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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1168/2(25)
Title:: Futtehpore Sikri. The marble tomb of Sheik Selim Chisti, showing beautiful trellised screens. Photographer: Saché, John Edward
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Saché 348' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography Close view of marble latticework screens on the Tomb of Shaikh Salim Chisti, in the court of the Jami Masjid at Fatehpur Sikri. Letterpress caption label pasted below print.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1860s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1168/2(30)
Title:: Futtehpore Sikri. Curious carved pillar in the Hall of Audience. Photographer: Saché, John Edward
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Saché 361' in the negative. Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of the richly-corbelled column in the centre of the interior of the Diwan-i-Khas at Fatehpur Sikri. On top of the column is a circular platform, connected to the corners of the building by...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1860s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1188(41)
Title:: Huge stone figures on the avenue leading to the Tombs of the Kings [Ming Tombs], Nankin. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:: View of two stone figures of elephants in the landscape.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1192(5)
Title:: Carved stem of a a Burmese boat. Photographer: Ahuja, D. A.
Scope & Content:: Coloured postcard, undivided back. Showing the helmsman seated in the ornately carved stern of a Burmese laung-zat or paddy boat. Although copyrighted by Ahuja, this photograph was originally taken by Philip Adolph Klier, probably in the 1890s (for an albumen print copy, see Photo 88 (24)).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1900s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1192(6)
Title:: Carved stem of a Burmese boat. Photographer: Ahuja, D. A.
Scope & Content:: Coloured postcard, undivided back. Showing the helmsman seated in in the ornately carved stern of a Burmese laung-zat or paddy boat. Although copyrighted by Ahuja, this photograph was originally taken by Philip Adolph Klier, probably in the 1890s (for an albumen print copy, see Photo 88 (24)). D...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1900s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1192(122)
Title:: Carving, Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon. Photographer: Ahuja, D. A.
Scope & Content:: Coloured postcard, divided back. View of intricate wood-carved entrance to a shrine in the Shwe Dagon Pagoda.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1900s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1202/4(33)
Title:: Woodcarver, nearly blind, Pennsylvania. Photographer: Michael Katakis
Scope & Content:: Full-length portrait of a woodcarver, standing beside a window in his workshop, holding a wooden duck.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1988
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/2(84)
Title:: Delhi. Tomb of Shums-ood-Deen Altomsh [Iltutmish]. Builder of the Kutub. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1379 in the negative. Visited by the compiler of this album between 18th and 23rd March, 1878. Interior view of the tomb of Iltutmish with its Islamic carvings and arabesques.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1863-1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1237(68)
Title:: Gilded wood carvings in the Atoo-ma-shee [Atumashi or Incomparable Pagoda, Mandalay]. Photographer: Hooper, Willoughby Wallace
Scope & Content:: Corresponds to Photo 312 (53).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1885-1886
Extent:: 1 item

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