Jacob L. Loose Collection

Description
Businessman and humanitarian Jacob Loose and his philanthropist wife Ella were frequent travelers.  The collection is comprised of images from their early 20th century trips around the world, featuring views of locales as varied as Africa, Ceylon, India, Palestine, and numerous western European countries.
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LaBudde Special Collections
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Blea Tarn, Langdale

A panoramic photograph of the rocky shoreline of Blea Tarn in the Langdale Valley in the Lake District of England surrounded by a mountain range. Tall evergreen trees line the shore on the left side of the photograph. Printed below the lower left-hand corner of the photograph in the margin, "Herbert Bell, Ambleside." Printed on the center margin below the photograph, "Blea Tarn, Langdale." Printed on the bottom left-hand corner of the margin, "Printed in Switzerland."
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Haddon Hall

An outdoor view of the vine-covered long gallery and upper garden stairs of Haddon Hall from the garden in Bakewell, England. A tree on the left side of the photograph and the garden stairs on the right side of the photograph frame the long gallery in the center of the photograph. The two-story building has paned windows with diamond muntins all along the top floor and a parapet wall around the roof. A garden bench sits between to bays of the gallery. Printed in white ink on the bottom, right-center, "Haddon Hall. 6914. J.V."
Type: Image
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Friar's Crag at Derwentwater

Friar's Crag, an outcrop into Derwentwater (lake) in the Lake District of England is in the foreground of the photograph with a mountain range all across the back of the photograph. Barns with cattle in the barnyard and a house are across the lake at the foot of the mountains. A person is seated in a bent-vine chair, back to the camera facing the lake, in a grove of trees on top of the crag. Another person is standing in the grove of trees beside the chair, facing the person in the chair. A skiff boat is on the lake at the bottom of the crag. Printed in white ink on the bottom right-hand corner, "111. Friar's Crag. Derwentwater. A.P." Embossed on the bottom right-hand corner, "Pettitt's Series. -o- Keswick."
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Hawarden Church

St Deiniol's Church in Hawarden, Wales, is a Gothic and Gothic Revival-style church with a clock tower and a conical section on top of the clock tower. The slanted roof consists of horizontal lines of parapet walls. In the foreground of the photograph is a cemetery overgrown with vegetation. Printed in white ink on the bottom left-hand corner, "1508. Hawarden Church." Printed in white in on the bottom right-hand corner, " Bedford."
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Cattle graze by on the shore a lake in the Lake District, England

Cattle graze on the shore of a waterside pasture in an unidentified location within the Lake District, England. A skiff sits in the water just at the shore on the right side of the photograph. In the background across the back top of the photograph are homes and farms at the base of a mountain range. Embossed on the bottom right-hand corner, "Pettitt's Series -o- Keswick."
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Clovelly from Hobby Drive

Village and harbor view of Clovelly, England from Hobby Drive. Through a break in the trees high above the harbor, a view of the village of Clovelly is seen on a hill above the harbor on the right, the shoreline with the Red Lion Hotel, grounded boats, and the stone pier down the center, and the harbor on the right. A flat-topped Lundy island is visible out in the channel in the top center of the photograph. Printed in gold ink along the bottom left-hand corner, "10,138. - Clovelly. From Hobby Drive."
Type: Image
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Clovelly Harbor

A view of Clovelly, England from the harbor. Sailing boats sit in the harbor and fishing boats are pulled up on the rocky shore in the foreground. In the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph several men in suits and bowler hats stand on a deck. At the edge of the shore before heading up the hills into the village, rock buildings line the shore. On the left center of the photograph is a rock pier that leads to the Red Lion Hotel. The buildings and homes on the forested hills have a peach-colored hue to them. Printed in gold ink on the bottom left-hand corner, "10140. - Clovelly Harbour."
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Ilfracombe from Hillsborough

Panorama of Ilfracombe from Hillsborough in North Devon, England. A view from atop a hill looking over the harbor and then the village of Ilfracombe. Ships are moored in the harbor. Two outcrops out into Bristol Channel have roads running in a circular manner from the bottom to the top of the outcrops. The village is mostly multi-storied buildings. On the left side of the photograph are two lines of row houses on a hillside. Pasture land surrounds the row houses on the hillsides. Printed in white ink on the bottom of the photograph, "Bedford, 2406" and "Ilfracombe, from Hillsborough."
Type: Image
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Chester Cathedral interior

A photograph from the lady chapel toward the choir looking west inside the Romanesque and English Oxford architecture of the Chester Cathedral interior in Chester, England. An altar is on either side of the photograph. Ornate choir benches line both walls of the choir allowing a hall toward the nave. The roof of the nave is visible beyond the crossing between the nave and the choir. A cross hangs above the crossing. Printed in white ink along the bottom left hand, "Chester Cathedral, Choir looking West." Printed in white ink on the bottom right-hand corner, "Bedford. 1548."
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Watersmeet, the two streams

A wooden, rail footbridge crosses each stream: East Lyn River on the left and Hoar Oak Water on the right; where the two streams meet at Watersmeet, in the forests and hills near Lynmouth, England. Printed in white ink on the left-center bottom, "Bedford, 2022." Printed in white ink on the bottom right-hand corner, "Watersmeet, The Two Streams."
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Grasmere

Panorama from a bushy shoreline across Grasmere lake to the village of Grasmere beyond the lake in the Lake District of England. A mountain range is in the background across the entire back of the photograph. An island is in the middle of the lake. Printed in white ink on the bottom left-hand corner, "1001. Grasmere. A.P." Embossed on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph, "Pettitt's Series -o- Keswick."
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Outside Clovelly Harbour

Hills and harbor view of Clovelly, England. The village of Clovelly climbs up the forested hills behind the harbor. At the base of the hills lie the rocky shoreline, boat houses and slides, docked boats, and the rock walls of the stone pier. Ladders made of tree trunks and cross logs lean on the rock wall from the harbor. The first building at the end of the stone pier is the Red Lion Hotel which is painted in large letters on the side of the hotel. A waterfall flows from the hill above and behind the hotel. Printed in gold in the lower right-hand corner, "10,141 - Outside Clovelly Harbour."
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Scotsman dancing a sword dance

An unidentified Scotsman in ceremonial Highland attire is dancing a sword dance over crossed swords lying on the ground. Both hands are raised waist high at the elbows, palms up, fingers curled. His head is turned to the right as his eyes look down at his extended right toe tapping across a sword blade. His clothing and skin are tinted by hand with colorful paints. The swords and the background of a mountain range behind a lake are in black and white. The photograph's edges are cut to shape the portrait in a oblong octagon.
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East entry into Hampton Court Palace behind a garden pond

The east front of Hampton Court Palace in London, England, shows a large, circular pond with a fountain in the center in front of a long driveway up to the Portland stone carved face decoration on the building façade of the Baroque palace across the back of the photograph. A row of trees lines each side of the driveway.
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West front of Westminster Abbey

The west front of Gothic-style Westminster Abbey in London, England, with a carriage parked on the street on the left side of the photograph. The carriage has two men in top hats seated with their backs to the camera. Another covered carriage waits in front of it. Two people sit on an elevated patio on the extreme left center of the photograph and a man stands in the street between the patio and the carriages with his back to the camera. Printed in white ink on the bottom left-hand corner, "13. Westminster Abbey."
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