Bhootia [sic, for Lepcha] woman. Photographer: Simpson, Benjamin
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Oval image. Head-and-shoulders half-profile portrait of a young Lepcha woman of Sikkim. This portrait also appears in John Forbes Watson and John William Kaye, 'The People of India' (London, 8 vols., 1868-75), vol. 1, plate 48, there identified as a L...
T. W. Webber Forest Surveyor NWP. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length carte de visite portrait, holding a rifle and standing against a rocky background. Thomas Wingfield Webber (1836-1914), the compiler and principal photographer of the album in which this portrait appears, came to India in 1860 and was originally employed ...
Honble. Robert Drummond BCS Commissioner. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length carte de visite portrait, seated against a cloth backdrop, of Robert Andrew John Drummond (1820-1887), Bengal Civil Service.
H. C. Hodgson. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length carte de visite portrait, standing with rifle against a rocky background. Hodgson was possibly a survey companion of Thomas Wingfield Webber, compiler and principal photographer of the album in which this portrait appears.