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Photograph album titled, 'The Junior Institution of Engineers - Photographs'. This high quality album, leather bound and inscribed, was presented as an empty volume to the JIE, by members in 1903. There is an inscription in the front which reads, 'presented to the institution by Mr Robert B Ellis and Mr Ernest C Roche (members), October 1903'. The album originally came in a detailed embroidered cloth cover which can be found at IIE/IMGTechE/SPE/04 (conserved). The album contains photographs of member meetings and visits, primarily from the 1903 to 1909 period including the following images; Page 1. Summer meeting 1903, Sheffield and Peak District Group at Hadfields Steel Foundry. Also 5 small photographs from USA; Waterside Power Station, New York; Lake Superior; Hold of SS Augustus Wolvin, Lake Superior; SS St Paul, Mississipi River; and Steamer Puritan. Page 2. USA/Canada photographs; Boston Overhead Electric power station; SS Pilgrim, New York to Boston; Waterside Power House, New York; SS Toronto, Lake Ontario; screw cutting machine, New Jersey; SS North West, Lake Superior; Boston Overhead Electric, train lines; 4 individuals alongside a field gun, 'Long Cecil' of Kimberley including W Berry (works manager), G Paley (Assistant Engineer), G J Labrum (Chief Engineer, killed by Boer shell, 9 February 1900) and E Goffe (JIE, Chief Draftsman). Page 3. USA/Canada photographs; McGill College laboratory, Montreal; timber raft on Mississippi; Boston Overhead Electric (2 photographs); freight steamer, Great Lakes; West Point cadet, St Louis; waiting at lock, Lake Superior; SS Puritan, New York to Boston; SS North West, Lake Superior; Great Lakes steamer; whaleback steamers (2 photographs); SS Augustus Wolvin (4,000 tons). Pages 4 and 5. Dover Harbour photographs, 9 July 1904 including; temporary staging; drawing a pile; loading dredgings; block setting; dredging with grab; and diver at work. Pages 4 to 7. German summer meeting 1904 photographs including; Hanover; Dusseldorf; Berlin canal; Mariondorf; and Elberfeld. Pages 8 and 9. Various UK photographs including; Roker Pier works, Sunderland; Blackpool; leaving Plymouth for the Tamar; Saltash Bridge; at Cawsand near Plymouth; headquarters at Plymouth; headquarters at Blackpool; Sheffield trip, stretching their legs; arrival at British Griffin Steel works, Barrow; monument near Sheffield; on the river Tamar; and driving into Sheffield; Pages 10 and 11. Various UK photographs including; at Dorking waterworks; SS Queen, Dover; Dover Harbour works; Dorking; in Glory Woods, Dorking; Staines reservoirs (4 photographs); pumping engines, Kempton Park; and Kempton Park. Pages 12 and 13. Belgian visit photographs including; Antwerp photographs; Messrs Cockerill's works, Seraing (4 photographs including colliery girls); 'our headquarters at Liege'; and Ghent. Pages 14 and 15. Southport, Avonmouth and Wigan photographs including; gas works, Southport; new lock at Avonmouth; a Southport tram; headquarters at Southport 1906; and Douglas Bank Colliery, Wigan (several photographs including 'pit brow girls'). Page 16. Single large photograph of Scottish Summer meeting, 1907, reception at Municipal Buildings, Glasgow. Page 17. 4 scenic photographs without titles. Page 18. Single large photograph in mount for the visit of the JIE to the Metropolitan Water Board, Staines Reservoirs Communication Works, Fortis Green Reservoirs, 23 March 1907. Page 19. Single large photograph of group at Messrs Cadbury's Works, Bourneville, 1909. Page 20. Mixed photographs including; suspended railway, Langen; Peak Cavern 1903; Electric Light Station, Walthamstow (2); Ferro concrete jetty, Hornchurch (2); and dock cranes, Dusseldorf. Page 21. Single large photograph of a visit to the National Gas Engine Company's works, 1906. H N Bickerton, the founder of the National Gas Engine Company, is seated on the right of the 3 women on the front row. Page 22. Single large photograph of a group. Page 23. Single photograph of a medallion showing an etching of Henry John Young (1869-1905), Chairman of the JIE 1894-96. Page 24. March 1960 photograph of visit to Yorkshire Electricity Board, Melton Control room. Page 25. Single large mounted photograph of JIE Summer meeting in the Midlands, 1909, visit to Cadbury Brothers' Bourneville works, 20 August 1909. Page 27. Photograph of an individual having a drink with the caption 'over sixty years a 'junior' and still young'.