The Kootab Minar [Delhi]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view from the east, with the dome of the Alai Darwaza visible in the left foreground. The modern cupola, designed by Major Smith to replace the one destroyed in the earthquake of 1803 and itself removed as inappropriate in 1848, stands on a hillock to th...
Maharaja Mahendra Singh of Patiala. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing carte-de-visite portrait, wearing robe and insignia of the Star of India. Mahendra Singh (1852-1876) succeeded as a minor in 1862 and ruled 1870-76. For another copy of this print, see Photo 127 (11). [Albumen print, 58x92mm]. Subjects = Bowr...
Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking towards tomb (?Tomb of Bu-Ali Kalandar). [Albumen print, 292x229mm]. Subjects = Bowring Collection; Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Islamic); tombs
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait in half-profile, seated at a small table. For a note on the attribution of this photograph to Rowe, see introduction. Sir Robert Montgomery (1809-1887), Indian Civil Service 1828, was Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab 1859-65. Probably photograph...
Amritsar, the Golden Temple. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking across the tank towards the temple. The pencilled catalogue reference '407' on the reverse of the print identifies this as a Bourne & Shepherd photograph. [Albumen print, 278x175mm]. Subjects = Bowring Collection; Indian architecture;...
Side view of small carriage drawn by a team of four camels. [Albumen print, 209x102mm]. Subjects = animals; Bowring Collection; camel carriages; camels; carriages; road transport; transport Location = Lahore; Pakistan; Punjab; Punjab (Pakistan)
Ameer Sher Ali Khan. Photographer: Baker and Burke
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated carte-de-visite portrait of Sher Ali Khan (1825-1879), Amir of Afghanistan 1863-66 and 1868-79. The photograph is uncredited, but is probably the portrait listed as '11. The Amir, sitting figure' in the Baker & Burke catalogue (see Photo 6 (8))...
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across scrub towards the fort, with three tribesmen grouped in the left foreground. [Albumen print, 284x202mm]. Subjects = Bowring Collection; forts Location = Jamrud; North-West Frontier Province; Pakistan
A group of Afreedees. Photographer: Shepherd, Charles
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Four Afridi men, posed with jezails on the ramparts of a fort (presumably at Jamrud), the nearest figure taking aim with his gun. [Albumen print, 184x226mm]. Subjects = Afridis (ethnic group); arms and armour; Bowring Collection; ethnic groups; jezails Loc...
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