[View in the Lal Bagh Gardens, Bangalore.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography Looking across lawns in the Lal Bagh towards a single-storey European building flanked by two square towers. See also print 37. Subjects = Bellew Collection; public gardens
[Railway Station at Beypore.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of two-storeyed brick verandahed building (presumably administrative offices) with the roofs of the railway platforms visible in background. Beypore, a few miles south of Calicut on the Kerala coast, was for a period the terminus of the Madras Railw...
[View in the Lal Bagh, Bangalore.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the Lal Bagh Gardens, with a fountain in the foreground and a bandstand beyond. The photograph is taken from the tower of the building seen in print 35. Subjects = Bellew Collection; public gardens
[Portrait of Sher Ali Khan, Amir of Afghanistan.] Photographer: Baker and Burke
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait (oval vignette), wearing heavy coat and black Astrakahn hat, sword in left hand. Probably taken during the return from the Ambala durbar with the Viceroy Lord Mayo, possibly at Jamrud. Duplicate at print 78. Photograph probably by Baker &a...
[Durbar group with Sher Ali Khan, Fort Jamrud.] Photographer: Baker and Burke
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Genre: Historical Events Group portrait with Amir Sher Ali Khan seated in the centre, flanked by Col Chamberlain and Sir Frederick Pollock and a large Afghan contingent. This appears to be the photograph listed in the 1872 Baker & Burke catalogue as 'Group. The Amir and Suite, with European...
[Portrait of Sher Ali Khan.] Photographer: Baker and Burke
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Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length portrait, dressed in ornately-patterned coat, black woollen hat and holding sword. This appears to be the portrait listed in the Baker & Burke catalogue as 'The Amir, large size, standing, half figure'. See also Photo 27 (23), a similar portrait taken...
[Group of Ayaub's Ambassadors.] Photographer: Simpson, Benjamin
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Inscription: Signed and numbered 'B. Simpson 30' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography One of the series of Simpson's photographs marketed by Bourne and Shepherd. The Bourne & Shepherd catalogue describes the photograph as follows: 'Group, Ayaub's Ambassadors, Abdulla Khan sitting o...
[Group of Political Officers at Kandahar.] Photographer: Simpson, Benjamin
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Inscription: Signed and numbered 'B. Simpson 53' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography Group of European political officers posed in front of the same building as seen in the preceding print. One of the series of photographs taken by Simpson in and around Kandahar and marketed by Bourne...
[Group with Amir Sher Ali, Ambala.] Photographer: Taylor, Clarence Comyn
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait, with Amir Sher Ali seated with European political officers and two unidentified Afghani sirdars. The Europeans are Surgeon Major Henry Bellew (standing at left), Col (later Sir) Frederick Pollock (seated to left of Amir), Col (later General Sir) Crawf...