| Description | The items include photographs of her paternal family, the Steveni's and of her maternal family, the Chauncy's:
1. Photograph of a couple, c 1890s. JP Latham suggests they are 'Possibly Elizaveta Leonovna and William Oskar Steveni? (Barbara’s grandfather)'
2. Photocopy of a 1958 press cutting of a letter to 'The Timber Trades Journal', memorialising Oscar Steveni and his Russian wood export business and mentioning his son, Leo Steveni
3. Photograph of family and friends including left to right, seated: unidentified Indian woman and family friend, Helen Steveni (Barbara Steveni’s mother), Barbara Steveni; behind: Leo Steveni (Barbara Steveni’s father), and unidentified woman
4. Photograph of an unidentified family, from the Steveni side. Marked on reverse '20 Feb 1949'.
5. Photograph of two children, photographed at a St Petersburg studio. JP Latham identifies them as 'Possibly Leo [Steveni] and a sister Elise'
6. Photograph of Great Aunt Xenia, possibly Leo Steveni’s sister, signed 'Xenia' on the image.
7. Photograph of two girls on a beach. JP Latham suggests they could be sisters of Leo Steveni, 'Elise and Kissa (Xenia)?'
8. Photograph of Barbara Steveni and unidentified Indian woman, who was a family friend (see 3 above).
9. Photograph of a house which JP Latham has identified as 'Presumed to be back of house in Shaldon, near Teignmouth Devon, where Barbara lived as a young girl and during WW2.'
10. Photograph of Barbara Steveni in school uniform sitting on a car
11. Photograph of Barbara Steveni, in a coat outdoors, c 1948
12. Photograph of Barbara Steveni and her sisters in a garden, from left to right: Lizzie, her older sister; Leoni, known as 'Buffy', her younger sister and Barbara Steveni, c 1943
13. Photograph of the wedding of Leo Steveni and Helen Chauncy, annotated on reverse 'GrandPapa Chauncy [?] Aunt Nellie - from Helen'
14. Photograph of Leo and Helen Steveni with King George, Queen Elizabeth and Elizabeth and Margaret, April 1942
15. Photograph of Barbara Steveni (in a hat) and her older sister Lizzie, dressed as a nurse with their dog. Annotated on reverse by Barbara Steveni : 'Barbie & Lizzie playing Drs & Nurses when staying with a family in Devon - near[?] Newton Abbot in hols - while M&D were in INDIA in about 1932', c 1932
16. Photograph of [Elizaveta?] Steveni, wife of Oscar and Barbara Steveni's grandmother with two of her daughters, Elise and Xenia, known as 'Kissa', taken in St. Petersburg. Annotated on reverse by Barbara Steveni : '?Taken in St Petersburg MRS STEVENI Elise & Kissa Steveni - about 7 and 5 years old'
17. Photograph of Barbara Steveni's uncle, Frederick Leslie Chauncy with his son, Philip. Annotated on reverse by Barbara Steveni : 'Uncle Leslie Chauncy & Philip. About 18 months'
18. Photograph of Frederick Leslie Chauncy with the Sultan of Oman and others. JP Latham comments that he was 'consular General to the Sultan of Oman 1945-53, [pictured here with] silver hair, seated in the corner. He reached the semi-finals of the 400m hurdles in the 1928 Olympic Games' |