Schoolteacher’s Album

Schoolteacher’s Album – examining paintings, on the left side there is a watercolour of a pale woman with dark hair looking to her right, wearing a dark red top over a blue undershirt and on the right is of purple flower study winding up the page.

Identification

  • Object Type: Album/Book
  • Date: 1903
  • Origin: Glasgow, Scotland
  • Owner: Private
  • Maker: Cathie S. Allan, et al.
  • Measurements: (closed)
    • Length: 24 cm
    • Width: 19 cm
    • Depth: 3.5 cm
  • Materials: Paper, Leather, Textile, Paints, Inks, Photographs

Summary

This object is an album of artworks, poetry and prose, originally created in 1903 by a Scottish schoolteacher, Cathie S. Allan, who attended Dundas Vale Training College for teachers in Glasgow, and features entries both by her and her friends, family, peers and colleagues – each dating from across the early 1900s. Treatment mainly involved repairs to the cover and fragile areas of binding. 

Behind the Scenes

Schoolteacher’s Album – outer cover of book, in a dark faded cream colour with yellow and silver embroidery depicting framed initials and flower design.
Outer cover of the album.
Schoolteacher’s Album – examining paintings, on the left side there is a watercolour of a pale woman with dark hair looking to her right, wearing a dark red top over a blue undershirt and on the right is of purple flower study winding up the page.
Example of the paintings inside the album.

The conservator who treated this object is Robert, click on the profile to learn more.

Note: All images were taken by the conservator unless stated otherwise.

Rob, a white man in his early 20s with medium length brown hair, a short beard and round glasses. He is sat facing the camera whilst smiling and looking off to his right. He is wearing a dark long-sleeve shirt with a small silver leaf pin on the front. The photo is in black and white.

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The manuscript after treatment. It has a decorative heading with smaller black writing underneath. Red lines are used to guide the writing.
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Parchment document – unfolded prior to treatment. The faded cream parchment has multiple areas of damage including a loss in the upper right middle. The parchment is hand illustrated at the top and the calligraphy is in black ink spanning across the bottom section of the parchment. There is an engraving style print of a woman in the top left corner.
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