Red quarter leather bound album (modern library rebinding) measuring 280x400mm, with prints mounted on pages with letterpress captions and subject headings. The album was originally bound in black leather and the front cover is mounted on the front fixed endpaper of the new binding. The old cove...
The Court-yard of the Husainabad Imambara. The rescue party are at work. To the left are in the boat Nawab Murtaza Husain Khan, the Trustee of the Husainabad Trust, and Saiyiad Wajid Husain, the Trust Secretary. The vast Court-yard is a sheet of water. Photographer: Beg, M.M.
Front view of the Palace of Light [Husainabad Imambara]. Floor of the Chabotra is under water which is making for the main hall. The rescue party are boating to the platform to take the refugees [Lucknow]. Photographer: Beg, M.M.
Nawab Murtaza Husain Khan and Saiyid Wajid Husain are taking refugees from the other side of the platform. In the other boat are seen the Head Clerk Pandit Debi Pershad Bhatt and his assistants at rescue work [Lucknow]. Photographer: Beg, M.M.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events The Taj copy at the right. Subjects = disasters; floods; Reading Collection
The rescue party leaves the Imambara. The Imambara court-yard is at the mercy of Gomti's waters. The Duldul-wooden-horse, a famous piece of ancient art, is bravely sinking beneath the flood. [Lucknow]. Photographer: Beg, M.M.