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  1. 2010.036.0001 - Print, Photographic

    Sepia toned photograph portrait of Samuel (Sam) Osbourne (Fanny's first husband and father of Isobel and Lloyd). Along the bottom in pencil is written "S. O. Feb. 1863".

    Record Type: Photo

    Sam Osbourne
  2. 2010.053.0001 - Print, Photographic

    Black and white photograph showing Isobel Field on the deck of a ship, seated in a wicker chair and going through some scrapbooks. She wears all white. Believed to be circa 1930.

    Record Type: Photo

    Isobel Field
  3. 2010.055.0001 - Print, Photographic

    Reproduction black and white photograph of Robert Louis Stevenson playing his Flageolet in his bed in Madeira Cottage in Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii

    Record Type: Photo

    RLS playing his flageolet in bed, Hawaii
  4. 2010.057.0001 - Print, Photographic

    Black and white photograph postcard of Ned Field wearing his US Navy uniform.

    Record Type: Photo

    Ned Field
  5. 2010.061.0002 - Print, Photographic

    This is an enlargement of a black and white photograph of Teuila writing from Robert Louis Stevenson's dictations near the end of his life. In the library at Vailima, Samoa. No note or anything is written on this image.

    Record Type: Photo

    Robert Louis Stevenson dictacting to Teuila, Vailima, Samoa
  6. 2010.067.0002 - Print, Photographic

    Black and white photograph reproduction of Fanny van de Grift Stevenson (Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson). She is wearing a black dress with white lace accents and a black hat with shear ribbon holding it to her head. She stands in front of a wall covered in ethnic chevron patterned paper (South Pacific Islander?) and part of a round basket hanging on the wall can be seen to either side of her head. note: circa late 1890s

    Record Type: Photo

    Copy: Fanny Stevenson circa late 1890s
  7. 2010.084.0001 - Print, Photographic

    This is a copy of a rare black and white photograph of Robert Louis Stevenson smiling. note: possible that the photographer was Lloyd Osbourne c. 1889.

    Record Type: Photo

    RLS smiling
  8. 2011.003.0001 - Print, Photographic

    This is a page removed from a scrapbook, with a black and white albumen photograph on each side. Side A: a photograph captioned as "RLS and Isobel Strong, his amanuensis, in the library at Vailima." it is an unusual image in which they are both seated, and RLS is writing on his lap. Side B: a photogrpah with no caption, it shows a bearded man (Captin Otis?) standing with a group of people seated all around him and looking up at him - RLS and ...

    Record Type: Photo

    RLS & Belle in the library at Vailima
  9. 2011.004.0001 - Print, Photographic

    A good quality reprint of a black and white photograph of Fanny Stevenson. Image circa 1890, as she wears a South Seas holoku style dress. Taken with her seated in a photographer's studio.

    Record Type: Photo

    Fanny Stevenson, circa 1890
  10. 2011.039.0003 - Print, Photographic

    Black and white photograph reproduction of a sketch of Robert Louis Stevenson originally "drawn by Peter Severin Kroyer, made at Cernay-la-Ville, 20 June, 1879."

    Record Type: Photo

    2011.039.0003
  11. 2011.051.0001 - Print, Photographic

    Photograph of an unknown bust of a man, presumably Robert Louis Stevenson.

    Record Type: Photo

    Photo of unknown bust of a man (RLS?)
  12. 2011.069.0001 - Print, Photographic

    Black and white photograph of Robert Louis Stevenson with the following caption: "Robert Louis Stevenson / A copy of his last photograph taken in Sydney, Australia, in 1894, a few months before his death." Between the bottom of the photo and the text is the handwritten note (ALS) "with alofa from Teuila." by Isobel Field. note: appears to have been another photo card she had made for distribution.

    Record Type: Photo

    Last photo of RLS - card by Isobel Field (Teuila ALS)
  13. 2011.070.0001 - Print, Photographic

    Black and white photograph of Robert Louis Stevenson with the following caption: "Robert Louis Stevenson / A copy of his last photograph taken in Sydney, Australia, in 1894, a few months before his death." note: appears to have been another photo card she had made for distribution. marked in pencil on back "25¢"

    Record Type: Photo

    Last photo of RLS (1894), card by Isobel Field
  14. 2011.071.0001 - Carte-de-visite

    Original black and white albumen carte-de-visite. Robert Louis Stevenson as a young man, with Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson (to proper left), and RLS's tutor, in classics and phylosiphy, Archibald Bisset (standing behind). Photo by T.J. Bonne, Edinburgh. Note: both RAMS and RLS hold pipes in their hands, RLS also holds a hammer upside down in the other hand, the three men pose inside of a faux arch window around which is a decorative vine.

    Record Type: Photo

    RAM Stevenson, Henry Enfield and RLS circa 1868-1875
  15. 2011.075.0001 - Print, Photographic

    This is an original albumen photograph showing the dead Robert Louis Stevenson lying in state during the night of December 3-4, 1894. The deathbed is attended by Sosimo.

    Record Type: Photo

    Sosimo next to RLS lying in state, Dec. 3-4, 1894
  16. 2011.075.0003 - Print, Photographic

    Copy of the original albumen photograph showing the dead Robert Louis Stevenson lying in state during the night of December 3-4, 1894. The deathbed is attended by Sosimo.

    Record Type: Photo

    Copy: The deathbed of Robert Louis Stevenson. 1894
  17. 2011.077.0001 - Print, Photographic

    Old enlargement and copy of an original studio portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson standing, wearing a velvet smoking jacket and holding a cigarette in one hand. Taken in New York, NY in 1887 by the James Notman Studio. note: in bottom left corner, embossed mark cut-off - part reads "GURREY"

    Record Type: Photo

    RLS studio portrait, James Notman Studio, NY 1887
  18. 2011.078.0001 - Print, Photographic

    Copy of a photograph taken in 1854 by John Moffat in Edinburgh, Scotland, of a young (youth, child) Robert Louis Stevenson, at age 3, wearing a cape (blue merino pelisse, trimmed with astrachan, and wearing an ostrich-plume hat) made by Allison Cunningham, and a feathered hat. note: one version captions this image "'Smout' in nursery days"

    Record Type: Photo

    'Smout' in nursery days (RLS at age 3) 1854, Edinburgh, by J. Moffat
  19. 2011.078.0004 - Print, Photographic

    Printed copy of an original photograph of young Robert Louis Stevenson, age 19. Full-length studio portrait with velvet coat and leaning on ornate upholstered chair. Note: RLS passed through London in Sept and Oct 1870 on the way to Cockfield.

    Record Type: Photo

    Print: RLS, age 19, London 1870
  20. 2011.078.0007 - Print, Photographic

    Copy of an original photograph of young Robert Louis Stevenson, age 23. RLS wearing white felt hat and velvet jacket. 'Called by the family "Lou in the baronet's hat"' (Masson 32) Note: RLS arrived back in Swanston on 12 July and on 22 left for a cruise of the Inner Hebrides with Walter Simpson.

    Record Type: Photo

    Copy: photo of RLS, age 23, Edinburgh, July 1874

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