Red leather album with gold embossed three-line border around the edge and the title 'Crimean Portraits 1854 to 1856' stamped onto the cover and spine. The album contains 106 photographs of soldiers from different regiments who served in the Crimean War. Included in the album are portraits of wounded soldiers at Chatham Military Hospital which were commissioned by Queen Victoria and taken by Joseph Cundall and Robert Howlett. The album also contains several of Roger Fenton's photographs from the Crimea. Many of the photographs in this album have been reproduced in carbon. RCINs 2500123 - 2500228.