Kashmir nautch girls. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Numbered 606 in the negative. Kashmir was visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Showing dancing girls performing before an audience of men in the verandah of a pavilion in the Shalimar Gardens at Srinagar. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as 'A N...
Full-length portrait of a Tibetan lama, holding prayer beads, posed against a cloth backdrop and leaning against a stand draped with textiles. This appears to be no. 1132A in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue, 'A Thibetian Llama from Lassa.'
Signed and numbered Bourne 795 in the negative. Kashmir was visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November, 1878. View looking along the Jhelum at Srinagar, with dwellings on either bank and the Shah Hamadan Masjid on the right. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue...
Cawnpore [Kanpur]. Massacre Ghat. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1208 in the negative. Visited by the compiler of this album between 3rd and 4th March 1878. View looking along the Ganges riverbank towards Sati Chaura Ghat. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as, 'Suttee Chowra Ghat, the scene of the Massacre.'
Lucknow. Ruins of Residency [Baillie Guard Gate]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1027 in the negative. Visited by the compiler of this album between 26th February and 3rd March 1878. View of the Baillie Guard Gate, with the ruins of the Residency in the left background. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as, 'Bailey-Guard Gat...
Futtypore Sikri [Diwan-i-Khas, Fatehpur Sikri]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Visited by the compiler of this album on 9th March 1878. Print unsigned, but probably by Samuel Bourne and probably the image listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as 'The Dewan-i-Kass, or Hall of Audience.' General view of exterior.
Futtypore Sikri [Fatehpur Sikri]. The Dewan-i-Kass [Diwan-i-Khas]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1271 in the negative. Visited by the compiler of this album on 9th March 1878. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalouge as 'Remarkable Pillar in the centre of Dewan-i-kass or Hall of Audiences.' Interior view of the Diwan-i-Khas with the exquisitely ca...
The Maharaja of Bhurtpore [Bharatpur]. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Bharatpur was visited by the compiler of this album between 8th and 10th March 1878. Print unsigned, but probably by Bourne and Shepherd. Full length seated studio portrait of Jaswant Singh, Maharaja of Bharatpur (c.1850-93).