Photographs & original documents
Browse the historical photographs and original manuscript scans currently confirmed in GitHub. Every image below is stored in the website's own images/ folder and links to the associated biography or research record.
William Hawes — historical portraitOriginal family-supplied portrait · Read history →
William Hawes — baptism extractSt George Hanover Square, 1785 · Read history →
William Hawes and Elizabeth Mullinex — marriageParish register extract, 1805 · Read history →
William Hawes — Chapel Royal envelopeHistorical addressed envelope · Read history →
William Hawes — 1840 royal correspondenceLetter from St James's Palace · Read history →
Lord Mount Edgcumbe — letter, page 117 May 1845 · Read history →
Lord Mount Edgcumbe — letter, page 2Letter continuation · Read history →
1916 The Enchanted Rose — programmeSouth Norwood charity performance · Read history →
1916 The Enchanted Rose — castHawes family cast · Read history →
Walter Hawes — pension particularsFamily-held employment and pension record · Read history →
Eric and Kathleen — wedding photographOriginal group photograph · Read history →
George Hawes — Kenya report, 1956Newspaper cutting · Read history →
Buckingham Palace — 1972 letterRoyal Silver Wedding correspondence · Read history →
Records awaiting scans
Additional submitted photographs of Mendelssohn's letters to Maria Hawes, the handwritten Hawes–Day birth and death register, and the family memorial cards have already been transcribed and catalogued, but their photo files are not yet published in the repository. Their accompanying research is available at the Mendelssohn letters, the Hawes family register and the memorial cards.