Jeypore [Jaipur]. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne & Sheperd 2303 in the negative. Visited by the compiler of this album between 14th and 18th March, 1878. General View of the city of Jaipur.
Portrait of Charles James Lucas (1853-1928), the compiler of this album, standing with an Indian servant in front of his tent (pitched in the garden of the Calcutta house belonging to the Apcar family), with hunting trophies arranged around him. See print 195 for a note on this photographic sess...
Full-length studio portrait of a young girl, wearing a silk dress and seated holding a fan; table with vase on her left. Image in carte de visite format.
View from the road looking towards the small two storey hotel, with figures posed at the gateway and wooded hillside in the background. Penang was visited by the compiler of this album between 25th and 26th January, 1879
Java. Painting Sarongs. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Men and women at work in the roadway in front of a house. 'Production of kain batik on K. F.Holle's plantation Waspada near Garut. Traditionally the wax design was carefully applied to the cloth by female workers with a specially designed pen.' (Steven Wachlin, Woodbury and Page (KITLV Press, L...