Photographic Views [of India]. Photographer(s): Bourne and Shepherd, Johnston and Henderson, William Henry Baker, Samuel Bourne, F. W. Baker, Edmund David Lyon, James Craddock, J. H. Clarke, Robinson and Cherrill and others.
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Oblong folio photograph album, measuring 340 x 505 mm, half-leather binding, with red leather label panel, stamped Photographic Views in gilt, on upper board; bookplate of 'Mr James Wilson, J.P. (of Calcutta.) Rutland Park, Sheffield,' laid down on front fixed endpaper (see biographical note bel...
Album of Photographic Views of India. Photographer(s): John Edward Saché, Bourne and Shepherd, Edmund David Lyon
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Half-leather bound album, measuring 313 x 370 mm, marbled endpapers, edges gilt, with leather label reading Photographs laid down on upper board, business card of 'James Wilson, Editor, Indian Daily News,' laid down on front pastedown. The album contains 49 albumen print views, tipped down at th...
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View from the hillside behind Saint Denis, the capital of Reunion, looking down onto the town, harbour and roadstead beyond, with a large range of buildings (a barracks?) dominating the centre of the photograph.
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the cemetery, which contains some remarkable mausolea. The tall column on the left is the monument to Sir Rollo Gillespie, subduer of the Vellore mutiny of 1806.
Wasseruts from railway station. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards the thatched huts of the village street, with carts in the foreground and mountains on the skyline in the distance. Precise location unidentified.
The Snowy Range from Koteghur [Kotgarh]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking northwards over treetops and across the hills and the Sutlej Valley towards the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas on the horizon. Kotgarh is situated some 55 miles north-east of Simla.