Times of India Sixty Years' Diamond Jubilee Album. November 3rd 1898.
Scope & Content:
Full leather bound album measuring 323x430mm, richly decorated in gold leaf, with title as above stamped in gold on front cover and with a heavy brass clasp lock. The first page of the volume comprises an illuminated address, from the employees of the newspaper, dated 7 January 1899 and dedicate...
Maroon half-leather bound album measuring 494x385mm, binding scuffed but firm, with title as above stamped in gold on front cover. With bookplate, dated 'Nov. 1899', of William Baring Du Pre. Prints are mounted one or two to a page, with handwritten captions beneath. The contents of the album ca...
Colonel James Fairweather (IMS) Collection: Miscellaneous portraits and views.
Scope & Content:
Loose mounted prints including various Indian army groups, Punjab Police on parade, Quetta views, copies of Beato's Lucknow views and a view at Fatehpur Sikri. Process = Albumen prints Photographers = Felice Beato, Frederick Bremner;
Collection in two parts: Photo 648/1. Large album containing 10 mounted portraits, the majority unidentified. Photo 648/2. Four large loose portraits, mounted on board. From the discoloration of many of these photographs, they would appear to have been displayed framed, presumably in an offic...
Postcards of the Delhi Durbar. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Collection of 29 loose postcard views of the Delhi Durbar (original prints). Prints 1-22, 24-28 all appear to be the work of a single photographer and have captions written in the negative. Print 23 is unrelated to the main series and appears to show a coronation parade for Edward VII. Print 29 ...