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The border of the title page contains illustrations of the prize cottages at Killeigh and a map of the drainage plan at Ballyknockan. Also includes representations of the two gold medals awarded to Lord Digby by the Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland, the Challenge Cup awarded for best housing and the Challenge Cup awarded for best drainage.

5. 'Richard Stuart Craig, Mrs. Williams, Dean Craig, Mrs. Williams, Maurice M., Miss Baker, Miss Banon, Mr. Williams, (bank) Ethel Mulock, Vera, W. Craig, Mrs. Mulock, Flo, Helen Craig, Mrs.Moore, Bouchier, Norah'.
6. 'John Davis'.
7. 'Arthur Flower, Middletown Stone, Mrs. Kelly, Jim Kelly, Alba, Geoffrey, Basil'.
8. 'Pallas Lake'.

June 7th 1904 Dr Moorhead's Mares and Foals'.

28. 'Lady Delamere and foal'.
29. 'Millcog and foal'.
30. 'Millcog and foal'.
    31.' Babetle and foal'.

June 7th 1904 Dr Moorhead's Mares and Foals'.

32. 'Dr G Moorehead, Tullamore, Foal, stables'.
33. 'Snow bunting and foal'.
34. 'Snow bunting and foal, Dr Moorehead'.
35. 'Moss Gateau and foal'.
36. 'Fair Portia and foal'.

33. 'Thrashing time Sept. 1902., James Matthews, John Bryant and his two sons'.
34. 'Nina Beheen, Star, Hugh Biddulph, Vera'.
35. 'On walk by the pond, Sept. 13th 1902. Marty Erskine, Florence E. [Erskine], Vera, Rory'.
36. 'Vera, Florence Erskine, Marth Erskine'.

29. 'Harvest time, Sept. 1902. Jim Bracken, Frank Dunne, Neddie Cash'.
30. 'Thrashing, Willie Bryant, Ned Cash, Tom Bracken, John Bracken'.
31. 'Thrashing machine'.
32. 'Engine, James Matthews, J. Bryant, Jim Kelly'.

13 volumes of photograph albums, known to Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society as the Magan-Biddulph Collection. complied by Lt. Col. Middleton Westenra Biddulph, landowner of the Rathrobin estate, near Mountbolus, County Offaly. Biddulph was born in Rathrobin in 1849, the eldest surviving son of Francis Marsh Biddulph and Lucy Bickerstaff. The Biddulph family's landholding was principally in the townlands of Rathrobin and those adjoining of Clonseer, Cormeen, Kilmore and Mullaghcrohy, all near Mountbolus, in the civil parish of Killoughy and the barony of Ballyboy. Middleton Biddulph enlisted with the Northumberland Fusiliers (Fifth Regiment) in 1867, rising to the ranks of Lieutenant Colonel before his retirement in 1896. Following his retirement, Biddulph and his wife, Vera Josephine Flower, returned to Rathrobin and rebuilt the old house over the period 1898 to 1900. Biddulph served as High Sheriff for King's County in 1901, and was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the county in 1910.

As a keen amateur photographer, Biddulph used a quarter plate camera to document his various areas of interest including; his military career with the Northumberland Fusiliers; visits to country houses across Ireland, England and Scotland; members of the Biddulph and Magan family; visits around Ireland as part of the Royal Society of Antiquarians; interior and exterior photographs of Rathrobin House; agricultural work on the estate. There is also an extent of photographs of tenant families and employees of the Rathrobin estate, featured across the photograph albums.

Biddulph and his wife left for England in June 1921 as the military campaign of the IRA in the locality intensified, and Rathrobin House was destroyed by Republican IRA forces in April 1923. While he seemed to have planned to return to Ireland after this, an attack on his land agent and niece, Violet Magan, and his own declining health delayed plans to do so, and he died in Chelsea in May 1926. The albums were presented to Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society in 1997 by Brigadier William Magan, a nephew of the photographer.

1. 'Steward (William Woods) Rathrobin with 22 calves by Hereford bull in Lough Meadow'.
2. 'Same object in Lough Meadow, Rathrobin'.

Ledgers and minute book of Offaly Farming and Industrial Society, organisers of the Tullamore Agricultural and Industrial Show.