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4941. Photo 817

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 817
Title:
Miscellaneous views and ethnographical portraits in Burma.
Scope & Content:
Collection of loose prints, the majority mounted on card, with handwritten captions either on the mount or print verso. Several of the prints are copies of original photographs. The collection belonged to Mr A.G. McCrae who worked for the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company in the 1930s, although the pho...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s-1910s
Extent:
49 items

4942. Photo 818

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 818
Title:
Soldiers of an A.A. Searchlight and Gun unit.
Scope & Content:
Loose unmounted print showing British soldiers of an A.A. unit sitting round the heater in a hut. A typescript note on the verso describes how the hut was furnished by the India Office. Process = Gelatine silver print Photographers = Unknown., ;
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1940s
Extent:
1 item

4943. Photo 819

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 819
Title:
Portrait of Colonel T. G. E. G. Kenny.
Scope & Content:
Loose unmounted colour print. Copy of an original portrait of Col Kenny. Annotation in ink on the verso. Process = Modern colour print Photographers = Unknown., ;
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 item

4944. Photo 820

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 820
Title:
Album of views in Assam and the Suez Canal.
Scope & Content:
Black and green half-leather album, 284x390mm, containing mounted prints with handwritten captions. The photographs include: views of the Kamakhya Temple at Guwahati; waterfalls, the residency and bungalows at Shillong; Assam tea gardens; the paddle steamers Mysore and Debrooghur; and topographi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
27 items

4945. Photo 821

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 821
Title:
Photographs of the official ceremony in Bombay to mark the withdrawal of British troops from India.
Scope & Content:
Loose unmounted prints with typescript descriptions pasted on the verso. Each description starts with the same opening lines: 'Last British battalion leaves India: The withdrawal of British troops from India was complete when the last British serving battalion, the 1st Somerset Light Infantry em...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
28Feb1948
Extent:
24 items

4946. Photo 822

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 822
Title:
Portraits of Princess Indira of Kapurthala. Photographer(s): Delhi Photo Co (Mussoorie), L. R. Photo Art House and others
Scope & Content:
Loose uncaptioned portraits of Princess Indira of Kapurthala from India in the 1940s to Ibiza in the 1970s. A letter to a friend, written shortly before her death in 1979, is enclosed with the photographs. Biographical note: Maharajakumari Indira Devi (1912-1979), also known as Princess Indee, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1940s-1970s
Extent:
9 items

4947. Photo 823

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 823
Title:
DISCARDED: Copy print from H.P. Mody's Sir Pherozeshah Mehta, Bombay, 1921, Vol I facing p.178.
Scope & Content:
DISCARDED: Copy print from H.P. Mody's Sir Pherozeshah Mehta, Bombay, 1921, Vol I facing p.178.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
Unspecified

4948. Photo 824

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 824
Title:
Photographs taken at the Panglong Conference in Burma, 12th February 1947.
Scope & Content:
Loose unmounted prints. An accompanying note from the Cultural Attaché of the British Embassy, Rangoon, reads: 'Photographs taken with box camera 1947 by U San Aung reporter on New Light of Burma in the Panglong Conference'. Although the prints are of poor quality, due to the nature of the camer...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
12Feb1947
Extent:
9 items

4949. Photo 825

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 825
Title:
Miscellaneous photographs relating to Aden.
Scope & Content:
Loose, mostly uncaptioned, prints including: aerial views of Aden and its vicinity taken by the RAF in the 1920s and 30s; portraits of delegates at Conference of Protectorate Chiefs, Lahej, 1929-30; executions following an army revolt in 1955; visit of President Tito of Yugoslavia; and portraits...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1920s-1960s
Extent:
13 items

4950. Photo 826

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 826
Title:
Bihar Light Horse annual camp views.
Scope & Content:
Loose prints (one tightly rolled) depicting views at the Bihar Light Horse annual camp at Pusa in 1922, with an additional group portrait at a farewell party in Muzaffarpur, 1923. Process = Gelatine silver prints Photographers = Unknown., ;
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1922-1923
Extent:
7 items

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