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Photograph album created by Lt. Col. M. O'Carroll Fitz-Simon, M.C. , who began his military career in Prince of Wales' Leinster Regiment, which was headquartered at Birr. The photographs document a peace-keeping mission the Leinsters undertook in Silesia (now part of Poland) from their departure at Dover on 31 May 1921, through Germany and to their destination of Oppeln (Opole in Poland today). Following the disbandment of the regiment in June 1922, Fitz-Simon joined the King's Own Regiment, Lancaster and the remaining photographs in the album depict scenes from missions in India and Burma. There is also a small number of photographs of people and houses in the Birr area including Whigsborough House, and the burnt out remains of Birr Barracks (following its destruction in the Civil War in July 1922).

Photographs and negatives taken of Loughton house and the surrounding estate. The majority of the photographs are of the exterior of the house and of horses kept in Loughton. The file includes one negative of the interior, photographs of Theodora Trench, Sheelah Lefroy and Langlois Massy Lefroy playing and walking dogs, work being carried out on the estate and a negative of Benjamin Bloomfield Trench on a horse. The file includes a Christmas card from Buffy [?] sent to Theodora containing a photograph taken in Loughton of Theodora and an unidentified young boy.
Also included in the file are six glass plate negatives which show the interior of Borrisnafarney Church, a hunt gathered outside Loughton House and two unknown ladies walking their dogs.

Two photographs of Woodfield House and Gurteen Bridge, both near Clara, County Offaly, taken around the year 1930.

Page bears a brief history of Woodfield House written by Adam Lamb. Below are four photographs of Woodfield House and the Gageborough River on the lands of Woodfield and Gurteen, near Clara, County Offaly.

Two photographs of Woodfield House from the mid to late twentieth-century.

Contains a clipping entitled, "Will of Doctor William Moore" from the Irish Times 1901; four photographs of Maria Blanch Fuller, Sidney Blanch Moore, Charles Bagot, and Samuel Ball and John Bagot; and a letter addressed to Fanny Ann Fuller at her mother's house in Twichenham, Ballycumber, King's County (County Offaly).

Photograph of Alice Lamb with her brother Keith Lamb at Clonmacnoise, taken September 1828.

Photograph of elderly Constance and Frank Lamb taken around 1950, likely at Woodfield house.

Photograph of Gracie Roe, Constance Lamb, and Alice Lamb in front of a house in Bolart. Reverse inscription reads, "Bolart in 1910, Gracie Roe, Constance C. Lamb and Alice"