Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing portrait of a Pathan levy, armed with a sword and a small shield. Possibly a member of the Dir Levies.
Three-quarter length studio portrait of an Arab man, looking upwards and to the right, and armed with a sword and musket. Photograph unsigned, possibly by Arnoux.
The Nizam of Hyderabad. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Full-length studio portrait of the young Nizam Mahbub Ali Khan (1866-1911), dressed in a long robe, leaning against a table (on which stands a photograph album) and holding a jewelled sword in his right hand.
Numbered 683 in the negative. Studio portrait, against a painted backdrop of a woodland scene, of two swordsmen dressed in protective clothes, engaged in a bout.