General view looking along the line towards the station buildings and sidings, with European and Singhalese figures posed beside the locomotive in the foreground.
General view of yard, E. B. S. Ry. [Eastern Bengal State Railway] (jute section). Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
General view of the railway yard of the Eastern Bengal State Railway (presumably at Calcutta), with bullock carts being loaded with bales of jute in the foreground.
Inscription: Numbered '33' in the negative. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the road running beside the railway line, towards the station at Dargai, with freight wagons in a siding.
Canton was visited by the compiler of this album between 24th and 28th Februrary, 1879. General view of a houseboat moored alongside a building, with group of men and women seated on the deck.
Canton. Interior [of a] Flower Boat. Photographer: Lai Afong
Scope & Content:
Canton was visited by the compiler of this album between 24th and 28th Februrary, 1879. With contemporary printed descriptive label: 'This represents the saloon of one of these boats, they are magnificiently fitted up in marble. The small room at the back is where the Chinese smoke opium. For a...