Hadow Collection: Collection of nitrate negatives - Views in Assam. Photographer: Rev. E. M. Hadow
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Collection of 75 uncaptioned nitrate negatives of scenes in India and Sri Lanka. Subjects include Colombo Harbour, river scenes and steamers (presumably on the Brahmaputra in Assam, and other unidentified subjects. Rev E. M. Hadow was Church of England chaplain at Sibsagar, Assam, between 1894-1...
Maroon half-leather album, 367x380mm, containing mounted prints with handwritten captions. The title is stamped in gold on the front cover. The collection includes mainly topographical views in the Darjeeling district with additional ethnographical studies. Process = Albumen prints Photograp...
Lieut-Colonel Rawdon Edward Dennys Reilly (28th Pioneers) Collection: Photographs of India, Ceylon, Sudan and England. Photographer(s): Bremner, Frederick
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Collection in six parts (Photo 639/1-6), relating to the career, principally in India, of Lieutenant-Colonel Rawdon Edward Dennys Reilly, 28th Bombay Pioneers.
Half-leather bound album (spine piece detached and boards loose), measuring 270x395mm, with loose dust jacket made from brown paper on which the title as above is handwritten. The prints, which are captioned in the negative, are mounted singly on the recto of each leaf. The photographs show view...
Times of India Sixty Years' Diamond Jubilee Album. November 3rd 1898.
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Full leather bound album measuring 323x430mm, richly decorated in gold leaf, with title as above stamped in gold on front cover and with a heavy brass clasp lock. The first page of the volume comprises an illuminated address, from the employees of the newspaper, dated 7 January 1899 and dedicate...
Maroon half-leather bound album measuring 494x385mm, binding scuffed but firm, with title as above stamped in gold on front cover. With bookplate, dated 'Nov. 1899', of William Baring Du Pre. Prints are mounted one or two to a page, with handwritten captions beneath. The contents of the album ca...