[Photography] Ritter & Van Boetzelaer families, 50 photographs Late 19th to early 20th cent. Var. sizes (mainly cartes de visite and cabinet photographs), for the greater part on the orig. cardboard mounts, w. annotations in pen verso on the portrayed persons. Most portraits of members of the Ritter family, incl. a number of Pierre Henri Ritter (1851-1912, also a press photograph of his grave monument at the Algemeene Begraafplaats in Utrecht) and of the Van Boetzelaer family. (total 50)

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