'Aboo Lawrence School.' For the Founder, with the Secretary's kind regards. Photographer: Mildmay, Arthur George St John
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Inscription: Signed on mount, 'A. G. St. J. Mildmay fecit. 'Aboo' March 25th/57.' Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Lawrence School at Abu, with figures posed on the verandah and on the driveway in front of the buildings. The following figures are identified beneath the prin...
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait of Honoria Letitia Lawrence (1850-1923), daughter of Sir Henry Lawrence. She later married Henry Hart, headmaster of Sedbergh School, Cumbria.
Henry W. Lawrence. Sent back from Lucknow, 1858. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of a youth and a young woman, seated on a garden seat in front of a building, presumably in England. The young man is (Sir) Henry Waldemar Lawrence (1845-1908), son of Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence.
Alick and the two Charlies. Sent back from Lucknow. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of three young men, seated on the garden seat also seen in print 19b. 'Alick' is presumably (Sir) Alexander Hutchinson Lawrence (1838-1864), son of Sir Henry Lawrence.
Col. Robertson N. I. 25th. 1857. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel George Henry Robertson, 25th Bombay Native Infantry, leaning against a pedestal on which stands a piece of sculpture.
Genre: Architectural Photography View of tombs in the English Cemetery at Surat, with a European figure posed in the middleground. The following print, 21b, is dated February 1857. This view was probably taken on the same occasion.
Genre: Architectural Photography View of tombs in the English Cemetery at Surat, probably taken on the same occasion as print 21a. The massive tomb in the centre is that of Sir George Oxenden.
The River Taptee, Surat, from Mr. Galway's house, 1857. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the Tapti towards Surat Castle, with local craft moored in the foreground. The 'Bombay Almanac and Directory' for 1857 identifies William Galway as an engineer with the Baroda Railway Company, resident at Surat.