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Collection Area Visual Arts Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 988

1. Photo 988

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 988
Title:
The Lucknow album. Containing a series of fifty photographic views of Lucknow and its environs together with a large sized plan of the city executed by Darogha Ubbas Alli, Assistant Municipal Engineer. To the above is added a full description of each scene depicted. The whole forming a complete illustrated guide to the city of Lucknow, the capital of Oudh. Photographer(s): Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:
Imprint: Calcutta: printed by G. H. Rouse, Baptist Mission Press. 1874. Octavo, printed book measuring 160 x 255 mm, rebound in red cloth, containing fifty prints of buildings in Lucknow, with descriptive text, by Darogha Abbas Ali, Assistant Municipal Engineer. In the introduction to the work...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1874
Extent:
50 items

2. Photo 988(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 988(1)
Title:
Alum Bagh [Lucknow]. Photographer: Ali, Abbas
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the building: 'This was originally a fortified garden, containing a large summer-house and out-offices, built and arranged, as an occasional residence, for Newab Khas Mehal, wife of the ex-king, Wajid Ali Shah, Sultana Aulum.' Subjects = Indian...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1874
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 988(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 988(2)
Title:
General Havelock's Tomb [Lucknow]. Photographer: Ali, Abbas
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of Havelock's Tomb in the grounds of the Alambagh. Subjects = graves; monuments and memorials
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1874
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 988(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 988(3)
Title:
Bebeapore ki Kothe [Bibiapur Kothi, Lucknow].. Photographer: Ali, Abbas
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography 'At a spot, a few miles eastward of the city, stand the ruins of the old palace of Bebeapore. Nawab Ausuf-ood-dowlah, the first of the Newabs who made Lucknow the capital, built this palace as a country residence, and enclosed a park, in which an immensity of sm...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1874
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 988(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 988(4)
Title:
The Wilaite Bagh [Wilayti Bagh, Lucknow]. Photographer: Ali, Abbas
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of open-sided, tiled pavilion or summer house in the garden. Subjects = gardens; pavilions
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1874
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 988(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 988(5)
Title:
Dilkoosha [Dilkusha Palace, Lucknow]. Photographer: Ali, Abbas
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the country house. Subjects = Anglo-Indian architecture; country houses; shooting lodges
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1874
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 988(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 988(6)
Title:
La Martinière [Lucknow]. Photographer: Ali, Abbas
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = education; European architecture in India; French colonial architecture; palaces; schools; stereoscopic prints
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1874
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 988(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 988(7)
Title:
Hyat Buksh [Lucknow]. Photographer: Ali, Abbas
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking along driveway towards the house, a two-storeyed verandahed villa: ;The residence of the Chief Commissioner. This house was built by Nawab Saadut Ali Khan, and was, during the reign of Nuseer-ood-deen Hyder, occupied by Colonel Roberts of th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1874
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 988(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 988(8)
Title:
Darul-shafa [Lucknow]. Photographer: Ali, Abbas
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of long, single-storeyed building with deep verandah. 'This house, as its name implies, is a Hospital or Dispensary, which was built by Newab Saadut Ali Khan, and was intended for the reception of the indigent sick, but was never used for that purpo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1874
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 988(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 988(9)
Title:
Offices of the Oudh and Rohelcund Ry. Co. [Lucknow.] Photographer: Ali, Abbas
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = British colonial architecture; European architecture in India; Oudh and Rohilkand Railway; railway companies; railway offices; railways; transport
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1874
Extent:
1 item