Mr and Mrs Mackay, Samastipur. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Snapshot portrait of Mr and Mrs Mackay standing in the porch of a bungalow (presumably railway staff accommodation). The figures are too distant to be distinct. [Gelatin silver print, 77x101mm]. Subjects = Location = Bihar; India; Samastipur
Genre: Portrait Photography Snapshot portrait of three Indian servants in front of a bungalow. [Gelatin silver print, 77x102mm]. Subjects = servants Location = Bihar; India; Samastipur
Satow Collection: 'B. & N.W. Railway. Views of the Great Behar Earthquake of 15th January 1934.'
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Black soft-covered mock pig-skin photograph album measuring 385x235mm, with red leather title-piece on front cover. The fifty photographs are mostly mounted two to a page with letterpress captions pasted beneath. The prints illustrate damage to railway lines, bridges and buildings.The album also...
Typical 'Gushers' from which mud spouted to height of several feet. From these and from innumerable 'Fissures' large areas of country were covered with mud. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of mud craters, with a European man standing in the background. [Gelatin silver print, 205x135mm]. Subjects = disasters; earthquakes; Satow Collection