Collection Area: Visual Arts / Level: [32] Fonds - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1169
Title:: Postcards of Sri Lanka and Burma. Photographer(s)/Publisher(s): Plâté, A. W. A., John and Co., Ahuja, D. A.
Scope & Content:: Collection of 27 miscellaneous postcards (black-and-white and coloured), prints 1-25 showing scenes in Sri Lanka, the remaining two of Burma.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1900s
Extent:: 27 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1170
Title:: Postcards and snapshots of India. Photographer(s): Johnston and Hoffmann and others
Scope & Content:: Collection compiled by William Cornelius Emery (1895-1964), North Staffordshire Regiment (uncle of the donor's late husband), during service in India, and comprising: Photo 1170/1. 88 black-and-white and coloured postcards of India and Pakistan. Locations and subjects include Caclutta, Karachi,...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c. 1910-1920
Extent:: 179 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1171
Title:: Photographs relating to the career and family life of Sir Clarmont Percival Skrine.
Scope & Content:: Collection of 36 loose prints relating to the career and family life of Sir Clarmont Percival Skrine, primarily relating to his time as Resident, Punjab States 1939-41 and Consul-General at Meshed 1942-46.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1930s-1947
Extent:: 36 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1172
Title:: Uppadine Collection of Indian photographs. Photographer: Alfred Douglas Uppadine.
Scope & Content:: Photographs of India taken by A. D. Uppadine, including negatives, loose prints and notebooks, in seven parts (Photo 1172/1-7). The negatives in Photo 1172/1 appear to be the source for almost all the photographs in the other parts of the collection.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1940-1942
Extent:: 7 parts

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1173
Title:: North-West Frontier photographs of Colonel John Harold George Chapman. Photographers: Mela Ram and Sons (Peshawar), and others
Scope & Content:: 113 prints originally mounted on album pages with self-adhesive caption labels (now removed and rehoused for conservation reasons); 4 negatives (one original, three copy negatives); one modern copy print. The photographs and sticky captions originally attached to them have been removed from the ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1929-1931
Extent:: 120 photographs

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1174
Title:: Photographs of tribal types from Burma or Northern India. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:: A collection of 20 uncaptioned loose prints of unidentified tribal people from either Burma (Myanmar) or northern India.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1900s
Extent:: Unspecified

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1175
Title:: Postcards of temples at Khajuraho. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:: Collection of 12 loose photogravure postcards of temples at Khajuraho, published by the Medici Society Ltd., London.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1920
Extent:: 12 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1176
Title:: Major General Charles McLintock Collection.
Scope & Content:: Collection in seven parts (Photo 1176/1-7), comprising six albums and one group of loose prints, recording the career of Major General Charles McLintock (1821-1900), Indian Army 1842-1880.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1850s-1900s
Extent:: Unspecified

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1177
Title:: Album of photographs of a trip to Western Tibet by Captain Kenneth Behrens, Royal Indian Army Service Corps. Photographer: Kenneth Jacob Behrens.
Scope & Content:: Green cloth bound photograph album measuring 265 x 352 mm, with a cut-out outline map of India and the title Recollections pasted to the front cover, containing 136 gelatin silver prints, accompanied by a detailed handwritten commentary describing the journey. With associated papers connected wi...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: May 1944-Jun 1944
Extent:: 136 prints

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1178
Title:: Views of construction work on the Haputale, Kurunegela, Galle and Bandarawela Railways, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Photographer(s): Unknown (probably William Louis Henry Skeen and Co)
Scope & Content:: Collection of 30 loose albumen prints, captioned and dated in a contemporary hand on the reverse, documenting railway construction in Ceylon in the early to mid-1890s. The views show work in progress on the Matara and Galle lines (following the coast along the south-west corner of the island), t...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1893-1895
Extent:: 30 items

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