Charles Priestley's Page

Can anyone help to identify the author of this portrait of Camille de Polignac, the future major-general in the Confederate States Army, as a young man in the uniform of the French 4th Hussars during the Crimean War?See More

My mother's father was in the Indian Civil Service, and both sides of her family had long connections with India.  After my parents' deaths, I found in a drawer an album containing about 20 albumen prints of ruins from the Indian Mutiny in Lucknow and Cawnpore, with pencilled captions above or below each of them in a large, old-fashioned hand.  From a note on one of the pages, it looks as if the album was put together in 1894.  A number of these prints are remarkably similar to photographs…See More