Two personal photographic albums of Blanche Lee Childe, née Triqueti (1837-1886). Years 1860-1870. 1. First album An Italian-sized in-8 album of approximately 330 photographic prints. The album is divided into two sections. Travels and views The first part documents Blanche Lee Childe's travels around the world: United Kingdom: Kenilworth (William Russell Sedgfield, 1865), Warwick Castle, Edinburgh, Holyrood Castle, Melrose Abbey, Dryburgh (Walter Scott's grave). Blanche spent several periods in Great Britain. Her mother, Julia Forster, was English, and herself the granddaughter of sculptor Thomas Banks. She traveled there in 1865 with her father Henry de Triqueti and his pupil, Susan D. Durant, when Triqueti, chosen by Queen Victoria to create the memorial chapel for Prince Albert, toured the country in search of marble. United States: Niagara Falls (including a winter view, 1869), Stratford House, Washington College, canal boat at Lexington, portraits of a Native American woman with her papoose, Hudson River, Yosemite Valley, Arlington House (home of General Lee), Longfellow House, Faneuil Hall in Boston. In 1869, General Lee invited Blanche and her husband Edward Lee Childe to Lexington, Virginia. The couple visited Boston and Niagara Falls in September, then stayed with General Lee and his family before returning to France in November 1869. Blanche did not return to the United States. Switzerland: numerous views of mountains and glaciers, Saint-Moritz. Austria, Italy (1869), Germany (Ems). Blanche, in poor health (lung disease), probably frequented the spa resorts in vogue in the 1860s-1870s, notably Bad Ems and Bad Ragaz. These stays enabled her to meet the social gotha, whose portraits she kept as souvenirs. Portraits and social circle The second part brings together a large number of portraits of personalities from her cosmopolitan circle. The prints are generally captioned (spelling sometimes approximate): General Lee's family: the general on horseback; portrait of Mildred Lee Childe, his youngest daughter, and other family members. Political, military and artistic personalities : Dr Myrtle; Countess de Valon née Apollonie de La Rochelambert (1825-1904); Baron de Hauszer; Baron de Pottembourg; Duke and Duchess de Montebello; Countess d'Astorg; Countess d'Heursel; Princess Amélie of Schleswig-Holstein; Princess Marguerite of Italy; Princess Marie Dolgorouki; Princess Ypsilanti; Queen Victoria; Marie-Amélie de Bourbon-Sicile; a young Duc de Chartres (probably Robert d'Orléans); Baron Arthur Schicker; Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, Marquis de Nadaillac; Mortimer and Alfred de Lassence; Delcurrou, Renouard; Marie and Lise Koumanine; Barrington, Laborde, Sellière families, etc. Curiosities: portraits linked to the Tichborne Claimant affair, a resounding crime during Queen Victoria's reign; portrait of young Prince Alemayehu (1861-1879), son of Emperor Tewodros II of Abyssinia, who was taken to England and died in exile in Windsor. Blanche Lee Childe: numerous portraits of the owner at various times, images of her dogs, as well as two remarkable interior views of her Parisian office and her "Oriental salon", evoking the world of Pierre Loti's settings in Rochefort. Bound in brown and black percaline, gilt fillets. Wear and tear. 2. Second album Personal album of approximately 209 photographic prints, in-8 format. 1880s Egypt: set of views by Antonio Beato (1825-1905) and Jean-Pascal Sébah (1823-1886), supplemented by more personal photographs brought back after Blanche's trip to Egypt in the winter of 1881-1882. She published Journal d'un voyage en Égypte (Un hiver au Caire) in 1883 with Calmann-Lévy. United Kingdom: mainly Scotland. United States: Santa Fe, San Francisco, Yosemite Valley. Spain and Portugal: Santiago, Porto, Lisbon, Cintra, including Francis Cook's residence, 1st Viscount Monserrate. Bound in cloth, red percaline spine and corners. Accidents and restorations Provenance: Château du Perthuis.