| Description | Small collection of items marked "From Josephine Ogston's Desk". Josephine Elizabeth Ogston (née Carter), died in Oxford in 1962 and these items were found in her desk.
1. Studio portrait (6.5 x 10.5 cm) of Annie Skinner taken in 1882.
2. Studio portrait of Bronis Carter (6.5 x 10.5 cm). [Bronis [Stanley Bronislaw b. 1882] was Josephine Ogston's elder brother]
3. Greetings card (18 x 23 cm) depicting a sailor leaving his girl with a suitable verse, dated 11 February 1815
4. [Restricted due to condition, contains moss herbarium and feathers] Embossed paper doily (9 x 12 cm) decorated with appliqué of doves on nest -"Beginning House-keeping". Written on the back is the name Fanny Leonard.
5. Embossed paper card with flowers and birds inscribed with quotation. On the back is written Fanny W. Leonard, 2 Salisbury St. London. [Fanny (née Warren) was the wife of Josephine Ogston's
grandmother's brother John William "Uncle Jack".]
6. Studio portrait (3 copies, 6.5 x 10.5 cm) of Elsie Carter; Elsie (Alice Gray) in BA hood and gown. [Elsie Carter was Josephine Ogston's elder sister (b.1880, d. 1909). She became a nun and worked in Istanbul but died of pneumonia just before Josephine and Walter Henry Ogston's wedding in December 1909.]
7. 5 x 5 cm sepia photo of possibly Elsie Carter sitting in a garden reading.
8. 30 x 30 cm lace handkerchief
9. A pair of very small 27 x 6.5 cm ladies fawn soft leather gloves. Inscribed inside: Army and Navy O.S.L.R., E 8435, 8 Registered, Made in France.
10. Safety Pin Case (28 x 7.5 cm), embroidered cloth case with wool liner for safety pins
11. Silhouette of Walter Henry Ogston inscribed in pencil 'W.H.O. at 19'
12. Wrapping Paper - A 25 x 34 cm piece of wrapping paper. On the front is inscribed Miss Margaret Cadenhead, Union Place, Aberdeen and on the other 'I hope you will excuse the folding of it'. There is a water mark "Fellows 1812".
13. Unidentified portrait photograph of woman and boy (c. 1900), round, c. 5.5 cm diameter, in gilt frame
14. 10 x 11 cm engraving of Scottish gentleman (c. 1800) in wooden frame with suspension ring. [Now boxed separately; possibly the work of James Cadenhead, JEO's uncle] |