Brown mock-leather post-bound album, 166x238mm, containing amatuer snapshot and commecially produced prints mounted several to a page with handwritten captions. Pages are interleaved with tissue and nineteen loose prints are inserted at the back of the album. The photographs are topographical a...
Views in Darjiling, Simla and Delhi, and portraits of clerks in the Quarter Master General's Office.
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Loose mounted prints, with handwritten captions, formerly belonging to E.G. McRae, a clerk in the Quarter Master General's Office, Simla, c.1894. Views include Darjiling, Simla and Delhi, with three portraits of staff of the Q.M.G.'s office. Process = Albumen prints Photographers = Bourne &a...
Portrait of staff of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway.
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Print mounted on green board. The support is extremely brittle and the print is creased in several places. The photograph is a portrait of European and Indian staff of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, including Arthur Cracknell, the Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineer. Process = Collodio-chlo...
Loose unmounted prints, with captions either in the negative or handwritten on the recto. Photographs include architectural and topographical views in Bombay, Calcutta, Jabalpur, Agra, Rangoon, Delhi, Lucknow and Kanpur. Process = Albumen prints Photographers = P. Vuccino & Co, Bourne &a...
Medical Photographs from the Calcutta Medical College Hospital.
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Collection of prints mounted on album pages, now unbound. The photographs show various stages of mainly disfiguring diseases treated at the Calcutta Hospital, including various tumours, yaws, elephantiasis. Typescript labels giving brief descriptions and history of disease, treatment, date and s...
Sir James David Sifton Collections: Photographs relating to his career in India.
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Collection divided into 8 parts (Photo 899/1-8). Sir James David Sifton (1878-1952), entered the Indian Civil Service in 1902. He served as Governor of Bihar and Orissa 1932-36 and Governor of Bihar 1936-37.