| ID | 6225 |
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| Description | c20 volumes of personal and excursion diaries of the photographer and amateur naturalist, Robert J Welch (1859-1936), including a cartoon sketch of Welch at work by Rosamund Praeger, Connemara, May 1894. Collection of c15,000 photographs and photographic negatives, which include numerous images of women. For example: The R J Welch Collection of c6000 glass plate negatives of Irish subjects including industry, rural crafts and social conditions. The following is a selection of some of the material which is available: Black and white photograph of 'Janet' the dulce seller outside her seaweed-thatched cabin, Antrim Coast Road, County Antrim, c1890. Black and white photograph of a female fish-hawker with a donkey and cart and 2 women in Inver, near Larne, County Antrim, c1887-1888. Black and white photograph of a woman in a doorway with children in Rapheal Street, Belfast, 23 January 1912. Black and white photograph of market day, including women in the scene, Clonbur, County Galway, no date. Black and white photograph of 2 women and a girls pictured outside a cabin, Glencolumkille, County Donegal, 1890. Black and white photograph of women attending a lace-making class, Ardara, County Donegal, 1891. Black and white photograph of a woman at White Abbey ruins, County Antrim, no date, c1900. Black and white photograph of crowds, including women, assembled outside Belfast City Hall for the signing of the unionist Solemn League and Covenant on Ulster Day, 28 September 1912. Black and white photograph of women flowering linen outside a farmhouse, County Down, 1912. Black and white photograph of woman disembarking from a motor omnibus at the Rosapenna Hotel, County Donegal, no date, c1890s. Black and white photograph of a woman with 2 children seated at the round tower, Tory Island, 12 July 1910. Black and white photograph of women taking tea on the veranda of the Rosapenna Hotel, County Donegal, no date, c1890s. Black and white photograph of 2 women, members of the McAllister family, finishing potato beds, Glenshesk, County Antrim, c1900. Black and white photograph of a woman seated at her spinning wheel outside a cottage, Rosapenna, County Donegal, no date, c1900. Black and white photograph of a woman, named as Mary Heraghty, grinding corn in a rotary quern outside a cottage, Inishmurray, County Sligo, 12 September 1900. Black and white photograph of 2 women at work gathering seaweed at Fair Head, County Antrim, c1895. Black and white photograph of 2 girls and a woman pictured outside a cabin in Connemara, County Galway, c1905. Black and white photograph of 2 women in traditional dress at the Giant's Causeway, County Antrim, c1895. Black and white photograph of a family, including 2 women, pictured outside a newly built cottage in Tuam, County Galway, c1905. Black and white photograph of a woman seated by the fire in the kitchen of a cottage, Ballynahinch, County Down, c1910. Black and white photograph of a woman taking eggs and butter to market by donkey, County Sligo, c1895. Black and white photograph of an elderly woman spinning woollen yarn outside a cottage, County Sligo, c1900. Black and white photograph of 4 women sorting herrings at Ardglass, County Down, c1890. Black and white photograph of fish-girls gutting and salting herrings, Ardglass, County Down, 1930. Black and white photograph of women at work in the finishing room of McCaw, Stevenson and Orr, printing works, Belfast, 1899. Black and white group photograph, including 5 women, curing herrings at Rosapenna, County Donegal, c1912. Black and white group photograph of woman and girls, employees of the Killybegs Carpet Factory, County Donegal, c1900. Black and white group photograph, including women, playing golf, Ballycastle, County Antrim, c1910. Useful publications are E Estyn Evans and Brian S Turner, 'Ireland's Eye: The photographs of Robert John Welch' (Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 1977); 'A list of the photographs in the R J Welch Collection in the Ulster Museum, 1: Topography and History' (Ulster Museum, Belfast, 1979) and Myrtle Hill and Vivienne Pollock, 'Image and experience: photographs of Irish women, c1880-1920' (Belfast, 1993). The Alex R Hogg Collection of c5500 glass plate negatives plus many lantern slides, including industry, social conditions and portraits. The following is a selection of some of the material which is available: Black and white photograph of women weavers at work, pictured beside a Jacquard loom in a Belfast factory, c1900. Black and white group photograph of women at work in the laundry room of the Edgar Home for Fallen Women, Belfast, c1900. Black and white photograph of a woman with a child pumping water, c1910. Black and white photograph of women bottling and labelling in J and J McConnell Breweries Limited, Belfast c1914. Black and white photograph of a uniformed nurse assisting at an eye operation at the Benn Hospital, Clifton Street, Belfast, c1910. Black and white photograph of a woman pictured with her family outside the family mill, Lagan Valley, c1905. Black and white photograph of an elderly washerwoman washing at a sink, c1905. Black and white photograph of Miss McCloy seated at a piano, Belfast, 1917. Black and white group photograph of women attending a class in Belfast Municipal College of Technology, c1902. Black and white group photograph of women attending a cookery class in Belfast Municipal College of Technology, c1902. Black and white photograph of the platform party, including the Duchess of Abercorn and Lady Dufferin at the first annual general meeting of the Ulster Women's Unionist Council in the Ulster Hall, Belfast, 18 January 1912. Black and white photograph of artist and sculptor, Sophia Rosamund Praeger pictured with some examples of her work in her studio, no date. |
| Access | Contact Repository. |
| Date | c1890-1930 |
| Century | 19th, 20th |
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| Repository Name | Ulster Museum, Belfast |
| Address | Botanic Gardens Belfast |
| UK Postal Code | BT9 5AB |
| Telephone | +44 28-9044-0000 |
| Email Address | info@nmni.com |
| Repository Web Address | https://www.nmni.com/home.aspx |
| Comment | Some of the information listed from this repository has been extracted from lists available in the museum. The lists were compiled by museum staff and we are grateful for their assistance. Due to time constraints not all items in this repository were examined individually. |
| latitude | 54.58223 |
| longitude | -5.93582 |