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Album entitled "The Cyfarthfa Works, Merthyr Tydfil", comprising:

(i) photographic enlargement of part of OS 1:2,500 sheet Glamorgan 12.1 second edition surveyed 1903 and published 1904 showing most of Cyfarthfa Iron & Steel Works with river and roads hand coloured, with a stenciled tracing film overlay that numbers most of the buildings;

(ii) photographic enlargement of part of OS 1:2,500 sheet Glamorgan 12.1 first edition surveyed 1873-74 and published c1877 showing most of Cyfarthfa Iron Works with river and roads hand coloured;

(iii) photographic reduction of part of OS 1:2,500 sheet Glamorgan 12.1 third edition surveyed 1914-15 and published 1919 showing most of Cyfarthfa Iron Works;

(iv) photograph of engraved drawing entitled "Cyfarthfa Works and Castle. AD. 1897" signed "Mansel Williams Chief Draughtsman", depicting the works from south east; the engraving formed part of a booklet entitled "Cyfarthfa Iron and Steel Works, Merthyr Tydfil, 1897", describing the works published by Crawshay Brothers Limited in 1897 on the occasion of the visit of the Iron and Steel Institute (see (v);

(v) six typescript pages reproducing the text of a booklet entitled "Cyfarthfa Iron and Steel Works, Merthyr Tydfil, 1897", printed by William Lewis, Cardiff, describing the works (the last page is a list of stationary engines at the works in 1897), published by Crawshay Brothers Limited in 1897 on the occasion of the visit of the Iron and Steel Institute, the text of which was, with a few superlatives removed, published in the Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, 1897 vol.2, pp.236-245;

(vi) sixteen pages with 31 mounted photographs of the works (two per page save for one on the last page), with short typescript captions for all save the last photograph.

Tipped-in loose are the following smaller sheets, each 330 x 203mm:

(vii) single typescript sheet titled "Appendix __ " summarising the publication history of the text (v) and engraving (iv);

(viii) single typescript sheet titled "Key to plan of Cyfarthfa Iron Works (1890-1910), with numbers 1 to 61 corresponding to the numbers on the tracing film overlay of (i);

(ix) two typescript sheets repeating the captions to the first 30 photographs in (vi) and giving the origins and dates of the these photographs.

The inside cover of the album bears an old ownership stamp "The Newcomen Society, The Science Museum, South Kensington, London, S.W.7" and the number "490" in pen. The covers are a pair of loose standard cloth-covered boards originally secured together by special three brass nuts and bolts (one missing) of a sort often encountered on these sorts of binders in the early to mid twentieth century.