Janus: The Papers of Sir Alan Lascelles

Churchill/LASL II contains:
1	Letters to his wife, Joan Lascelles
2	Letters from his wife, Joan Lascelles
3	Letters to Alan Lascelles and Joan Lascelles from their children
4	Additional correspondence
5	'End of an Era: Letters and Journals of Sir Alan Lascelles 1887-1920'
6	Photographs
7	Official papers
8	'Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man'
9	Artefacts

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The Papers of Sir Alan Lascelles

Title	Photographs
Reference	LASL II/6
Covering Dates	1905–1968
Extent and Medium	21 files or volumes

Content and context

Mainly comprising family photographs.

For further photographs, see LASL 13.

Churchill/LASL II/6 contains:

Photographs of Alan Lascelles' daughter, Caroline Lascelles. All the photographs are black-and-white.
1 file.

Portrait photograph of Lady Dorothy Osborne [later Dorothy Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne] by Rita Martin of 74 Baker Street, London. Lady Dorothy Osborne was the daughter of George Osborne, 10th Duke of Leeds, and sister of Lady Guendolen Osborne, a close friend of Alan Lascelles, who corresponded with him during the First World War.
1 file.

1908

Photographs of Alan Lascelles' home, the Old Stables, Kensington Palace, London.
2 files.

1939–1966

Photographs of Queen Elizabeth II. Comprising black-and-white photographs of Queen Elizabeth II, undated (2), and a colour photograph of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and their children (their Christmas card for 1968), 1968 (1).
1 file.

1968

Colour photograph of a portrait of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother. Her Christmas card for 1968.
1 file.

1968

Family photographs.
3 files.

1934–1944

Photographs of Alan Lascelles. Mainly comprising photographs of Alan Lascelles in later life at his home, the Old Stables, Kensington Palace, London, undated (20). The photographs are black-and-white and colour. For a copy of one of the photographs, see also LASL 8/6/3. For photographs of Alan Lascelles in his youth, see also LASL 13/1.
1 file.

Photographs of Canada.
3 files.

1931–1935

First World War postcards. Mainly comprising a series of postcards titled 'Somewhere in France' by M. Crété. Including an image of a tank, 1915.
1 file.

1915–1916

Photograph album of Canada. Alan Lascelles was Secretary to Lord Bessborough [Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough], Governor General of Canada, 1931-5. Including photographs of Rideau Hall, the Governor General's official residence in Ottawa (also known as Government House), 1931; Lord Bessborough being sworn in at Halifax, 1931; Lord Bessborough's ADCs, Sir John Child and Robin Steuart-French ("John Child in uniform and out"), undated [1931 and 1932]; the Lascelles family on summer holidays at Mackay Lake, undated [1931 and 1932]; Charles Lindbergh's seaplane at Rockliffe Aerodrome, 1931; views of Montreal, undated [1931]; Alan and Joan Lascelles on a fishing trip to 31 Mile Lake, undated [1931]; the Lascelles family skiing, sledging, skating and playing ice hockey in the winter, with Lord Bessborough and his eldest son, Lord Duncannon [Frederick Edward Neuflize Ponsonby, later 10th Earl of Bessborough, known as Eric Bessborough], among others, 1931 and [1932]; aerial views of New York, including the recently completed Chrysler Building, undated [1932]; presentation of the Colours to the Governor General's Footguards, 1932; the Lascelles family at Tadoussac and Medicine Lake, undated [1932]; Rideau Cottage and the rock garden, undated [1932]; Lord Bessborough presiding over the Opening of the Parliamentary Session, 1932; press cuttings about the Imperial Economic Conference in Ottawa, including Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Leo Amery, Lord Hailsham [Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham] and Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [later 1st Earl of Swinton], 1932; and the Lascelles family on holiday by the sea in an unidentified location, undated. All the photographs are black-and-white.
1 volume.

1931–1935

Scrapbook of Canada. Alan Lascelles was Secretary to Lord Bessborough [Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough], Governor General of Canada, 1931-5. Comprising press cutting photographs of Lord Bessborough, Lady Bessborough [Roberte Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, née Roberte de Neuflize], and their children, Lady Moyra Ponsonby, Lord Duncannon [Frederick Edward Neuflize Ponsonby, later 10th Earl of Bessborough, known as Eric Bessborough], and George Ponsonby. Including press cutting photographs of the interior of Rideau Hall, the Governor General's official residence in Ottawa, and of Margaret Thesiger, Victor Gordon-Ives, Edward Colville [later Major-General Edward Colville], Lady Child [Sheila Child], wife of Sir John Child, Colonel Eric Mackenzie, and the Duke and Duchess of Kent [Prince George, Duke of Kent, and Princess Marina] on their wedding day. Also with a press cutting photograph of the Dionne quintuplets.
1 volume.

1931–1935

Photograph album of Trinity College, Oxford. Alan Lascelles was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Oxford, 1905-9. Including photographs of the buildings of Trinity College, undated; Trinity freshmen's photograph, 1905; Caledonian Club dinner, 1905; Trinity and Magdalen Grind [a college steeplechase], 1906; Christ Church Grind, 1906 and 1907; Trinity Eight, 1906; Trinity college barge, 1906; Trinity Bump Supper, 1906; Trinity Grind, including Alan Lascelles on Bridge, 1907; Trinity and Balliol Grind dinner, 1907; Trinity and Balliol Grind, including Julian Grenfell on Buccaneer, [1908 or 1909]; Trinity and Balliol Grind, including Alan Lascelles on Norah, 1909; a group of students, one in a mortarboard and BA gown, outside a house in Holywell Street, undated [1909]; and snapshot photographs of Julian Grenfell and Alan Parsons, undated (2). All the photographs are black-and-white.
1 volume.

1905–1909

Holiday photograph album. Including photographs of Gibraltar; Malta; Naples (including pasta drying in the open air), Pompeii, Rome, Florence and Pisa, Italy; Weymouth, Portland and Chesil Beach, Dorset (some hand-coloured); and Port Said, Egypt. Some of locations in the photographs are unidentified. All the photographs are black-and-white, unless otherwise specified.
1 volume.

Photograph of the officers of the Bedfordshire Yeomanry at Stansted, Essex. Photograph by Fred Spalding & Sons, Chelmsford.
1 item.

1915

Photograph album of India. Comprising a photograph album of the visit of the Viceroy of India, Lord Chelmsford, to Mysore. Alan Lascelles' wife, Joan, was the daughter of Lord Chelmsford [Frederick John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford], Viceroy of India, 1916-21.
1 volume.

1916–1921

Photograph of Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States. With a personal dedication ("to Alan Lascelles from his friend Franklin D. Roosevelt"). Framed in a blue leather picture frame stamped with the coat of arms of the United States.
1 item.

1933–1945