Trying a new Tootie: Ahmed Bakhsh preparing to mount. Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Snapshot taken in a garden showing a servant about to mount a pony. With a European woman, possibly Doris Skrine, standing on the left. [Gelatin silver print, 156x113mm]. Subjects = Skrine Collection
Sir Clarmont Percival Skrine Collection: South Indian Photographs. Photographer(s): Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Collection of photographs taken during Skrine's period as Resident for the Madras States (1936-39) and comprising: 1-30 30 uncaptioned Dufaycolor transparencies of Sout Indian scenes and family portraits. 31-42 12 loose prints of South India scenes, the majority uncaptioned.
[1-30: Dufaycolor transparencies of South India.] Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Collection of 30 6x9 cm uncaptioned Dufaycolor transparencies of South Indian scenes. The material includes seascapes, views in the hill country (probably the Nilgiris), palaces and other residences, monuments at Vijayanagara and elswehere, flower studies and in...
[Man climbing tree lookout.] Photographer: Skrine, Sir Clarmont Percival
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Showing a man ascending a ladder to a thatched shelter built at the top of a tree, presumably a lookout for elephants. [Gelatin silver prints, 151x214mm]. Subjects = Skrine Collection