Peter’s Album
This page presents photographs of the cover and every page from Peter’s Album, a collection of family and school photographs from Peter Tranchell’s birth in 1922 through to 1937, assembled and annotated by - we presume - his mother, though more than one hand is evident. A few annotations are in PAT’s own adult hand.
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Album pages, contents, and texts
To help users and search engines find material of interest in the album, the table below is an index of content with the texts transcribed. Text in square brackets [blah] indicates uncertainty in reading the handwriting.
| Page | Contents | Text |
|---|---|---|
| Front cover | Album title | Peter’s Album |
| Inside front cover | Floral decoration. Brown paper outer cover stuck down with sticker torn into four quarters, two here and two inside the back cover, the sticker bearing the caption "TAKE CARE", broad lines, and a decorative border including swastika at each corner (a common pre-WW2 design). | -- |
| Page 1 | Text only. Date originally written as 24th, corrected to 14th, possibly suggesting the album was compiled some years later. | Peter Andrew Tranchell born Friday, July 14th 1922. |
| Page 2 | 2 photographs, 3 texts |
Government Hospital, Cuddalore. S. Arcot India Maternity Section, showing private ward, where Peter was born. Peter, 2 days old, & his mother. |