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5281. Photo 1149

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1149
Title:
Photograph album relating to the career and family life in China of William Pollock Ker. Photographer(s): Unknown (various)
Scope & Content:
Brown cloth-bound album measuring 310 mm x 310 mm and containing 407 prints, mainly amateur snapshots, but with some professional work, relating to the career in China of William Pollock Ker. The majority of the subjects and locations are identified by handwritten captions beneath individual or ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1903-1916
Extent:
407 items

5282. Photo 1150

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1150
Title:
Panoramic photographs of China and Cambodia. Photographer(s): Conner, Lois
Scope & Content:
Collection of 17 loose prints, all platinum contact prints apart from print 17, a digital print from a film original. Locations include Shanghai, Hangzhou, Fuli, Yangshuo, Turfan, Jiaohe, Kashgar, U Dong and Angkor.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1984-1997
Extent:
17 items

5283. Photo 1151

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1151
Title:
Photographs of Tibet. Photographer: Eva Siao
Scope & Content:
Collection of 46 loose gelatin silver prints of people and places in Tibet, taken by the photo-journalist and filmaker Eva Siao (1911-2001), during a visit to Tibet in 1956. The collection also includes a 15 pp. xerox copy of an autobiographical memoir by Siao, entitled China—My dream—My reality.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1956
Extent:
46 items

5284. Photo 1152

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1152
Title:
Album of views of India and Egypt relating to the career of R. Hedger Wallace. Photographer(s): Arnoux, Hippolyte
Scope & Content:
Photograph album, measuring 237 x 285 mm, lacking covers and generally in poor condition, with some leaves detached. The album contents illustrate the career of the agriculturalist R. Hedger Wallace at the Rosa sugar estate and rum factory near Shahjahanpur, where he was employed between c. 1881...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870s-180s
Extent:
25 items

5285. Photo 1153

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1153
Title:
Photographic views of South Africa. Photographer(s): George Washington Wilson studio
Scope & Content:
Collection of 28 loose albumen prints of South African architecture and landscape, taken by photographers of the firm of George Washington Wilson. The prints are all captioned, numbered and signed G. W. W. in the negative. Locations include Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London, Johannesburg, K...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1895-1900
Extent:
28 items

5286. Photo 1154

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1154
Title:
Group at Jullundur, Punjab, India. Photographer(s): Charles Waterloo Hutchinson
Scope & Content:
A stereoscopic pair, mounted on card, with inscription on the reverse identifying the sitters as Col. and Mrs. C. W. Hutchinson and Capt. and Mrs. C. W. Nightingale (with three children). It is probable that the group was arranged and taken by Hutchinson, who was an accomplished amateur photogra...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1861
Extent:
1 item

5287. Photo 1155

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1155
Title:
Photographs relating to the career of Sir Eric Alexander Franklin in Pakistan and Jordan.
Scope & Content:
Collection of loose photographs in two parts (Photo 1155/1-2), mainly documenting official engagements undertaken by Sir Eric Alexander Franklin in Pakistan and Jordan. Sir Eric Alexander Franklin (1910-1996) served in the Indian Civil Service (Burma) 1935-48 and was in Pakistan Government Serv...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1955-1963
Extent:
Unspecified

5288. Photo 1156

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1156
Title:
Photographs relating to Sino-Japanese hostilities, Shanghai, 1937 and the tour of H.M.S. Birmingham on the China Station, 1939-40. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Collection comprising 102 loose prints relating to the Sino-Japanese hostilities in Shanghai in 1937 (Photo 1156/1), and an album of 169 amateur snapshots of the tour of H.M.S. Birmingham on the China Station, 1939-40 (Photo 1156/2).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1937-1940
Extent:

271 items

5289. Photo 1157

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1157
Title:
Views of Ascension. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Oblong quarto photograph album measuring 252 x 318 mm, bound in full contemporary green morocco, stamped in gilt on front cover, Views of Ascension, edges gilt, with gilt inner dentelles. The album contains 25 albumen print views of buildings and scenery on Ascension Island, mounted one to a pag...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870s
Extent:
25 items

5290. Photo 1158

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1158
Title:
Vues de Java. Photographiés de Woodbury et Page. Photographer(s): Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Oblong folio album, quarter leather and maroon pebbled cloth boards with rules in blind, marbled endpapers, titled in gilt on spine, measuring 317 x 450 mm and containing 26 albumen prints, guard-mounted one to a page (recto only), with titles written in a neat cursive hand in French beneath eac...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s-1870s
Extent:
26 items

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