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August 21, 1877

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 4 older comments, and then…
• Jim Griffin said:

  Great period photo.

• Margaret Taylor2010 said:

  Love it.

• E U A N © said:

  What was the Photograph House?

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  E U A N © The Dillon family (Barons Clonbrock) were enthusiastic amateur photographers through a couple of generations, and the Clonbrock photos in our collections and that I've uploaded here were taken by various members of the Dillon family. There was a studio and darkroom in the grounds of Clonbrock House, hence the Photo House / Photograph House...

• Stuart said:

  National Library of Ireland on The Commons I'd guess so too. It would be great to know what he worked at and even better to know their names. It's rare to see pictures of 'ordinary' people from that period.

Plantation owner with his wife and servants

from National Science and Media Museum

• Ian Hunter said:

  I wonder if the servants were paid, or if they were slaves. I don't know the history from that era.

• Kevin Duke said:

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Curraghmore House meets Downton Abbey

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 9 older comments, and then…
• José Miguel LLop Sanchez said:

  fantastic shot

• Aleksandr Sukhov said:

  Да!

• Marta said:

  Billiant shot!!!!!

• Spidra Webster said:

  Utterly bizarre that their actual hair is powdered. Even in the heyday of powdering, it was wigs they were using it on, was it not?

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Spidra Webster Apparently not! It was their own hair that was powdered...