Murray Collection: Agra Album. Views and portraits, mainly in and around Agra. Photographer(s): Murray, John
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Maroon half-leather album, 380 x 305 mm, containing mounted prints with captions handwritten in pencil. The album has been rebound (1995) with pages interleaved with silversafe paper; the original title, 'Photographs', has been pasted on the front cover. The album appears to have been compiled b...
Panorama of Calcutta from the Ochterlony monument. Photographer Arun Ganguly
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Seven photographs forming a panorama of Calcutta, taken from the top of the Ochterlony Monument. The series wascommissioned in 1990 for display in the British Library's exhibition Calcutta: City of Palaces. A contact sheet and negatives accompany the print.
Loose unmounted prints. Topographical and ethnographical views in Negapatam, Nagore and other parts of modern Tamil Nadu. Also includes an earlier view of a Burmese dance. Process = Gelatine silver prints Photographers = Mildred Robinson., ;
Uncaptioned print mounted on paper, probably extracted from an album. The photograph shows scattered bungalows and huts on what is most probably a tea estate. As the provenance of this print is unknown (it was found loose and unaccounted for in the Prints, Drawings & Photographs Dept) it is ...
Loose copy prints. The original photographs were taken in the 1940s in Calcutta and include Park Street Cemetery, Government House and the Chitpore Road. Process = Modern gelatine silver prints Photographers = J. Lowell Groves., ;
Portraits of the 24th Punjabis and the 5th Bombay Native Infantry.
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Two uncaptioned prints in poor condition, reportedly showing the 24th Punjabis under the command of Lieut-General Skipton Hill Climo. One lantern slide labelled: 'Indian officers. 5th Bombay N. Inf'try'. Process = Collodio-chloride prints (?) & glass lantern slide Photographers = Unkno...
Snapshot views of damage caused by the 1934 Bihar Earthquake.
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Loose snapshots. The majority of photographs were taken by W. E. G. Bender of the Bengal and North Western Railway Co Ltd and are listed in an accompanying typescript. Views include damaged rail bridges, track and buildings, in areas affected by the earthquake.