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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1001/1(3253)
Title:: Shah Alam's Tomb from the top of Shah Alam's Mosque, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking south-east from the top of the mosque towards the main entrance (west façade) of the tomb. Duplicate (later printing) of Photo 1000 (3253). This copy of the print is numbered 602 in the negative, but it is in fact 605 in Lyon's list.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1001/1(3258)
Title:: General view of Shaikh Ahmad Ganj Baksh's Tomb, Sarkhej, near Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1001/2(3208)
Title:: The Dutch tombs at Surat. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of some of the tombs. The massive mausoleum on the left is that of Adriaan van Reede (d. 1691), chief of the Dutch factory and author of Hortus Malabaricus. It was the celebrated magnificence of these tombs which had inspired the architect Sir John ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1001/2(3257)
Title:: General view of Dada Harir's Tomb, Asarwa, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of south façade showing entrance, with bricked-in area in foreground apparently used as living quarters by the watchman. Reproduced in collotype in James Burgess, Muhammadan architecture of Ahmadabad (Archaeological Survey of Western India, vol. VII...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1002/1(8)
Title:: Mausoleum of Ibrahim Husain Khan, Bhagalpur. Photographer: Garrick, Henry Baily Wade
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography A poor quality view of the tomb, rather dark. Described in 'List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal. Revised and corrected up to 31st August 1895' (Calcutta, 1896), pp. 422-23: 'This is a very pretty monument, built about 200 years ago by one Ibrahim Hussein Khan....
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1002/2(90)
Title:: Interior of Zafar Khan Ghazi's Tomb, Tribeni, Hugli District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Interior of tomb, in a ruinous state. Described in 'List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal. Revised and corrected up to 31st August 1895' (Calcutta, 1896), pp. 40-41. See also, George Michell (ed), 'The Islamic Heritage of Bengal' (UNESCO, Paris, 1984), p. 136.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1872-1873
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1002/28(1460)
Title:: Front view of the Tomb of Muhammad Ghaus, Gwalior. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of tomb; vignetting along top edge of print in sky area. The attribution of this photograph to H.H. Cole in Bloch's list is probably incorrect. Subjects = Indian architecture
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1880
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1002/28(1462)
Title:: Close view of corner pavilion, Tomb of Muhammad Ghaus, Gwalior. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = ; Indian architecture
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1880
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1002/28(1464)
Title:: Close view of pierced stone window in the Tomb of Muhammad Ghaus, Gwalior. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = Indian architecture
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1883
Extent:: 1 item

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