Grand Porcelain Tower, one of the splendid buildings of the Imperial Summer Palace, near Peking, China. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
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View of the Tower of Fragrance (Foxiang Ge), Longevity Hill.
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 2044 in the negative. Tanjore visited by the compiler of this album 21-23 November 1877. View looking along the moat encircling the precincts of the Brihadishvara Temple, with a temple gopura on the right. Another copy at Photo 11 (5).
Seringham [Gopura of the Ranganatha Temple, Srirangam]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 2063 in the negative. Study through the gateway of a gopura, framing the view of an inner gopura of the Ranganatha Temple. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as, 'Trichinopoly; the Eastern Pagoda from the Eastern Entrance.'
Seringham [Srirangam]. The Pagodas [Ranganatha Temple]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 2062 in the negative. View looking across the precincts of the Ranganatha Temple towards three gopuras. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as, 'Trichinopoly; Three smaller goparums from the top of the Thousand-Pillared Hall.'
Seringham [Srirangam]. The Pagodas [Ranganatha Temple]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 2060 in the negative. General view looking over the Ranganatha Temple complex. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as, 'Trichinopoly; general view of the Seringham Pagodas from the top of the gateway.'
Old Delhi. The Kutub [Qutb]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1369 in the negative. Visited by the compiler of this album between 18th and 23rd March, 1878. View of the Qutb Minar, listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as 'The Kutub Minar and surrounding Ruins, from the East.'
Pagoda near Shanghai [Longhua Pagoda]. Photographer: Unknown
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Shanghai was visited by the compiler of this album between 12th and 26th March, 1879. General view of the pagoda, with a field in the foreground and the boundary wall of a building in the background. A similar view is reproduced in Western Eyes: Historical Photographs of China in British Collect...