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21. EAP1104/7/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1104/7/3
Title:
Family Album (vol. 3)
Scope & Content:
Reading old photographs is a stimulating experience invoking nostalgia, pleasure and even sorrow as we look at the time gone by. There is a sense of history one experiences that is beyond personal memories that make us realize the transforming social conditions and the impermanence of things. Th...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
16 TIFF images

22. EAP1104/7/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1104/7/4
Title:
Family Album (vol. 4)
Scope & Content:
Reading old photographs is a stimulating experience invoking nostalgia, pleasure and even sorrow as we look at the time gone by. There is a sense of history one experiences that is beyond personal memories that make us realize the transforming social conditions and the impermanence of things. Th...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
22 TIFF images

23. EAP1104/11

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1104/11
Title:
Private Collection of Royal family of Cussimbazar (Roy)
Scope & Content:
Custodial history: Around 1700 AD Ajodhya Ram Roy of Pirojpur village near Bhagabangola and the river Padma (who traced his descent from Patrasayer of Burdwan District) came with his family to settle down in Cossimbazar, a renowned port city of Bengal closed to Murshidabad, the capital of the Na...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali, English, and Not applicable
Date Range:
1st half of the 19th century-1st half of the 20th century
Extent:
2818 TIFF images

24. EAP1104/11/31

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1104/11/31
Title:
Photo Album (1)
Scope & Content:
A photo album of the Cossimbazar Rajbari. Extent: 1 Photo Album. Size and dimensions of original material: The original volume with length of 28x37 cm. Condition of original material: Damaged, Fragile , Worm-eaten. Arrangement: Arranged by the custodian.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1897
Extent:
174 TIFF images

25. EAP1104/11/32

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1104/11/32
Title:
Photo Album (2)
Scope & Content:
A photo album of the Cossimbazar Rajbari. Extent: 1 Photo Album. Size and dimensions of original material: The original volume with length of 40x28 cm. Condition of original material: Damaged, Fragile , Worm-eaten. Arrangement: Arranged by the custodian.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
2nd half of the 19th century
Extent:
46 TIFF images

26. EAP1190/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1190/1/2
Title:
Astronomical Log Books
Scope & Content:
A set of hard-cover note books used to record the progress of research programmes carried out on a certain telescope. During this period of Boyden’s history, photography was the principal method of detecting and recording information. Typically, a piece of glass was coated with a photographic em...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891-1994
Extent:
969

27. EAP1190/1/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1190/1/5
Title:
Lantern Slides
Scope & Content:
A collection of mounted images most probably used to illustrate lectures and to disseminate news. The slides are a mix of original material from Boyden Observatory and commercially-available reproductions. The bulk of the material consists of reproductions of plates taken at Boyden Observatory (...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891-1994
Extent:
105

28. EAP1190/1/5/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1190/1/5/2
Title:
Boyden Lantern Slides Box 4: Telescopes and astronomical objects.
Scope & Content:
A collection of slides showing telescopes, observatories, astronomers, and astronomical objects. Several images illustrate the history of Harvard College Observatory, showing scenes from the USA, Peru, and Chile. Two images show Harlow Shapley and Solon Bailey. Other well-known observatories in ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891-1994
Extent:
99

29. EAP1190/1/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1190/1/7
Title:
Photographic Plates
Scope & Content:
255 photographic glass plate negatives (gelatin dry plates), stored in 23 original plate boxes, haphazardly arranged. All appear to be original plates, mostly exposed in the early 1930s. About half (127) show buildings, telescopes, instruments and people at Boyden Observatory, South Africa, most...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891-1994
Extent:
255

30. EAP1234/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1234/1
Title:
Manuel Moral - Elias del Aguila archive [1900s-1930s]
Scope & Content:
Elias del Aguila was born in Tarapoto in 1875. He was disciple, collaborator and close friend to Portuguese photographer Manuel Moral. In 1903, when Moral opens a new studio at Mercaderes Street in Callao, Del Aguila takes over the studio that Moral previously had at 23-25 Mantas Street in Lima,...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s-1930s
Extent:
2405 TIFF images

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