Photograph album of Lieutenant-Colonel John Whaley Watson, Bombay Army.
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Half leather bound album (binding weak) measuring 345x445mm, inscribed 'J.W. and E.C. Watson. Baroda 1876.' Prints mounted on page, the majority with handwritten captions beneath the image. The contents of the album suggests that the volume was compiled by John Whaley Watson (1838-1889), who en...
Kenneth de Burgh Codrington Collection: Ethnographical photographs.
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Collection of loose uncaptioned snapshots. The majority are head studies of individuals identified by a chalk board which they hold. There is no accompanying information relating to these photographs which were probably taken as part of a study or survey and mostly centre on the region of Wester...
Colour and black & white postcards, depicting architectural views of Agra (Taj Mahal, Itimad-ud-daulah's tomb, Fort buildings, railway station and Jami Masjid), Fatehpur Sikri (Shaikh Salim Chishti's tomb), Sikandra (Akbar's tomb) and Jabalpur (Marble Rocks and public buildings). Reproductio...
Collection of family portraits in England and India with some additional ethnographical studies. The photographs, which include examples of cartes-de-visite, cabinet cards and a tintype, are mostly uncaptioned and give no clues as to the name of the family although they lived in Bombay c.1912 (a...
Brigadier Franz Reginald Lindsay Goadby Collection of Indian photographs.
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Collection of loose prints, captined either in the negative or with handwritten titles on the reverse. The contents of the collection can be broken down as follows: Prints 1-6 Views of Mussoorie, c.1910. Prints 7-31 Views in Waziristan, c.1920-23. Although related to the Waziristan Campa...
Photographs of frescoes, votive tablets, plaques and sculpture from Pagan. Photographer(s): Unknown
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Collection of loose prints, with general typewritten captions for each group. These prints were originally sent to the India Office as part of an investigation into the removal of works of art from the Pagan temples by a German archaeologist. In 1899 a private party led by Th. H. Thomann visited...