My Indian Trophies. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Full-length portrait of Charles James Lucas (1853-1928), the compiler of this album, seated in front of his tent with a large collection of animal heads, in the garden of the Apcar's house in Calcutta. Lucas describes this photographic session in a diary letter to his parents: '27 Decr. Up at da...
Portrait of Charles James Lucas (1853-1928), the compiler of this album, standing with an Indian servant in front of his tent (pitched in the garden of the Calcutta house belonging to the Apcar family), with hunting trophies arranged around him. See print 195 for a note on this photographic sess...
[Indian Forest Trees.] No. 15. Terminalia tomentosa. Saj tree. Boree [Bori] Forest. My camp. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of of a saj tree in a forest clearing, with Webber's tent on the right. With additional note on album page beneath print: 'Called 'asan' in Bengal. A very common beautiful & very lofty tree with very straight stem usually found with sal which it strongly re...
[Forest Trees of India. No. 18.] Bassia longifolia [Madhuca longifolia], hurrur. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of the tree, growing in lightly wooded ground, with one of the tents of Webber's camp on the left. With an additional note written on the album page beneath the print: 'A useful dark grained timber. Its seeds afford a useful oil.'
[Forest Trees of India. No. 21.] Bassia latifolia [Madhuca longifolia], mahua tree. Forest Officer's camp, Puchmari, Central Provinces. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
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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...
The Forest Office at Puchmari [Pachmarhi]. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
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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...
Genre: Landscape Photography Mounted facing p. 78. View looking across the Khuzdar valley towards mountains, with an encampment of tents in the foreground.