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People and events of the Week - Lord Nelson, who recently succeeded to the title, holding his ancestor's famous telescope
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magazine cutting
Europe: United Kingdom
1947
paper
overall: 135 mm x 82 mm

Picture story from a magazine, showing the 87-year old Edward Nelson, fifth Earl Nelson (great great nephew of Admiral Lord Nelson) holding a long naval telescope before the garden facade of a Georgian-style house (Trafalgar Park, Salisbury). Sepia-tone. Formerly page 498 of an unknown publication, possibly the Illustrated London News.


2019.767

College purchase, 2019



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