Collection of 13 loose prints relating to the career of Ernest Godfrey Pattle (1883-1963), Indian Civil Service, Burma. The photographs can be broken down into the following categories: (1-3) panoramic photographs of a military parade in Burma (probably Yenangyaung) at the end of the First World...
The history of the imperial assemblage at Delhi, held on the 1st January, 1877, to celebrate the assumption of the title of Empress of India by Her Majesty the Queen. Including historical sketches of India and her princes past and present...With portraits, pictures, maps, and plans. Photographer(s): Bourne and Shepherd
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Imprint: London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer [1877?]. Large quarto, quarter leather with green cloth boards, measuring 347 x 275 mm; pp. xix, 248; Printed volume containing 25 woodburytype prints from photographs by Bourne and Shepherd and one by John Burke. The photographs include portr...
Souvenir volume of the Elephant Kraal at Galgamuwa, North-Western Province, Ceylon. Photographer: Plâté, A. W. A.
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Genre: Historical Events Printed souvenir volume illustrated with 28 platinum prints of activities associated with the capture of wild elephants during the kraal or khedda near Galgamuwa, organised in honour of the Governor Sir Henry McCallum at the end of February 1910. The photographs show sc...
Album of views of Secunderabad, Trimulgherry and Mhow.
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Half-leather bound album measuring 271x277mm, containing 52 prints mounted one to a page. The binding is in poor repair, with all pages detached. The prints in the album are uncaptioned (apart from print 52), but the volume is accompanied by a handwritten list (duplicated in typescript) which id...
Sultan Abdul Hamid II Collection: synopsis. Photographer(s): Abdullah Frères
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Collection of 51 large full leather albums, documenting Turkish architecture, education, military and naval subjects, factories and other industrial subjects. Photo 1058/1 Architectural views at Bursa, Sogut, Eskisehir, Iznik. 42 prints. Photo 1058/2 Architectural views of Bursa. 4...