Material Type: Photographs / Level: [32] Fonds - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 90
Title:: Photographs of India Office Furniture Exhibited at Bethnal Green in 1896. Photographer(s): Victoria and Albert Museum
Scope & Content:: Dark green quarter-leather bound album measuring 385x310mm, with prints mounted one to a page. The album contains record photographs of furniture from the India Office which was displayed at an exhibition of 17th- and 18th-century English furniture and figured silks held at the Bethnal Green Bra...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1918
Extent:: 26 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 91
Title:: Aerial Photographs of Bombay. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:: Green cloth-bound album measuring 375x430mm, with title 'Photographs of Bombay' stamped in gold on front cover and prints, uncaptioned, mounted one to a page. The album was a gift to Lord Brabourne, Governor of Bombay 1933-37, in 1937, and the following handwritten card is pasted onto the front ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1937
Extent:: 18 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 92
Title:: Sir James George Scott Collection: Photographs of Burma (particularly the Shan States). Photographer(s): Scott, James George
Scope & Content:: Collection divided into 18 parts.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s-1900s
Extent:: Unspecified

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 93
Title:: 'Photographs of paintings at Dacca'. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:: Green quarter-leather album, 180x240mm, containing mounted prints and 16 pages of handwritten notes. The title is stamped in gold on the spine. The album also contains a letter from Sir William Foster to F.W. Thomas, Librarian at the India Office, outlining the provenance of the prints and offer...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1920s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 97
Title:: 'Views of the Caves of Ellora and Ajunta, Nizams Dominions, [by] Raja Deen Dayal & Sons, State Photographers'. Photographer(s): Dayal, Deen
Scope & Content:: Black full-leather album, measuring 313 x 400 mm, containing mounted prints with typed captions. The title is stamped in gold on the front cover within a decorative border. The coat of arms of Hyderabad State is in the centre of the cover. A small blue label on the inside front cover reads: 'Bou...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1900s
Extent:: 53 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 97, 3
Title:: John Forbes Watson, 'The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India' (India Museum, London, 1866). Photographer: Various
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Duplicate of Photo 979/1, which see for full listing of prints. Subjects = dress; ethnic groups; hand-coloured prints; printed books; Watson, 'The Textile Manufactures...of India' (1866)
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1850-1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 98
Title:: Day Collection: 2nd Afghan War photographs. Photographer(s): Bengal Sappers and Miners
Scope & Content:: Photograph album belonging to Colonel John G. Day, measuring 300 x 415 mm, in very poor condition, containing mounted prints with letterpress captions. The album binding has been removed and the pages are loosely bound down the spine. The album records scenes during the 2nd Afghan War taken by t...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s-1880s
Extent:: 56 items

Search