Delhi Durbar Amphitheatre, 12th Dec 1911. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Genre: Historical Events View looking across the amphitheatre, with George V and Queen Mary, with an entourage of pages, processing towards the central dais and massed ranks of the military drawn up around them.
Proclamation of Empress of India, Delhi, January 1877. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Genre: Historical Events General view of the assemblage, with crowds of spectators in the foreground. Contemporary notes on the mount beneath the print identify the amphitheatre for Europeans (at left), Lord Lytton's canopy (centre: the Viceroy can just be made out seated beneath the canopy), a...
Panorama of Royal Canopy and Shamiana in amphitheatre [Delhi Durbar]. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Genre: Historical Events Panoramic view of the Delhi Durbar amphitheatre, composed of three joined prints; with the shamiana (an open-sided tent) on the left and the royal dais, surrounded by guards of honour, on the left.
A portion of the amphitheatre [Delhi Durbar]. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Genre: Historical Events View from the spectators' stands looking towards the interior of the amphitheatre during the durbar ceremonial, with Indian troops on parade. This appears to join with print 14 to form a panoramic view.
Some of the Indian troops [at the Delhi Durbar]. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Genre: Historical Events View from the spectators' stands looking towards the interior of the amphitheatre and the roay dais during the durbar ceremonial, with Indian troops on parade. This appears to join with print 13 to form a panoramic view.