Canal Maritime de Suez. Photographer: Arnoux, Hippolyte
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Photographic copy of a map of the Suez Canal, illustrated with photographic views of the route and portraits of African types, Ottoman rulers and, in the centre, the builder of the canal, Ferdinand de Lesseps.
Genre: Portrait Photography European group, taken in a garden at Simla in front of a trellis. The sitters are identified as follows: (back row, standing, left to right): unidentified, Mr A. C. Lyall, Mr Batten; (seated, left to right): Mr Forsyth, Mrs Lyall, Miss Lyall, Mrs Trevor Plowden; (rec...
Genre: Portrait Photography Studio group portrait, with sitters identified in pencil beneath print, as follows: Col. Crofton, Mr Miller, Mr Probyn, Col. Hutchinson, J. C. Cautley, Maj. Westmorland, J. B. Lyall, Col. Pollard, Col. Black, Col MaccLagan, Mr C. Rivaz, Mr Thornton, Capt. Burn. The I...
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the pillared mandapa towards the tall pyramidal temple gopuras of the Ranganatha Temple, Srirangam.
Ootacamund. Photographer: Penn, Albert Thomas Watson
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Inscription: Signed in the negative, 'Penn 11.' Genre: Landscape Photography View from the hillside above the town, looking down onto the lake, with the Nilgiris in the distance beyond.