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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 931
Title:: Miscellaneous Indian portraits. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:: Collection of five albumen prints, mounted on card and presumably extracted from albums of various formats. The captions to the prints are written in different hands and the material clearly originated from three different sources. Prints 1-2 are portrait groups of East Indian Railway employees,...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1858-1860s
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 932
Title:: Attenborough Collection: Photographs of Quetta and surrounding districts.
Scope & Content:: A collection of 11 loose prints, the majority captioned in pencil on the reverse. The prints are tightly rolled, from having been stored in the original metal postal tube, which was sent from Quetta to London by Gunner Attenborough of the Royal Artillery on 21 October 1892. Prints 1-3 are milita...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Early1890s
Extent:: 11 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 934
Title:: Clyde Waddell: 'A Yank's Memories of Calcutta.'
Scope & Content:: Black string-tied album measuring 337x260mm, with prints loosely inserted in corner slits on pages, with extended typescript captions beneath each image. The album is prefaced by a one-page printed introduction by M. Charles Preston of New York City, 'ex-enlisted man, former CBI'er and co-worker...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1946
Extent:: 60 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 935
Title:: Howard-Bury Collection: Views of India
Scope & Content:: Collection of 10 loose prints mounted on boards measuring 490x427mm, captioned and dated in ink beneath each print. This series of photographs is part of a larger collection selected from the Howard-Bury archive offered for sale by Maggs Brothers in 1995 Process = Gelatin silver prints Photo...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1911-1912
Extent:: 10 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 936
Title:: The Visit of Their Excellencies The Viceroy and Lady Linlithgow to Udaipur, March 1939.
Scope & Content:: Blue full leather bound album measuring 560x418mm, with title as above stamped in gilt within decorative borders; with photographer's leather label pasted onto red silk endpapers. The album contains 116 uncaptioned prints, mounted one or more to the page within rules, recording the Viceroy's vis...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: March1939
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 937
Title:: Album of Views of Bombay and Bijapur.
Scope & Content:: Black full-leather bound album measuring 240x300mm, binding in poor condition (spine lacking and boards loose), containing 40 albumen prints, with handwritten captions beneath each. The prints themselves are generally in good condition.The majority of the photographs show scenes of Bombay archit...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1850s-1870s
Extent:: 40 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 938
Title:: Edward Molyneux Collection: Album of carte-de-visite portraits of naval officers and families. Photographer(s): Various
Scope & Content:: Full-leather bound carte-de-visite album (binding weak), measuring 295 x 240 mm, with brass clasps. Inscribed on front free endpaper: 'To Mrs Powell, with kind wishes from the Ward Room Officers of H.M.S. Defence Octr. 11th 1862.' The album contans 179 carte-de-visite portraits of naval officers...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1860s-1870s
Extent:: 1 item

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