Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of Mr and Mrs Cnadock decorated with leaves and flowers [garden wedding ?]; original negative only, no print.
Mohomedans at mid-day prayer. Photographer: Holmes, William (James) Dacia
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Inscription: Captioned as above and signed 'Holmes' in the negative. Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the prayer hall of an unidentified mosque (possibly at Peshawar?), the court in the foreground crowded with figures kneeling in prayer.
[Mid-day prayers at an unidentified mosque, Pakistan.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View from an elevated position looking towards the prayer hall of an unidentified mosque, the court in the foreground crowded with men during a service. A pencilled note on the reverse suggests Peshawar as a possible location.
Cremation of an old woman on the edge of the village of Chicham, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
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'The cremation of an old woman on the edge of the village of Chicham. Traditionally bodies were dismembered by monks and thrown into the river to be consumed by fish. Leaving your corpse to feed other sentient beings is a meritorious practice. Occasionally sky burials in which the dismembered bo...
Jama Masjid, Delhi, with scene of annual Friday prayer meeting. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography Postcard view. Nos. 77-88 are contained in a booklet of Tuck Series postcards entitled 'Delhi' and published by M. L. Shugan Chand.