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51. Photo 1228(15)

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Photo 1228(15)
Title:
[Forest Trees of India. No. 6.] Melia aziderachta. Neem tree, Planted for shade. Wilkinson's bungalow, Hoshungabad. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Study of a large neem tree, with a thatched bungalow behind. The European man standing beneath the tree is presumably Mr Wilkinson. With additional note: ''Nim', a beautiful ash like tree affording dense shade, planted by roads and homes.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

52. Photo 1228(16)

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Photo 1228(16)
Title:
[Forest Trees of India. No. 7.] Cedrela Toona. Toon tree. Indian mahogany. Cave of Mahadeo. Sacred place of pilgrimage, Puchmurri [Pachmarhi]. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of the tree, clinging to the rock face, with two Indian figures posed beside the thatched shelter on the right. With additional note: 'This tree grows all over India often to a great size and affords excellent hard red timber like mahogany, 28 lbs to cubic foot...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

53. Photo 1228(34)

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Photo 1228(34)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees No. 22.] Cordia mixa, 'sword tree.' Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography General view of tree, with additional note written on album page beneath print: 'A handsome foliaged small tree with light durable timber used in Egypt for mummy cases. Leaves used in Burmah for rolling cigars.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

54. Photo 1228(35)

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Photo 1228(35)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees, No. 23.] In the Boree [Bori] Forest Reserve, Hoshungabad district. Bamboo jungle [and] Tectona grandis, 'teak.' Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a forest clearing, looking towards a teak tree, with bamboo in left foreground. With additional notes written on album page beneath print: 'Bambusa vulgaris, commonplace all over India. Teak is the most valuable timber in India but little of the old timber r...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

55. Photo 1228(36)

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Photo 1228(36)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees, No. 24.] Ficus or Urostigma religiosa. Peepul, the sacred tree, at Hoshungabad. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a peepul tree beside a stream or pool, probably taken, like print 25, in Webber's compound at Hoshangabad. With additional notes written on the album page beneath the print: 'This well known fig with beautiful heart shaped leaves and noble branching head doe...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

56. Photo 1228(37)

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Photo 1228(37)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees, No. 25.] Ficus or Urostigma indica. Banyan or bungadh tree. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a banyan tree in a forest clearing. With additional notes written on the album page beneath the print: 'Called by the natives 'bungadh.' This is the sacred bo tree. Its leaves are large & thicker than the peepul. Its air roots can be trained to take root...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

57. Photo 1228(38)

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Photo 1228(38)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees, No. 25.] 'Pakur' tree, Urostigma or Ficus infectoria. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a ficus growing on lightly wooded hillside. With additional notes written on the album page beneath the print: 'This noble spreading fig tree is not as common as the peepul or banyan. It is quite as handsome as they are as an ornamental shade producing tree....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

58. Photo 1228(39)

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Photo 1228(39)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees, No. 27.] 'Gooler,' Urostigma or Ficus racemosa, or Ficus glomerata, mango on right. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a stand of trees in light woodland, with cows and and an Indian figure. With additional note written on album page beneath the print: 'This is a fine fig tree & bears small eatible red figs, of which fish are fond. Its air roots are numerous.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

59. Photo 1228(40)

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Photo 1228(40)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees, No. 28.] Phoenix sylvestris, the common palm, Central Provinces. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a stand of palm trees, with the roof of a tiled house visible in the background and an Indian figure seated on a rough wooden animal pen in the left foreground. With additional note written on album page beneath the print: 'The common date palm grows all ove...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

60. Photo 1228(45)

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Photo 1228(45)
Title:
The Forest Office at Puchmari [Pachmarhi]. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of forestry officers posed in front of a tent. The senior figure at a folding desk with papers, is identified as 'Peddi Naido Baboo.' Beside him stands a man identified as 'Ameen Oodeen,' with 'Kunta Pershad' seated on the ground writing. Other figures...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item