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Col. Robertson N. I. 25th. 1857. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel George Henry Robertson, 25th Bombay Native Infantry, leaning against a pedestal on which stands a piece of sculpture.
Genre: Architectural Photography View of tombs in the English Cemetery at Surat, with a European figure posed in the middleground. The following print, 21b, is dated February 1857. This view was probably taken on the same occasion.
Genre: Architectural Photography View of tombs in the English Cemetery at Surat, probably taken on the same occasion as print 21a. The massive tomb in the centre is that of Sir George Oxenden.
The River Taptee, Surat, from Mr. Galway's house, 1857. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the Tapti towards Surat Castle, with local craft moored in the foreground. The 'Bombay Almanac and Directory' for 1857 identifies William Galway as an engineer with the Baroda Railway Company, resident at Surat.
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the Tapti, probably at Surat, as in print 21a, with ghats leading down to the water in the middleground.
George Henry Lawrence, taken at Lucknow, 1857. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length seated portrait of the young man, wearing a chequered cap and examining what is apparently a framed picture held in his hands.
Views of Mount Aboo. Lawrence School, Mount Aboo. Photographer: Unknown
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Inscription: Captioned in the negative, 'Lawrence School, Mount Aboo.' Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards the Lawrence School, with Indian houses in the foreground.
Views of Mount Aboo. Lawrence School, Mount Aboo. Photographer: Unknown
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Inscription: Captioned in the negative, 'Lawrence School, Mount Aboo.' Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards the Lawrence School, with Indian houses in the foreground.