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Project Japan Collection of 35 mm slides. Photographer: Graham Cooper
Scope & Content:
Collection of 35 mm colour slides of Japanese architecture and environmental subjects, divided into the following categories: Photo 1388/1. Architecture part A (929 slides) Photo 1388/2. Architecture part B (395 slides) Photo 1388/3. Traditional architecture (419 slides) Photo 1388/4. Art an...
Norrie collection: Photograph album and box of loose photographs relating to the Boxer Rebellion in China
Scope & Content:
Photograph album was assembled by Colonel Evelyn William Meadows Norrie (1862-1915) of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment). Norrie authored the Official account of the military operations in China 1900-1901 which was published by the War Office's Intelligence Department in 1903. A ...
Jameson Collection: Photograph album of views of India and Ceylon and file of associated correspondence and papers
Scope & Content:
Photo 1391/1: Photograph album containing 99 photographs (1 loose) of views of Travancore, Malabar Coast, Cochin, Ceylon, Simla, Delhi and other places. Photo 1392/2: File of associated correspondence and papers, including blood test results for the Misses Jameson. (42 items)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925-1940
Extent:
Photograph album containing 99 photographs; 42 loose correspondence and papers
Gateway at Fyzabad, Oude: Photographer: Wroughton, Major Richard (1797-1850)
Scope & Content:
View of the Tripolia Gateway at Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh. This gateway is no longer extant. It is most likely that the photographer is Major Richard Wroughton (1797-1850) of the 69th Bengal Infantry, who was the deputy Surveyor-General of India. Provenance: Sven Gahlin (1934-2017); Bonhams Trave...
Four stereoscope photographs of Indian Military Representatives attending the Coronation of Edward VII in 1902. Photographer(s): Hands & Sons and Underwood & Underwood.
Scope & Content:
Four stereoscope photographs of Indian Military Representatives attending the Coronation of Edward VII in 1902.
Libraries and Manuscripts of Laos. Photographer(s): Berger, Hans Georg
Scope & Content:
A portfolio of photographs documenting traditional libraries, scribes, objects linked to manuscript writing and storage, the revival of the teaching of manuscript reading, the discovery and cleaning of palm-leaf manuscripts and manuscripts on sa-paper, as well as Buddhist ceremonies links to man...
Slides of Burma. Photographers: Griffin, Alfred Sercombe, Klier, Philip Adolphe, Unknown.
Scope & Content:
Collection of 50 black and white photographs collected by Alfred Sercombe Griffin during his time as a locum pharmacist in Burma between 1906-08. The glass slides are encased in a wooden box with iron clasps. "Burma: The Road to China: The Land of Pagodas and Paddy." and "50 slides" pencilled on ...
Photographs of Govt. Printer, Tanganyika. Photographer(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
10 black-and-white photographs of the Government Press at Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika. Photos 1403(1-9) are mounted on a single brown card, Photo 1403(10) mounted separately.
British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia collection of photographs of cemeteries in Burma. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Collection of 42 loose black-and-white and colour prints of cemeteries in Burma, with 28 strips of 35mm black-and-white negative film. Photos (1-36) relate to the Rangoon Cantonment Cemetery and the removal of the graves there, on the orders of the Burmese Government in 1991, to a new site at Ky...