicts - Garrison of G.H.E. - Garrison of No 3 - Maj. Dourman (sp?) - Officers of the 2nd Buffs (listed) - Band at Machadodorp - Oswald E. Chapman (son) - Colonel 2. Commandant A.E. Chapman, Cedar Cottage (father) - ‘H’ Company 2nd The Buffs - The Officers 2nd Battalion the Buffs (listed) - Lt. J.V.R. Jackson - 3rd Battalion the Buffs - L. Soames & Robertson - Cap. Marriott - Cap. Tomlinson - Mr. & Mrs. Broderick - Lord Roberts - Dad, Mother and Oswald at the fountain - Ethel Fleming - French soldiers at Boulogne

Album 2: (April 1904 to November 1905): George Arthur Emerson Chapman - The album is the continuation from the first Chapman album and is in very good condition. - The album has a removable beige cloth (linen) cover with dark blue edges; an embroidered roman numerical II is found in the bottom right corner of the top cover and on the spine portion; the top cover has `GC` (George Chapman) embroidered in dark blue; the album pages are edge-gilded; the album has a hard grain Morocco red leather binding; silk-finished paper is used on the inside of the album covers; the album has cloth joints. - The album contains photographs (also postcards) documenting the activities and personnel of the 2nd (occasionally also 1st) Battalion, the Buffs, East Kent Regiment, in Britain (Dover), as well as views of the former and its vicinity. In addition, the album contains an extensive visual travel imagery consisting of

photographs of various places in Britain, France, Switzerland, and Italy; the majority of the travel images date after the marriage of George Chapman and Ethel Fleming on 24 May 1905. - Chapman himself is depicted throughout the album as Self, Ethel is captured as EJC (Ethel Jean Chapman); all (except a few) photographs have captions. - The photographs are of various sizes and processing techniques; some are numbered (likely those taken by Chapman himself); they are in chronological order with the earliest date caption of April 1904 covering the time period up to November 1905; not all photographs are dated. - There are 74 pages in the album; pages are not numbered. - There are 495 photographs (some are 2- and 3-part panoramas). - There are no PA numbers and no C numbers. - Location (Container no.): 2000792421 The following places, events, objects, and people are depicted in photographs found in the album: Places Britain - Lillesden, Hawkhurst - Hythe: -Church -School of Musketry & Gates of -Canal -Imperial Hotel - Lydd Church - Dunjeness Light House, Lydd - Winchelsea Abbey Belgium - Bruxelles: -Looking towards Palais de Justice -La Place Charles Rogiers -Opera House with Offices -La Bourse -L’Hotel de Ville -Cathedral Sainte-Gudule, ext. & int.

-La Maison du Roi Britain - Brookland Church - Monegham: -Col. Backhouses` House -Old Mulberry Trees -Old Garden -Manor House - Portsmouth Town Hall - Fareham - Porchester Castle: -Keep and Walls -Interior -Doorway to dining hall - Tichfield Castle - Lyndhurst - The Moat Garden, Downton (caption: Moat-old Saxon Parliament place) - Winchester Cathedral, ext. & int. - Carisbrook Castle - Edinburgh Castle - Salisbury: -City Cross -Cathedral (ext. & int.) -Close Gate - St. Margaret’s Church (int.), Westminster France - Arcachon: -Villa Odessa -The Beach looking N.E. -Chateau Deganne -Concours Hippique -Place des Anylais - Bordeaux: -Burgundy Gate -Bordeaux Bridge -Street with St. Andrews Cathedral -St. Andrews Cathedral -Corner of La Place de la Comedie

-La Place de la Comedie & Monument des Girondins -Railway Station

- Paris: -La Place Vendome -Arc de Triumph, Tuilleries

-Pont d’Alexandre III -Place de la Concorde -L’Arc de Triomphe -Les Champs Elysees -Eiffel Tower

-View of Paris from top of l`Arc de Triomphe -Tour St. Jacques -Palace of Versailles & Gardens -Little Trianon -Int. of the Versailles Palace Chapel

-L’Avenue des Champs-Elysees from top of l’Arc de Triomphe -Place de la Republique -Cathedral of Notre Dame -Place de la Bastille Britain - Bisley - Wellington: -College & Cricket Pavillion -Chapel -South side of the College -Front of College -Main Gate from Gt. School -The lakes & White Bridge - Dover: -Town Hall -No16 Marine Parade

-Drawing Room of No 16 Marine Parade -Harbour & Lord Warden Hotel -Dover Castle, Armoury

-Harbour & torpedo flotilla from 16 Marine Parade -Burlington Hotel - Windor Hotel, Victoria St., London - Arth-Goldau Station (Central Switzerland) - Wasen: village & church - Goschenen (Switzerland) Italy - Como: -Grand Hotel Volta -Piazza Cavour -Lake of Como -Duomo (ext. & int.) -Broletto (now a Record Office) -Broletto and Como Cathedral -Brunati (1690 ft above lake)

-Como with Castello Baradello to S. -Street joining Piazza Cavour & Piazza del Duomo

-Porte Vittoria - Village of Brienno - Argegno - Sala & Comacina Island - Bellagio: view of Bellagio from Tremezzo & Lake Lecco beyond - Milan: -Milan Cathedral in Piazza Duomo -Galleria Vittorio Emanuele -Arco di Ponte Nuovo -Central Station from Nuovo Parco - Venice: -Church of St. Mark (A.D. 830) -Hotel Royal Danieli

-‘View of the Molo showing Royal Palace, St Marks Sq., Doges Palace, Bridge of Sighs’

-Grand Canal -Rialto Bridge ‘on which there are 24 shops’

-Church of Santa Maria della Salute -Palazzo Rezzonico & Private Houses on Grand Canal

-House of Contarini Fasan -Bridge of Sighs

-Ponte Machello & poor quarter of Town -Statue of Vittorio Emanuele

-Clock Tower ‘with bronze giants which strike the hours twice on bell in Piazza San Marco’

-Isola di S. Giorgio Maggiore -Piazetta di San Marco with Lion Of St. Mark & statue of St. Theodore

- Rome: -‘View of Rome taken from the Dome of St. Peters’ -Piazza della Colonna from Hotel Marini

-Vatican & Piazza di S. Pietro -Church of St. Peter (ext. & int.) -Hadrians Tomb & Bridge -Fountain of Trevuis -Piazza del Populo -Flaminian Gate -Porticus of Octavia -Temple of Servius Tullus -Temple of Hercules

-Colosseum ‘completed by Titus in A.D. 80 & Meta Sudans’ (ext. & int.) -Pantheon ‘rebuilt by Emp. Hadrian, dedicated by Pope Boniface IV in 609 as Sancta Maria ad Myrtyres, now simply La Rotunda’ - View of Tiber looking N.W. from Palatine Bridge

-Tomb of Caius Cestius

-Ostian Gate -Aurelian Walls

-Int. Basilica San Paolo fuori le Mura -Triumphal Arch of Constantine -Statue of Garibaldi on Janiculum H. -Roman Forum (various detailed views)

-Capucine burial Chapel under Santa Maria della Conerzione (sp?) -Via Nationale & Piazza delle Termae

-Trajans Column -Appian Gate

-Caracalla`s Baths ‘AD 212 capable of holding 1600 bathers’ -Basilica of Constantine -Tarpeian Rock -Arch of Drusus -Tomb of Caecilia Metella -The Lateran (ext. & int.) -Roman Gate on Palatine Hill -Walls of Romulus -View of Palatine Hill looking West - Naples:

-Panoramic view taken from Castel S. Elmo (5-part) -Castello dell Ovo -Villa Nazionale & Aquarium -View of Naples & Vesuvius -Piazza di Vittorio Emanuele -Bertolini’s Palace Hotel -Marble Column to Patriots (+details) - Pompeii: -Porta Marina -The Forum -Street of Abundance -Gladiators Barracks -Small & Large Theatre -The Forum & Temple of Apollo

Events - Parade of R.M.L.T. at Gosport on Kings Birthday 1904 - Public School Competition for 2nd Buffs Cup (Lydd) - Band of 2nd Buffs to Church, Dover - R.M.L.I. Church Parade at Gosport - Oyster fisher women, Arcachon - Sorting oysters at La Teste - Competition at Concours Hippique - Photo of our Wedding group at Windsor Hotel (listed), (24 June, 1905) - E.J.C. in car on way back to Paris from Versailles - 2nd Bat. Officers on S.S. Dilwara at Southhampton, (2 July 1905) - S.S. Dilwara being towed out - 1st Bat. The Buffs marching past (Kings birthday) - Bisley:

-New Zealanders in the ‘Lord Roberts Cup’ -Competing for the ‘King’s Prize’ -Shooting at Long range targets - Landing wine from lakeside villages, Como: ‘notice horses have protection against rain’ - Our Gandola passing a bridge in Cannovia Canal, Venice - Gendarmes taking up posts preparatory to Review on King of Italy`s birthday (11’11’05): -Artillery passing -Troops marching past -Crowd dispersing -General & Staff inspecting Objects - Elizabethan gun at the Castle Dover - The ‘Fire Engine’, Canterbury Bell, belonging to Soames & Chichester - Window erected in St. Johns Church, Gosport, in memory of my sister Gertruda - R.E. Balloon Section ‘Vivid’ - Bones and Skulls in Hythe Church - Gate of R.M.L.T., Gosport - Milk cart with dog, Bruxelles - Monument to 1st Crusader, Bruxelles

- Belgian Monument to Waterloo, Bruxelles - French Monument, Bruxelles - My Room at the Citadel Dover - Royal Marines 1704 & 1904 - Col. Backhouses` House, Monyeham - Black Nancy (horse) - Old Mulberry Trees, Monyeham - The Victory, Portsmouth Harbour (ship) - Flash & Moosoo (dogs) - Fresco by Lord Leighton in Lyndhurst Church - Statue of Alfred the Great at Winchester - H.M.S. Irristible in Portsmouth Harbour - 4th Green on Arcachon Links - 7th Tee on Arcachon Links - Smoking Room of R.M.L.I. B., Gosport - Main staircase of R.M.L.I. B., Gosport - Bordeaux street decorations for President Loubet - Revolver Ranges, Bisley - My 8-10 turn cylinder Brown, Eastbourne - The Rifles Monument, Dover - Ox cart & typical lake barges, Como - Country cart, Milan - Venice: -Pigeons in St. Marks Square -Italian Artillery -30th & 28th Regiment -Naval Brigade -Custom House Corps

-Gondola with ‘felze’ & two oarsmen - Rome:

-Bronze statue of Marcus Aurelius & River God under steps of Palazzo del Senatore

-Typical Country Wine Cart People - Oswald and Joey - Self (Chapman), Lydd, August 1904 - Doris & Mrs. Russell - Miss D. & E. Moore Lanes - Colonel Julius Backhouse - Col. E.E. Ravenhill - Major G.V. Daylish (sp?) - Maor. R. Bayard - Major M. de la Hill

- Major H.S. Sparrow - Cap. R.G.A. Marriott - Colonel G. Bainbridge - L. Colonel Hasler - Major Geddes - Cap. W. Trevor - Cap. Greenway - Cap. F.S. Reeves - Cap. G.M. Mairis - Cap. C. Worthington - Cap. J. Mc. B. Ronald - Major Findley - Cap. H.C. Bavid - Cap. Groves Raines - Cap. N. Ascher Houblon - Lt. P.S. Harland - Lt. G.B.T. Friend - Lt. P. Flower - Lt. E.C. Norman - Lt. E. Chichester - Lt. L. Fart - Lt. L.H. Soames - Lt. E.C.L. Gould - Lt. J. Crookenden - 2nd Lt. R.P. Wedd - 2nd Lt. R.S.I. Friend - 2nd Lt. J.V.R. Jackson - 2nd Lt. A.K. Robertson - Self on `Black Nancy` - Doris, Mother, Dad and Oswald - Cousins Frank & Bertha & Arthur Chapman - Mrs. H.C. Bavid - Officers 1st & 2nd Batt. The Buffs (listed) - Sgt. Major Barton, Bulford - Drum Major Dixon, Dover - Lt. Stainforth - Col. Sg. Linewood (sp?) - Officer French Artillery - Ethel Fleming -Col. C.B. Vyvyan - Maj. R. Bayand - Maj. Lynden Bell - Maj. E. de la Hill - Cap. Finch Halten - Cap. R.M. Donald - Cap. Cole - Cap. Porter - Cap. R. Bright

- Cap. L.C. Knight - Cap. Ternan - Cap. S. Baker - Cap. W. Williams - Cap. C.N. Hood - Cap. J. Hickman - Lt. L.W. Lucas - Lt. M. Beevor - Lt. H.W. Green - Lt. Featherstone - Lt. H. Trueman - Lt. G.H. Smith - 2nd Lt. Guy Lee - 2nd Lt. R.C. Slacke - 2nd Lt. H.S. Hardy - 1st Bat. The Buffs Cricket Eleven 1905 (listed), Crabble - Cycle Section 1st bat. The Buffs, Dover Album 3: (November 1905 - February 1908): George Arthur Emerson Chapman - The album is the continuation from the second Chapman album and is in very good condition. - This album also has a removable beige cloth (linen) cover with dark blue edges; an embroidered roman numerical III is found in the bottom right corner of the top cover and on the spine portion; the top cover has `GC` (George Chapman) embroidered in dark blue; the album pages are edge-gilded; the album has a hard grain Morocco red leather binding; silk-finished paper is used on the inside of the album covers; the album has cloth joints. On the inside top cover of the album, there are excerpts from a travel guide describing places such as San Lorenzo, Sistine Chapel, Pisa etc.– sites found in the photographs of this album. - The album contains photographs documenting the activities and personnel of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalion, the Buffs, East Kent Regiment, in Britain (Dover), as well as views of the former and its region. In addition, the album contains an extensive visual travel imagery consisting of photographs of various places in Italy, France, Belgium, Canada, and the United States.

- Chapman himself is depicted throughout the album as Self; Ethel Chapman is captured as EJC (Ethel Jean Chapman) or Ethel; all (except a few) photographs have captions. - The photographs are of various sizes and processing techniques; some are numbered (likely those taken by Chapman himself); they are in chronological order covering the time period from November 1905 to February 1908; not all photographs are dated. - There are 74 pages in the album; pages are numbered in grey pencil – 1 to 74. (Additional numbers in red ink are found on some pages –no explanation yet– although it is plausible that there could have been an earlier set of albums that had page numbers in red ink) - There are 602 photographs (some are 2- and 3-part panoramas). - There are five (5) PA numbers (8420, 203559-203562) and one (1) C number (25616). - Location (Container no.): 2000792423 The following places, events, objects, and people are depicted in photographs found in the album: Places Italy - Pompeii: -The Forum -House of Marcus Corneus

-Arch of Triumph & Temple of Fortune -Temple of Isis -House of Vettii - Pisa: -Baptistery -Cathedral -Leaning Tower -Campo Santo

-Palazzo Cavalieri & Church of Santo Stefano dei Cavalieri - Genoa: -Views of Genoa & Harbour -Bridge of Via Corsica

-Piazza Principle & Railway Station from Hotel Londres -Cathedral

-Piazza Corvetto -Villa Mylius France -Nice: -Sea front & Casino -Public gardens -Grand Hotel -Casino of Monte Carlo Britain - Longmoor: -Officers Mess -Riding Ring -Int. No3 Stable - St. Margaret’s Westminster, London - Chilham Castle, Canterbury - Dover: -No 3 Esplenade -View of Western Heights -Harbour -Market Sq. & Cannon St. -Dover from Admiralty Pier -Clock Tower from Granville Dock -Nursing Home, Club & Castle -St. Margaret’s Bay looking E. & W. -6 Cambridge Terrace -Bench Street - Brighton: -West Street -Hotel Metropole -Sea Front - Rye: -‘Land’ Gate -Church (ext. & int.) - Battle Abbey: Gateway & Cloisters - Pevensey Castle - Beachy Head - Alfriston Abbey - Newhaven: -View from Seaford -Harbour - Rottingdene: -Church & Mill -10th Brigade Camp - Dynchurch - Hythe

- New Romney - Udimore - Folkestone: -The Warren -Upper Lees -Sandgate Road -Bouverie Road -Hotel Metropole & Grand Mansions -Pleasure Gardens Theatre - Cahirciveen: -Royal Irish Constabulary Barracks -O’Connors Bridge & House -Ballymoran Castle

-Glenleam, the Knight of Kerry’s House on Valentia Island France - Calais: -Harbour & Station -Duc de Guise’s House

-Market Sq. Calais with old lighthouse & Hotel de Ville -Casino

-New lighthouse (‘can be seen from Dover’) -Cathedral - Boulogne: -The Beach & The Casino -South entrance to the Old Town -Cathedral -Hotel de Ville - The Embankment with Cecil Hotel and Savoy Hotel, London Belgium - Ostend: -New Church -Kursaal

-The Beach & bathing machines from Kursaal -Casino -Promenade (panoramic view) -Splendid Hotel -Principal Street - Bruges (multiple city views of canals, streets and buildings etc.) Britain - Bournemouth: -Pier -Winter Gardens -Royal Bath Hotel - Scene at Bridge, West Parley

- Bournemouth Bridge at Ilford Canada - Halifax:

-Panoramic view of the N.W. Arm & Halifax taken from the ‘Dingle’

-View of Harbour & Main Street - Ottawa:

-Sir Sandford Fleming’s House - Winterholme -Rideau Street -Parliament Buildings (multiple views) -Int. view of the Parliament Library -Corner of Post Office & Parl. Bldg. -Daly Ave. in blowing snow -Metcalfe Street & Parl. Bldg. -Elgin Street & Town Hall

-Canal Locks & Interprovincial Bridge from Dufferin Bridge -Chaudiere Falls

-St. Andrews Church -Views of Ottawa from Chaudiere Falls, Hull

-Ashbournham Hill - Montreal: -Windsor Hotel -Church of St. Peter & St. Paul -Notre Dame Cathedral

-Montreal & St. Lawrence R. from Mont Royal -3-part panorama of Montreal in summer from Top of Mont Royal

- Niagara: -Clifton House Hotel -American Falls -Canadian (Horse Shoe) Falls

-Various views of Niagara Falls from Suspension Bridge etc. -Terapin Point on Goat Island (multiple views)

-Bridge connecting U.S.A. & Canada -Cantilever & Arch Railway Bridges over St. Lawrence U.S.A. - New York: -Waldorf Astoria Hotel -5th Avenue -Plaza Hotel -Statue of Liberty -Dewey Arch

-The Flat Iron building in Maddison Sq. dividing 5th Ave & Broadway -Maddison Square & Tower of Maddison Sq. Gardens -`Brooklyn Bridge with the Sky Scrapers to the left`

-Longacre Square

Events - M.I. Brigade Church Parade (11`03`06) - The Gordon Boys, Sunday Morning Constitutional, Dover - 1st Batt. The Buffs marching through the city of London with bayonets fixed & Colours flying - ‘Presentation of New Colours to the 1st Batt. The Buffs by the Lord Mayor of London on the Hon. Art. Co. Parade Ground, May 16th 1906’ (some listed) - Presentation of Colours to 3rd The Buffs by Gen. Sir G. White, Shorncliffe (13 June 1906) - Dover: -1st Buffs parade for Route march

-Obstacle Race, Tug o’war, Boat Race, Bumping Competition - Swedish ship Olaus Olsen after running into Harbour Works, Dover - End of Harbour Works showing the two 400 ton cranes which fell across the ship (10 Oct. 1906) -Danish 3rd Class Cruiser Heimdal & Swedish ship Olaus Olsen in Dover Inner Harbour (21 Oct. 1906) -Clock Tower & train running onto Prince of Wales Pier

- 10th Brigade passing through Battle - Bathing Parade, Newhaven - 1st Buff. ‘drums’ entering camp, Newhaven - Cricket at Brighton. 10th v. XI Brigade - Royal Review at Aldershot: ‘1st B. The Buffs marching past H.I.M. King Edward VII & H.M. the King of Denmark’ (12 June 1907) - Sports at Dover: -Obstacle Race: Citadel Moat by ropes -Grease Poles

-Inspection of boots preparatory to Tug o’War - Kings Birthday Parade on the Sea Front, Dover (28 June 1907): -Col. Owen calling for 3 cheers - Guard of Honour to Persian Ambassador, Dover (29 June 1907) - First County Cricket Match, Kent v Gloster on Crabble Ground, Dover (11 July 1907) - Officers Race: 2nd Batt. The Buffs at Harrismith, South Africa - West Parley Camp: -Civilians listening to Band -1st Buffs Staff Parade -Church Parade - Ethel on board the Elmina (sp?) In Kingstown harbour - Brig. Gen. Lomax directing operations by telephone - Tea in the garden at Newhouse

- Group of 1st Buffs Sergeants previous to their Annual Riffle Competition, Hamilton Cup, Aldershot (29 Oct. 1907) - Jocelyn...doing her 1st trick - An inquisitive telegraphist looking into our window at King Edward Hotel, Halifax (3 January 1908) - Ottawa: -On the Winterholme private rink -Tobogganing on Ottawa River

-Cutting Ice on Ottawa River -Rolling down the Roads after a Snow fall

-Moving Hay Stacks on sleighs -Plowing the ‘Side-Walks’

-Chaudiere Falls on Ottawa River at Hull `frozen over first time for 30 years`

-Self in 33 Below Zero Kit -Trotting Ice Races on Ottawa River

-‘During a Storm Electric Sweepers keep the lines clear in front of the Trams’

- A Halt at Vermont - Ethel at the end of our carriage - Crossing R. Hudson at Albany in evening - 5th Avenue after the blizzard, New York - ‘Photo showing trees & brushes covered with frozen layers of spray from the Falls,’ Niagara Objects -Wine shop with counter & 4 cisterns, Pompeii - Typical Neopolitan wine cart - Painted Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel - Statue of Columbus in Genoa - Genoese Cart & horses - Typical houses of Genoa - 4 cylinder F.N. Motor Cycle, Arcachon - Longmoor: -‘Flash’ (dog) -‘Black Nancy’ (horse) -Group of my Section outside Stables -Complete Motorist - 8-10 h.p. ‘Brown’ car - Silver statuette presented by me to 2nd Buffs - S.S. Patricia at Dover - S.S. Phillopolis of Hamburg-Amerika Line - 10th Brigade Camp at Parksdale, Battle

- Mrs. Moore-Lanes House, Valetta, Temple Ewell - Incoming Calais 3. Boat, Dover - Drawing Room at 3 Esplenade (Dover) - Old Spanish houses & typical wine cart, Calais - West Parley Camp - Camp at Compton Park - My 15 h.p. Coventry Humber holding Ethel Violet-Dickie & Mrs. Moore-Lane - Duke of Wellington’s Statue, Aldershot - The War Airship ‘Nulli Secundus’, Aldershot (from Latin: Second to None) - Newhouse at Mersham: interior views - R.M.S. Empress of Britain (Liverpool to Halifax) - ‘The Lodge’ - Sir Sandford’s, Halifax - Ottawa: -Farm Sleigh -Lumbar Slides

-Typical Snow carts clearing Sparks Street -The Bates House -‘Bob’ Fleming’s house on Chapel St.

-‘Family Sleigh’ (‘3 sleighs lashed together carrying 12 people’) -Rock Quarry of the International Portland Cement Works -The Arena, Days Rink, ‘where Hockey matches are played’

-Inside the Rideau Curling Rink - ‘Part of Map taken from C.P.R. time table, marked to show where we travelled’ - Ice toboggan slide (1 1/4 m. long) down Mont Royal - ‘The numerous U.S.A. Power houses on right bank of R. St. Lawrence,’ Niagara People - Ethel Jean Chapman (Fleming): depicted throughout the album - Mr. & Mrs Palmer-Samborne - Sharpin - Lily, W. and Noel Exshaw - Major Wilkinson - Lt. Adj. Foster - Mounted Infantry Comp. 1st B. The Buffs - H.W. Green - E.A.B. Alston - E.B. Furley - John Crookenden - Cap. Mrs and Nan McDouall - Miles Beevor (at Seaford)

- Self bathing (at Seaford) - Mrs. & Dickie Moore-Lane - Cap. Power - H.S. Hardy - 1st The Buffs Hockey Team ‘beaten once & by 1 goal, goals for 92, against. 21’ (listed), Dover - Lt. Col. Dauglish - Cap. R.M. Douall - J.W. Pickthall - Violet Howden - Lord P. Methuen - Walter & Grace Fleming - Helen Coutlée - Self on Skiis Album 4: (February 1908 - February 1909): George Arthur Emerson Chapman - The album is the continuation from the third Chapman album and is in very good condition. - This album also has a removable beige cloth (linen) cover with dark blue edges; an embroidered roman numerical IV is found in the bottom right corner of the top cover and on the spine portion; the top cover has `GC` (George Chapman) embroidered in dark blue; the album pages are edge-gilded; the album has a hard grain Morocco red leather binding; marble paper, in contrast to the silk-finished paper in the previous albums, is used on the inside of the album covers; the album has cloth joints. - The album contains a single paper sheet of reduced facsimile of an illustrated birth-day address for the 80th birthday of Sir Sandford Fleming (January 7, 1907); signatures of family members, including those by Ethel and George Chapman, appear on this card along with a short address and chronological time-line of Sandford Fleming’s personal and public life. - The album contains photographs that continuously document the activities and personnel of the 1st and 2nd Battalion, the Buffs, East Kent Regiment, in Britain (located around Dover), it also presents various views of the region. In addition, the album contains an extensive visual travel imagery consisting of photographs of various places while in Canada (Quebec City and Ottawa), France, Italy, and Egypt – images of the latter are meticulously described.

- Chapman himself is depicted throughout the album with an inscription Self; Ethel is captured as E.J.C. (Ethel Jean Chapman). - The photographs are of various sizes and processing techniques; they are in chronological order covering the time period from February 1908 to February 1909; the majority of the photographs are dated; all (except a few) photographs have captions; images depicting Egypt are (or can be) of particular interest, for their captions are very descriptive and include extensive (occasionally anecdotal) narrative. - There are 82 pages in the album; pages are numbered in red ink starting with no. 21 to 45 – oddly, a single number is given to two or more (up to five) single pages in the album! - There are 561 photographs (some are 2- and 3-part panoramas). - There are no PA numbers and no C numbers in the album. - Location (Container no.): 2000792424 The following places, events, objects, and people are depicted in photographs found in the album: Places Canada -Quebec:

-Various views of the city from Levis and Chateaux Frontenac Hotel

-Chateaux Frontenac -Dufferin Gate -Eastern Walls -Parliament Buildings -Lake Champlain St. & Citadel

-Sous Le Cap: ‘an old Street beneath the Cliff and Citadel’ Britain - Windsor Castle (multiple exterior views) - Roman Walls at Silchester - Beaulieu Abbey Cloisters - Brighton: -Hotel Metropole & Grand Hotel

-The Front from the East Pier - View from Top of Hindhead looking East towards Chiddingfold - Wellington Avenue, Aldershot - Great Pond & Old Pond Hotel, Frensham - Officers Club & Cricket Ground, Aldershot - Hampton Court: -Bridge over River Thames -Entrance to the Palace - Swan Hotel on R. Thames in Streatly - Pangbourne - Sonning - Dover; view from Admiralty Harbour - Henley: Red Lion Hotel & Bridge

France and Italy - Arcachon: the `Grande Dune` - Marseilles: -Views of -Church of Notre Dame de la Garde - Naples: -Bertolinis Palace Hotel -Views of Egypt - The Nile & village of Ezbet Abou Saleh - Menieh: views of - Beni-Hasan: -Tomb of Amenemhat -Tomb of Kheiti

-Speos Artimedos, ‘a small temple sacred to Pekhet & Cats. When discovered it was full of Mummified Cats which were transported in 3 ship loads to Liverpool but eventually became manure’

- Assiut: -Chief Minaret & Mosque -Panorama of -Market Place - Temple of Dendera (int. & ext. views) - Karnak (various):

-Temples, ‘Hall of Columns’, Ave. of Sphinxes, Sacred Lake etc.

- Luxor: Temple of Luxor (multiple ext. & int. views) - Thebes: -Temple of Kurna (various views)

-Tomb of Rameses VII at Biban al Muluk -Tombs of the Kings -Temple of Deir el Bahri (multiple views) -Great Hypostyle Hall (multiple views)

-Temple of Ramesseum -Tomb of Sennofer (int.view) - Esna: Temple of Khnum (int. view) - Edfu: Temple of Horus (ext. & int. views) - Temple of Kom Ombos (various views) - Views of the River Nile - Assuan: -Corn Market -River Front & Grand Hotel -View of Nile with the Savoy Hotel -Cataract Hotel & Roman Fort -Temple of Isis on Phylae (multiple) -The Dam (various views and description)- Abydos Temple: Hypostyle Hall, ‘The List of the Kings’,

various mural relief depictions, etc. - Cairo: -Panoramic View -Mosque of Sultan Hasan

-Statue of Ibrahim Pasha & Continental Hotel -Mosque of Mohammed-Ali (various views) -Views of various streets, Mosques, parts of the city, etc.

-Savoy Hotel -Gezireh Palace Hotel -Shepheards Hotel -Pyramids of Gizeh (various views) -Pyramid of Cheops -Spinx (various views) -Mena House Hotel - Sakkara: The ‘Step’ Pyramid - Memphis: ‘modern village’ - Alexandria: -Savoy Palace Hotel -Mosque Gamia Shiek -Pompey`s Pillar -Gamia el Miri - Bedrachein Station (‘where we both started & ended our Egyptian Trip’) Events - Jocelyn waking up in her sleigh, Ottawa - Country Sleighs arriving at the Market - Car Races at Brooklands (various images) - 1st The Buffs marching to `Caesars Camp` for Field Day - H.M. The King `Caesars Camp` watching the Sham Fight, Aldershot (18 May 1908) - Muster for the Opening Run of the 1st The Buffs Cycle Club

- Polo at Aldershot, Wellington, Hurlingham - Boulters Lock on Ascot Sunday, Maidenhead - ‘1st B. The Buffs marching past Field Marshall Sir George White on Laffans Plain on Kings Birthday Parade’ (26 June 1908) - Winchester Pageant at Wolvesley Castle (The Warrior Maidens) - Crowds in Wellington Ave. after Church Parade, Aldershot - 1st Buffs Regimental Sports, Aldershot: -‘3 Legged Race’ -‘Running Maze’ - Pipers of the Scots Guards at Ranelagh - Cycle Club of the Buffs arriving at the Hart Hotel, Windsor - Frensham:

-Arrival of the Buffs during 2nd Division Training -Troops of the 2nd Division bathing - Dover Pageant (various scenes, 1 Aug. 1908) - Canterbury Cricket Week, Kent vs. Sussex - The Air Ship `Nulli Secundus II` being towed to a suitable starting point - Ethel sculling on Frensham Pond - Ethel canoeing on Basingstoke Canal - Ethel tobogganing on a cushion down the Dune, Arcachon - Camels carrying Nile ‘Soil’ inland, Assiut - Scene with native weekly market at Luxor - Arrival of Cooke`s party at the Temple of Kurna, Thebes - In the valley of Biban al-Muluk on the way to the Tombs of the Kings, Thebes - An American Egyptologist Davis finding an Ancient Kings Tomb, Thebes (13 Jan. 1909) - Self on Donkey & donkey boy at the Ramesseum, Thebes - Self on camel in the act of getting up - Bisharin dance - ‘Having passed through the Cataract we drifted down stream while the crew sang,’ (Nile) - Camels carrying Sugar Cane at Baliana - Gayassa sailing up the River near El Samata, Nile - Arrival of Cooke’s Tourist Party at the Coptic Convent at Araba el Madfonch - ‘Our chief Drajoman pointing out the beauties of some Egyptian ladies!!!’ - ‘Camels waiting at the Spinx for Tourists who usually mount them to be photographed as a proof of their visit to Egypt’ - ‘Ethel & Self at the Spinx ‘doing’ the Pyramids etc.’ - ‘Self on top of 1st Pyramid, 452 ft high’ - A man praying - Moving through the Palm groves of Mit Rahineh to Memphis

- Self seated on one of the 2 Spinxes at Pompey’s Column, Alexandria Objects - Quebec:

-‘House in which the French General Montcalme held his last Council of War’ -Wolfs Monument on Plains of Abraham -‘Monument to the French Admiral Champlain, founder of the Modern Canada’ -Representative Indian Statues by Herbert on Parliament Buildings

- Our train at Louisville - C.P.R. Engine (135 tons) at MacAdam June, N.S. - Mrs. Ravenhills House on the Cornwallis West’s Estate, Milford - ‘Stocks’ at Shalford - Officers Mess Room, 1st B. The Buffs, Badajos Barracks - ‘Blackball’ (horse) - Typical Street in Naples - Typical Nile Boats - Typical luggage cart & porters, Alexandria - A large Cargo Gayassa, Nile - Cook`s Tourist Steamer-`Rameses the Great` at Menieh - ‘Egyptian (1909 AD) holding upper part of an Ancestor (300 BC)’ - Sanctuary of the Temple of Kurna, Thebes - Chalet Hatasu or Cooke’s Rest House, Thebes - Bazaar & market place at Esna - The Ancient Nilometer (‘a device used for almost 2000 yrs to register the rise and fall of the River’), Assuan - Highly coloured Gayassas (boats), Assuan - Bisharin shelter - Assuan Dam on River Nile (various views) - A camel loaded with sugar cane, Thebes - A Gayassa with cargo of jars, Nile - Grove of date palms at El Teberi, Nile - A Gayassa & the Pyramids of Dashur, Nile - Cairo: -‘Int. of the famous `Blue Mosque’ - Egyptian Mountain Battery

-A Nilometer dating back to 716 ad on Roda Island -A Sakka or typical water carrier with his Goat skin

-A bead seller

-‘A gold neclace pendant found in Queen Neferari`s Tomb at Biban al Binet & now in the Museum Cairo’

-Shops in the Bazaar -The Mummy of Seti I - Two Fellahin & a native plough (Mihrat) - Arab Cemetery and the Pyramids, Gizeh - Inundated fields between Sakkara & Memphis - Colossus of Rameses II, Memphis People - Ethel Jean Chapman (Fleming): depicted throughout the album - Lil & The Exshaw of Exshaw - Paul & Hugh Fleming - Sir Sandford Fleming - International & Exshaw Portland Cement (listed) - John Crookenden - Jocelyn (Chapman) - J.D. Philips - A.B. Thomson - H.G. Sahler - T. Wheler - Miss Jameson - Arabs & Egyptians at Cook’s Landing Stage at Menieh - Constable of the Imperial Egyptian Mt. Police - A Typical water Seller & his Goats Skin - Bisharin children, girls, men - M.J. & Mde VanHoergarden - Mrs Hyslop - Max Singer - Miss MacLeod - M. Grisard - Mr & Mrs Griffen - Mr Dennett - Penrose Green - Tannaos (guide) - Egyptian women with water jars, Luxor - Mohammed Elewa, ‘Chief drajoman on Cooke`s Rameses the Great and the oldest serving drajoman on the Nile’ Album 5: (February 1909 - February 1910): George Arthur Emerson Chapman - The album is the continuation from the fourth Chapman album and is in very good condition.

- This album also has a removable beige cloth (linen) cover with dark blue edges; an embroidered roman numerical V is found only on the top portion of the spine of the album; the top cover has `GC` (George Chapman) embroidered in dark blue; the album pages are edge-gilded; the album has a hard grain Morocco red leather binding; silk-finished paper is used on the inside of the album covers; the album has cloth joints. - The album contains a single paper sheet of reduced facsimile of an illustrated birth-day address for the 80th birthday of Sir Sandford Fleming (January 7, 1907); 24 signatures of family members, including those by Ethel and George Chapman, appear on this card along with a short address and chronological time-line of Sandford Fleming’s personal and public life (please note that this sheet is analog to one in the fourth (4.) Chapman album) - The album contains photographs that document selected activities and personnel of the East Kent Regiment, the Buffs, in Britain (located around Dover), it also presents various landscape and architectural views of the region. In addition, the album contains an extensive visual travel imagery consisting of photographs depicting places in France, Britain, and Italy, as well as the 2nd Egyptian trip in Winter of 1909/10 – photographs of Italy and Egypt are meticulously described. - Chapman himself is depicted throughout the album as Self; Ethel Chapman is captured as EJC (Ethel Jean Chapman) or Ethel. - The photographs are of various sizes and processing techniques; they are in chronological order covering the time period from February 1909 to February 1910; the majority of the photographs are dated; all (except a few) photographs have captions; images of Britain, Italy, and Egypt in particular, are (or can be) of particular interest for their captions are very descriptive and include extensive (occasionally anecdotal) architectural, historical, and social narrative. - There are 82 pages in the album; pages are numbered in red ink (as in the previous album) starting with no. 45 to 63; oddly, as in the previous album, a single number is given to four and up to six single pages in the album. - There are 489 photographs (some are 2- and 3-part panoramas). - There are no PA numbers and no C numbers in the album.

- Location (Container no.): 2000792425

The following places, events, objects, and people are depicted in photographs found in the album: Places France - Marseille: -Views of the Harbour -Suspension Ferry - Bayonne: -Cathedral (int. & ext.) -Views of -Old Fort -Theater - St Jean de Luz - Pau: -View of

-Chateaux of King Henry IV of France (ext. & int.) -Cliff, Upper Town & Hotel Gassion - San Sebastian: -Town Hall & Public Square -Main Bridge over River Bidassoa -Ancient Church - Biarritz: La Vierge Rock - Lourdes: -Castle -Cathedral (various views) Britain - Smeeth: Mersham Church (int.) - Winchester: -View of -Old Market Cross -Cathedral (restoration) - Lyme Regis - Exeter:

-‘an Ancient Church & Mols Coffee House where Drake & other famous sailors used to meet at Armada time’

- Cathedral (various views) - Lynton - Glastonbury: -George Hotel -Market Cross -Abbots Kitchen

- Minehead - Wells Cathedral (int. & ext.) - Bath Abbey - Lyndhurst: Grand Hotel - Downton - Romsey Abbey - Maidenhead: Boulters Lock (various views) - Cookham: view of River Thames - Aldershot: York Crescent - Oxford: -Trinity College (ext. & int.) -St. John`s College -Martyr’s Cross

-Sheldon’s Theatre, Clarendon Press & Dr. Johnston’s House -Bodleian Library -Brasenose College

-Old President’s House & Cloisters at Magdalen College -New College Chapel (ext. & int.) - Burford Church & Graveyard - Gloucester: Cathedral (int. & ext.) - Chepstow Castle (various views) - Tintern: -Abbey (int. & ext.) -Beaufort Hotel - Raglan Castle (multiple views) - Monmouth: Stone Bridge - Ross: Ancient Market House - Ledbury: Market House - Malvern Priory Church & Abbey Hotel - Worcester Cathedral (multiple views) - Broadway - Chipping Camden: Old Market House - Stratford-on-Avon: -Old Houses -Bridge & River -Shakespeare Memorial -Shakespeare House

-Tudor House ‘discovered under plaster only 6 years ago’ - Warwick (various views) & Warwick Castle - Kenilworth Castle (multiple views) - Banbury Cross - Shipton Church - Beauley - Inverness: Suspension Bridge, Castle & River Italy - Milan: Cathedral of Maria Nascenti (various views)

- Venice: -Various architectural views of various parts of the city

-Palazzi Guistiniani -Rialto Bridge (multiple views) -Palazzo Ca Doro -Statue of the Gen. Bart. Colleoni -Palazzo Ducale -Clock Tower -Great Council Hall, Doge`s Palace -Church of Santa Maria della Salute -Church of Torchello

-Staircase of the Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo - Florence: -Panorama of the city -Loggia dei Lanzi -Gothic Church of Santa Croce -Church of San Giovanni Battista

-Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore & Campanile -Palazzo Vecchio - Naples: -Panorama of the Bay of Naples -Triumphal Arch

-Flower Market on the Gradoni di Chiaia -Piazza de Martiri -Corso Umberto Primo - Pompeii: -Gate of the Forum -Great Theatre

-Triumphal Arch of the Emperor Caligula -House of Cornelius Robius (int.) -Temple of Apollo Egypt - Gizeh: view of the Pyramids - Lybian Desert - Fayoum: -Sugar-cane Market

-View of the ruins of Crocodilopolis-Arsinoe -A Street & the Mosque - Luxor: Temple of Luxor (multiple ext. & int. views) - Thebes:

-Medinet Habu:Temple of Queen Hatasu & Rameses III -Colossi of Memnon - Karnak (various): -Temple of Ammon (multiple views) -Festal Temple -Great Hypostyle Hall (various views) -Assuan:

-Cataract Hotel -Elephantine Island -Island of Sehel (multiple views) -Temple of Philae (multiple views) - Gorge of Kalabsha - Rock Temple of Gerf Hosein (Hussein) (int. & ext. views) - Temple of ‘Armada - Kasr Ibrim: Ptolemaic Egyptian Temple - Abu Simbel: Temple of Hathor (multiple int. & ext. views) –extensive caption for the facade - Halfa, Sudan (various views) -Temple of Beheni - Rock of Abusir - Temple of Dendur (multiple views) - Kalabsha: Rock Temple (int. & ext. views) Events - The start of our Motor Tour in Devonshire, Aldershot (8 April 1909) - Lucas & Self with No1 marching to White Hill, Chobham Ridges for Spectacular Sham Fight before the King, Aldershot (18 May 1909) - Tea at the Wellington College Hotel, Aldershot - ‘My Commando of Bat. Cyclists: the enemy on Bat. Special Training,’ Odiham - Reg. & Coy. Cooks & Kitchen in Camp at Greywell - Officers 1st Buffs & some 2nd Glosters (attached for Mobilisation) at Breakfast, Frensham (29 July 1909) - For Tea at the French Horn Hotel, Sonning - Gen. Sir Horace Smith-Dorien & Staff interrogating an Officers Cavalry Patrol, Shipton (14 Sep. 1909) - Gen. Grierson talking to the Duke of Connaught, Farringdon (15 Sep. 1909) - Officers assembling at Franklyn Hall for Inter-Div. Conference, Burford (17 Sep 1909) - Field Telegraph & Telephone at work, Farringdon - Display by Reg. Gymnasium members at Annual Sports, Aldershot (30 Sep 1909) - Annual Dinner of the Association of Past & Present Buffs at Victoria St. Restaurant, London (28 Oct. 1909) -names listed- - Ethel & Violet in a Gondola on the Dead Lagoon, Venice - ‘Men hard at work hammering Sun-dried fish to soften it. Almost staple food of the Poor,’ Venice - A country cart drawn by a donkey, an ox and a horse, Pompeii

- Ethel & Mohamed Aly passing the Pyramids of Abusir, Sakkara - Gayassas unloading Sugar Cane, Wasta - Sudanese etc. with trained pets performing in Street below Savoy Hotel Terrace, Cairo - Ethel in the uncomfortable Sand-cart in which we drove to Medinet Habu (25 Jan 1910) - Sakkas (water carriers) filling their goatskin bottles in the River, Luxor - Ethel sitting on the knees of a Statue of Thotmosis I, Karnak - Palms etc. inundated owing to the heightening of the Assuan Dam - Tourist from the Prince of Abbas visiting the Temple of Armada - ‘The Italian Egyptologist and Excavator Prof. Bersanti who very kindly explained things to Lambert, M. de Tremont & myself,’ Abu Simbel (2 February 1910) - Natives who swam the Rapids on air-filled goatskins, Halfa - ‘Sailors of the Prince of Abbas at their midday meal eating with their hands out of one dish’ Objects - A typical Mule Cart & Pair, Bayonne - A typical Spanish cart & Oxen, San Sebastian - A typical Country Cart of the Pyrennees District, Pau - Links from the 9th Tee, Arcachon - Crescent House (Chapman’s new house in Aldershot) - A typical Devon bridge & the River Taw at S. Molton - 25/30 h.p. Maudslay Car (six views) - Buffs ‘A’ & ‘B’ Polo Team, Aldershot - House Boats near Henley - A typical piece of road between Chepstow & Tintern - Mary Anderson’s Cottage at Broadway - Dad’s Grave, Mersham (4 Nov 1909) - A typical Canal, Venice - Bronze doors by L. Ghiberti, Florence - Deities of Mt. Olympus - painting on the ceiling of the Galleria Palatina in Palazzo Pitti, Florence - Rape of Polyxema - sculpture by Peo Fedi, Florence - Plaster cast of a dead Gladiator, Pompeii - Our Caravan & Camp near the Pyramids, Gizeh - Various depictions of Camel Caravan and Camping activities - Self and my Watson Camera - Egyptian Delta Light Railway Train, Gaballah - Water wheels turned by the Bahr Yusuf Canal, Fayoum

- A typical Dahabeeyah ‘belonging to Davis, American Egyptologist,’ Luxor (wooden flat bottomed sailing two masted boat) - Hieroglyphic Writings on Granite Rocks, Assuan - ‘Our Nile Steamer Prince of Abbas’ People - Ethel Jean Chapman (Fleming): depicted throughout the album - Jocelyn Chapman - Cap. Tester - Cap. McLaren - Sgt. Martin - Cap. Orwin - Cap. Warr - Sgt. Eaton - Eric, Cecil, Ruby, Mrs & Mr Loyd - Hugh Fleming - Lt. Gen. Sir Horace Smith-Dorien - ‘Our Caravan Staff’ (names listed) - Group of Sudanese children, Kalabsha - Georges Gattas & Mohammed Ali ‘2 Drojamans of the Rameses the Great’ - ‘Ourselves,’ Assuan Album 6: (February 1910 - June 1912): George Arthur Emerson Chapman - The album is the continuation from the fifth Chapman album and is in very good condition. - This album, as all five previous albums, has a removable beige cloth (linen) cover with dark blue edges; an embroidered roman numerical VI is found on the top spine portion of the album; the top cover has `GC` (George Chapman) embroidered in dark blue; the album pages are edge-gilded; the album has a hard grain Morocco red leather binding; silk-finished paper is used on the inside of the album covers; the album has cloth joints. - The album contains photographs that document selected activities and personnel of the East Kent Regiment, the Buffs, in Britain (located around Dover); it also presents various and multiple landscape and architectural views of the region. In addition, the album contains an extensive visual travel imagery consisting of photographs depicting: Ethel & George Chapman’s second trip to Egypt; images of Italy; their extended travels in Canada (Apr-Nov 1910); and their trip to France (May 1911). The

majority of the photographs of Italy, France, and Egypt are meticulously described. - Chapman himself is depicted throughout the album as Self; Ethel Chapman is captured as EJC (Ethel Jean Chapman) or Ethel. - The photographs are of various sizes and processing techniques; they are in chronological order covering the time period from February 1910 to June 1912; the majority of the photographs are dated; all (except a few) images have captions; depictions of Britain, Italy, and Egypt in particular, are (or can be) of particular interest, for their captions are very descriptive and include extensive (occasionally anecdotal) architectural, historical, and social narrative. - There are 82 pages in the album; pages are numbered in red ink (as in the previous two albums - 4. and 5.) starting with no. 64 to 81; as in the two previous albums, a single number is given to two and up to eight single pages in the album. - There are 556 photographs (some are 2-, 3- and 4-part panoramas) - There are no PA numbers - There are two (2) C numbers in the album: 30618 & 30617 (caption: Boysie & Jocelyn, Dover) - Location (Container no.): 2000792426 The following places, events, objects, and people are depicted in photographs found in the album: Places Egypt - Luxor: Temple of Luxor (multiple ext. & int. views) - Thebes:

-Great Hypostyle Hall (various views) -Tomb of Nakht (int.) -Temple of Deir el-Medineh -Tombs of Queens

-Temple of Medinet Habu (multiple views)

-Palace of Rameses III -Panoramic view of the Theban Plain - Karnak (various views): -Temple of Ammon (multiple views) -Temple of Khons (various views) -Temple of Osiris (int. detail) - Cairo: various views of the city - Alexandria Italy - Naples: views of the city - Crater of Salfatara - Pozzuoli: -Roman Amphitheatre (multiple views) -Lake Avernus - Cumae: Roman Viaduct Arca Felice - Baia: -View of the Town -Spanish Castle - Capri: -Views of the Island -Cliffs of Capri -Landing Place Britain - Aldershot: Crescent House (int. views) - Bakewell: Bridge, Lawn & Terrace at Haddon Hall - Matlock: High Tor - Buxton: Crescent Hotel - Chester: -Cathedral (int. views) -City Walls -Oldest House -Scotch House - Kenilworth Castle Canada - Ottawa:

-Various architectural and landscape views of the city: Daly Avenue, Chaudiere Falls, etc.

- Lake Saint Germain - Niagara: -Clifton House Hotel -Various views of the Falls - St. Lawrence River: -Long Sault Rapids -Alexandria Bay

-Summer Residences (1000 Islands) - Halifax: -The “Lodge” (S. Fleming’s House) -Saraquay Country Club

-Depictions of various leisurely activities: bathing, lunching, fishing, canoeing, etc.

- Prospect - Chester: -Chester Bay -Hackmatack Inn - Quoddy River - Herring Cove - MacAdam Junction - Winnipeg: -C.P.R. Station -Portage Avenue - Banff: -Views of Banff and vicinity -Cascade Mountain -Banff Springs Hotel -Bow River Falls -Sulphur Hot Springs -Devils Gorge -Mount Inglismaldie -Mt. Rundle Range -Banff Station- Rockies: -Kicking Horse Valley -Mount Stephen -Castle Mountain -Stoney Creek Bridge, Beaver River -Illecillewaet Valley -Ross Peak -Glacier Station & Mt. Sir Donald -Mount Sir Donald ‘the Peak of which is named Cheops from its similarity to the Great Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt’ -Great & Asulkan Glaciers -Hector Siding -“Three Sisters” - Selkirks: -Albert Canyon -Fraser Canyon -North bend -Fraser River - Victoria: -Entrance to the Harbour -C.P.R. Empress Hotel

-Parliament Buildings -The Gorge - Vancouver: -Siwash Rock -Stanley Park (trees) - Mount Baker, from Beacon Hill, Victoria Britain - Kerrow: -Views of the region -Glen Affric -Gorge at Kilmorack - Strathpether: Rogie Falls - Goodnestone: -West House (int. & ext. views) -Church -Post Office -Panoramic view - Herne Bay: Reculvers - Fordwich: Old Town House - Abberville: Church of St. Vulfran France - Chateaux Rambures - Rouen: -Church of St. Ouen (int. & ext.) -Old half-timbered houses -Old Church of St. Maclou - Evreux: -Cathedral -Courtyard & Hotel du Grand Cerf - Louviers: Church of “Notre Dame” - Dreux: Church - Chartres: -Cathedral (various views) -Church of St. Pierre -Porte Guillaume - Orleans: -Cathedral -Joan of Arc’s House - Beaugency: -Market Place & Town Hall -Ancient Gates -Caesars Tower -Chateaux of Beaugency - Chateaux of Chambord (ext.) - Blois: -Bridge

-Gateway in Aile Lous XII -Chateaux Blois (ext. & int. views) - Chateaux Chaumont (various views) - Montrichard: Town & Castle - Chateaux of Chenonceaux (various views) - Chateaux of Amboise (multiple views) - Tours: -View of the city -Palais de Justice -Old Stone Bridge -Cathedral of St. Gatien - Chateaux of Azay-le-Rideau - Chinon: views of Chateaux & Town - Chateaux of Ussé - Langeais - Chateaux of Luynes - Angoulême: Cathedral of St. Pierre - Poitiers: -Church of St. Porchaire -Church of St. Radegonde -Market Place - Rocamadour: Valley, Town & Convent Britain - Rye: Old prison & Battery - Shorncliffe - Canterbury: view of & Cathedral Events - The Nile Steamer Rameses the Great leaving Luxor en route for Cairo (9 Feb 1910) - The Docks & Quays of Alexandria ‘just as we were leaving for Naples on Prinz Heinrich’ (16 Feb 1910) - Hotel boats touting for visitors & passengers off Sorrento (20 Feb 1910) - My Company Team competing in the Evelyn Wood Competition, Aldershot (21 March 1910) - On board the Empress of Britain just reaching Quebec on the River St. Lawrence (29 Apr 1910) - Parliament Buildings draped in Royal Mourning, Ottawa (20 May 1910)

- Ceremony in Respect to the Funeral of King Edward VII, Ottawa (various views, 20 May 1910) - The “somebodies” of Ottawa & Canada at the King’s Funeral Service, Ottawa (20 May 1910) - Fishing at Indian Lake, Prospect - Bathing at the “Dingle”, Halifax - Tea on the shore of Squid Island with the Mosquitos, Chester - Our arrival by the S.S. Ghent at Sheet Harbour for a fishing trip - ‘Jocelyn with Peggy L-E having her 1st bathe,’ Halifax (15 Aug 1910) - North West Arm Regatta, Halifax (13 Aug 1910) - My guide, Frank Paul, wrapped in a quilt & calling Moose at 7 a.m., Otter Lake - Lunch on Sir Sandford’s Private Car on our way to Ottawa (30 Sep 1910) - Self feeding with chocolates an 18 month old tame Black Bear, Banff (15 Oct 1910) - Graham White in a “Bristol” bi-plane & the wrecked “Bristol” bi-plane after White’s fall, Dover (18 Dec 1910) - Another of Graham White’s Bristol bi-planes burnt on X’mas day, Dover (1910) - Wrecked Preussen on the rocks near S. Foreland, Dover (25 Dec 1910) - Start for rabbiting in the West Woods, Kerrow - Staff Parade, 3rd Batt. The Buffs, Shorncliffe (2 July 1911) - Wintery weather at West House, Goodnestone (5 Feb 1912) - Dinner of Members of the Buffs “Past & Present” Association at Victoria Restaurant, London (names listed, 30 Nov 1912) - Wilson at work on the car, Goodnestone - With the Loyds at Lillesden, Hawkhurst - An Archery meeting at home, Goodnestone (30 May 1912)

Objects - Shadufs: ‘apparati for raising water from the Nile,’ Arment - Sailors of Rameses the Great, Luxor - Steamer Princesse Mafaldi, Capri - A typical high prowed boat & cottage with the staircase on outside, Capri - Typical country cart & harness of Capri - Steamship Empress of Britain, Quebec - “Winterholme” (house of S. Fleming on Chapel St & Daly Ave)

- Sleeping Hut & Club House of the Denholme Fishing Club, Lake St. Germain - Steamboat Maid of the Mist, Niagara - River Steamer Toronto ‘in which we crossed Lake Ontario from Charlotte to Kingston during the night & steamed down the St. Lawrence through the 1000 Islands,’ Prescott - River Steamer Rapids Queen, Prescott - 50 ton Engine, Medicine Hat - Buffalo, Banff - Specimen Moose in the Rocky Mountains - “The Great Divide” (boundary between Alberta and British Columbia) - Steamship Empress of India, Vancouver - Steamship Princess Victoria ‘sailing between Vancouver-Victoria & Seattle’ - A typical Chinese way of carrying things, Vancouver - One of the many places where the C.P.R. almost overhangs the Fraser R., Selkirks - An Indian Tepee, Calgary - Steamship Empress of Ireland (Quebec-Liverpool) - Curious tombstones at Reculver, Herne Bay - A few of the many Washing houses which appear so typical of Chartres - Curious old houses in the Rue Voltaire, Chinon - French Soldiers at the Fair, Tours - Peculiar head dresses worn by ladies at Poitiers - 3rd Bat. The Buffs Camp at Shorncliffe - 3rd Bat. The Buffs Camp near Fort Burgogne, Dover People - Ethel Jean Chapman (Fleming): depicted throughout the album - Mrs Cornish - Mrs Tilney - Mr Fleischhacker - Mr & Mrs Hippisley - Guy Lee - ‘A’ Company, 1st Bat. The Buffs, Badajos Barracks, Aldershot (names listed, 16 Apr 1910) - Sir Sandford Fleming - Jocelyn Chapman - Maj. Paley - Mr Lemoine - Sir W. & Lady Laurier - Lord Grey - Hugh, Ethel, Paul & Margaret Fleming - Mr & Mrs Lyon-Evans

- Eddie Farrell - Joe Kenny - Maryery MacKeen - Brenda Morrow - Bob Farrell - Miss Ragsdale - Miss Sanford - H. & F. Higgenson - John Warren - Miss Chitehly - Mrs White - Gordon Farnell, Chief Forest Warden of Halifax Co. & family - Helen Coutlee - Senator H. Bell-Irvin with his son Richard & daughter Isabel - Winifred Gormully - Harry & Gwen Cassils - John Crookenden - The Officers, 3rd Bat. The Buffs at Shorncliffe (names listed, July 1911) - George Luxmoore - The Officers, 3rd Bat. The Buffs, Dover (names listed, 1912) Album 7: (July 1912 - August 1931): George Arthur Emerson Chapman - The album is the continuation from the sixth Chapman album and is in good condition; there is water damage on the top (also on the back) cover of the album that is also visible on the inside of the top cover. - This album, in contrast to the first six albums, does not have a removable beige cloth (linen) cover with dark blue edges –hence, neither roman numerical or initials `GC` (George Chapman) are found on the spine or the cover of the album; this album, as the previous albums in the series, has edge-gilded pages and a hard grain Morocco red leather binding; silk-finished paper is also used on the inside of the album covers; the album has cloth joints. - The album contains photographs that document selected activities and personnel of the East Kent Regiment, the Buffs, in Britain (located around Dover) while also presenting various and multiple landscape and architectural views of the region. In addition, the album contains an extensive visual travel imagery consisting of photographs depicting Ethel & George Chapman’s travels in Britain, France and Italy, as well as their third

trip to Egypt. Images of Ontario and Quebec end this album as the Chapman family moves to Canada in August 1925. - Particularly interesting material is found on the pages from the middle part of the album where a variety of objects –letters, newspaper articles, postcards, field maps, drawings & sketches, telegrams, memorabilia, notices, etc.– along with photographs, covering the period from 1914 to 1917, relate to Chapman’s military service in the Great War. - Chapman himself is depicted throughout the album as Self; Ethel Chapman is captured as EJC (Ethel Jean Chapman) or Ethel. - The photographs are of various sizes and processing techniques; they are in chronological order covering the time period from July 1912 to August 1931; the majority of the photographs are dated; all (except a few) images have captions that are (or can be) of particular interest, for their captions are very descriptive and include extensive (occasionally anecdotal) architectural, historical, or social narrative. - There are 82 pages in the album; pages are only partially numbered in red ink (as in the previous three albums) starting with no. 81 to 87 – where the pagination stops with the end of the third Egyptian trip; as in the two previous albums, a single number is given to two and up to six single pages in the album. - There are 570 photographs (some are 2-part panoramas) along with letters, newspaper articles, postcards, field maps, drawings & sketches, telegrams, memorabilia, notices, etc. - There are no PA numbers and no C numbers in the album. - Location (Container no.): 2000792418 The following places, events, objects, and people are depicted in photographs found in the album: Places Britain - Ledbury: view of the town -Feathers Inn -Market Place -Bridge over River Tame - Goodnestone: West House (various views) - Tintern Abbey (int.) - Chepstow Castle (Gate) - Shrewsbury: Old Houses

- Richborough: Walls of the Roman castle - Colchester: Norman castle - Norwich: -Castle -Cathedral -Old Houses - Ely Cathedral - Huntingdon: Red Lion Inn - Oxford: Trout Inn - Cork: -River Lee at Sundayswell -Healy`s Bridge - Pluckley: Malmains Manor, “our new house” (multiple int. & ext. views, landscape and everyday activities) - Grantown: Castle Grant - Dymchurch - York: Minster (ext.) France - Chinon: Old Houses - Parthenay: Bridge & Old Gate - Amboise: Chateaux - Langeais: Chateaux Gate - Boulogne: Harbour - Arcachon - Etretat - Tôtes: Swan Hotel (int.) - Etaples Italy - Rome: -Forum -Coliseum -Arch of Titus - Naples: Bertolini`s Hotel & views of city Egypt - Alexandria - Gizeh: Sphinx - Cairo: -Mosque of Sultan Hassan -Ancient Arab Gateway -‘Blue’ Mosque (int.) -University of Azhar

- Luxor: Winter Palace Hotel, Great Hall & various landscape and architectural views - Karnak: various architectural views - Kurna: Mortuary Temple of Seti - Thebes: -Temple of Medinet Habu -Colossi of Memnon -Ramesseum - Deir el Bahari Temple - Assuan: various landscape & architectural views - Philae: -Temple of Isis (various views) -Kiosk or “Pharoah’s Bed” - Heliopolis: Obelisk Canada - Rockcliffe: -Appledore (multiple int. & ext. views: Chapman house, completed Feb. 1926) - Blue Sea Lake - Murray Bay (Charlevoix Region): -Golf Links -Manoir Richelieux - Papineau Chateux - MacGregor Lake

Events - Archery at Folkestone (22 July 1912) - Grand National Archery Meeting, Cheltenham (2 August 1912) - Counties Archery Meeting, Worcester Park (17 Sep 1912) - Leamington Archery meeting (selected names listed, June 11-13, 1913) - Ladies Shooting, Leamington - Grand National Archery Meeting, Birmingham (30 July 1913) - Depictions of various archery meetings and competitions at Clitheroe, Garstang, Folkestone, Waybridge, Woolnestone, London, Canterbury, Le Touquet, Cambridge, Oxford, Tunbridge Welts - Ethel & Jocelyn making a Snowwoman at Goodnestone (7 Jan 1914) - Landing of a small catch of fish on Seafront, Naples - Our tourist party escorted by police on camels leaving Sakkara for the boat (14 Jan 1914) - Arab boys grab remainder of our lunch, Assuan - Antika settlers outside Cook’s Rest House, Thebes

- Various photographic depictions of military activities at the No.1 Training Camp at Etaples, France - Various depictions of the activities of the School of Aeronautics in Reading (Mar-May 1918) - An Aerial Navigation Class, Oxford (May 1918) - At Sports of 44 Training Depot Station, Oxford (names listed, 15 Sep 1918) - Tennis at St. Johns Courts, Oxford (names listed) - ‘Procession of Army Commanders following Sir Douglas Haig along the Dover Marine Parade on their way to London for their victorious reception’ (19 Dec 1918) - Some shooters at the Grand National, Oxford (names listed, 12 July 1922) - Archery Meeting at Heppington, Canterbury (various views, 14 May 1925) - ‘Our Goods & Chattels being packed for transportation to Canada’ (20 July 1925) - Mounted Police training a dog team, Rockcliffe - We visit the R100 at St. Hubert near Montreal 2 or 3 days after her arrival from England (6 Aug 1930)

Objects - 17 Maudslay (car) - Head of the Sphinx, Gizeh - Gayassas (multiple) - Native landing place & quay for Gayassas, Luxor - A mural relief seal, Tomb of Ramese III - ‘An arab child typically covered with flies,’ Thebes The Great War: World War I Various objects including letters, newspaper articles, postcards, field maps, daily war bulletins & messages, drawings, sketches, telegrams, memorabilia, notices, etc. covering the period from 1914 to 1917, and related to G.A.E. Chapman and his military service (selected objects): - Mobilization Telegram sent to Chapman from Cap. Gould (4 Aug 1914) - Fabric of wing of first German airplane brought down in England (Kent) - Plan of No.1 Training Camp, Etaples (May 1917) - Routine of a Typical Day at No.1 Training Camp, Etaples

- Schedule of the “Visit of French Minister of War to Etaples” (24 Feb 1917) - List of “Principal Visitors to No.1 Training Camp, Etaples” - Views of Aeroplanes: Avro, BE&E, De Havilland 4 & 6, BE&D, Sopwith Camel, Bristol Scout & Fighter, Dolphin, S.E.5A., Handley, Curtis - ‘Our Ford & trailer carting leaves etc.’ - Adm. Sir Charles & Lady Kingsmills House, Grindstone Island, Rideau Lake, Portland, Ont. People - Ethel Jean Chapman (Fleming) and Jocelyn Chapman: depicted throughout the album - Margaret & Paul Fleming - Officers, 3rd The Buffs (listed, June 1913) - Officers, 3rd The Buffs (listed, July 1914) - C.K. Philips - Bertha Philips - Baron Richthoffen - Mrs & Miss Cunningham - Sharpin - Julia & Dolly Selous - Mr & Mrs Gay - Ann, Sybil, Noel & G. Reeves - Hilda Barclay - Lt. Col. Hasler - Officers of ‘A’ Company 1st Buffs, Armentieres (March 1915) - Comm. Shepard - Cap. Flux - Staff of No.1 Training Camp (names listed) - Reg. Sgt. Major Alder - Administrative & Instructional Staff of No.1 Training Camp (names listed) - Boysie Howden - Mrs Pike & Mrs Hubert Pike - Marjorie & Noreen Pike - Egerton Hammond - Susan & John Crookenden - Ethel-Hugh & Hugh Fleming - Billy Erwin - Mrs Cambie - Pauline Lemoine - Jean & Humphrey Snow

- Violet & Ian Howden - Arthur, & Nelli Eliott - Jessie Gillies - Rennée & George Taylor - Marion Pugsley - Ned & Mary Grant - Frank & Bertha Chapman - Pat Coffey - John Southam - Diana Kingsmill - Bill Howard (‘with one of the 120 silver foxes of the Fleming Fox Farm of which I was manager’) - Betty (Lawson) Murphy - Major Field - Nora Ahearn Album 8: (August 1931 - September 1942): George Arthur Emerson Chapman - The album, the last in the series, is the continuation from the seventh Chapman album and is in very good condition. - This album, in contrast to the first six albums, also does not have a removable beige cloth (linen) cover with dark blue edges –hence, neither roman numerical or initials `GC` (George Chapman) are found on the spine or the cover of the album; the album pages, in contrast to all previous albums, are not edge-gilded; the album binding also differs from the rest of the series: it is half leather with corners and the marble paper is used on the inside of the album covers; the album, as the whole series, has cloth joints. - The album contains photographs that document selected activities and personal life of George Chapman and his family & friends around Ottawa, Ontario. In addition, the album includes a variety of travel images consisting of photographs taken by Chapman and depicting places in Canada, Britain, and Bermuda. Various seasonal depictions of Appledore –the house of the Chapman family in Rockcliffe, Ontario– are found in this album. - Chapman himself is depicted throughout the album as Self; Ethel Chapman is captured as EJC (Ethel Jean Chapman) or Ethel. - The photographs are of various sizes and processing techniques; they are in chronological order covering the time

period from August1931 to September 1942; the majority of the photographs are dated; all (except a few) images have captions. - There are 82 pages in the album; the photographs cover only the first 18 of the pages, the rest of the album has no content; pages are not numbered. - There are 493 photographs (some are 2- and 3-part panoramas) along with a fragment of a published text of unknown origin titled A novel race describing skiing at Camp Fortune and including remarks by Chapman. - There are no PA numbers and no C numbers in the album. - There is one misplaced photograph in the album: caption Lunch en route to see Fortune teller at Smiths Falls (Edith Blackburn, Grace Daly) 25 May 1934 is found in two different places, only one of which has the image inserted above it. - Location (Container no.): 2000792419 The following places, events, objects, and people are depicted in photographs found in the album: Places Britain - Rye: Town gate - Dane Chantry: various views - Taplow - Oxford: Mitre Hotel - Bray: Café de Paris Hotel - Dover: Harbour - Beaulieu Abbey - Chichester: -Market Cross -Cathedral - Arundel Castle - Christchurch Canada - Rockcliffe: -Appledore (multiple int. & ext. views) -“new” Appledore (Feb. 1935, multiple int. & ext. views)

- MacGregor Lake - Kingsmere - Lucerne (Quebec) - Gatineau: Camp Fortune & Canyon Trail - St. Saveur: Nymarks Hotel - St. Marguerite: Alpine Inn - Gananoque: Golden Apple Inn - Lake Sainte Sixte - Blue Sea Lake - 31 Mile Lake (various views) - Wakefield: -Chateau Diotte -Landscape views -Covered Bridge - Montmorency Falls - Murray Bay: Murblane (Elsie Rowley`s House): various ext. views - Ile d`Orleans - Quebec Bridge - Portland (Ontario) - Rideau Lake - Lake Champlain - Quebec City - Gaspé: Percé Rock - Newport - St. John River, Quebec Bermuda - Hamilton (various views) - St. Georges: Ordinance Yard - Bailey’s Bay - Cross Bay - Spanish Point - Pink Beach - Daniels Head - Warwick Beach - Coral Beach - Sniky Bay

Events - Royal Air Force Pageant at Hendon (25 Jun 1932) - Grand National Archery Meeting at Worcester College, Oxford (22 July 1932) - Depictions of various skiing activities in Quebec and Ontario

- Various depictions of the building of the New Appledore, Rockcliffe (Summer 1934) - Various depictions of leisurely activities: swimming, picnics, boating, etc. - Lumbermen sorting logs on the Gatineau River (1935/36) - Examining the Coral gardens through glass bottom boats, Bermuda (23 Apr 1938) - ‘Trooping the Colour carried out before H.M. the King by the Gov. Gen. Foot Guards of Ottawa & by the Grenadier Guards of Montreal,’ Ottawa (20 May 1939) - The Silver & Blue Royal Train at Deep Cut leaving Ottawa, (21 May 1939) - His Majesty King George VI & Queen Elizabeth driving to Government House on arrival at Ottawa for the Royal Tour (19 May 1939) Objects - 16 Vauxhall Cadet - V8 Ford Coupé - V8 de Luxe Ford Tudor sedan - Rock Garden at Appledore, Rockcliffe (various views) - ‘Views of our garden taken by representatives of L’Illustration & sent to us as a Christmas card by M & Mde. A. Brugére (French Minister to Canada) on leave in Paris’ - Steamship Georgie (New York-Bermuda) - Royal Canadian Navy Training Shooner Venture (various views) - Century Plans or Yuccas - Typical low slung wagon, Bermuda - Poinsettia Tree, Bermuda - Coral block Quarry, Bermuda - Canadian Colonial Airways Plane People - Ethel Jean (Fleming) & George Chapman (as Self): depicted throughout the album - Jocelyn Chapman - Mr & Mrs R.C. Reece (Winnipeg) - Prof. Ferguson (Edmonton) - Marjorie Synge - Mrs Pike - Noreen Pike - Oswald & Violet Howden - Robbie, Nan & Mrs McDouall

- Carol & Margot Hardinge - Dickie Moore-Lane - Charles & Bertha Philips - Frank & Bertha Chapman - Henry & Olive Hardy - Joe & Kitty Gay - Sybil Reeves - Mr Gay - Susan Crookended - Jessie, David & Joan Barrington - Peter, Marie & J.A. Wilson - Marie & Burton Wilkes - Sylvia & Bill Hynes - Hyacinth Lambart - Ethel & Hugh Fleming - Marion Pugsley - Norah Ahearn - Alee Hills - Patricia Kenny - Alice Harrington - Mr Stringer - Grace Daly - Edith Blackburn - Shirley Hamilton - Phylis Stewart - Violet Chapman & Gordon Home - D`Egville - Roy McLaren & Ike Robertson - Mary Grant - Claire Robertson - Roy MacLaren - Comm. “Eddie” Hastings - Ian Howden - Olga LeCourt - Roger & John Rowley - Ian Brackey - Senator J.A. Calder (‘my philatelic friend’) - Commodore Percy & Helen Nelles - Dolly McEuen - Mrs & Mr Shoulden Redfern (‘Secretary to H.E. Lord Tweedsmuir’) - Jackie Meikle - Delia Cronier (‘our maid’) - Gen. & Mrs Wright - Mrs Dunlap - Claire Keefer - Morris Murray - Marjorie & David Key - Phyllis Stewart

- Marie Fleck - Maurice Macdougal - Bob Reissman - Max & Patty Allen