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2091. Photo 1333

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Photo 1333
Title:
Snapshot photographs relating to military service in the Dutch East Indies. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
A collection of 365 loose gelatin silver print snapshots, measuring 53 mm x 77 mm and smaller, the majority captioned in Dutch on the reverse. The photographs appear to have been taken by the unknown compiler while on military service in the Dutch East Indies
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Dutch
Date Range:
1947-1949
Extent:
365 loose gelatin silver prints

2092. Photo 1335

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Photo 1335
Title:
Photographs of Tangut fragments with Tibetan transcriptions. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Collection of 19 loose black-and-white gelatin silver prints of Tangut fragments with Tibetan transcriptions, sent to the British Museum by the Institute of Oriental Studies, St Petersburg
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1964
Extent:
19 items

2093. Photo 1337

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Photo 1337
Title:
Group portrait of Indian Delimitation Committee, Lucknow. Photographer: C. Mull and Co.
Scope & Content:
One photographic print, mounted on card with photographer's credit. A group portrait of Indian and British members of the Indian Delimitation Committee, whose findings were published in 1936. A letter from the donor notes that the photograph came 'from the possessions of the late Sir Gilbert Lai...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1935
Extent:
1 photographic print

2094. Photo 1338

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Photo 1338
Title:
Photographs of teachers at Mengzi, Yunnan, being abused during the Cultural Revolution. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Collection of four small snapshots showing teachers with placards round their necks, being abused by students. The photographs were given to the donor by the Chinese artist Feng Jianwen (b. 1966), who came from Mengzi, the small town in Yunnan where these photographs were taken.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1965-1970
Extent:
4 items

2095. Photo 1339

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Photo 1339
Title:
Group portrait of officers of the 2nd Royal Lancers (Gardner's Horse). Photographer: G. W. Lawrie and Co.
Scope & Content:
Formally posed group portrait, mounted on card, of uniformed officers of Gardner's Horse, posed in front of a bungalow. The group includes Lieut. Col. Kenneth Stewart Davison (seated third from left), grandfather of the donor, who notes in an accompanying letter: 'My grandfather ... commanded the...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item

2096. Photo 1340

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Photo 1340
Title:
Carte de visite portrait of Tazeena Harrison (née Waller). Photographer: Clarkington and Co (Regent Street, London)
Scope & Content:
Half-length left profile carte de visite portrait of Tazeena Harrison (née Waller). A biographical note from the donor records: 'In Vincent Eyre's Journal of an Afghanistan Prisoner ... it is recorded ... that on 20 Apr 1842, at Fort Tazeen, Afghanistan, Mrs Waller, wife of Lieutenant H. Waller ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

2097. Photo 1341

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Photo 1341
Title:
Photographs relating to the Friends of Vellore Christian Medical College
Scope & Content:
Collection of 72 loose prints relating to the Friends of Vellore Christian Medical College, probably collected by Marjorie Pearson, Secretary of the Friends of Vellore from 1947 until 1952. The photographs show hospital buildings, staff, patients and activities; the collection includes the pages ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940s-1950s
Extent:
72 items

2098. Photo 1342

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Photo 1342
Title:
Photographs relating to the career of Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes.
Scope & Content:
Collection of eleven loose prints and five original film negatives, relating principally to Sykes' period as Governor of Bombay 1928-31. The material includes five prints of an official visit to the Ajanta Caves, a mounted portraits of Lady Sykes on horseback (by Backhouse of Poona), two prints o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1930s
Extent:
16 items

2099. Photo 1343

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Photo 1343
Title:
Two photographic portraits of Harry (Henry Alfred) Carless, Indian Police Service. Photographer(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
Two loose prints: 1. Formal half-length studio portrait of Harry Carless as an Assistant Superintendent of Police, in Indian Police Service dress uniform, c. 1920 2. Informal portrait, posed with ponies on polo field with Indian orderlies, c. 1941-42, when Carless was Inspector-General of Poli...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1920-1942
Extent:
2 items

2100. Photo 1344

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Photo 1344
Title:
Lady Maclay's [Macleay's] Xmas partie [sic], British Legation, Peking, 1923
Scope & Content:
Print (measuring 156 mm x 203 mm) on card mount, showing a couple identified as Sir Donald and Lady Maclay standing beside a figure dressed as Father Christmas and seated on a Bactrian camel, in front of Legation buildings at Peking. The 'Sir Donald Maclay' identified beneath the print must presu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923-1924
Extent:

9 items

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