Photographs of industries, transport, architecture, social life and portraits, mainly in Calcutta and West Bengal
Scope & Content:
Collection of loose mounted prints, in good condition, the majority with typescript captions. The prints by Bourne & Shepherd were produced at the same time, although the photographs cover a period of 70 years and cover a range of subjects including, most prominently, views of various indust...
Sir Richard Carnac Temple Collection: negatives and lantern slides
Scope & Content:
Collection in three parts, comprising: Photo 705/1 Glass copy negatives of illustrations from T. B.'s Travels in India, 1659 to 1679 Photo 705/2 43 lantern slides prepared for lectures, titled inside lid of box, Some specimens of Burmese carving, &c Photo 705/3 44 lantern slides of the An...
Collection of duplicate negatives of Indian tours. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Collection of modern safety film duplicate negatives made from original nitrate negatives, now destroyed. Captioning is minimal, and the collection retains the original ordering whereby each film or collection of films has been assigned an alphabetical letter (from A-LLL with some gaps), and an ...
Mounted print. Copy of a full-length portrait of Frederic John Napier Thesiger (1868-1933), Viscount Chelmsford and Viceroy, 1916-21. Artist unknown. Process = Gelatine silver print Photographers = Unknown., ;
Major-General Robert Cotton Money Collection: Photographs relating to service in India and Iran during World War II. Photographer(s): Money, Robert Cotton
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Collection divided into three parts (Photo 709/1-3).
Mounted print. Three-quarter length portrait of a seated man in uniform, signed 'Lovingly yours, Fred, Dec 1 1915'. Process = Gelatine silver print Photographers = Edna Lorenz, Calcutta.;
Presentation album: 'Public Works Ceylon, 1936-40'.
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Blue cloth-covered post-bound album, 276x405mm, containing mounted prints with handwritten captions and notes. A dedication on the front free endpaper reads: 'Pictorial record of selected works executed during the administration of the Department by Mr H. Kenneth de Kretser, M.Inst.CE, M.Inst.M....