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Photographs relating to the career of Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes.
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Collection of eleven loose prints and five original film negatives, relating principally to Sykes' period as Governor of Bombay 1928-31. The material includes five prints of an official visit to the Ajanta Caves, a mounted portraits of Lady Sykes on horseback (by Backhouse of Poona), two prints o...
Two photographic portraits of Harry (Henry Alfred) Carless, Indian Police Service. Photographer(s): Unknown.
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Two loose prints: 1. Formal half-length studio portrait of Harry Carless as an Assistant Superintendent of Police, in Indian Police Service dress uniform, c. 1920 2. Informal portrait, posed with ponies on polo field with Indian orderlies, c. 1941-42, when Carless was Inspector-General of Poli...
Lady Maclay's [Macleay's] Xmas partie [sic], British Legation, Peking, 1923
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Print (measuring 156 mm x 203 mm) on card mount, showing a couple identified as Sir Donald and Lady Maclay standing beside a figure dressed as Father Christmas and seated on a Bactrian camel, in front of Legation buildings at Peking. The 'Sir Donald Maclay' identified beneath the print must presu...
Snapshots from the Chin Hills, Burma. Photographer: Robert Broughton-Smart
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Two snapshots of Burma, probably taken by Robert Broughton-Smart, Indian Police (Burma), captioned and dated on reverse: 1. A Haka Chin chief's house. 1925 2. Naga chiefs, Chin Hills, Burma, 1925.
Photograph album of Barbara Peile SPG, medical sister at St Barnabas' Hospital, Ranchi and St Denys' Hospital, Itki, Bihar
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Photograph album containing 55 snapshots relating to Barbara Peile's medical work in Bihar: views of hospital buildings, patients and staff, local events, etc. Included with this collection is a bundle of letters sent by Barbara Peile to her friend Susan Cockayne between 1968 and 1969. Barbara ...
Photographs of rock carvings at Padaw, between Akyab and Rathedaung, Arakan, Burma. Photographer: R. M. Hall
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Collection of 5 loose prints. Four of the photographs show rock carvings at Padaw. The fifth print shows a Burmese man posed beside what appears to be part of a ruined architectural structure. A pencilled note on the verso of print 1 notes that the rock carvings were visited and photographed in 1...
The Underwood Travel Library. Stereoscopic Views of Jerusalem. Photographer/Publisher: Underwood and Underwood
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An incomplete set numbered 9-35 (wanting 1-8), of the Underwood and Underwood set of stereoscopic views of Jerusalem, some with copyright registration dates of either 1904 or 1906. In original box.
Indian photographs of Frank Holland and other material
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Collection comprising photographs and papers relating to the life of Frank and Edith Holland in India (and elsewhere) and a snapshot album compiled by an unidentified soldier in India. Frank Holland went to India in 1916 as weaving master at the Muir Mills Company at Cawnpore, and appears to hav...
Fort and memorial at Geok Tepe, Turkmenistan. Photographer: D. G. Cherniaev
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Inscription: pencilled inscription on mount reads: Geok Tepe, Sunday April 27th 1902 (24 Jany. 1881). View showing ruined mud walls of the fort at Geok Tepe, with figures grouped around a recently erected memorial cross in the centre. The memorial must presumably commemorate Russian casualties ...