Alfred D Taylor Scrapbook

Reference

SCR95

Date:

1780 - 1912

Level of description

item

Extent

1 volume

Scope and Content

Scrapbook compiled by Alfred D Taylor, collector of cricketania.

Page 2: drawing of W G Grace's head
Page 3: drawing of badges, caps and colours of first-class county cricket clubs
Page 4: picture of the crowd watching the Yorkshire vs. Surrey match at Bramall Lane, Sheffield
Page 5: portraits of the twelfth team of Australian Cricketers
Page 6-7: pictures by Reinhold Thiele of cricketers batting, bowling and fielding
Page 8: admission ticket for the South African Eleven vs. Earl of Sheffield's Eleven, 22-23 May 1894; cigarette cards of P F Warner and A Stone
Page 9: advertisement for George Hirst's 1d Yorkshire Toffee; photographs of the London County vs. Cambridge teams and London County vs. Australia teams
Page 10: cartoon by [FR] entitled 'A Test! 7 1/2 to 11'
Page 11: cartoon by J Wilson entitled 'Stopped by a Squall!'
Page 12: drawing by [HCT] of ladies playing cricket
Page 13: cartoon of a Frenchman, M Dufour, attempting to play cricket
Page 14: drawing of cricket at Sevenoaks Vine, 1780; scorecard from a match between Kent and Sussex in 1845
Page 15: picture of Joseph Sykes wearing a fancy dress costume resembling both a cricketer and a footballer; cartoon drawing of P F Warner shaking hands with a kangaroo and holding an 'Ashes' trophy; advertisement for 'The Wandering Players' theatre
Page 16: programme for an Amateur Theatricals event at the Alhambra Theatre in Brighton on behalf of Sussex County Cricket Club in 1908; notification of a dinner to H H The Jam Sahib of Nawangar [K S Ranjitisnhji] by Sussex County Cricket Club
Page 17: advertisement for a grand bazaar in aid of Sussex County Cricket Club at the Dome and Corn Exchange in Brighton in April 1904; report on the Sussex vs. Kent match in 1845
Page 18: tickets for the Sussex vs. Surrey match in 1904 (F W Marlow's benefit) and Sussex vs. Yorkshire in 1901 (Fred Tate's benefit); team photographs of the Australian teams in 1878, 1880 and 1882
Page 19: team photographs of Derbyshire and Surrey in 1878, Nottinghamshire in 1866 and 1884 and Surrey in 1883
Page 20: pictures showing how a cricket ball is made from cork
Page 21: photograph of Leach and E B Dwyer; photograph of the Pavilion at Torquay before it was destroyed by fire on 16 March 1906; photograph of Lord's underwater; admission ticket for Gentlemen vs. Players (H Stubberfield's Benefit Match) in September 1902
Page 22: cartoon by D B Muir entitled 'Ranji flouts our courts', 1908
Page 23: article on K S Ranjitsinhji's return to England to go to court regarding unpaid debts
Page 24: photograph of kangaroo holding a cricket bat surrounding by portraits of the Australian cricketers with the title 'Sixteen of the Best: The Cornstalks'
Page 25: photograph of Merion Cricket Club in Haverford; biographies of the Australian team [on page 24] which toured England in 1909; poem entitled 'A Trotting (G)race' by a lunatic at Lord's
Page 26: cigarette cards: J H Board, J B Hobbs, J Humphries, F L Fane, A E Lewis, David Hunter, C B Fry, F S Jackson, A E Relf, P F Warner, A Fielder, W East, J N Crawford, H K Foster, G Cox, G L Jessop, A O Jones, C P McGahey, A A Lilley, A C Maclaren
Page 27: cigarette cards: G J Thompson, C J B Wood, L G Wright, C H B Marsham, E Arnold, L C Braund, J Hardstaff, S Santall, J T Tyledesley, Percy A Perrin, E G Hayes, John Gunn, T Hayward, K L Hutchings; Handbill for a match between Kent and England at Beverley Ground on 1 August 1842
Page 28: information on cricket at Rottingdean in 1758 compiled by A D Taylor
Page 29: cartoon by Dudley Tennant entitled 'What it Feels Like to be Googled'
Page 30: photographs of Gloucester, Middlesex, Leicester, Nottingham, Kent, Worcester, Yorkshire, Warwick, Sussex teams
Page 31: photographs of Lancashire, Northampton, Hampshire, Essex, Derby, Surrey and the Australian team in 1909
Page 32: drawing of P R Le Couteur
Page 33: drawing of K L Hutchings entitled 'England's Trumper: A Champion of the Champions'; photograph of the Atlantic Steamship Athletic Association Cricket League Challenge Cup presented by Sir Thomas J Lipton in 1910; W G Grace aged 22 [1870-1871]; cartoon of a kangaroo bowling to a lion
Page 34: cartoon drawing entitled 'Ally Sloper's Cricket Club'; admission ticket for the Brighton and Hove Cricket Week in August 1909, receipt of one shilling for the Sussex County Cricket Club 20,000 shillings fund in 1910.
Page 35: scorecard for the Surrey vs. Lancashire match at The Oval on 16-18 August 1894; cartoon drawing of King Arthur and knights playing cricket with Merlin as umpire; cricket advertisement for Lux clothing; photograph of Nottinghamshire team; photograph of Leonard A Bates
Page 36: scorecard for a match between the Grace family and Robinson family at Gloucestershire County Cricket Ground in 1891; admission ticket for the Hastings and St Leonards cricket week in 1904; cartoon commemorating Australia's Ashes victory [in 1909]
Page 37: photograph of Lord Harris; cartoon of Arthur Balfour playing cricket
Page 38: scorecard from the Sussex vs. Leicestershire match at Hove in 1904; photograph of the Sussex team; drawing of Andrew Lang; photograph of cricket on the beach
Page 39: photographs of the Sussex team and Brighton Cricket Week
Page 40: photograph of the England team playing deck cricket, entitled 'The Pitch - And The Toss: The Ashes Hunters'
Page 41: Spy cartoons of G L Jessop, K S Ranjitsinhji and F S Jackson
Page 42: Spy cartoons of Lord Dalmeny, George Hirst and B J T Bosanquet
Page 43: Spy cartoons of Lord Hawke, P F Warner and D L A Jephson
Page 44: Spy cartoons of Captain Edward Wynyard, Hylton Philipson; cartoon of a cricket team losing a ball and a bulldog guarding the ball
Page 45: Spy cartoons of W W Read, W G Grace, A E Stoddart, G J Bonnor, Robert Abel, F R Spofforth
Page 46: Spy cartoons of Lord Harris, A N Hornby, S M J Woods, R A H Mitchell, L C H Palairet, Viscount Cobham
Page 47: cartoons of cricketers including of a presentation to W G Grace to celebrate his testimonial
Page 48: cartoon imagining if W G Grace lived to be 200; admission ticket for a match between Sussex and Lancashire (Killick's Benefit Match) on 8-10 August 1910
Page 49: map of Sussex County Cricket Ground
Page 50: cartoon of a policeman taking away bats and balls from children, entitled 'The Last Test Match Close of Play'
Page 51: photographs of cricketers: K S Ranjitsinhji [H H the Jam Sahib], G R Cox, M P Cartwright, G B Street, A E Relf, J Vine, E H Relf, J R Vincent, E H Bowley, H P Chaplin, G Leach, H L Simms, E H Killick, V C Jupp, R R Relf.

Attached to the scrapbook are newspaper cuttings and headed notepaper advertising Walter Humphreys' benefit match between Sussex and Gloucestershire at the County Ground in Brighton on 8-10 June [year unknown], catalogue of cricket and football literature sold by Taylor.

Associations

Alfred Daniel Taylor
Sussex County Cricket Club
Philip Ridgeway le Couteur
William Gilbert Grace
Archibald Balfour
Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji
Sir Pelham Francis Warner
George Leach
E B Dwyer
Kenneth Lotherington Hutchings
Walter Alexander Humphreys

Subject

Cricketania, Spy cartoons, cigarette cards, Australia in England 1912, Australia in England 1909

Institution name

Marylebone Cricket Club

Size

1 volume

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