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Collection Area Visual Arts Place Assam, India, Asia Level [40] File

1. Photo 54(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 54(17)
Title:
[Group of Lushai tribesmen of Assam.] Photographer: Westfield and Company, W.F.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group portrait of Lushai tribesmen posed in front of a cane house. Subjects = ethnic groups; Lushais (ethnic group)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 54(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 54(18)
Title:
[Group of Lushai tribesmen of Assam.] Photographer: Westfield and Company, W.F.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = ethnic groups; Lushais (ethnic group)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 124(70)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(70)
Title:
Singhpos [Singphos]. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Portrait of three Singpho people by taken by Bourne and Shepherd in the 1890s.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1890s
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 124(71)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 124(71)
Title:
Nagas. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Full-length studio portrait (taken in the same studio as print 70) of five Naga men, wearing characteristic headgear with boars' tusks.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1890s
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 296/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 296/2
Title:
Sir Alexander Mackenzie Collection: 'Earthquake Views, 1897'. Photographer: Fritz Kapp
Scope & Content:
Brown half-leather album, measuring 368 mm x 480 mm, containing 51 mounted prints with handwritten captions; title stamped in gilt on front cover and with the photographer's address label pasted opposite Print 1. The prints depict buildings, railway lines, etc, destroyed or damaged in the earthq...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1897
Extent:
51 items

6. Photo 408(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 408(11)
Title:
[General view of mountain scenery, Assam?] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = mountain scenery
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 451/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 451/1
Title:
Indian Tea Association Collection: Assam Tea. A pictorial record by Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. Photographer(s): Bose, P.
Scope & Content:
Black cloth-covered post-bound album stamped 'Tea. Balmer Lawrie & Co., Ltd. Calcutta' in gold on front cover. Photographer's label laid down onto rear fixed endpaper. Album measures 292x385mm and contains prints mounted one to a page with tissue interleaving on which the captions are printe...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1950s
Extent:
36 items

8. Photo 492(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 492(6)
Title:
Crossing the Brahmaputra. Photographer: Williams, John Howard Fry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Two cars on a river ferry. Notes on reverse read: 'E.V.W. [Capt E.V. Whitehead, Assam Rifles?], Ford V8 on Lt, JHFW, Riley'. Subjects = cars; ferries; road transport; transport; water transport
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1939-1940
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 492(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 492(8)
Title:
[Portrait of] Freddy Needham on JHFW's bungalow verandah. Photographer: Williams, John Howard Fry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Subjects =
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1941
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 492(77)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 492(77)
Title:
Sir Robert Reid, Governor of Assam, in a dug-out canoe about to set off fishing. Photographer: Williams, John Howard Fry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events River scene with the Governor standing in a canoe in the foreground. Subjects =
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1940s
Extent:
1 item