This series consists of a photograph album bound in soft blue leather with 'The High Commissioners for the Dominions and for India and Ambassadors to the Court of St James London Coronation Year 1937' embossed in gold lettering on the front cover. As it was a complimentary copy given to Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 'The Rt. Hon. STANLEY M. BRUCE' is also embossed in gold on the bottom right hand corner of the cover. The album contains portraits specially taken for publication in the Daily Telegraph by J Dixon-Scott in the Coronation Year 1937.
The album contains photographic portraits of the following High Commissioners in London for the Dominions and for India:
The Hon Vincent Massey (Canada);
The Rt Hon Stanley Melbourne Bruce (Commonwealth of Australia);
Mr WJ Jordan (New Zealand);
Mr CT Te Water (Union of South Africa);
Mr JW Dulanty (Irish Free State); and
Sir Firoz Khan Noon (India).
All are photographed at desks in their offices.
Also featured are photographic portraits of the following 'Ambassadors accredited to the Court of St James':
Dr Raul Regis de Oliveira (Brazil);
Baron de Cartier de Marchienne (Belgium);
Dr Manuel E Malbran (Argentine);
Count Grandi (Italy);
M Ivan Maisky (Soviet Union);
Mr Robert Worth Bingham (USA);
M Charles Corbin (France);
Bey Fethi Okyar (Turkey);
Count Edouard Raczynski (Poland);
Mr Quo Tai-Chi (China);
Don Augustin Edwards (Chile);
Mr Shigeru Yoshida (Japan);
Senor Don Pablo De Azcarate (Spain);
Herr Von Ribbentrop (Germany);
Dr Armindo Monteiro (Portugal); and
Dr Hafez Afifi Pasha (Egypt).
Most of the ambassadors are photographed at their desks or in other rooms of their embassies.
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Estate of CP23, the late Lord Bruce