Views in the Botanical Gardens, Calcutta. Photographer(s): Unknown
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Collection of modern prints from glass negatives at Neg 719. The negatives are uncaptioned, but all show views in the Botanical Gardens. According to the xerox copy of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew register, the negatives were presented to Kew by Sir David Prain (Director of Kew, 1905-22 and ...
The bandstand in the Lal Bagh, Bangalore. Photographer: Dixon, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography View across the gardens, with the bandstand in the left foreground. Signed H.D. in the negative. Print shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1867.
Buitenzorg garden. Photographer: Woodbury and Page.
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Woodbury and Page blindstamp at bottom right. View of palm trees in the botanical gardens at Buitenzorg (modern Bogor). Another copy at Photo 1183 (41).
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the lake in the Botanical Gardens, with figures grouped on the rustic bridge and along the waterside in the foreground.
Calcutta. The results of the Cyclone. Photographer: Baker, F. W.
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of a fallen tree uprooted in the cyclone, probably photographed in the Botanical Gardens. Photograph uncredited, but tentatively attributed to F. W. Baker, who is known to have taken a series of views of the cyclone (see Sothebys Photograph Sale, 2 Ma...