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Photograph album of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Courtenay Mansel Walton RAMC. Photographer: H. C. M. Walton
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Photograph album compiled by Lieutenant Colonel Henry Courtenay Mansel Walton (b. 1909). RAMC 1931-54, in India 1934-39, documenting his life as a medical officer stationed mainly at Rawalpindi, Murree and Quetta. Half-leather album measuring 310 mm x 410 mm, containing 591 snapshots, the photog...
Two photographs of Hindu temples in Malaysia. Photographer; Nirmala Karuppiah
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Two black-and-white digital prints of Hindu temples in Malaysia, by Nirmala Karuppiah; part of the series Sacred Structures: Batu Caves to Bukit Rotan. Signed by the artist and from a limited edition of three prints.
Maidan and Ochterlony Monument, Calcutta. Photographer: Unknown.
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One loose print, titled as above in pencil, verso; a view from Government House, looking south-east across the Maidan towards the Ochterlony Monument, with Chowringhee Road in the distance. In the foreground stands one of the eastern gateways to Government House.
Six Photograph Albums of Korean Views. Photographer(s): Unknown.
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A collection of six photograph albums, uniformly bound in beige silk boards with silk cord ties, numbered 1-6 in pencil on the inside cover of each, each measuring approximately 150 mm x 210 mm, apart from the first, which is slightly smaller, at 120 mm x 200 mm. The albums, presumably compiled...
Photographs and papers relating to the family of Cecil William Kirkpatrick (1871-1939), Superintendent, Foreign Department, Government of India.
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Collection in two parts: 1. 9 photographs relating to Cecil William Kirkpatrick, his family and others (some unidentified. 2. Miscellaneous copies of baptismal, marriage and death certificates of members of the Kirkpatrick family.
The British Residency, Kathmandu. Photographer: Dirgha Man Chitrakar
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Modern digital print made from the original glass negative, looking across the garden towards the façade of the British Residency at Kathmandu. The photograph is taken from a similar viewpoint to Henry Oldfield's watercolour of March 1850 (British Library shelfmark: WD3275).
Reference photographs of European cemeteries and graves in Burma, compiled by the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (BACSA). Photographers: Various.
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Collection of 468 loose black-and-white and colour prints of cemeteries in Burma, with three rolls of 35 mm black-and white negative film. The overwhelming majority of the prints relate to the Rangoon Cantonment Cemetery and the removal of the graves there, on the orders of the Burmese Government...
Postcards of Asia and the West Indies. Photographers/Publishers: P. S. Joshi (Bombay), Phototype Company (Bombay), D. Macropolo and Co (Calcutta), Nestor Gianaclis Ltd (Calcutta), Philip Klier (Rangoon), Raphael Tuck and Sons, Plâté Ltd (Colombo), Knight's Ltd (Barbados), Combler (Macon)
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Collection of 19 postcards of India (portrait of the Maharaja of Jaiopur, Tower of Silence at Bombay, 'a Madras beauty,' a working elephant, etc., 7 cards), Burma (a pwe, village scene and view of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, 3 cards), Ceylon (Colombo and Kandy, 5 cards), Java (temple at Prambanan, 1 c...
Walter Milner Collection: Photographs of Indian architecture. Photographer(s); Clifton & Co, H. A. Mirza and Sons, and others unknown
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Collection of 94 loose photographic prints (many duplicates), principally of Indian architectural subjects, collected (and some possibly taken) by Walter Milner, Assistant Architect and Engineer, Baroda. Some prints are captioned in the negative and a number have pencilled identifications on the ...