Dorothy Searle photograph album, 1914-1917.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Searle, Dorothy, 1888?-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's Land Army (Great Britain)--Pictorial works.

Women's Land Army (Great Britain).

World War, 1914-1918--Women--Great Britain--Pictorial works.

World War, 1914-1918.

Blenheim Palace (England).

Photograph albums.

Agriculture--Great Britain--20th century.

Agriculture.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Photographs.

Snapshots.

Photograph albums.

Manuscripts, English.

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Pickering & Chatto Antiquarian Booksellers (London, England), 2011.

Physical Description:

1 volume + 3 folders

Place of Publication:

1914-1917.

Biography/History:

Dorothy Searle, who served in England's Women's Land Army and who is the presumed daughter of Charles Edward and Mary Searle, was born around the year 1888. Dorothy's father--Charles Edward Searle (b. 1829)--was a clergyman and the Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge; he died in 1902. Dorothy had four siblings: Charles Frederick (b. 1883), who served in World War I as a Lieutenant in the 1st East Anglian Field Ambulence; Mary E. (b. 1884); William Charles (b. 1889); and Walter R. (b. 1890).

Summary:

This photograph album with a print-fabric cover contains Dorothy Searle's snapshots pasted on paper with handwritten captions. The inside front cover reads: "Dorothy Searle, Pembroke Cottage, Cambridge, July 1914." Several photographs of Searle's family and friends, including her mother and her brothers in uniform at the beginning of World War I, are contained in the album. Many of the photographs capture Searle's service in the Women's Land Army from 1915 to 1917, for which she worked on several farms. Searle was in Leicestershire for six weeks: images from there depict, hay making, bee keeping, and raking. In 1916 Searle served at the Duke of Marlborough's farm at Blenheim Palace. Recorded are several photographs in the cow yards. Later she worked for Mr. Ayres, Shepherd's Farm, Chorley Wood, Hertshire, where depictions of potato picking, work horses in the fields, and payday lines at the barn are captured. Also included in the album are photographs of leisure time and soldiers, including Horace, from whom Dorothy Searle received a postcard (Folder 3) while he was serving in Alexandria, Egypt in 1915. Other correspondence includes letters from William Gavin of the farms office of the Duke of Marlborough Farms (Folder 2), including one letter regarding her departure from the farm. Fourteen loose photographs (Folder 1), an information card about Blenheim Palace, and a program for a Union Party luncheon held at Blenheim Palace in 1912 (Folder 2) are also included.

OCLC:

758674089