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1. Photo 1172

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1172
Title:
Uppadine Collection of Indian photographs. Photographer: Alfred Douglas Uppadine.
Scope & Content:
Photographs of India taken by A. D. Uppadine, including negatives, loose prints and notebooks, in seven parts (Photo 1172/1-7). The negatives in Photo 1172/1 appear to be the source for almost all the photographs in the other parts of the collection.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1940-1942
Extent:

7 parts

2. Photo 1172/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1172/1
Title:
Negatives and prints of India by A. D. Uppadine. Photographer: Alfred Douglas Uppadine.
Scope & Content:
Collection comprising approximately 400 film negatives in four wallets and corresponding prints. The negatives are the source of almost all the material in other parts of the collection. In addition there are 139 black and white photographi prints taken from these negatives.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1940-1942
Extent:

c.530 items

3. Photo 1172/1(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1172/1(1)
Title:
Tesu tree, Mhow. Photographer: Uppadine, A. D.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a row of trees, with buildings in background: 'Blossoms in hot season - May-June. Crimson or orange in colour ... Very conspicuous feature here in Mhow' (note on back of print).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1941-Sep 1941
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1172/1(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1172/1(2)
Title:
Sweeper, Mhow. Photographer: Uppadine, A. D.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length full-face portrait of a sweeper: 'Called a metar ... Was very bucked at being asked to pose for this. Stood stiffly to attention.' (note on back of print)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1941-Sep 1941
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1172/1(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1172/1(3)
Title:
Fruit market, Mhow. Photographer: Uppadine, A. D.
Scope & Content:
View of street traders at a street corner in Mhow: 'A very typical scene in Mhow when fruit is for sale. Everybody squats here at the slightest excuse. Bargaining, probably an argument over a few 'pies', 1/12 of 1d, is universal ... The numbers on the buildings are army index numbers. Most stree...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1941-Sep 1941
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1172/1(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1172/1(4)
Title:
Goat, Mhow Photographer: Uppadine, A. D.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a she-goat, with a building in the background: 'This was taken at midday and since we are almost on the Tropic, the sun was overhead and the goat is standing in its own shadow.' (note on back of print)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1941-Sep 1941
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1172/1(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1172/1(5)
Title:
Fountain, Mhow. Photographer: Uppadine, A. D.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of a building with a fountain, with a seated figure in front of it and passing women in the foreground: 'This is a large, open-sided building to keep the weather off the pillar you can see. A beggar is seated in front of the fountain. Passing across the pic...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1941-Sep 1941
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1172/1(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1172/1(6)
Title:
Side street, Mhow. Photographer: Uppadine, A. D.
Scope & Content:
View of a street lined with shops, and a goat and a male figure in the foreground: 'Open-fronted shops where later in the day the proprietors ... will squat on their heels or sit crosslegged and make appeals to you ... The wide gutters are needed now the rains are here.' (note on back of print)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1941-Sep 1941
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1172/1(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1172/1(7)
Title:
Main street, Mhow. Photographer: Uppadine, A. D.
Scope & Content:
View of an almost empty street lined with shops, with two passing women, one carrying a basket on her head, and a male cyclist in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1941-Sep 1941
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1172/1(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1172/1(8)
Title:
Main street, Mhow. Photographer: Uppadine, A. D.
Scope & Content:
Another view of the main street, with shops and people in the distance: 'another view taken further along the street from under a huge banyan tree around which two small shops have been built. In these shops tailors work on hand-turned sewing machines making clothes, and shoe-makers squat on the...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1941-Sep 1941
Extent:
1 item