This album belonged to Elsie Taylor and was compiled during 1906-1910. Elsie lived in Hampstead in London, a fairly affluent borough of the county of London at that time and was educated at Beresford House School, a boarding school in Eastbourne on England's south coast. Theatre appeared to be one of her great interests.

The album contains portraits of 42 individual actresses and 24 individual actors.

This album is held by Archives and Special Collections at the University of Calgary and was acquired through this university's Drama department.