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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1228(32)
Title:: [Forest Trees of India. No. 20]. Wild mango [and] 'Kahua,' Terminalia arjuna. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View of the two trees in a clearing, with a figure attending to camp duties in the middleground. With additional notes written on album page beneath the print: 'Mangifera indica. Well known 'mango' planted all over India for its fruit in groves and gardens. The wild...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1228(33)
Title:: [Forest Trees of India. No. 21.] Bassia latifolia [Madhuca longifolia], mahua tree. Forest Officer's camp, Puchmari, Central Provinces. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Camp scene, with tents in a clearing, one tent pitched at the base of a mahua tree. A European man (probably Webber: compare print 57) sits reading in front of the tent on the left. The mahua is characterised in a note as 'a splendid handsome & shady tree.' With...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1228(46)
Title:: [Stand of unidentified trees, with horse and figure in foreground.] Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

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