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1621. Photo 813

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 813
Title:
Clarke Collection: 'Chamba photographs. Presented by His Highness Sham Singh, Raja of Chamba'.
Scope & Content:
Maroon half-leather presentation album, 375x500mm, containing mounted prints with handwritten captions, and some additional loose prints, from the collection of Robert Clarke, Indian Civil Service. The title is stamped in gold on the front cover along with the Chamba State coat-of-arms. A note o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
53 items

1622. Photo 814

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 814
Title:
Album of snapshots of the Prince and Princess of Wales' Tour of India and Burma 1905-06.
Scope & Content:
Red half-leather album, 317x440mm, containing mounted prints with handwritten captions. A title stamped in gold on the front cover reads: 'M.T. Indian Tour 1905-1906'. From the photographs it would appear that 'M.T.' was a young woman in the royal household during the Prince of Wales' tour of In...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905-1906
Extent:
117 items

1623. Photo 815

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 815
Title:
Copy print of engraving of Colonel J. Baillie, Director of EIC.
Scope & Content:
British Museum copyright.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
Unspecified

1624. Photo 816

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 816
Title:
Forbes Collection: Miscellaneous portraits and views.
Scope & Content:
Collection of photographs, some loose, others on pages removed from an album, formerly belonging to Lieut-Colonel James S. Forbes, Bombay Director of Forbes, Forbes, Campbell & Co Ltd. A large proportion of the prints are uncaptioned. Photographs include views and portraits in Bombay, Mahaba...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1905-1909
Extent:
131 items

1625. Photo 817

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 817
Title:
Miscellaneous views and ethnographical portraits in Burma.
Scope & Content:
Collection of loose prints, the majority mounted on card, with handwritten captions either on the mount or print verso. Several of the prints are copies of original photographs. The collection belonged to Mr A.G. McCrae who worked for the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company in the 1930s, although the pho...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s-1910s
Extent:
49 items

1626. Photo 818

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 818
Title:
Soldiers of an A.A. Searchlight and Gun unit.
Scope & Content:
Loose unmounted print showing British soldiers of an A.A. unit sitting round the heater in a hut. A typescript note on the verso describes how the hut was furnished by the India Office. Process = Gelatine silver print Photographers = Unknown., ;
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1940s
Extent:
1 item

1627. Photo 819

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 819
Title:
Portrait of Colonel T. G. E. G. Kenny.
Scope & Content:
Loose unmounted colour print. Copy of an original portrait of Col Kenny. Annotation in ink on the verso. Process = Modern colour print Photographers = Unknown., ;
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 item

1628. Photo 820

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 820
Title:
Album of views in Assam and the Suez Canal.
Scope & Content:
Black and green half-leather album, 284x390mm, containing mounted prints with handwritten captions. The photographs include: views of the Kamakhya Temple at Guwahati; waterfalls, the residency and bungalows at Shillong; Assam tea gardens; the paddle steamers Mysore and Debrooghur; and topographi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
27 items

1629. Photo 821

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 821
Title:
Photographs of the official ceremony in Bombay to mark the withdrawal of British troops from India.
Scope & Content:
Loose unmounted prints with typescript descriptions pasted on the verso. Each description starts with the same opening lines: 'Last British battalion leaves India: The withdrawal of British troops from India was complete when the last British serving battalion, the 1st Somerset Light Infantry em...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
28Feb1948
Extent:
24 items

1630. Photo 822

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 822
Title:
Portraits of Princess Indira of Kapurthala. Photographer(s): Delhi Photo Co (Mussoorie), L. R. Photo Art House and others
Scope & Content:
Loose uncaptioned portraits of Princess Indira of Kapurthala from India in the 1940s to Ibiza in the 1970s. A letter to a friend, written shortly before her death in 1979, is enclosed with the photographs. Biographical note: Maharajakumari Indira Devi (1912-1979), also known as Princess Indee, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1940s-1970s
Extent:
9 items

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